Drop box problems -- black lines I can't get rid of

Hi there,
When I drop any 16:9 footage into a drop box I've created (in an anamorphic project) I get small black lines to the left and right of the footage, even though the drop box is supposed to be 16:9 too.
None of the options Fit, Center, or Stretch allow me to get rid of them. Is this something I just have to live with? I can't see a way of cropping the drop box to disguise them.
Thanks for any help.

hi fellas -- of course you're right. The crop tool does the thing.
It's a shame you have to resort to it -- shouldn't motion know what I wanna do??! I'll settle for imperfection. Thanks for getting back to me.
Black lines are a thing of the past.
Many thanks.

Similar Messages

Line I can't get rid off

There is a line I can not get rid off. I turned all the layers off and it is still visible if I turn all the layers on it is also visible. I can't select it and I can't erase it because it's in none of the layers.
Does anyone has an idea of what it could be and how I can get rid of it?
Looking forward to your answer!

Hi,
You're in the wrong forum.You should be asking over in either the Photoshop Windows or Photoshop Mac forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop
I believe I know what the answer is though. It looks like you've drawn a rectangle with the rectangle tool with the path option selected. To get that to go away, you'll need to deselect the path.
There are several ways to deselect the path so the line goes away.
1. Grab one of the path tools...pen tool would be a good choice; hit ESC key.
or
2. Open paths palette and click in the blank area...under work path. Note: You don't have to have a path tool selected to use this method.
or
3. Grab the direct select tool; click in the document...anywhere but on the path; hit ESC
There are other ways to deselect a path but any of these three will do the trick.

Hi, incorrect previously used e-mail address suggestions keep appearing in my Yahoo! ID box when signing in & I can't get rid of them.

Hi, incorrect previously used e-mail address suggestions keep appearing in my Yahoo! ID box when signing in. I can't get rid of them. I've tried clearing the cache and cookies. I couldn't find an option to clear private data, don't know if that would work. My Yahoo password is not saved and my password is not the problem. I just want to know how to delete previously used emails from logging in suggestions so they stop appearing, hope you can help, cheeeers - Dave.

Thanks very much for the response Sandee. I tried your suggestion of the Annotation option and this worked! - wonderful.. altho this test now works for me I'd still love to get it working from InDesign.
What I'm trying to achieve... my client had 5 powerpoint presentations that need updating with new branding (totally about 160 pages - with about 20 basic animations - i.e. flashing lights on products etc).
I sold him on the idea of using InDesign/PDF rather than powerpoint - but am needing to find an easy solution for the animations. So I've been working on this test file. Have self taught myself on a basic flash animation (from Lynda.com)... and tried importing both SWF and QT .MOV into InDesign and then exporting to PDF and when it loaded up in Acrobat it would always "unexpectedly quit" upon opening... even after trying different versions of PDF compatibility and restarting etc.
Is there something obvious that I'm not doing right?
Also if I get it to work, does that mean that my client and all their staff around the world will need to be Acrobat Reader 9?
Thanks again for your time and help
R

Thin White Lines - I can't get rid of them! Help!

I have a project in InDesign and whether I print directly from InDesign or export and print from PDF the thin white lines appear.
I have attempted all the solutions from this page Thin white, dark lines (stitching) | Export to PDF | InDesign CS2 and later,
but haven't had any luck.
One layer are colored circles with affects and the top layer is text.
Please help!
Thanks in advance!

What export settings are you using? In my experience, letting Acrobat do the flattening is more reliable than if ID does it, but there's no guarantee that you won't see stitching on any particular printer unless you eliminate transparency from the design.

Opps! Can't get rid of stuff on desktop!

I accidently moved over 1500 photos from iphoto to the desktop. Upon realizing what I did I couldn't stop it so I forced a shut down. Restarting found the desktop GONE but it was only hidden and all the photos were there. The problem is that I can't get rid of them. They won't go into the trash because I get the message.."Some of the items you are moving are in use by another application. Moving the items can cause problems with the application using them. Are you sure you want to move these items?"
I have tried to "continue" to no avail. I've tried trashing all the photo and trashing just one. I've tried to open one or two and can't. I tried to put them on a DVD but I can't.
Also the icon for my HD is missing but the LaCie external shows up and when i open it I can access the main drive but the desktop icon is either hidden someplace or gone.
Please someone tell me what to do to fix this mess and why can you just quit a accidental move like that and avoid such a problem in the 1st place?

Here's something you can try. Hopefully all the image files have the same extension: .jpg.
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the terminal prompt enter or paste the following: (Press RETURN after each command.)
cd Desktop
rm -rf *.jpg
Now, hopefully this will delete all the image files on the Desktop. If some remain it will likely be because they have a different extension than .jpg. You may need to repeat the "rm -rf *.ext" command replacing "ext" with the actual file extensions.

How can I get rid of files that cannot be imported error message

Hello, this is my first post. I am a new mac user. I have imported my jpgs from an external hard drive which was in the most part successful, however, 14 of the files appear to be corrupted and every time I open iphoto9, I get the error message, '14 of your files could not be imported, would you like to import them now?' I have tried choosing both options yes and no and it then writes error message telling me it has created recovered photos folder. When you go to this folder it is empty and every time I restart iphoto, I get the same message. I have tried deleting all the files and re-importing only to find that the number of corrupted files has now doubled. I have also deleted the iphotos library recovered photo folders to no avail. I have tried creating a new library and importing the files to that but the same problem occurred. How can I get rid of this repeated error as I am now up to recovered folder number 47! Help!

P Robbins
Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
quit iPhoto and right click (control click) on the iPhoto library (in the pictures folder by default) and select the show package contents command - find the import (or importing) folder and drag it to the desktop and launch iPhoto - you should be fine now - open the import(ing) folder on your desktop and if there are any photos you want import them then trash the folder
LN

A box with a blue outline appeared in my bookmark drop-down menu. I can't get rid of it, and it obstructs the view of the bookmarks as I scroll up or down. Help!

I was trying to bookmark a page, using the "Choose" menu in the bookmarks. I must have touched a key by accident, and a box with a blue outline & the name of one of my folders appeared in my bookmark drop-down menu. At first the box contained the folder name, then I was trying to delete the box, and erase the name, thinking it might get rid of the box, but it didn't. I can't get rid of this box! It obstructs the view of what is underneath. It stays in the same position as I scroll up & down in the drop-down menu, and it hides what is underneath. Please help me get rid of this box. It is driving me crazy! Thanks!

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf

How can I get rid of the drop down suggestion box that appears as soon as I type the first letter in the address box? Runnung 7.1.2

How can I get rid of the drop down suggestion box that appears as soon as I type the first letter in the address box? Runnung 7.1.2

Writelady,
I do not know of any such option. I don't think that it is even possible at this time, however it doesn't mean that maybe sometime in the future Apple or someone else will make a way to do such as your request.
I do however think that you should let Apple know your opinion if you have not done such yet. You can give them product feedback at the following link. https://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
I hope that this helps,
-Weston

TS4003 Since the MobileMe move I keep getting a screen that says "IDisk Conflict Resolver." I've done everything asked to "resolve" the problem but it keeps popping up every few minutes. How can I get rid of this?

Since the MobileMe move I keep getting a pop-up screen that says "IDisk Conflict Resolver." I've done everything asked to "resolve" the problem but it keeps popping up every few minutes. How can I get rid of this?

Ok....so I have found a work around....if not a complete solution.
I'm not sure if deleting your music, uninstalling ITunes and reinstalling and adding your music back will actually affect it but I tried it again. Started from scratch.
I checked the box for "Manually manage music and videos"
Then I moved my music to phone via drag and drop, usually just boxing a row of albums at a time.
I went back into my Iphone and began the sync. The message popped up, "1 Item could not be synced" and the sync stopped. At that point, I just clicked sync again and it started back up again. It took a few go's but eventually I got all my music on my phone.
Ironically enough, the only songs that wouldn't sync were songs that I had actually purchased from Itunes....kinda odd

Can't get rid of vertical line in Pages '08

I add a text box to a blank page and paste in or type in some text.
There's a verticle line running the height of the paragraph (or single line) that I can't get rid of.
Also, the text appears blue even though it's supposed to be black. When I select the text and check the color it says it's black.

Neal Fox wrote:
OK. Opened a new document and copies with match style. The text comes out right.
Then I figured I could copy that and paste and match style into the original document. Nope!
Once it's in the original it comes out blue and with the line.
If it helps, the original is nothing but jpegs on every page. It's a child's picture book. I'm trying to put the front pages in, which are only text. I didn't copy from the internet, but typed into a text box. No pasting from another document either.
Thanks.
Neal,
When you did the Copy and Paste and Match Style back into the "Original Document", that reverted the style. What you should have done when returning was a straight Paste.
Jerry

In Mail, one mailbox for Recovered Message (AOL) keeps showing 1 very large message that I cannot delete. How can I get rid of this recurring problem, please?

In Mail on iMac, successfully running OS X Lion, one mailbox on My Mac for "Recovered Messages (from AOL)" keeps showing 1 very large message (more than 20 Mb) that I just cannot seem to delete. Each time I go into my In Box, the "loading" symbol spins and the message appears in the "Recovered Messages" mailbox. How can I get rid of this recurrent file, please?
At the same time, I'm not receviving any new mails in my In Box, although, if I look at the same account on my MacBook Pro, I can indeed see the incoming mails (but on that machine I do not have the "recovery" problem).
The help of a clear-thinking Apple fan would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
From Ian in Paris, France

Ian
I worked it out.
Unhide your hidden files ( I used a widget from http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html)
Go to your HD.
Go to Users.
Go to your House (home)
there should be a hidden Library folder there (it will be transparent)
Go to Mail in this folder
The next folder ( for me ) is V2
Click on that and the next one will be a whole list of your mail servers, and one folder called Mailboxes
Click on that and there should be a folder called recovered messages (server) . mbox
Click on that there a random numbered/lettered folder -> data
In that data folder is a list of random numbered folders (i.e a folder called 2, one called 9 etc) and in EACH of these, another numbered folder, and then a folder called messages.
In the messages folder delete all of the ebmx (I think that's what they were from memory, sorry I forgot as I already deleted my trash after my golden moment).
This was GOLDEN for me. Reason being, when I went to delete my "recovered file" in mail, it would give me an error message " cannot delete 2500 files". I knew it was only 1 file so this was weird. Why 2500 files? Because if you click on the ebmx files like I did, hey presto, it turned out that they were ALL THE SAME MESSAGE = 2500 times. In each of those folders in the random numbers, in their related message folder.
Now remember - DONT delete the folder, make sure you have gone to the message folder, found all those pesky ebmx files and deleted THOSE, not the folder.
It worked for me. No restarting or anything. And recovered file. GONE.
Started receiving and syncing mail again. Woohoo.
Best wishes.

I am running OS10.6.8 and have a mail box duplication. I use gmail and when I open my mail I have both the Apple Mail and another set of boxes for Gmail. Both get all mail and when I delete from one, it deletes from the other. How can I get rid of the dup

I am running OS10.6.8 and have a mail box duplication. I use gmail and when I open my mail I have both the Apple Mail and another set of boxes for Gmail. Both get all mail and when I delete from one, it deletes from the other. How can I get rid of the dup

Hi,
According to your descriptioin, I don't think this is system problem, it should be Intel driver problem. It would be contact Intel to confirm this issue whether this is their driver problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Downloaded Firefox update for my Mac and now when I open it, there is a white box at the top of the page with a grey bar in it that I can't get rid of

I updated my firefox browser for my Mac and now, when I open it, an empty white box appears at the top of the page with only a gray bar in it. It over lays the Firefox home page and I can't get rid of it, so I can't click on anything on the Firefox page. I tried deleting Firefox and redownloading it, but that didn't help. I have to force quite Firefox to get out of it. Help!

hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...
[[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]

Vertical lines appear in every photo taken w my 3 yr old Power Shot A470.Can't get rid of them.Help?

in the midst of photo shoot yesterday, this vertical line pattern appeared in every photo and can't get rid of it. Triple checked all my settings, nothing's changed about how I take my photos.
Through the viewfinder when I prefocus I see the result of what my photo should look like after the shot, but after I take it, the shot is 50% lighter, with a horrible pattern of lines. Has my camera totally died? Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? I cannot take photos anymore with this all time favorite camera of mine

First try a complete reset if possible, I can't see it being the memory card but if you have a spare one try that.
One cause could be the sensor or the display itself, I've had faulty ribbon cables going to the display on TV sets causing similar problems.
I take it they are in the same place on every shot. What does a good photo show up like, i.e., one prior to this fault showing? This would point to the sensor or display, since the photo was taken previous to the fault it 'would' eliminate the sensor as this is only used when taking photos and not when 'viewing'.
Pity you couldn't post a sample as it *may* help.
Davy

I have a black dialog box on my display that I cannot get rid of. It displays text of whatever I am in, apps, docs, etc, and I have been unable to get rid of it.

I have a black dialog box on my display that I cannot get rid of. I was cleaning my keyboard and must have hit some combination of keys that caused it. It shows text announcing everything I open on the display or am looking at. Can anyone help me turn this off? Thanks.

Hi there francone,
It sounds like you may have the Picture-in-Picture Zoom option enabled. Take a look at the article below for more information as well as how to disable it.
OS X Mountain Lion: Zoom content on the screen
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11488
-Griff W.

Drop box problems -- black lines I can't get rid of

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for