Circle highlight

Probably a stupid question, but pre-FCP X I was able to add a slug and a mask to a clip and I could highlight (with keyframing too) any object. This was great for highlighting an athlete in a sports highlight video. I'm baffled as to how to do this with FCP X. Help!

Hi there
Captivate does not offer anything like this. I believe TechSmith's Camtasia Studio offers some of it in its recorder application. Additionally, there is a third party application called Presentation Assistant that you may wish to look into. http://www.presentation-assistant.com
Certainly anything like this will require recording in Full Motion Recording (FMR) mode. I'm not sure about Captivate 5. Perhaps it will offer much better FMR than Captivate past has.
Cheers... Rick
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Hello, I've searched the forums regarding buttons and circles, but seems that I'm still having trouble understanding.
I've noticed DVDSP4 is filled with more rectangular/square buttons, I have been using them in the past. This time, I'm working with circle buttons on a menu screen.
Here's a snapshot of what I'm working with today:
The circle button that came with DVDSP is called "Circle Highlight" and is the only one I can find. However, it's really pixealated:
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Is there a way I can recreate this button without it being pixelated? Does it need to be in exact dimensions with each circle in order for it to not be pixelated?
I'm a fan of the "simplebutton" that DVDSP provides, I currently have my settings set to this:
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The above image is when it is activated. I would like to basically make a "simplebutton" button and highlight that not a square or rectangle, but a circle. I would like to know the means of achieving that.
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When doing something like this, I usually make a layered menu in photoshop. I don't know if that's the best way to do it but it works...
You need to make a photoshop document with a few layers for each button - one layer for the inactive state, one for the active state and one for the selected state. All your inactive buttons can be flattened to one background layer because they stay on the screen all the time. So create your menu background first and flatten it into one layer.
Then, create 2 new layers for each button. One layer will be show how the button will look when selected. Perhaps you can put a glow behind your circle when the user navigates to it. The second layer will be how the button will look when it is activated. Maybe you color the circle in to indicate it was selected. Essentially, your photoshop doc layer should look something like this...
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Next, create your 4 standard buttons like you showed in your picture - you can use the square buttons. Click on your first button, go to the inspector and you can select which layers will be visible there. So check the 'button 1 selected' box in the second column and the 'button 1 active' box in the third column. By checking these boxes you are turning that layer on when the user either selects or activates the button. Do this for all 4 buttons.
By creating the menu this way, you can still use the square buttons that DVDSP provide. When the user selects the button, it will only show what is on the layer that you selected in the inspector, which is the glow circle or colored circle you created in photoshop. Everything else is on different layers so if there is overlap with the next button you won't see that button's highlight because it is on another layer.
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I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "active button" and Highlight active button. If you mean that you want a circular video button with a circle highlight, then I don't see why you couldn't in photoshop, in a button group labeled (+), have a layer for the video labeled (%) with a circle (use elipse tool with shift) and filled with some color.
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//Making Circle here
gridx=20;
gridy=20;
num=0;
for (var i=0;i < 10;i++)
for (var j=0;j < 10;j++)
dot.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+num,num);
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mc._y=gridy*j;
num++;
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this.getNextHighestDepth());
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_root.onMouseDown = function() {
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sel.startx = _xmouse; // we need to reference these later,
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sel.starty = _ymouse;
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
with(sel){
clear();
lineStyle( 1, 000000, 100 );
moveTo(sel.startx, sel.starty);
lineTo(_xmouse, starty);
lineTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
lineTo(sel.startx, _ymouse);
lineTo(sel.startx, sel.starty);
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function(x1:Number,y1:Number,x2:Number,y2:Number){
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// to work out the top left and bottom right coordinates..
var sx = Math.min(x1,x2);
var ex = Math.max(x1,x2);
var sy = Math.min(y1,y2);
var ey = Math.max(y1,y2);
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_root
if(typeof(this[item])=="movieclip"){ // if the current item
is a movieclip..
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// check whether the selection coordinates enclose the mc
coordinates
return (x1<=mc._x && x2>=mc._x+mc._width
&& y1<=mc._y && y2>=mc._y+mc._height);
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wroking, but same problam, it work in background, & hide my all
MC (that Plain Circle also) and highlight only which we select
// Some brif here:
i want to create plain circle in background, after that some
one want to slecte that palin circle highlight that circle only
with fill circle ( for better explaination see my fla file which is
attach here
Please see this
Pls pls help me out
thanks
praful damania

for better explaination pls see my fla file which is attache
there & I have some quation about it as under
1) here i make fill circle mc, all hide with this code, but
problam is all circle come in background
2) here i make fill circle mc, all hide with this code, but
problam is all circle come in background
3) here u can find selection option, selection option is
wroking, but same problam, it work in background, & hide my all
MC (that Plain Circle also) and highlight only which we select
i want to create plain circle in background, after that some
one want to slecte that palin circle highlight that circle only
with fill circle
thanks for reply
Praful Damania

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