Capturing "Now" the right way?
Ok so I captured an entire 60 minute tape via the capture "now" option. I named the reel "Wedding Part 1" and the clip name Untitled 1. I then made subclips with the DV Start/Stop detection tool. When I was done with the project, I erased all the media but kept the project file. About 3 months later, I decided to re-capture the offline clips. When I highlighted all the offline clips and pressed "Batch Capture", I got a window saying "the filenames are already taken". I had to rename all 90 clips by just pressing "1" then enter, 2 and enter, 3 and enter, and so on and so forth for all 90 clips. I don't really understand why I got this message, and want to know how I can prevent this happening again. Thanks.
If it's important to know - I'm on FCP version 5.1.4 on my Macbook Pro and the entire project is DV 29.97.
Thanks everybody.
If I understand what's going on, this is a two-fold issue.
Whenever possible, you'll want to give your captured clip an actual name - don't leave it at Untitled 1. For cases where you're capturing whole tapes, the clip name and reel name can be the same (ie. both can be Wedding Part 1, if you like).
When you're recapturing a group of subclips, they all actually point to the same media file (aka Untitled 1), so it's best to recapture only the first subclip, then, barring any oddities in naming or subclip limits, re-link all other subclips via File > Reconnect Media.
Finally, another option - and this is more of a personal choice - is, after you've subcliped your material, to select all your subclips and use Media Manager. Set to Media Manager to Use Existing, to delete unused media and to base file names on clip names, in order to create distinct media files that correspond to your subclips. It makes recapturing much easier in a lot of cases.
Also, in the future, you might want to try and see if you can use Automator to batch rename your files in the Finder.
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matnr TYPE vbap-matnr,
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matnr TYPE mara-matnr OPTIONAL.
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CLASS sales_order IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD get_vbap_details.
CLEAR : it_vbap.
REFRESH : it_vbap.
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matnr
arktx
FROM vbap
INTO TABLE it_vbap
WHERE vbeln = p_vbeln.
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METHOD constructor.
CLEAR : v_vbeln,
v_matnr.
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METHOD disp_vbap_details.
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wx_vbap-matnr,
wx_vbap-arktx.
ENDLOOP.
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START-OF-SELECTION.
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[Solved]Bash:Manipulating arrays of paths? the right way or not?
Note: Refer to the following posts for better solutions and/or alternatives.
This is a mock segment of a script I'm writting and I need to know if I'm doing it the correct way or at least in a proper bash way...
the following works but will it always parse in a sorted manner. I have a set of directories that are named by date in the YYYY-MM-DD (International) format and want to be sure that they will always be treated as directory paths even when special characters "\n,\t,\s ...etc" are encountered in the path. The number of these directories changes and is compared to a set NUM-ber variable and when there are more than the set number the oldest ones are removed which brings a second question. Being dated as YYYY-MM-DD they sort from oldest to newest(lexicographical order) but do they always and is this the right way to deal with elements in an array separated by nulls? Any Comments or suggestions would be appreciated as I'm learning bash for the time being (perl is next) and gathered this from bits and peices on verious wikis and forums. I basically want know if this a correct approach to the subject of extracting and performing actions on elements of an array that are directory paths.
#!/bin/bash
oifs="$IFS"
IFS=$'\0'
DIRTREE=(/path/to/dated/directories/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/)
NUM=5
HOWMANYMORE=$(echo $(( ${#DIRTREE[@]} - $NUM )))
if (( ${#DIRTREE[@]} > $NUM )) ; then
rm -rv "${DIRTREE[@]:0:$HOWMANYMORE}"
fi
IFS="$oifs"
Note:I have tested this for those wondering
Last edited by Thme (2012-11-30 16:58:13)aesiris wrote:
there is a special syntax for appending elements to an array:
array+=(element1 element2 ...)
you can simplify to
NUM=3
combined=()
for dir in set1 set2 set3; do
new=(/home/maat/dateddirs/"$dir"/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/)
(( count= ${#new[@]} - NUM ))
combined+=("${new[@]:0:$count}")
done
This works as really well, however, in my case I still need the other sets in separate arrays for other purposes in my personal script so I adapted the approach a little and got this which uses the array+=(foo) syntax properly now. I was aware of this feature in bash arrays and experimented with it but had no success adding elements from other arrays until you demonstrated it in your example by adding them though a "for loop" and doing the arithmetic there... My current one now is very similar...I'm not sure how to reduce it further if possible but I need the other arrays as I do something completely different with them:
#!/bin/bash
NUM=10
set1=(/home/maat/datedfolders/set1/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/)
set2=(/home/maat/datedfolders/set2/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/)
set3=(/home/maat/datedfolders/set3/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]/)
CT1=$(( ${#set1[@]} - NUM ))
CT2=$(( ${#set2[@]} - NUM ))
CT3=$(( ${#set3[@]} - NUM ))
for X in "${set1[@]:0:$CT1}" "${set2[@]:0:$CT2}" "${set3[@]:0:$CT3}"
do
combined+=("$X")
done
for
for Xdirs in "${combined[@]}"
do
rm -rv "$Xdirs"
done
I'm considering changing the title of this thread as it reveals a little more than I originally expected to go over and provides some pitfalls as well as ways to approach array manipulation which can be applied to wide range of uses in bash scripting. Others may find totally different uses for what we've discussed here so....
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Thanks in advance for your input.Well it seems like the first thing you should do is consolidate your iTunes libraries so that you don't have 4 copies of everything, one for each user logged in to your Mac Mini. How you do that is consolidate all 4 iTunes folders to one folder located in the /Users/Shared/ folder and update each of your iTunes to point to that folder accordingly. That way you have one iTunes library, only one copy of your media, but accessible from multiple users.
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even though all photos look like they are the right way up, when the slideshow commences, some of them display sideways. I have tried re-rotating them - and still have same problem. Help please - need it for Saturday night !
What version of iPhoto are you using? Are you creating the slideshow directly from an album or are you using the slideshow mode?
As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
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How to create a custom panel in the right way (without having an empty panel in the file info) ?
Hi Everyone
My name is Daté.
I'm working in the fashion industry as a designer and Design consultant to help fashion brands improving the design workflow by using Adobe softwares and especially Illustrator.
I'm not a developper, but i'm very interested about the possibility to introduce xmp technology to provide more DAM workflows in the fashion industry.
Fashion designers produce a lot of graphical objects in illustrator or Photoshop. Unfortunately they are faced to a big challenge which is about how to manage, search, classify and get this files faster. Of course PDM system or PLM system are used in the Fashion industry to manage data, but for many companies, implemanting this kind of database is very complex.
When i look at what you can do with xmp, it seems to be an interesting way of managing design files, then i started to follow Adobe instruction to try to build a custom panel.
The main idea is to (Theory) :
create custom panels used by fashion designers to classify their design files.
Use Adobe Bridge to search files, create smart collection to make basic reports in pdf and slideshows
Find someone to make a script able to export metadata in xml files
Use indesign and the xml file to generate automatically catalogues or technical sheets based on xmp values
I have created a custom panel by using the generic panel provided by Adobe and i have modified the fields to feet with the terms used in the fashion industry and it works well.
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It seems that many peaople have this issue, but i dodn't find a solution in the forum.
I try to create a trust file (cfg), but it didn't work.
It would be so kind if you can help me to understand why i can't create a custom panel normally and how to do it in the right way.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Best regards,
DatéHi Sunil,
After many trial, i realize the problem was not coming from the trust file, but from the way i have created the custom panel.
There is 2 different ways, the first described below is not working whereas the second is fine :
METHOD 1 :
I have downloaded the XMP-Fileinfo-SDK-CS6
In the XMP-Fileinfo-SDK-CS6 folder, i copied the com.adobe.xmp.sdk.fileinfo_fb4x_1.2.0.jar plugin from the Tools folder and i pasted it in the plugind folder of Flashbuilder 4.6
The plugin install an XMP project
In Flashbuilder 4.6 i have created a new project (File / New /Project /XMP/XMP Custom Panel)
A new xmp project is created in flashbuilder.
You can publish this project by right clicking the root folder and selecting XMP / Publish Custom Panel
The custom file info panel is automatically published in the right location which is on Mac : /Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/3.0 or /Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/4.0
Despite the publication of the custom file info panel and the creation of a trust file in the following location : "/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashPlayerTrust", the panel is blank in Illustrator.
I try this way several times, with no good results.
METHOD 2 :
I have installed Adobe CSExtensionBuilder 2.1 in Flash Builder
In FlashBuilder i have created a new project (File / New /Project /Adobe Creative Suite Extension Builder/XMP Fileinfo Panel Project)
As the system display a warning about the version of the sdk to use to create correctly a custom file info, I changed the sdk to sdk3.5A
The warning message is : "XMP FileInfo Panel Projects must be built with Flex 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 SDK. Building with Flex 4.6.0 SDK may result in runtime errors"
When i publish this File info panel project (right click the root folder and select Run as / Adobe illustrator), the panel is published correctly.
The last step is to create the trust file to display the fields in the panel and everything is working fine in Illustrator.
The second method seems to be the right way.
For sure something is missing in the first method, and i don't understand the difference between the XMP Custom Panel Project and the XMP Fileinfo Panel Project. Maybe you can explain it to me.
So what is the best solution ? the right sdk to use acording to the creative suite (the system asks to use 3.3 or 3.5 sdk for custom panels, so why ?)
I'm agree with Pedro, a step by step tutorial about this will help a lot of peaople, because it's not so easy to understand!!!
Sunil, as you belong to the staff team, can you tell me if there is :
A plugin or a software capable to extract the XMP from llustrator files to generate XML workflows in Indesign to create catalogues
A plugin to allow indesign to get custom XMP in live caption
A plugin to allow Bridge to get custom XMP in the Outputmode to make pdf or web galeries from a smart collection
How can you print the XMP data with the thumbnail of the file ?
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Best Regards
Daté -
What's the "right" way to create a News list in CQ5.4?
Hey folks,
I'm a brand new CQ developer and, though I've done a lot of reading, I'm still in the dark on how to do a few things.
I'm currently working on a corporate website, and I need to build a News page. Each article contains a title and rich text (possibly including embedded images, videos, etc...), and the News page itself should display a paginated list of recent article summaries (with "read full article" links). I also need to show the two or three most recent article summaries on the site's front page, under a News heading.
I thought there'd be a pre-built component to cover this case, since most corporate sites include a News page of some sort, but I haven't found one. Am I missing it? I looked into the Blog page template, but I think that adapting that may be overkill.
I think that the right way to do this would be to build a News component with a Title and Rich Text field in the edit dialog. New articles could be created by dropping these components into the parsys of the News page. I could then create both a .html and a .summary view for the components and use a customized List component to display the summary list on the front page. Am I on the right track here, or am I overcomplicating it?
Thanks!
- MichaelHi,
The "right" way of building any list-like component is to extend the existing List component.
That is referenced in this documentation page:
http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/wcm/default_components.html#List
You can find it under /libs/foundation/components/lists
To create, for example, a 'News List' component, just create a new component under your /apps/myproject/components, setting 'foundation/components/list' as sling:resourceSuperType ans add your custom script to display each news item. see also [1]
That way you canprovide more renderers to be used around your site(s)
[1] - http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/developing/components.html#Developing%20a%20new%20co mponent%20by%20adapting%20an%20existing%20%20%20%20%20component
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