Flash & Motion

Might be a dumb question but i'll ask anyway.
I build my DVD menus in Motion for DSP and was wondering if in Motion if i keyframe a button getting bigger when you click or even hover would be better for it to get bigger but have that function work in DSP. I have done simular projects in DSP but i was using layered menus from Photoshop where if you hover i had a box with a description come out and desrbibe the what that button will do. Been through DSP and sence you can't really layer menus with motion i might have already answered my own question, but i thought i may as well ask the pros. Thanks Charles

I suggest you begin by reading the wealth of information on
these basic concepts in the Flash Help Manual (F1) where you will
find these answers and much more than you will be able to read over
the next year or so...
1) read about movieclips and buttons
2) see #1, understand the timeline and the gotoAndPlay()
method
3) all timelines loop by default, and see #3
4) read about the Tween class ...
4a) preloaders are a whole other animal, you will need the
basics before working with external loading
5) see #1, an infinite number of ways only limited by your
imagination
6) see #1, again, many methods to achieve this type of
action

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Flash motion menu problem

Hi,
Ive made a dvd with the first play as a motion menu containing a small video clip. Ten seconds, plays once then moves to a static menu. There is nothing else in the menu (no buttons etc) and all it contains is the locked background layer that encore generates plus the movie linked through the motion tab.
I used a menu to do this other than a time line because I was getting a weird scaling thing when it jumped to the static menu. Not a 4:3 - 16:9 issue, just a slight scaling. Both are set to 720x576 WS PAL.
Anyway, this menu shows up fine when I preview the dvd in encore but when I make a flash version for the client to preview, the motion menu is just black. Audio plays but no video. The rest of the dvd works fine in the flash version.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time.

What is the AV format of the Motion Menu Asset?
Can you post a screen-cap of the Layers of your Motion Menu?
When one has a Scaling issue, and the pixel x pixel size matches, it is often a mis-match in PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio), and is often square pixels in one case, and non-square pixels in the other. IIRC, with PAL, that would be 1.0 vs 1.4 for the PAR's. To correct that Scaling, I would carefully check the PAR of all Assets in that Menu.
Good luck,
Hunt

FLASH Motion/Events (6)

1. How to make hotspots?
2. How can you jump to another page or scene when you click
something?
3. Loop animations?
4. Timing animations with triggers (e.g. a loading bar
lasting only the duration for loading)
5. Mouse hoover effects
6. How to make objects disappear or appear upon clicks.
I've messed with HTML & PHP for sometime now, but today
though I messed with flash for the first time. I ran into 6 issues.
I figured out keyframing, motion, and fades. Any help on
these?

I suggest you begin by reading the wealth of information on
these basic concepts in the Flash Help Manual (F1) where you will
find these answers and much more than you will be able to read over
the next year or so...
1) read about movieclips and buttons
2) see #1, understand the timeline and the gotoAndPlay()
method
3) all timelines loop by default, and see #3
4) read about the Tween class ...
4a) preloaders are a whole other animal, you will need the
basics before working with external loading
5) see #1, an infinite number of ways only limited by your
imagination
6) see #1, again, many methods to achieve this type of
action

Flash motion presets

I've been working with Flash CS3 for a little while, and just
noticed that in the newest release (CS4) they have motion presets
you can use - which I think is great! However, my employer is not
going to upgrade me to CS4 just for that! Does anyone know if
there's a way to use presets in CS3? Is there a site or anything
where you can grab some free preset animations? Has this ever been
done before CS4?
Thanks!

I have not seen anything for animation presets prior to CS4.
I know in CS3 they introduced the ability to copy and paste motion,
which is just one step down from having a preset. I believe you can
also save motion out to XML, but that is for use in Flex projects.
As for convincing your employer to upgrade you to CS4, there
are more than a few options that make a CS4 upgrade not only
tantalizing, but necessary (in my opinion), and well worth the
cost. For starters, the ability to work in 2.5D (that means 2D
planes in 3D space). The highly customizable object-based tween
model (key frame-less!!). These are just a couple of the basics,
each one independently worth the upgrade, and when you bundle them
together, it is an upgrade that is quite irresistible.

Can GRADIENT MESH be moved in a Flash MOTION TWEEN?

I have been animating with Flash Pro for a while and just started using Illustrator. It has a really neat tool called gradient mesh. My question is can I export an object with a gradient mesh into Flash Pro and tween it to say rotate it or move its surface colors?

Thaks!
Billy

Animated Gif over Flash document?

Hi folks,
Quick question here ...
Is it possible to overlay an animated gif on top of a flash banner?
I have an html page, where I want to re-work our main banner with flash elements, but would like to place our existing animated gif over the right hand part of the background banner.
Hope that makes sense?
Kind Regards,
Cal

... thanks Ned!
Just knowing that it's possible is encouraging, so I'll be sure to dabble with your suggestion over the festive season, otherwise, I'd have to learn how to combine several flash motions in flash at one time, where that could certainly fry my brain "cell" lololol
All the best.

Video Tracking in Flash

Does anyone know how to do video tracking in flash? I want a
camera to record movements and transfer them in real time as
commands to an object in Flash. Is this even possible?

Doable. Yes.
Easy. No.
http://incomplet.gskinner.com/index2.html#camwriter2
http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewforum/33/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html
http://www.nastypixel.com/prototype/project/flash-motion-tracking

Motion Guide + AS3

I'm designing a game in which a player rides a bike around a
track. The game needs to show a "lap indicator" that displays the
player's progress along an irregularly-shaped course.
I'm guessing the best way to do this will be to copy the
layer that has the course outline and use that as a Motion Guide,
then move the indicator along that guide? Should I use the
flash.motion.Animator class to do this?
I also would really like to have the position indicator
"turn" as it goes along the route, i.e. a triangle that always
points in the direction of travel. I think I can do it like this:
* determine the indicator's x and y before moving it,
* moving to the next frame,
* finding the new x and y,
* then figure out which direction it moved horizontally and
vertically, the ratio between the two, then convert this to a
rotation angle. So if it moved to right horizontally, but didn't
move vertically, that's 90 degrees; if it moved equally down and
left that's 225 degrees, etc.
Or is there an easier way to do this?

OK, it seems I was a bit confused, "orient to path" is what
I'm looking for here. I thought that option merely indicated that
the object should use the motion guide, but it actually rotates it
to "look where it's going" instead. Perfect!

Flash CS4 extremely slow!

It's extremely slow to render any flash motion in CS4. I import to the stage some material and when I try to change and create any motion the processor usage raise up to 50% and the program freezing. It will be completly useless... Is there any solution to this problem? thx a lot!

Thank you for your fast reply!
Yes it's possible with virtual machine it would be more faster than now. I use the sw under Windows 7 too but before this system I had Vista with the same problem. So I don't know. The newest patch did not help yet.
I work under an Asus F3Sv series notebook with Core Duo T7500 and with Geforce GS8600M GS (256Mb).
But It's very strange: under Vista I couldn't do anythin for an examle in the actionscript editor. After Windows 7 it has been working now. But the prevoius problem is still ongoing.

Flash Drawing Script?

hey well long story short, my dad wants me to make a flash
presentation for his dentistry [for the patients] and will pay me
'x' amount of money.
i need to know one thing though, i'm pretty good in flash
[motion tween, alpha, movie clips, graphics, library, etc.] but i
just don't know this one vital thing.
its to make the animation seem like its being drawn. i saw a
tut on this a while ago, but i'm wondering if you have a link to it
or if you can pm me and tell me and help me along.
what i mean by 'being drawn' is like if i drew a line, i want
an easy way [easy being not having to draw the line progress
frame-by-frame] but like maybe having something to do with motion
tween so i can just make the line draw out an entire tooth as the
animation progresses.
[oh and i really really really need this answer quick...he
gave me a month to finish it and i've been procrastinating until
now.]

Rough
Example
Rough
fla

Flash Player 10 and IDE CS4 problems

Well, first I installed the new flash CS4 to test and made a
simple webpage with no code. I added a button and a Motion tween
animation that makes a box to go from a point to another. 35 frames
total, and a 'stop():' at the end of the timeline. The stop(); is
the only code.
Then I publish and test on the browser IE7, and I also open
the Task Manager. Ok, and the problem is: even with the animation
stoped at the frame 35, IE7 with the flash running is eating 4k of
memory from time(seconds) to time. 4k only for just one motion
tween that go increasing over time is not good. But if I remove the
layer with the motion tween, the 4k memory usage increasing stops.
Another problem is: if I add a component button on the a
scene, it works ok. But if I add another scene, add one instance of
the button component, and try to edit its label parameter, it will
give an error message when I run the movie. This one:
TypeError: Error #1009: It is not possible to access a
property or method of a reference of a null object.
at
testeCS4_fla::MainTimeline/__setProp___id1__Scene2_Layer1_0()
at testeCS4_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
But the only thing that I change is its label text, using the
component inspector parameteres panel.
One more:
The script generated by Flash IDE when we publish to a
webpage, to detect the flash player version is not detecting flash
player 10, even if we have it already installed. Because it only
search for: ("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7"); and it should be
testing also for ("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.10");

quote:
Originally posted by:
BWolfe [ADOBE]
alexmbra... i'm out of bandwidth to look at this just now.
Make sure the agent working the detection case knows about this
thread, and don't hesitate to ask them to escalate to a senior
agent. We'll get it figured out.
(And to answer your question, all I did was publish from
CS4.. you can look at my detection code source on my site. )
To try to help you out, I put a bunch of alerts inside of the
javascript on this page:
http://www.bentimagemedia.com/escalations/fptendetection/flashplayerversion10.html
That should give us a better idea of what the code is doing
when you view it.
I'm also wondering if perhaps this might not be a language
problem of some kind. If you have some friends who have the same
language OS that would let you test on their machine perhaps we'd
see similar results?
Ok. I have 3 computers at my home where I was testing this,
and I was getting the same problem and I had installed flash player
version 10,0,12,36 at the same time os all 3 computers.
But I found the problem. When we install flash player 10, it
will add a new key inside the registry saying this:
"ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.10", and it will also change
the value of the
"ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash/CurVer" key to:
"ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.10" also.
But looking at my registry ( you can see here also:
http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=flashProblem.jpg&album=0&fullsize=1
), after installing the flash player 10, the value of "CurVer" was
still saying "ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9" for some reason. So,
I guess it was a installation failure that happened at the same
time on all the 3 computers that I use.
So, the problem is now fixed because I unistalled flash from
all computers and installed it again. Now the registry is right
("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash/CurVer" key has:
"ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.10" ), and the detection code is
working and showing the right version.
So, the problem is fixed, but 2 questions remains:
1- How did flash player failed to right the right value when
installing?
2- How the Adobe FlashPlayer instalation version ( at Adobe's
) was detecting the right version insalled and all other codes were
not?
Anyway, thanks for you help.
Now, there is that very important problem of flash motion
tween eating memory.

Zoom help (should b simple)

im am editing with CS4 and i need help zooming out. i have the camera view effect on the clip so i am zoomed in. i want 2 slowly zoom out and i don't know how 2 do it. basically it would be just like a flash motion tween. can any1 help me?

Don't know if this is the tutorial that Curt linked to, but an early one of his on Basic Keyframing will give you the details. It was done in an earlier version of Pr, but the concepts hold true.
Basically, what you are doing is using Keyframes to control your fixed Effect>Motion>Scale, timed as you wish. You can also do the same for Motion>Position, if you wish to pan/tilt around the image. These can be controlled independently of one another, or you can use the CTI in the Effects Control Panel to locate your various Keyframes in alignment on the mini-Timeline in Effects Control Panel. Note: you will want to also explore Ease-Out/Ease-In and Bezier adjustments to "smooth" out the velocity of these Keyframes. Ease-Out and Ease-In are good starting points.
You might want to use the WAB (Work Area Bar) to Render that section, to check how smoothly the Keyframing works, as without Rendering, it might be a bit choppy in playback.
Hope that this helps,
Hunt

Need advice picking a program

First of all, if this is the wrong form, may the MOD SQUAD people move it to a good place.
The powers that be above me have decided that since I teach television that I can teach animation (2d and 3d), and have commanded me to start planning a new course in said subject. I know how animation works, and I have done some in Flash, Motion, and a bit in After Effects. However, its not my strong point.
They want me to get a program that can do 2d and/or 3d animation that looks good and can be considered professional. I want one that I can easilly learn over a couple months and is within the grasp of high school students.
And of course, it has to be Mac based. I run a lab with Intel iMacs (if something has to run in Rosetta I don't care, I am not one of those people who gets my jollies ruined because it takes an extra ten seconds for something to render). Most have the seperate graphics cards (some 128, some 256), and either 1 or 2 gigs of RAM. They do not want me to rely on what I have right now... I can use FCP, Motion, AE... but there has to be a new program to focus around. And there is a possibility that I may have to involve a camera for claymation type stuff depending on state standards.
I would be grateful for any suggestions for software for a high school level animation class.
BTW, if this is out of bounds on this board, please forgive me. I figure this is the best place for suggestions, rather than registering at a bunch of random Mac boards.

They want me to get a program that can do 2d and/or
3d animation that looks good and can be considered
professional.
...and/or? Motion is strictly 2d, AE has 3d compositing. If you want to teach 3d modeling/animation, you have to get a program that does just that.
I want one that I can easilly learn
over a couple months and is within the grasp of high
school students.
I have to chuckle a bit. I think 3d animation software has to have one of the highest learning curves in creative applications. If you think you're gonna pick this up quickly, you might be in for a surprise.
I can use FCP,
Motion, AE... but there has to be a new program to
focus around.
So you're teaching a class using FCP, Motion and AE and you want to tack on a fourth program? Yikes, I hope your students are brilliant, because that sort of ciricullum would push most college programs to the brink...
It sounds to me like you have everything you need to handle the 2d stuff, and what you're lacking is something that will allow you to build 3d models and animations. A program like Maya would be total overkill in this situation. While I haven't used it personally, I hear Cinema4D is a lot more approachable for the casual 3d artist.
From the sound of it, this sounds like a highly ambitious class. I hope it goes well.
Mac Pro 2.66Ghz - 3GBs RAM - X1900XT Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Could you use ActiveX controls to achieve the effect you like?

For example, you can use Shockwave Flash Object controls to load or
call some Flash motion pictures to achieve the effect you like!

They may also run on opening the VI (ie: even before you have run the VI...)
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Ios 6.1 messed up my ipod touch 4th gen

i updated my ipod touch 4th gen to the new ios 6.1, it took around 22hrs to download it via wifi so i left it at home. when i came home from work to check on it, the screen is showing the apple logo (when you turn on the device) and turns on and off as if in a flashing motion (5 sec showing the apple logo, then 5 sec again showing all black screen)
i connected it to itunes and said that it was in safe mode and needs to be updated again... i again downloaded the update and after a while an error came up that "an error occured downloading update". i have good internet connection at home. upon searching the net, i learned that it was something on apple's end.
my ipod is more than 2 years old. if i bring it to apple, can they service it for free since its something on apple's end and not my unit?
thanks!

There is no way to perform troubleshooting steps without buttons, sorry. Maybe time for a new iPod.
As far as third-party apps not opening, try downloading a new free or paid app (one you do not already own) from the App Store.

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