"Caching" behavior in the motion timeline

I noticed some odd caching behavior in the motion timeline. Despite clearing animation it remained and I had to restart Ps to purge it from my project. Just me? Or is anyone else seeing this?
CD

Hi, Steve.
I was removing it only from the timeline object I'd orginally put it on. Your answer seems like it could have solved the issue without the restart. For next time...
thanks!
Christine

Similar Messages

Parameter that drives applet cache behavior

Can anyone point to documentation related to the control of the applet cache behavior on the client?
Thanks,
Thomas

I think it's important, (at least me I have found it important)
it is deserving to read it
[url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=682193&#682193] Forms9i- Why base on applet?
I hope let me know

Can I edit and "update" an image, in the timeline, without re-importing it and re-doing all the motion/keyframes?

I have an image in my Final Cut Express project, which has lots of intricate movements and keyframes assigned to it.
I've just discovered I need to change something in the image (give it a photoshop edit).
Do I have to re-import the image all over again, and copy over the numerical details in for the "motion" section, or can I just do something to replace the file and have FCE use that new image in the timeline, keeping everything that was setup?
Thanks

In system preferences set the external editor for stills to Photoshop. Control-click on the image and select open in editor. Make the changes. Save the image.

Stretching the whole timeline in Motion 2

Hi guys,
I was or am working on a project which is almost finished but the movie needs to be a little bit slower. I already read that there is no real possibility to enlarge the whole timeline - just via the scrubbing filter.
Is there no other way to scale the whole timeline? And how does it work in Motion 3?

Slower or longer? Allowing for a possible translation error, which do you need?
If you make it slower, all of your timing changes and most of your effects will need to be redesigned.
Longer is easy, just enter a new value in the length field. But then you have to pull out your layers and groups to cover the new length. Just grab them and pull to the right. But that won't work in all cases, of course. If you are using a ten second movie you cannot pull it out to 12 seconds without heavy processing.
bogiesan

Basic Motion Spin Behavior has the 2 arrows missing

In the HUD, why are the 2 rounded arrows in the center missing in the Basic Motion "Spin" Behavior? The outer circle appears, but the center is black, not allowing access to the rotation axis.

I had the same issue on my 8-core Mac Pro. I solved the issue by removing the extra video card I had in the system. Now I am using two cinema screens on one Gforce 8800 GT and Motion works fine again, including the spin behavior's HUD.
Hope this will help.

I am using photos . I add a camera and make my photos slide in. How do I add a second behavior to the photo to make it slide out. I want the photo to hold on the screen for a few seconds in between sliding in and sliding out.

I am using photos in Motion 5. I add a camera and make my photo slide in. How do i add a second behavior to the photo to make it slide out? I want the photo to hold for a few seconds in between sliding in and sliding out. When I am trying to do this I am not getting the photo to hold, i am making one continuous motion which I do not want.
Thanks

Are you using the "motion path" behavior? If so just duplicate it and drag it down the timeline to where you want it to start. Trim it to end at the end of the project. The gap you leave in the timeline between the two behaviors is your hold time. Not sure why you are using a camera unless you have a behavior on the camera.If you are using keyframes just set two keyframes at the same position values in the inspector for the hold time.

I am trying to use motion tracking to have text follow a section of the background.The text box follows the motion path, but the text just sits there. What am I doing wrong?

I am trying to use motion tracking to have text follow a section of the background.The text box follows the motion path, but the text just sits there. What am I doing wrong?

Motion basically looks at the the source footage and it's timing (in the timing section of the Inspector) when analyzing for tracking. Filters are basically ignored by the tracker. Retiming actions, like time re-mapping, or retiming behaviors that are applied before the tracker should be used by the tracker. Did you change the timing after doing the tracking? If so this would also require you to re-track the shot. Understanding that you found a workaround, describing the effects you applied would help to explain why you ran into problems.
Cheers!

How do I recerence Movie Clips on the Main Timeline from inside a class?

Hey everyone, this might be a stupid question but I thought
I'd ask cause it's making me nuts. I'm all of 2 days into AS3
(coming from not using Flash at all in YEARS) so feel free to
consider me ignorant. I do have plenty of application development
experience in other areas though.
I can't seem to create a class that can reference an instance
of a movie clip on my main timeline. I'd post code of what I've
tried but I've gone through so many desperate edits & wild
guesses that it was just garbled junk before I deleted it all.
Basically here's how I figured Flash could work, though maybe
it doesn't work this way at all.
I'm assuming that with AS 3 being so big on being a true
object oriented environment, I wouldn't need to mix my code and
interface together. Preferably I'd be using the Flash authoring
tools just to design my interface. Create a button... place it
somewhere... give it an instance name. Roughly the equivilant of
Apple's InterfaceBuilder for those of you that might be familiar
with Cocoa development. I can see maybe having to put a few lines
of ActionScript onto frame 1 (though really I'm hoping Flash would
have a better method of kicking off the application at this point
that using code tied to frames) to load my classes & such, but
after that I'd like all of my code to be held in external class
files.
So maybe I've got:
Interface.fla - My interface
Button_1
Button_2
TextField_1
Main.as - My main controller class using to handle all of my
applications behavior
SomeClass.as - Some helper Class
SomeOtherClass.as - Some helper Class
Main.as would have instructions in its initialization method
to go ahead & attach events to buttons & initialize
anything else that needs to happen when the application starts.
From there on it would all be objects communicating back &
forth. Button_1 would get clicked with would fire
Main.someMethod(). Main.someMethod() would then do it's thing and
set the value of TextField_1. All very clean & code is very
separated from interface.
Unfortunately I can't for the life of me figure out how AS3
classes reference each other like that. There doesn't seem to be
any kind of a global 'root' or '_root' I can use to locate any
movie clips on the stage. I've searched the help & the web for
any kind of simple tutorial but to no avail. My job has tasked me
with building a flash app for a project but I'd really rather not
have a tone of ActionScript just shoved into frame 1. That just
seems... ugh! (::shudder::)
Can someone maybe point me in the right direction here? I'm
really willing to do my homework but I can't seem to locate the
info I need to get started. Also, is there an ActionScript IRC
channel or something maybe?
Thanks,
Cliff

I worked with the problem last night and the solution I
started coming to involved creating my own custom document class
based off which extends MovieClip. My thought is that way I have
access to the initialization routine of the timeline itself and
that all of the elements on the main timeline should be
"properties" of my custom class.
Is this correct? Is there a down side to doing this & if
so what is it & why?
Also, just for my reference, the last time I did anything
with ActionScript I think I was using '_root' to target the main
timeline. WHat are the global variable names in AS 3? Is it just
'root' & 'stage' or 'Root' & 'Stage' or what?

Physical memory cache behavior in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

I have a question regarding how windows manages the cache portion of phyiscal memory. I have 2 servers which are identical OS configurations, hardware and experience nearly identical workloads. Server 1 appears to use its cache a lot. I often
see physical cache at at 75% of total memory (total is 16gb for both servers). I also see that the cache stays this high
even when overall memory utilization is minimal (say approx. 3-4gb out of 16gb for long durations). I suppose this means windows memory manager is keeping pages in the cache because it anticipates it may need them again, but would overwrite them with
new data if new processes needed it (I think of this cached memory when the system is near idle as "available" but correct me if I am wrong?)
Server 2 (again same workload and identical hardware, OS, configuration) doesn't appear to use cache as much. In fact, cache is always low round the clock (2 gbs usually) even when there is little to no memory utilization from processes outside the OS. Basically,
it is low when the server is near idle, while the server 2 keeps it very high during the same period of minimal workload. Why the difference? Does this behavior sound normal? Please advise. I am not a Windows Admin btw. I have a rudimentary understanding
of memory.. or so I believe at least : )
Thanks.

Hi,
Although both server are identical OS configurations, hardware and experience nearly identical workloads, there are still differences between them. We can use task manager on both server and Check which processes are using physical memory, please go through
the below article to check more details about windows performance issue:
Troubleshooting Windows Performance Issues: Lots of RAM but no Available Memory
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/archive/2012/12/06/lots-of-ram-but-no-available-memory.aspx
Regards,
Yan Li
TechNet Subscriber Support
If you are
TechNet Subscription
user and have any feedback on our support quality, please send your feedback
here.
Regards, Yan Li

Need help with non-video clip transitions on the FCP timeline...

Hi all, I am struggling with this problem with the FCP timeline: I have a mix of things; .motn includes, .psd includes, etc. and I want to put a transition between them and a normal video clip, BUT, as u can guess, it does not work well. I guess because FCP can't see the frames inside the Motion file, it won't let u do a cross fade or whatever with any amount of time applied to it. So what to do?
I started to modify the motion files but realized this would not work, as I often use bits of one motion animation in various places starting and ending at different timecodes. So i need to be able to place a transition at the beg/end of motion clip on the fcp timeline. I started doing this:
1) place a slug above the track of a joining of motion/video clip
2) place the transitions on both ends of the slug.
Is this the way to go? I have dozens of these that I need to fix asap, so all advice is appreciated!
coocoo

Hi Cooco,
there are several ways to find out whether it is a [*matter of handles*|http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_handles.html]
One is to select the clip>hit the S key (slip tool) clickandhold it . A brown line drawing a rectangle will appear and will continue beyond in and out point revealing the available clip's handles. If not handles are available then the brown line will stay within the clip on the timeline.
Visit the link I sent to you to more understand handle matters.
G.
Message was edited by: gogiangigo

Local Cache Visibility from the Cluster

Hi, can you give me an explanation for the following Coherence issue, please ?
I found in the documentation that the Coherence local cache is just that: a cache that is local to (completely contained within) a particular cluster node and is accessible from a single JVM.
On te other hand, I also found the following statement:
“ Clustered caches are accessible from multiple JVMs (any cluster node running the same cache service). The cache service provides the capability to access local caches from other cluster nodes.”
My questions are:
If I have local off-heap NIO memory cache or NIO File Manager cache on the one Coherence node, can it be visible from other Coherence nodes as a clustered cache ?
Also, if I have NIO File Manager cache on a shared disk, is it possible to configure all nodes to work with that cache ?
Best Regards,
Tomislav Milinovic

Tomislav,
I will answer your questions on top of your statements, OK?
"Coherence local cache is just that: a cache that is local to (completely contained within) a particular cluster node and is accessible from a single JVM"
Considering the partitioned (distributed) scheme, Coherence is a truly peer-to-peer technology in which data is spread across a cluster of nodes, the primary data is stored in a local JVM of one node, and its backup is stored in another node, preferably in another site, cluster or rack.
"Clustered caches are accessible from multiple JVMs (any cluster node running the same cache service). The cache service provides the capability to access local caches from other cluster nodes"
Yes, no matter if the data is stored locally in a single node of the cluster, but when you access that data through its key, Coherence automatically finds that data in the cluster and brings to you. Its transparently for the developer the location of data, but one thing is certain: you have a global view of caches, meaning that from every single member, you have access to all data stored. This is one of the magic that the Coherence protocol (called TCMP) does for you.
"If I have local off-heap NIO memory cache or NIO File Manager cache on the one Coherence node, can it be visible from other Coherence nodes as a clustered cache ?"
As I said earlier, yes, you can access all the data stored from any node of the cluster. The way in which each node store its data (called as backing map scheme) can differ. One node can use an elastic data as backing map scheme, and another node can use Off-Heap NIO Memory Manager as backing map. This is just the way about each node store its data. For the architectural point of view, its a nice choice to use the same backing map scheme across multiple nodes, because each backing map scheme can have different behaviors when you read and/or write data. One could be faster and another could be slower.
"Also, if I have NIO File Manager cache on a shared disk, is it possible to configure all nodes to work with that cache ?"
There is no need for that, since data is available to all cluster nodes without any effort. Having said that, this would be a bad strategy choice. Coherence is a shared-nothing technology which uses that model to scale and give you predictable latency. If you start using a shared-disk as storage for data, you will lose the essence of shared-nothing benefits, and create a huge bottleneck in the data mgmt layer, since will occur dispute per I/O in each read/write.
Cheers,
Ricardo Ferreira

Link Behavior Bug in Motion 5

I've repeatedly defined a bevavior to two link colors together (a gradient colorize from one group links to the gradient colorize of another group.) I'll set it, it works just fine. When I close the project and open it up again, the "Apply To" is always reset and blank, but the Source Parameter will be intact.
Is there a known bug for this?
This in in Motion 5, which isn't available as a product option when submitting this discussion.

The behavior is being applied to the RGB colors of a Gradient Colorize filter, not the gradient itself. Correct, the gradient is made of multiple values (RGB colors, locations, opacity) so applying a behavior to the entire gradient doesn't even make sense, and rightly so is impossible to do.
So if you apply the Gradient Colorize filter to anything, select the first (or second) color in the gradient, then to the right of the color control (and dropper icon) you'll see the ability to apply a behavior. This color can be linked to any other RGB value in any other layer or group via a Link behavior.
However, in my case, when I do it.. it never saves.
I've run tests from scratch where it WILL save. There's something unique to this project that Motion doesn't like.. and for the life of me, I can't figure it out, other than to just call it a bug.
Here's the test file that I set up that does work:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qpxhdmjdlljns85
There's a source group and two linked groups that follow the source group. Changing the colors of the source group changes the colors of the other two groups. This one, for some reason, saves.
So, what the heck does that do for me? Nothing.. in fact it's worse. There's some sort of conflict going on that I need to find that keeps mine from saving properly.

How to clear file cache (or buffer cache?) in the system

i found that after copying a large file, say >200M the system's memory drop 200M exactly until i delete the file. it is suspected that the memory is used for file cache.
After installing memtool, the prtmem command shows the following:
Total memory: 983 Megabytes
Kernel Memory: 106 Megabytes
Application: 193 Megabytes
Executable & libs: 40 Megabytes
File Cache: 495 Megabytes
Free, file cache: 60 Megabytes
Free, free: 87 Megabytes
It shows that nearly 500M of system's memory is used for file cache.
The temporary solution i use now is to copy a large file, say 300M, and delete that file.
eg
cp temp1.txt temp2.txt
rm temp2.txtAnd then most of the file cache will be freed out.
is there any way to release this file cache?
I've checked the system use the default value for the bufhwm parameter. ie, about 20M. however, as i know, this bufhwm parameter is related to buffer cache. is it really related to file cache?

To answer your question directly - delete the file or unmount the file system.
To answer your question indirectly - You are worrying about the wrong thing here. Also the buffer cache is slightly different the file system page cache. The file system page cache is behaving exactly as it should as is the virtual memory subsystem. When a system is operating for some period of time, the amount of free memory will always drop towards LOTSFREE and, if allowed, stay right above LOTSFREE - forever - if the work behavior of the machine stays about the same. This is usually because of the file system page cache.
Its nothing to worry about. Actually you want that to happen. Otherwise your disks would be getting the crap kicked out of them all the time.

FCP - Quits when using pen tool to enter nodes in the motion tab

Hi all.
I'm encountering a persistent problem with FCP unexpectedly quitting on both version 4.5HD and version 5. The problem occurs when I open a clip from the timeline in the viewer and access the motion tab to adjust the scale of a clip or the position of a clip with the pen tool. I can enter four nodes successfully with no problems, but if I then go back to the clip or open a new one, I can enter maybe three nodes maximum before they cease to register, then the beachball appears for half a second and FCP quits with the "unexpected" message.
This problem occurs across all machines whether I'm running FCP by itself or with other applications running in the background. I am using 10.4.6 on my laptop (iBook G4 with 1GB of RAM and FCP 4.5HD), 10.3.9 and FCP 4.5HD on an eMac, 10.4.6 and FCP Studio 5.0.4 on a G4 Tower ...
Has anyone experienced a similar problem, and does anyone have any thoughts on causes/fixes for it?
Thanks for reading.
L.
Either: iBook G4, eMac, G4 Tower, Mac-Mini, 20" Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi John,
Thanks. I figured it out so there’s no need.
Aloha,
Rick Doyle
[personal information removed... Mod - https://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-3731]
[This is an open forum, not Adobe support, please do not post personal information]
[If you are posting using email, please turn your 'sig file' function OFF for posting]

Move multiple frames in the motion editor?

Hi! Is there a way to move multiple frames in the motion editor (CS4)? Like now I have to move them one by one and it's hard to make them keep their values coz the shift+move doesn't seem to work. Or should it?
Regards / Jimmy

You can move multiple property keyframes for a single property in the Motion editor. Shift-click them and then drag. You cannot move keyframes across different properties, however.
If you want to move *all* keyframes on mutliple frames, you want to do this on the main timeline. Ctrl/cmd+drag across the frames to select the multiple frames, and then drag them on the tween span.

"Caching" behavior in the motion timeline

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for