Frame Blending Not Respecting "Anchor" Frames

I have a QT movie. It is 24 fps. If I drop it into a 48 fps comp and step thru one frame at a time each frame repeats twice.. makes sense (A-A-B-B-C-C). But if I turn on Frame Blending (both Modes) not only does the repeated frame get re-created (A-AB-B-BC-C-CD) from interpolation but the KEY frames get altered too ... what's going on? Why is that? Shouldn't the Key frames - the 'real' frames be unchangeable anchors? 48 is twice 24 so those shouldn't be getting blended at all in the first place.
I've tried Time Remapping instead of a higher frame rate comp and also the Time Stretch flyout to 200% - each gives me the same results.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Marc

Honestly, that doesn't jibe with me. Even if it looks 'backwards' ... take the B for instance in my example ... the previous frame generated would just get it's info from A making AB before B. But I digress - it is what it is but I SWEAR I've generated 60i fields from 30P without altering the Key frames in the past.
But something you said started me thinking. Twixtor. I don't have a few hundred bucks for Twixtor so that was out. But when I picked up Mark Christiansen's book he mentions in his discussion about frame blending that while After Effects doesn't come with Twixtor it DOES come Timewarp from RE:Vision so I looked into that...
and it worked.
There's a teeny tiny button called, "Build From One Image" that keeps the Key frames whole and makes AB frames in between as I would expect. (See! I'm not the only one who thinks it should work like this. .. ... they made it a FEATURE!)
So I got what I was looking for with Timewarp.
Thanks to Mylenium for the Twixtor hint and Mark for his great reference book.
Marc

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I am having an etremely odd problem where I can't change the export bitrate for an H.264 video. Actually, I can change it but then when I export it to adobe media encoder the change is not respected.
For example I have a video that I exported at 9 Mbps. I would like to reduce the file size by encoding at 6 Mbps, so I change the settings and export again however the change is not reflected in adobe media encoder. It still encodes the video at 9 Mbps?
I am using Premiere CS4. Has anyone ever run into this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the forum.
Are you trying to encode using CBR? If so, make the bit rate change to the Target bit rate in the VBR settings, then switch to CBR. That should work for you.
-Jeff

Hal settings for synaptic/keyboard not respected anymore (Gnome2.28)

I have a 11-x11-synaptics.fdi config-file with my synaptics settings and a 10-keymap.fdi file with my keyboard layout set.
After upgrading to Gnome 2.28 yesterday, these settings are not respected anymore. I get US layout, and a touchpad where tapping and RTCornerButton and RBCornerButton does not work. Setting tapping manually in Gnomes mouse settings gui makes it work, but only for tapping.
The strange thing is that the same thing happens when logging in to lxde. As I can't see any x.org-packages that have been installed, this confuses me. Could it be gdm related? Has any other things mouse- and keybpard-related been updated just now?
I updated on the 09.10, and I'm pretty sure everything worked fine (didn't use my laptop much the last couple of days). However, when I updated again the 13.10, yesterday, mouse and keyboard settings broke.
This seems sort of related to this post, but he mentions only keyboard layout, and mine has surely worked since then.
A bug? A Feature? Me being stupid?
I have looked trough the pacman.log/warnings, I promise!

I'm also having problem with Gnome not respecting my Hal settings. After enabling tapping in gnome-mouse-properties it mostly works, but for some reason TapButton2 and TapButton3 are reversed, ie. TapButton2 = 3 and TapButton3 = 2. I can't find any way of configuring the TapButtons in Gnome either, which is really stupid.
I guess I can somehow make sure that synclient sets these correctly, but is there no way of telling gnome to either set the corrent values or to not touch the settings at all? Not running gnome-settings-daemon is not an option for me, since it sets a lot of other things that I want.

10.6.2 changing and not respecting plists?

This past week a couple of strange things happened. On my iMac 20" with 10.6.2 clean, yesterday my login items list was abbreviated on startup - only a few of my menu bar items loaded. I opened the com.apple.loginitems.plist, with (a number of ) plist and text editors, and indeed, half the items normally in there were gone, as depicted in the Accounts Prefpane.
OK, weird, but easy to fix - I'll go back a couple of days in TimeMachine and replace the plist file, which I did. I opened the plist file, checked the full complement of login items were there, and did a restart. Came back up - still with the abbreviated list! OK, so replaced the plist file again, locked it, ran YASU and did a whole cache and permissions repair etc, and restart. Came back up with the same abbreviated list! Check the plist file - still locked, still complete with all items!
So I unlocked it, restarted again, it came back up abbreviated list - and changed the plist file back to the abbreviated list! So I manually added back in, (or reinstalled as the case may be), the various items as in my complete list of login items, and restarted, and now it came back up complete as expected.
My question here is: is there anywhere else that controls the login items such that would cause the above behaviour? Is there some obscure cache that overrides plists-in-place? And why was the restored plist file ignored?
Second thing happened today on another machine - Mac mini, 10.6.2 upgraded. Today one bookmark folder of Safari bookmarks disappeared from my wife's Safari bar. Five folders of bookmarks were there as they were last night, but the sixth folder was gone. The Safari bookmarks plist file was indeed missing them, but perfectly formed nonetheless. So I go back into TimeMachine and restored the bookmarks.plist file. Anyone who's ever migrated Macs knows it's just replace the file, launch Safari and voila! Not in this case. Relaunching Safari with the replaced bookmarks brought up the abbreviated list!. Cleared caches, reset Safari, repaired permissions etc etc. Checked the list in editors - the sixth folder of bookmarks is there!, but not in Safari! I then used Firefox to File > Import Safari bookmarks, and it was there! I then had to import it back into Safari for it to pick up the sixth folder of bookmarks.
Again, I don't have any explanation for any of this.
My questions are: what's causing these random cut-offs of content of plist files without corrupting them as such; and secondly: why are TimeMachine replacement files not being read or respected? Is it a Mac OS X 10.6.2 issue, or does something happen in TimeMachine that renders the restored files invalid, thus rendering a TimeMachine backup as worthless?
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I too have the same issue (of Snow Leopard not respecting plist since the 10.6.2 update). In my case, custom launchd agents that ran fine before the update haven't run since; I have checked the Console and get permission denied errors when trying to run a custom launchd that calls an AppleScript application that then backs up a networked drive if the watched folder's last time of change differs from the previous backup. Also, new custom launchd agents will not run (with the same issue of permission denied errors). I have even gone sofar as to:
1. migrate a launchd agent from being a User Agent to a User Daemon, updated the time (which I originally setup as a everyday occurrence, set to run at 7:00am; it was saved as such; but the plist file, when checked, at 9:30pm (21:30h) as the time for implementation and I can't correct it, after many attempts) and rebooted, to no avail.
2. re-installed the 10.6.2 combo updater; again, to no avail
I have also repaired privileges, attempted to create new User Agents in a second Admin account, and all to no avail.
I don't know how to fix this and have search the net for assistance, again, to no avail.

Private Fields on me card not respected with iCloud sync

I have set certain fields on my Me card as private (not to be shared.) When my me card is synced to icloud and back down to my iPhone my iPhone does not respect the private fields when sharing my Me card from that device. The fields are respected when shared from my laptop.
I've been sharing private data with my customers that I expected to remain private. How can I fix this?

Yes, clearly post iCloud, QuickSync cannot 'see' the contacts list.
However, here's my question: is it possible to put a duplicate set of contacts where they used to be stored on the local Mac prior to iCloud? Then QS would see them and import them?
They could always be deleted afterwards if they caused a duplicate set to appear in Address Book for any reason.
Obviously this is a bit of a kludge as it won't get updated as you add/delete from Address Book. But I'd settle for my 500 contacts being at least transfererd! I could put up with repeatign this workaroudn occasionally.
Thoughts?

Timeouts not respected in WTC

Hi,
We are having a problem with WLS 8.1 SP2 concerning the timeouts of WTC.
If the Tuxedo server dies while serving a request from WLS via WTC the thread
that is serving the request remains blocked forever. The only solution is to restart
WLS.
So WTC does not respect both timeouts:
- the gateway timeout
- the transaction timeout - in this case we see the timeout occuring but the thread
continues to be blocked.
I have filed a case to BEA a month ago (case #510335). It was recognised as a
bug but I have no solution till now.
Does someone know a workaround?
Thanks
Idalina

Hi Idalina,
I'm currently working your case (although officially I'm supposed to be on vacation!)
I have identified the problem and will keep the support engineer up-to-date on
my progress. Can you please let me know what it is you are really trying to do?
It's possible that my fix may provide other solutions to your problem.
Regards,
Todd
Andy Piper <[email protected]> wrote:
"Idalina Videira" <[email protected]> writes:
Someone is actively working on this issue for another customer as we
speak.
andy
Hi,
We are having a problem with WLS 8.1 SP2 concerning the timeouts ofWTC.
If the Tuxedo server dies while serving a request from WLS via WTCthe thread
that is serving the request remains blocked forever. The only solutionis to restart
WLS.
So WTC does not respect both timeouts:
- the gateway timeout
- the transaction timeout - in this case we see the timeout occuringbut the thread
continues to be blocked.
I have filed a case to BEA a month ago (case #510335). It was recognisedas a
bug but I have no solution till now.
Does someone know a workaround?
Thanks
Idalina

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