Bug fix request: aspect ratio filtering

When I upgraded from LR 2 to LR 3 I imported the old catalog as Jeff Schewe described in the LL video tutorial. Now I cannot filter the images from this catalog by aspect ratio. At first I thought this problem was only confined to smart collections, and was informed by Ian Lyons that it is a known bug. Afterwards I discovered that it also applies to normal metadata filtering. The images are not cropped, and the dimensions are displayed correctly in the EXIF. I have read that a workaround is to make virtual copies of the images in question and filter those, but this is not really an elegant solution. Would be great if there was a better solution!

Thanks Gabriele.
There are two kinds of people in the world, and there are two kinds of plugins...
People:
- Those who are willing to use plugins.
- Those who aren't.
Plugins:
- Those that are a fine substitute for missing native functionality.
- Those that aren't.
In my opinion, DevMeta falls somewhere in between:
- When metadata is up-to-date, its indistinguishable from native functionality, except that numeric metadata acts like text...
- Unfortunately, keeping the metadata always up-to-date is where DevMeta has its limitations, compared to native.
Its my hope that Adobe will continue to do a combination of improved native support, and improved plugin support...
Cheers,
Rob

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Message was edited by: Inteleky

I'm not sure if what you're experiencing is a bug. I just tried this. While recording, I hit the playhead, and it simply stoped the recording where it was when I hit it, although the session continued to play. Try it yourself and watch the transport - the record button will go off, but the play will continue. When I did it just now, it DID NOT erase the recording that was in progress. Everything that had been recording until I hit the playhead was still there. This action makes sense to me. If the playhead gets touched and jumps to another part of the project, the action of recording SHOULD stop.
If you're really concerned about this, I'd do some experimenting. Just sit down and start recording, and see what happens if you hit the transport, or if you do other actions you're wanting to do. Again, everything that had recorded until the moment I hit the playhead, was there. If your ENTIRE RECORDING gets deleted when you hit the playback, then something's wrong with your Logic. Are you on 8.0.2?
Why are you feeling the need to edit while recording, anyway? Especially when you're recording important stuff??
On a sidenote, you're not going to reach anyone from Apple on this forum. You need to go here:
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Sorry, but the answer is - for professional use, use
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No, it is absolutely not the answer. EVERYONE I know in my circle of professionals uses iDVD for banging-out quick screeners of TV spots, film clips, dailies. In fact, it's one of the main reasons they added OneStep to iDVD. DVD Studio Pro is for authoring commercial-level DVDs, with a learning curve and pricing structure appropriate to that.
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The inablity to import a QuickTime clip -- on Apple software, no less -- is not cool, especially since it doesn't seem an excessive thing to ask (and it used to encode just fine). It's a very basic task considering everything else iDVD has been written to do, and crosscoding and re-encoding video is a basic functionality in QuickTime.
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Nick Holmes wrote:
What you have there is a mess.
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Um yeah...duh. That's exactly what I was trying to explain in the preface of my question. I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear...all these things you mention are the reasons I'm putting together a list of the technical specs of the DigiBeta I need so I can have them send that instead of the stupid letterboxed version.
Look, I'm sending this request to some intern at their offices in England, asking for a master with which I can make an Anamorphic DVD. They already sent me this master, which as you and I both agree is an idiotic asset to use for these purposes. As such, I was hoping for advice on a more precise way of requesting the master that I need than asking for "the master that was made before the letterboxing stage." Upon reflection, perhaps I'll just do that. If you or anyone else has a suggestion about something I should add to my request that would improve the odds of them sending the tape I need, please repond. Thank you!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179
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Hi Ann,
Your tip saved me a lot of time indeed....!
So I created a new sequence, made sure it was 16:9, copy pasted all of the assets, but then had to do the following:
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