FCP Selection Tool goes white

I can't think of a better name, but the "pointer" or selection tool is normally black, but when selecting motion files on the timeline my pointer turns white and fills to black. But the filling to black is taking longer lately. Is this the same thing as an hour glass? and would more ram make this happen less?

Is this the same thing as an hour glass? and would more ram make this happen less?
Yes. On both counts.

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Selection Tool becomes white and flickers (or flashes)...

...when I'm playing a clip in the Viewer. There's a tiny icon that appears and flashes briefly, too, above and to the left of the arrow. What does this mean?
This "clip" is actually a 35-minute video of my movement program (professionally produced with dissolves) that I will be editing with Final Cut Express. The original digital tape video master was copied to a DVD-R master; I copied the DVD file onto my hard drive and converted it to DV with DVDxDV.
Thanks for letting me know what, if anything, I should know regarding this flashing selection tool before proceeding with the edit!

I don't understand exactly what you mean.
If you play a clip in the Viewer the cursor arrowhead turns from black to white and flickers rapidly.
Is that what you mean? I don't know it's significance - but it is normal behaviour.
Ian.

Quick Selection Tool doesn't work

This has probably been addressed, but can't seem to find it. It's driving me nuts.
In Elements 6.0, I have found the Quick Selection Tool quite useful. However, I often find that it does not work; not creating an outlined selection.
Have others found this? Do I have some setting incorrect? Is this an Adobe bug? I have reverted to all default settings, but no dice.
Thanks!

Ya, I can't make it work. I've watched a million videos online with people that seem to think it's amazing, but I have spent HOURS trying to cut out a simple image that would have taken me ten seconds on my ancient CS2. After owning this new product for two months I am still opening up my old version of Photoshop to extract images. Every time I start outlining something, the Quick Selection Tool goes all over the place, and when I do finally get it somewhat close to outlining what I want, I can't figure out how to save what I want. Lame.

Direct Selection Tool Will Not Scale

For some reason my direct selection tool will not scale or stretch any vector or raster imgaes - CS5. I can only grab a corner and simply move the art. Does anyone have a fix for this? Maybe I hit some quick command keys and did not know it?

The Direct Selection Tool (the white arrow, shortcut "a") has never had that capability. All it's ever done is select and move points. You need to use the Selection Tool (the black arrow, shortcut "v") to do those things. If you want to scale, stretch, etc... a sub-selection of an object, you can make your selection with the white arrow and then use the transform tool (shortcut "e") to modify what you selected.

Selection tool blinking (black / white)

Hi,
this is maybe a newbie question, but I can't solved this problem.
I'm working in project with about 80 layers 3D (mosty images from Photoshop, one camera, some null objects, some texts, one solid with a grid effect and a sound layer in .wav).
Most of the layers are locked. I'm working on the layers that are in the bottom.
I try to animate the position of a layer manually with the selection tool. When I pass over the image in the composition front view or camera view, the selection tool (arrow) is blinking white and black.
If I try to click and drag this image, a new "window" pop up which shows the layer itself.
And some times the image is dragged well creating a new keyframe.
When this happens I try to select a new layer / or the layer / or the layer's position line or try to click elsewhere. Sometimes everything goes well, but mainly not. I can't figure out what's happening.
Thanks in advance.
AE CS5.5
Project 1920*1080
29.97fps
Windows 7 pro 64bits with all the last updates
I'am running Firefox and Photoshop at the same time.
The probleme does not appear during rendering but :
Use of OpenGL is checked when renderring
Multiprocessing is enable but disable by AE due to a lack of memory (that's the outgoing message).
Computer :
CPU : intel core i7 2600k
MB : Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
GPU : MSI - N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II OC - 1024Mo GDDR5
RAM : G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBSR1 (4x4GB)
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Hi Mylenium,
I use a mouse (Logitech Performance mouse MX).
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Selection Tool Suddenly Creates White Border

Am I nuts. I normally use the Selection Tool to move objects (layers) around. Suddenly, When I left click on an object and start to move it, all I get is a white rectangle with diagonal crosshairs. Now I have to move that rectangle to the destination and then the object appears in that location. I could swear I used to see the object moving with the cursor. What did I do?

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When using the white balance selection tool in LR3.3 RC the RGB values no longer show in the loupe window while moving the tool around the picture. The only way I can get the values to show is to stop moving the tool and then click any one of several keys (e.g. Ctrl, or Shift, or Alt, or \, etc.) As soon as I then move the tool the RGB values again disappear until I stop and again click one of the keys. It had worked fine previously in LR3 (?before I updated from 3.2 to 3.3 - that is, the values would show continuously as I moved the tool around the image. Any thoughts about what to do?
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Tom Hogarty wrote:
We did catch this bug and it will be fixed in the final Lightroom 3.3 release. Thanks for posting your experience.
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Tom Hogarty
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Nice to see you here Tom.. Thanks for the update. Is it somehow related to some of the other issues being reported about the TAT tool, just thinking they are both perhaps "pointer" related?
Jay S.

Why does the vector selection tool (white arrow) change layer selection to another vector mask?

I have been continually annoyed, when creating a vector mask-heavy document, with trying to select vector mask points by dragging a rectangle only to find that it instead selects a layer higher up which has a larger vector mask.
The only workaround is to manually select the points of my mask or to drag a rectangle from outside the canvas, meaning I have to zoom out or scroll to the edge - sometimes annoying if I am zoomed in quite far.
Does anyone know any resolution for this?
I know that the move tool can be set to automatically select a layer, depending on what part of the image is clicked, but why is there not an option to turn this off for vector editing?

What version of Photoshop are you using????
The White Arrow tool is the direct selection tool and it work best way you point it at a path segment line and click once. When you do all the control points in a close path segment will be marked with little squares and the two control point adjacent to where you clicked will have handles you can adjust.
You can also drag out a rectangle with the direct selection tool. When you do you may select many closed paths in a path a path may have many sub paths and each has a mode like add, subtract, intersect etc, and each has a stacking order like in a layer stack. So if you drag out a rectangle many paths control points will be marked and control point adjacent to crossing rectangle will have handles. Can be very confusing.
Here are two screen capture the first on shows the layer palette and path palette. You can see many shapes and path with sub paths and modes. I also targeted layer a vector mask. The selected the direct selection tool and in the image window I pointed at the 45 degree oval path near the top right. You cab see the four control points and two with handles. The second screen capture I only captured the image window. I used the direct selection tool and draged out a rectangle and you cab see many segments control points and many have handles. I have no problem selecting what I want to select

White lines using Quick Selection Tool in conjunction with the Content Aware Fill.

When using quick selection tool in conjunction with the content aware fill i get a white line where the image join is.
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Please help me with adding a white background with my pic, am not even sure if i should searching how to perfectly use the selection tool or how to add white background, I need to add a solid white background to my pics but when i try they dont turn out so well, here is a pic, thats the best i have gotten, what am i doing wrong? I know to to fill in the white but the pic looks terrible. thanks

Hello Silkrooster, I appreciate your reply so much and thank you for trying to explain though I even got more confused, I am attaching 4 pics, the before and after of what I have worked on so far (I changed backgrounds when taking the pics) and what am working on now with the new background but still the result is not perfect, thank u so much

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I currently have PSE 10, and use the selection tools often (normally the Quick selection). I find them quite frustrating if trying to include detail along edges, for example of a bird with lots of fine feathers extending beyond the body of the bird. I am familiar with the + and - options to add/subtract from the selection, but was wondering if there is a good (easier) way to include all that detail. I usually go to actual pixel size or higher when trying to include the detail.
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