File-IO Plugin SDK for Movie Studio 13

Line40 wrote on 4/23/2014, 4:56 AM
Hello

I'm trying to get my hands on the mentioned sdk. I already tried to contact customer support, back in january! and haven't gotten anything useful out of them until now.

I need it to get debugmode frameserver to run with Movie Studio 13, since apparently there has been an API change that makes the existing plugin crash.

I am currently using Movie Studio 12, with debugmode frameserver, and am really happy with it. Now I need to switch to 4k editing, which unfortunately is not available in Movie Studio 12.

To stop answer any questions as to why I'm using debugmode frameserver: I'm rendering movies for upload to youtube and such, and the AVC settings for both MS 12 and 13 output mp4 videos which are way too dark after uploading. And yes, I know it can be worked around by adding a computer rgb to studio rgb filter, but that filter discards color information, which is also unacceptable.

If anyone can help, or at least give me a hint where I should direct this request I'd be eternally grateful, since Movie Studio is literally the only software in it's price range that is not either complete garbage, or stripped so bad of any useful features to still be useable :)


Cheers

Line40

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 4/23/2014, 8:46 AM
The Computer->Studio RGB plugin compresses the Luminance slightly, not chroma afaik.
Frameserving to another app (Avisynth) and correcting the levels there does exactly the same thing.

There are good reasons for frameserving, but that's not one of them . . .
Line40 wrote on 4/23/2014, 11:36 AM
I also need frameserving for other reasons, one is that the included encoders have very limited options, and two that I'd like to post process the footage with other filters not available in Movie Studio.
There are other reasons, I hope I don't have to mention all to get someone to actually help me with getting frameserving to work in Movie Studio 13.
musicvid10 wrote on 4/23/2014, 2:13 PM
You're better off contacting Satish, the third party developer. SCS has never officially supported open source plugins.