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Track 3D text and particles inside FCPX
Track 3D text and particles inside FCPX with the full power of Mocha tracking with Coremelt DriveX.
DriveX 4 allows you to add tracked 3D text or particle effects that react realistically to movement. Add tracked smoke, fire, light trails, sparks or many other effects. Track 3D text to follow camera movement in the background with lighting and perspective changes.
DriveX Highlights
Now you can harness the full power of Mocha tracking with complex 3D effects particles and complex motion graphics.CoreMelt DriveX allows advanced users to link any parameters inside an Apple Motion Template to track data, and publish the result as an FCP X effect. DriveX includes 40 motion templates to get you started. Online documentation and a range of tutorials are available.
Track 3D Text and Callouts
Six 3D templates allow you to add tracked text with adjustable lighting and texturing for a range of styles. Seven included animated callouts allow you to highlight areas of the image with a range of tracked arrow, line and other highlighting effects.
Tracked Effects and Particles
Eight effect templates provide ways to insert tracked distortion, 3D objects or other effects like a liked boundary outline. Great for real estate videos! The Eleven included particle effects provide ways of inserting common visual effects tracked to your footage. It’s also easy to add tracking to your own particle or 3D effects.
Add tracked smoke, fire, light trails, sparks or many other effects. Track 3D text to follow camera movement in the background with lighting and perspective changes.
Included Motion Templates
DriveX includes 30 Motion Templates to perform a wide variety of common tracked effects with 3D Text. 3D models, callouts, distortion effects and particles. They are split over Titles and Effects.
DriveX 4 3D Text
Track 3D Arrow, Track 3D Highlighter
These two motion templates create animated 3D pointers that can be tracked to give attention to part of the clip.
Track 3D Text Basic, Track 3D Text Shadows, Track 3D Text Circle
These three templates allow 3D text to be tracked to match background motion. The text can be edited with full control over color, font, materials, etc. the same as standard 3D text in FCP X.
DriveX Callouts
These templates allow you to add a text label in various styles with a tracked line and pointer going to the object of interest. You can edit the box size and style and pointer style, change the background colors, edit line widths and more.
DriveX 4 Effects
Template Open in Motion
A simple template with a basic particle system to allow you to easily modify it and add your own particles, text or other object in motion. Check our website for the tutorial video on linking the track data to parameters in motion.
Track Map Pin
Creates a stylised 3D pin that can be tracked to highlight an object in the scene. You can also control the lighting and shadow
Track Distortion
Creates a distorted area of the image which follows the track shape, you can choose from Bulge, Pinch, Twirl or Droplet distortion.
Track Magnifying Glass
Tracks a 3D object Magnifying glass that enlarges the image inside the glass.
Emoji Look at Target
Tracks an attention marker like a callout, a chosen 3D Emoji will turn to follow the attention marker.
DriveX 4 Particles
These templates let you track some common particle effects to add various effects to a clip. The particles speed, color, and other parameters can be controlled.
Track Comet, Track Light Trail
These two templates track an object and leave different types of particle trails behind them. Work great with tracking a finger or tip of a magic wand.
Tutorials
Track Callouts
Track Particles
Track Boundaries
Track Magnifying Glass
Track Emoji
Track 3D Text
3D Text Fly-in Tutorial
Magic Orb Tutorial, and other tracked particles
Add tracking to any motion template
Highlight an area with a 3D Pin
Track a property boundary
Description
System Requirements
ALL CoreMelt System Requirements
Updated April 19, 2023The latest versions of CoreMelt products are installed using the CoreMelt Manager. For older versions, see this support article.
Category | Plugin | Requirements |
---|---|---|
OS | StyleX ModelX PaintX 4 Lock and Load 4 | Apple Intel or Apple Silicon-based computer with macOS Catalina (10.15) or later |
LUTx DriveX SliceX TrackX Chromatic | Apple Intel computer with Mojave (10.14) or later (will work on Apple Silicon computer when using FCP in Rosetta2 mode.) | |
V2 Plugin Set Lock and Load 3 | Apple Intel computer with Mojave (10.14) or later *works on M1 computer when using FCP in Rosetta 2 mode | |
Host support | StyleX ModelX PaintX 4 Lock and Load 4 | Final Cut Pro X 10.5.x or later Motion 5.5 or later |
LUTx DriveX SliceX TrackX Chromatic | Final Cut Pro 10.4 or later | |
V2 Plugin Set Lock and Load 3 | Final Cut Pro 10.4 or later Apple Motion 10.4 or later Premiere Pro CC2018 or later After Effects CC2018 or later | |
RAM | Recommended for all plugins | 16 GB RAM (8 Minimum) |
GPU | Recommended for all plugins | GPU supporting Apple Metal with 2GB VRAM or more Quad-core processor or better |
CoreMelt products may work on hardware that does not meet these requirements but performance may be compromised. Please try a trial version first to check if they meet your requirements. |
Important:
DriveX 4 cannot read the project files created with the previous (non-Apple Silicon native) versions of DriveX. If you want to load projects which use the old version of DriveX, you must open Final Cut Pro in Rosetta2 mode.
In all other cases, use the Silicon native effect versions located in “C2 DriveX 4”.
By default, the old version is still installed: “C2 DriveX 4” categories are the new versions under both titles and effects. “C2 DriveX” categories contains the legacy versions of the plugin. If you want to remove the old effects, see this support note.
If you do leave the old versions installed, it is normal to see an error message about VTwinFx when opening Final Cut Pro in native mode. please see this support note.
New Tutorials:
There is a full set of new tutorials on this version, please watch a few before you use the new version for the first time. Also please see the updated documentation here.
For best performance, the we recommend you use a graphics card with 512MB video memory (VRAM). 1 GB VRAM is required for rendering 4K projects.
The following graphics cards are not supported:
- nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
- Intel GMA 950
- ATI Radeon 8500, 9200
Some Macbook and Mac mini models are not supported due to the more limited feature-set of their built-in graphics accelerators.
Not sure what graphics card is installed in your system?
You can determine what graphics card is installed on your system by selecting the “About this Mac” command under the Apple menu.
When the system summary appears, click the “More Info…” button, which will launch the System Profiler application.
Graphics cards are listed under the “Graphics/Displays” section of the System Profiler.
Change Log
DriveX v4
- Apple Silicon Native
- New templates using 3D objects
- DriveX 4 Templates are now under these four categories. C2 DriveX 4 Effects and C2 DriveX Particles under Effects. C2 DriveX 4 3D Text and C2 DriveX 4 Callouts under Titles.
- GPU accelerated tracking
FAQs
Tutorials
Coremelt One Minute Tutorial - Track a Callout Label to an Object
Learn how to use Coremelt DriveX in FCPX to easily track 3D text, labels or even particles to the movement of your footage, in this quick one minute tutorial.
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