Art brush on an ellipse creates a gap

See attached file. I am applying this Art Brush on a perfect circle I've drawn with the Ellipse Tool. It is a closed path. Why the gap? Any way to get it to go all the way around?

Art brushes have a beginning and end regardless of what they are applied to. IF the ends of the art used to create the art brush aren't the same as the , then you'll see the end caps.
Art brushes aren't designed to even out the shape. They simply take your shape and transform it to the path. That miniscule gap between the two ends can be corrected by drawing a no-fill, no-stroke rectangle around the art that stops just short of the end of the artwork and is behind the art. Then drag the art and hollow rectangle to the Brush panel.
For your artwork.. I'd use a Pattern Brush, not an Art Brush.

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It only occurs around certain curves and bends. Here is other path with the issue. You might be able to recreate if you draw a shape like this. Also, I am using CS4. I don't know if this is a bug that may have been fixed in CS5. I don't have any effects applied to any of the strokes. The only items listed in each line of the appearance is the stadard. "Opacity: Default"
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I'm trying to create a tribal tattoo looking design, so I created an art brush that is fixed in width and tapers at the ends since this is the way most of the lines in those tattoos look. The problem I am having is with mitering. If I create any angle that isn't very shallow the miter looks very bad as if the miter limit is set too low, even at miter limit 500. The corner appears chopped off. Is there anything I can do about it? Is there a better way?
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...even at miter limit 500.
Miter limit setting has nothing to do with ArtBrushes. It only affects ordinary strokes. ArtBrushes try to stretch artwork along a path. The artwork doesn't really get mitered at corner points. It tries to "bend around" the corner, and what you see is what you get.
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Hello, using CS5,
I've created an art brush and applied it to a path. I get the following result..
Instead i'd like the ovelapping section to appear so that one part of the path is on top of the other. Any ideas?

candlecatrat,
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To update an art brush, currently you have to:
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- Select every path that had the original brush
- Apply the new brush
- Delete the original brush
This could go much quicker like so:
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- Make the changes
- Exit isolation mode
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How to get the art handle of a newly created art.

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Unfortunately, there is nothing to really do this. I asked for years, and eventually gave up. The best I came up with -- and it sucks -- is to watch for kArtPropertiesChangedNotifier and when that triggers, you look at the selected art and assume that was what was 'created' or 'edited'. Of course, telling the difference between the two is a problem

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In Expert timeline, is there a way to create a gap, so that copies of other clips on the timeline can be copied into it without covering other clips?
The objective is to insert a series of very short-duration copies of various clips to create a section with multiple quick changes from one image to another.
I have been using a workaround (insert black screen, then copy and paste clips from the timeline over it) but this is very tedious and inefficient, adding extra steps to the process.
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VDOS,
Thanks. This would be good but I have a ton of stuff on the timeline and when I do a lasso-drag operation half the time the program crashes. Also I'm trying to avoid all the selecting and dragging--very time consuming.
Actually for my specific question I found the answer last night:
1. Copy clip(s) that need to be copied onto different a timeline location (Ctrl-C).
2 Put CTI at target location on timeline,
3. Shift-Ctrl-V
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As you note, if you have anything on any other track PE12 will chop it up and shift it, which I have learned the hard way. So I have had to remove the sound track, to be put in later. I consider this to be very poor design; there are countless situations in which the sound track is essentially background music which has absolutely no specific connection to any specific scene or clip, and failure to allow for an override of the synchronizing feature is very poor design.
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1. Put CTI at target location for gap
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4. R click Black Screen, choose Delete. Screen will be deleted, leaving a gap.
5. Clear Black Screen from Project Assets (to avoid filling up that area with useless junk). Or leave it if you think you'll use it again.
This can be a convenient marker for quickly finding some area or clip that you need to work on later. Or for indicating areas that you want to export later.
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CS4 Illustrator art brush applied to path

I've made an art brush that looks like this:
And applied it to some wavy vertical lines. The lines are open paths, all drawn with the pen tool. The brush works fine on some of the lines, but others end up looking like this:
Any idea what's causing this?

Oh, sorry - I misunderstood Scott's comment. But…there are no fills applied to the original wavy lines; they are just lines. To clarify, in this image, #1 is one of the original wavy lines (just a .5pt line, no fill); #2 is that same line with the brush applied; #3 is a different original wavy line; #4 is #3 with the brush applied, and #5 is a short wavy line with the brush applied, included to show the brush effect on an entire line. 4 & 5 are correct - this is what I expect to happen when I apply the brush. #2, with the even/very oddly filled cut off section, is incorrect.
However, I did figure out that I could fix the problem by slightly reshaping the curves in the misbehaving lines. I'm still curious about what's causing it (don't think anything's corrupt), but this will work for now. Thanks for your help :-)

Art brush bug(s).

I really don't know why it happens. 'Art brush original' in second picture is art brush material for art brush in both pictures.
In the first picture, the circle has no fill, and it's showing white fill as if it has.
And the second picture, as you see, something's gone horribly wrong.
I'm not really sure but this hadn't happened till the latest update(I might be wrong).
download link for second example: [download]

Well, I found out myself what's causing this bug, it was blank fill/stroke rectangles on each element of the brush, still doesn't explain why, but yeah. Bug is still a bug.

Art brush question

When I use an art brush on a rectangle the corners all have a flat, angled
outside edge. It doesn't matter what art brush I use, it happens with all
of them. I've tried changing the miter type but that doesn't do anything
with art brushes. Is there anyway to get the brushes to 'flow' around the
corners without the flat spot?
Thanks!
Richard

The simplified file in question is here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0kosHJIs4dTZTE1MjgyM2UtZmZmNi00ZDMwLThiNzAtZGE1OTI3MzFhN jBm&hl=en&authkey=CJvuvO0B
Two layers, two objects.
The blue object is the subject of discussion as the art brush.
The "crystalized" oval with the transparent gradient is on a locked layer.
Trying to change the direction of the art brush while the transparent gradient object's layer is locked fails.
Unlock the layer and the direction change works as expected.
(The CS5 symbol sprayer problem has been discussed on this forum in the past, probably NOT related here since I ruled it out by deleting any in the file)

Why inserting audio creates a gap in my video ?

Hi,
I try to insert a short audio mp3 bakcground music in my work.
I try to insert it several times because it is short and I need it repeat.
So I insert it once at begining of my work. When I insert it a second time, it will create a gap between the end of previous audio piece, and its own end.
Why on earth does it does this ? Why audio can break video ? This turns me mad, please tell me how can I insert audio files without destroying my video ?
Thanks,
Uglook

Uglook wrote:
I try to insert a short audio mp3 bakcground music in my work.
I try to insert it several times because it is short and I need it repeat.
So I insert it once at begining of my work. When I insert it a second time, it will create a gap between the end of previous audio piece, and its own end.
Why on earth does it does this ? Why audio can break video ? This turns me mad, please tell me how can I insert audio files without destroying my video ?
Are you trying to put it onto the Audio 1 track? If so after the insert (that creates the gap) you will need to break the video/audio link by right-clicking the audio track and selecting 'Unlink Audio and Video'. With the link broken you can then move just the video clips to fill the gap.
If you are not already using the 'Soundtrack' track for something else that would be the better place to add your mp3 clip.
Cheers,
Neale
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Why does pan and zoom create a gap in the video?

I am using pan and zoom to move around still pictures with Premiere Elements 10.0.
When I create the frames and pans in the picture and return to the timeline, PE has inserted a blank gap after the next cut in the video. The pictures are on a separate video track. The gap is just gray and I can't delete and close the gap. When I right-click the gap the Delete and Close Gap popup button is grayed out and cannot be clicked. I'm being very careful to make all of the hold durations plus the pan durations for all frames add up to be the exact length of the original still picture I'm using. Nothing I try seems to get around this problem.
Any suggestions will be greatly apprecieated.
Thanks.

I do not recall reading of a Bug in the program, that would create a gap. It would be more likely, that something is being done in the editing, that is creating the gap.
Having a Title on a Video Track "above" the Clips (Video, or Still), is the normal method of doing an overlay Title, that will appear above the Clips, and display as a superimposition of the Title over the Clip.
Now, when editing, one can control how the editing operation affects existing Clips on the Timeline. For instance, if one wishes to edit, or add material, and have that "ripple" all the existing material, then that is the default editing function. If they, instead, wish to have the edit, or the additional material "replace" Frames in the existing material, then this is done by holding down the Ctrl modifier key. It all depends on what the user requires to happen.
Good luck,
Hunt

What brush was used to create this artwork?

I am not familiar with using brushes in illustrator. Just wondered where to start! Underdog

My guess is no brush was used to create the artwork. The original may have started out as vector artwork created with the Pen tool ( 1/2 Reflected ). Then, it was likely Exported as a .tiff to Photoshop where some Gaussian Blur and Noise fillters were applied. Where did you get the sample above? Is it vector or bitmap artwork?

Art brush on an ellipse creates a gap

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