Animating a still around a circle as tho it were the tip of a second hand

I'm new to animating in Motion and can't find how to animate an object in a circle. I'm wanting to animate a photo of someone in a circular path, as if the person's body were the tip of a clock's second hand. The line through the vertical axis of the body should always point to the circle's centre, as though the feet were scribing the line.
Should I attach the jpeg to a vertical line and animate that as a group in a rotation(with the vertical line invisible to the viewer?

Many, many ways to do this.
One way - use the anchor point tool to move the anchor point to the feet, then use a spin behavior to animate the photo. Or - use a motion path behavior with the shape set to circle and add the snap alignment to motion behavior, adjust the radius.

Similar Messages

HT1338 I need help with numbers. I try to open numbers and I get a message stating that I need an update. When I go to update apple say I am up to date, but I still can't open numbers. I keep going around and circles. Help

I cannot open numbers. When I click to open the message says that, I need to update. When I go to updates is says I am updated. I keep going around and circles. Can anyone help?

Look in your Applications folder for the new version.
Remove the old icon from the Dock and drag down the new one for ease of use.

How to Step and Repeat around a circle or radius

For those looking for the simplest way to create multiple shapes evenly (equally) spaced around a center point, here's the only solution in Illustrator.
1. Begin by drawing two intersecting guidelines, centered on your page. Turn on Smart Guides (CTRL + U) so you can make sure you are aligning the finished product.
2. Draw the object you want to use. Center the object on the guidelines.
3. Drag the object away from the intersecting guidelines.
4. Draw a vertical line along the guideline. Make sure that it extends through your object.
5. Decide how many objects you want to create.
6. With the vertical line selected, double-click the Rotate tool (Object > Transform > Rotate...).
7. From the chart at the left, select the angle associated with the number of objects you want.
8. Enter that number and click the COPY button.
9. With the new line still selected, hit CTRL + D to repeat the duplicated line until it repeats completely around the circle.
10. Select the object. (Make sure Smart Guides is ON).
11. Click the Rotate tool.
12. First click the intersection of the guidelines to establish the rotation point.
13. Select the center point of the object and hold down the ALT key to move and duplicate the object.
14. Move the object until it intersects with the next line. You'll see Smart Guides say "Intersect".
15. Hit CTRL + D to duplicate the objects around the radius.
16. Delete the lines. You're DONE!

GRW,
here's the only solution in Illustrator.
There is (almost) always more than one solution.
Another one, or two:
1) Draw the object and place it somewhere appropriate (maybe at a certain distance below the lower left corner of the Artboard X=Y=0);
2) Draw a no fill no stroke circle with a centre appropriately aligned with the object (such as X=Y=0) and a diameter large enough for it to enclose the object, group with 1) or just select both;
3) One of the following performed on 1)+2):
3a) Object>Transform>Rotate inserting 360/N, where N is the number of items round the circle, repeat (Ctrl/Cmd+D) once less (delete the circles if desired);
3b) Effect>Distort & Transform>Transform, rotate similarly with one copy less (this requires grouping); Object>Expand Appearance if desired to have independent separate objects.
Some of the angles in the table are approximations and therefore inaccurate; 360/N is accurate.
A new Circle Thread is born.
Who is next?

TS1702 I purchased an app from the itunes store by direct debit. I now wish to cancell this subscription, but I can't seem to find out how to do it. Help I am going around in circles.

I recently purchased an app. from iTunes that was on a monthly direct debit subscription. Despite trying to following directions from iTunes to cancel it - I am getting no where. Seem to be going around in circles. Can any one help with some straightforward directions on how to do this please?

See here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4098

How to make a line with arrow curve around a circle?

I've got CS6 and Windows 7. Trying to make a line with an arrow on one end curve around a circle. Actually want it to have a 3D look like it was curving around the back side of a globe. How do you do this? Thanks.

Perhaps you mean something more like this
similar technique you create the arrow as a straight stroke path with an arrowhead and make it a symbol
You then make it a symbol
you than make a vertical rectangle and use the 3D Revolve Effect to make a cylinder
then you go to map art
then you choose in the map art to make the geomtery invisible
then you ma the arrow symbol and adjust the placement and then adjust the rotation of the cylinder to your likeing.
If you need a video to follow I'll do one later.

How can I e-mail a PDF file?...popups go around in circles

How can I e-mail a PDF file? Popups keep going around in circles.

No. You can set an option in an outgoing mail message to have a receipt confirmation sent to you, but the recipient can decline to send that receipt. (Spammers would be very happy if their junk would automatically acknowledge which are actually live email accounts.)

Distributing objects around a circle

Hi everyone,
I'm new here, so I'm sorry if I post it to a wrong section.
I'm a begginer with Illustrator and I've got a problem with distributing objects around a circle in Illustrator cs6.
What I'm trying to do is to have these acrhed lines (as per the top three curves you can see below) go around a circle, surrounding it (don't know if i explain myself good...). I was using both blend tool and rotate tool and it doesnt work for me the way I want it. All the time its sort of upside down at the bottom of the cirle and totaly twisted on the left and right... I guess im doing smth wrong, but I just can't find anything helpfull on web..
Would appreciate it a lot if you could helo me!
Thanks in advance and sorry for my English, its not my 1st language.

Cat Nat,
A completely different way, which may be (un)usable for your purpose is to create the circle with a Stroke Weight corresponding to the width of the arched lines and then in the Stroke palette/panel apply Dashed line with Round Caps and suitable Dash and Gap values (you may try different values until you get it right).
You may use the free Adjust Dashes script available here,
http://park12.wakwak.com/~shp/lc/et/en_aics_script.html
to get an even distribution/final adjustment.

Creating a spreadsheet to graph locations around a circle

Hello,
Hope someone can help me with this.
I would like to create a spreadsheet that plots equally placed locations around a circle in degrees. For example a first mark could be at 0º or 360.º The second is 222,º third at 84º (222º + 222º - 360º), forth is at 306º (84º + 222º), fifth is at 168º etc. If a sum is greater than 360º degrees I would like to show the difference in my spreadsheet.
Thanks,

Hi Bill,
The formula given by Brie Fly should give you the correct result. Here are the results of =MOD(A1,360) for 0 and the first 10 repeated additions of 222 (degrees):
      0         0
  222     222
  444       84
  666     306
  888     168
1110       30
1332     252
1554     114
1776    336
1998     198
2220       60
How do these differ from your expected results?
Regards,
Barry

3D rotate around a circle preset ae6

Hello thanks for looking in..
I am messing with the (3D rotate around a circle) preset in AE6 and if you notice that the Browse Preset feature shows the 3D text completing a circle.. Yet, When I create a text layer, apply the preset effect there is a gap from the end of my last word typed to the start of the word typed.
IE: TV Bug TV Bug TV Bug TV Bug (space) beginning of TV Bug instead of looking as the preset does in Browse Presets. TV Bug in a complete circle and spaced evenly.
I hope this is making sense...I want the "g" in Bug to be spaced as a contiunued circle, so that Last "g" in Bug should butt up to the first "T" in TV. As it stands now I type it out and apply the preset and there is a huge space between the last "g" in Bug and the first "T" in TV.
What do I need to mess with too get the ends to meet?
I added a couple of pics to help describe:
First one is the preset
2nd one is my challnege of the ends not meeting
Thanks again
NC

RG thanks again for hopping in here. You are a great help and I am thankful to have you perusing these forums. I did get it to work. Although I do have a question or two about adding one keyframe to create a seemless loop.
1. I add one frame via End > Page Down. However, I am unclear on where to park the last keyframe to make it a seemless loop? I ended up adjusting the First Margin on that effect to get it to start at the point I desire and then hit END to place the last KeyFrame. I of course made my last keyframe spot on where it starts as to not have a "Jump" in text when it restarts.....
2. The other thing is the effect on that goes from one speed and slows to a stop and then of course starts again when going back to the beginning. I used Ease In and Ease out however I do not have control over the speed. IE: One speed throughout... Any suggestions on that one RG?
Regards
NC

HT4623 I updated to ios 7.1 on Thursday. My ipad basically does not work any more. I am running around in circles on this site and on other "forums" trying to fix. ??? Don't have time for this.....

I updated to ios 7.1 on Thursday. My ipad basically does not work any more. I am running around in circles on this site and on other "forums" trying to fix. ??? Don't have time for this.....Any advice appreciated.

give us more to work with in terms of info then "basically does not work any more"
it can be from it's on fire to the a key on the onscreen keyboard don't respond

Why are my RMAN backup files still around?

Environment:
Oracle 11.2.0.3 EE on Solaris 64-bit
Good Morning (at least it's morning here at the moment),
I have a test database that I currently have set up to do an Incremental Level 0 backup every morning at about 03:00.
I also do an 'archivelog backup all' every 4 hours during the day.
My archivelog deletion policy is 'backed up 2 times'.
I have RMAN set up with a recovery window of 8 days (SHOW ALL - seen below).
I have several RMAN files dated 11 days ago.
Question: Why are these files still around?
RMAN> show all;
using target database control file instead of recovery catalog
RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name APSMDMP2 are:
CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 8 DAYS;
CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON;
CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON;
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F';
CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK BACKUP TYPE TO COMPRESSED BACKUPSET PARALLELISM 3;
CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE DISK MAXPIECESIZE 5 G;
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 1 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT   '/rman/APSMDMP2/APSMDMP2_%T_%t_%s_%p';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 2 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT   '/rman/APSMDMP2/APSMDMP2_%T_%t_%s_%p';
CONFIGURE CHANNEL 3 DEVICE TYPE DISK FORMAT   '/rman/APSMDMP2/APSMDMP2_%T_%t_%s_%p';
CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED;
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF;
CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128';
CONFIGURE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM 'BASIC' AS OF RELEASE 'DEFAULT' OPTIMIZE FOR LOAD TRUE;
CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO BACKED UP 2 TIMES TO DISK;
CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/u01/app/oracle/product/11203/db_1/dbs/snapcf_APSMDMP2.f';I do have several entries in V$ARCHIVED_LOG with a BACKUP_COUNT = 1 but they are all dated 21 days ago and have a DELETED status as seen here:
SEQUENCE# ARC APPLIED   DEL S CTIME                         BACKUP_COUNT
      4625 YES NO        YES D 09-oct-2012 13:21:09                     1
      4626 YES NO        YES D 09-oct-2012 13:21:48                     1
      4627 YES NO        YES D 09-oct-2012 13:22:23                     1
      4628 YES NO        YES D 09-oct-2012 13:22:50                     1I am able to see the contents of the RMAN files but I don't see anything that would cause them not to be deleted during the RMAN runs. Here is an example of one of the files:
BS Key Type LV Size       Device Type Elapsed Time Completion Time
6493    Incr 0 22.75G     DISK        01:35:54     2012-10-19:04:36:13
        BP Key: 6493   Status: AVAILABLE Compressed: YES Tag: FULL_DAILY
        Piece Name: /rman/APSMDMP2/APSMDMP2_20121019_797050819_6508_1
List of Datafiles in backup set 6493
File LV Type Ckp SCN    Ckp Time            Name
2    0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/sysaux01.dbf
4    0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/users01.dbf
5    0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u01/oradata/APSMDMP2/data_process_dt01_01.dbf
9    0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/gmx_src_dt01_01.dbf
10   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/gmx_src_ix01_01.dbf
12   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/adm_data_ix01_01.dbf
13   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/patrol01_01.dbf
16   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u07/oradata/APSMDMP2/becosp_base_data_01.dbf
18   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u07/oradata/APSMDMP2/becosp_base_data_02.dbf
27   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u06/oradata/APSMDMP2/data_process_dt01_03.dbf
30   0 Incr 564035766 2012-10-19:03:00:19 /u05/oradata/APSMDMP2/adm_data_dt01_02.dbfI do use the 'DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE' after each database and archivelog backup. Here is my Incremental Level 0 command file:
backup incremental level 0 cumulative database tag 'full_db';
backup archivelog all not backed up 2 times tag 'full_arch';
DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE;I know I can remove the files manually and resync everything with a CROSSCHECK but I was trying to figure out why it happened in the first place.
Any suggestions are most welcome.
Please let me know if more information is needed.
Thanks very much!!
-gary

garywicke wrote:
Michael,
I read Ed's thread and I understand about the timing of the Full (Incr Lvl 0) and the incrementals.
In my case I'm not doing any incrementals (Incr Lvl 1) of the database, just Incr Lvl 0 every day. I do the archivelog backups during the day to keep the /arch mount point under control.
So, if I have Incremental Level 0 backups on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, ..... With an 8 day recovery window I shouldn't need the ones from the 19th or 20th at a minimum and possibly the 21st depending on when the math is done. Right?
Am I missing something?
*************** NEWS FLASH ******************
Whoops!!! Egg on my face! I just checked back in my email logs of the backups and now recall there were some disk space issues around that time that caused the backups to fail and it just so happens that the backups on the 20th, 21st and 22nd all failed.
I should learn to trust RMAN more. It is obviously smarter than me!! :-)
Sorry for the red flags. I'll do my homework more completely next time.
Not a problem. We've all been there, done that.
I can't tell you how many times I've been stuck on something, run out of ideas on my own research and thrown a question to the forum, and no sooner to I hit the 'send' button that a light goes on and I quickly get my own answer.
At least I understand the recovery window scenario better.
Thanks very much for the help and I'll see you the next time.
Have a great day!
-gary

Creating a design around a circle shape?

I want to create a shape around a circle similar to the black things on the outside of this dial in the picture below. Anybody know a simple way to adjust the stroke or something to do something like this rather than just creating each individual shape and building them around the circle? TIA!
I want

The strokes are quite easy to do you can use the rotate tool can rotate a copy of the stroke around the knob. Remember this formula:
# of objects / 360 degrees = number of degrees required to the next object.
ex. 10 strokes / 360 degrees = 36 degrees between each stroke. (angle)
In this example 36 would be type into the rotation value as every 36 degrees would be another object.
This only needs to be done once as you can then step and repeat. ctrl-d or cmd-d.
As for the text that can just be text on a path.
(tip: After to select the rotate tool, hold down the alt/opt key to select the center of rotation this will then bring up the rotate dialog box)

Why does Firefox crashes and support takes me around and around in circles

Firefox won't open and I get the crash reporter instead. I used to have firefox and was re downloading it, but now it just crashes when I try to open it. Online support does nothing but run me around in circles!!!!

With which Firefox version do you have the crashes?
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes

Distribute graphics around a circle

Hi,
i wanna distribute vector graphics from Illustrator around a circle in InDesign. I played around using the trial and error method. I read something about using the rotate tool to do it exactly, but i'm not able to do it like this. I don't wanna change the angle or duplicate the items. Is there another way? It should be look like this:
Cheers
Mario

I bet this is far easier to do in Illustrator.
Then again, with the help of a little scripting ... Select the objects to be distributed and run this script. You cannot set a "radius"; instead, the radius of the circumscribing circle is calculated from the largest horizontal or vertical distance.
I'm a bit unsure on what the final re-positioning command actually does -- if you select objects of different sizes, you can see what I mean. But with equal-sized objects, such as your butterflies, it works mathematically perfect.
objs = app.selection;
minx = 1e9; miny = 1e9;
maxx =-1e9; maxy =-1e9;
for (a=0; a<objs.length; a++)
if (objs[a].geometricBounds[0] < miny)
miny = objs[a].geometricBounds[0];
if (objs[a].geometricBounds[1] < minx)
minx = objs[a].geometricBounds[1];
if (objs[a].geometricBounds[2] > maxy)
maxy = objs[a].geometricBounds[2];
if (objs[a].geometricBounds[3] > maxx)
maxx = objs[a].geometricBounds[3];
wide = maxx-minx;
high = maxy-miny;
if (wide < high)
wide = high;
radius = wide/2;
centerx = (minx+maxx)/2;
centery = (miny+maxy)/2;
for (i=0; i<objs.length; i++)
cx = centerx + radius*Math.cos(2*Math.PI*i/objs.length);
cy = centery + radius*Math.sin(2*Math.PI*i/objs.length);
objs[i].move ([cx,cy]);

Animating a still photo

i am having trouble figuring how to go about animating a still photo. for example.....
how they did it:
http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2010/05/animating-a-still/
what they did:
http://www.videocopilotstore.net/blogstuff/chopper_w.mov
is there a way to go about achieving this effect in motion? any tips/ideas would be greatly appreciated

There is not a liquify filter in Motion, but there are a variety of ways to animate textures in stills. In the first spot on this reel:
Cause Advertising
the polar bear images were all stills, but I animated the water etc with a number of techniques. You can drive a displace filter with a cloud generator, animate parameters in the indent filter, etc. Even the ocean in the final CG SOS shot (I did not do the CG) was from a still...
Understanding animation techniques and the tools you have to work with is always useful, even if you have a liquify filter...
Patrick

Animating a still around a circle as tho it were the tip of a second hand

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for