Final Cut plugin: Gradients with transparency

In which I provide a free Final Cut generator that adds opacity controls to the built-in Custom Gradient generator.

While working on my next plugin, I needed a reliable way of creating gradients with opacity controls on the start and finish colours. Here’s Custom Gradient – Alex4D:
custom_gradient_default

I also added a radius control for the radial gradients:
custom_gradient_rad_screen
custom_gradient_rad_settings

To use this plugin, download the ZIP document, copy the ‘Custom Gradient – Alex4D.txt’ file to

Your Startup HD/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Plugins

(Your Startup HD/Users/your name/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Express Support/Plugins for Final Cut Express users)

This plugin is a Video Generator. It will appear in the ‘Render’ category.

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5 comments

Rob said: 13 August, 20095:06 pm

When is this coming out on AE?

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- Alex said: 13 August, 20095:24 pm
  
  I’m not much of a programmer, so we’ll have to wait until Adobe implement the Final Cut Scripting language in AE CS 2011…
  
  I imagine it wouldn’t be a big problem implementing this in Noise Industries’ FxFactory, but I don’t think they allow the distribution of free plugins for their system.
  
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Kevin Monahan said: 14 August, 20097:00 pm

Awesome Alex! I’ve been looking for this for a long time. If I had one more request, could you make all the Shapes with an alpha channel?

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- Alex said: 14 August, 20098:40 pm
  
  I probably will!
  
  I haven’t used those generators for a long time, I assumed they did have an alpha channel. Odd that they don’t! Maybe it’s because they were first coded when computers were too slow to have lots of alpha channel layers.
  
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