The FFGL does hue only.

Anyways, I'm wondering why this isn't already standard. It would do the edge blending what was asked now and then very well.

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Delil

There is a gradient FFGL included in the FFGL SDK. (creates a color to color gradient horizontally, I don't think black is an option.)

SITE: http://community.freeframe.org...

Direct: https://sourceforge.net/projec...

The direct link should download the zip from sourceforge.

In the zip, open Binaries, then win32. In there are a few FFGL plugins, including a FFGLGradients

Also, the FFGL bundle from Troikatronix may have a gradient plugin (I think it does, but can't check currently)

https://troikatronix.com/files...

Now I don't know if these are equivalent to the CI actor, but they probably provide some options. GLSL may be both your best option and best performing.

I already achieved that on OSX with ci gradient. Works like a charm. But I need the same for a project where a Windows server is used. No OSX, no ci. There doesn't seem to be a equivalent to the ci actor.

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Dill

create a black to white gradient and add it as the alpha channel to a video stream.
Use the "Add Alpha Channel" actor. It will use the BW gradient as the mask input and will create the alpha on the video input channel.|
If you want Black to alpha you just need to run a "Background Color" actor in as the video input.

I already thought about GLSL and had a look at these. But I'm pretty new to shaders. Going to try it and fiddle around with them though.
Anyways it would be a great advantage to have a native actor like the CI gradient. Tried around a bit with it and in combination with alpha, it could even solve the so long requested flexible soft edge issue!

While writing this, I recognise, that I was wrong in my description. What I need ist a gradient from white to transparent. With the CI gradient, one can use the colour picker and just slide down the opacity.
Why isn't this possible with the default gradient actor?

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Delil

https://www.shadertoy.com/resu...