Green Screen/Special Characters

Hey everybody, is it possible to edit green screen footage in iMovie. I can do it in Final Cut Pro fine, but I wasn't sure if I could do it in iMovie or not. Also, I am having problems being able to insert the special characters from the Edit pull-down menu. Any help with either is appreciated. Thanks.

This Stupendous Software iMovie plug-in will handle green-screening.
Note, though, that it appears to be for the earlier generation of PowerPC Macs, not Intel Macs ..and you don't say which Mac you have.
It should run on an Intel Mac, but it may automatically start iMovie in 'Rosetta' emulation mode, so iMovie may run a bit slower than normal, if you have an Intel Mac.

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Hi,
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to Upload data into R/3 system, in BDC.
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others give me hints...

Hi,
you can use the function module ALSM_EXCEL_TO_INTERNAL_TABLE .
Check this sample code.
hi,
use the FM ALSM_EXCEL_TO_INTERNAL_TABLE.
PARAMETERS:
P_INFL like RLGRAP-FILENAME.
DATA:
BEGIN OF T_DATA1 OCCURS 0,
RESOURCE(25) TYPE C,
DATE(10) TYPE C,
DURATION TYPE P DECIMALS 2,
ACTIVITY(25) TYPE C,
B_NBILL(1) TYPE C,
END OF T_DATA1,
T_DATA TYPE ALSMEX_TABLINE OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
BEGIN OF T_FINAL OCCURS 0,
RESOURCE(25) TYPE C,
DATE(10) TYPE C,
DURATION(15) TYPE C,
ACTIVITY(25) TYPE C,
B_NBILL(10) TYPE C,
END OF T_FINAL.
DATA : HEADER TYPE XSTRING.
Work Variables Declaration.
CONSTANTS:
W_Y TYPE C VALUE 'Y',
W_N TYPE C VALUE 'N'.
Work area.
DATA:
WA_DATA LIKE T_FINAL.
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR P_INFL.
PERFORM GET_FILENAME CHANGING P_INFL.
START-OF-SELECTION.
PERFORM UPLOAD_DATA_FROMEXCEL.
FORM UPLOAD_DATA_FROMEXCEL.
Downloading the data from presentation server
CALL FUNCTION 'ALSM_EXCEL_TO_INTERNAL_TABLE'
EXPORTING
FILENAME = p_infl
I_BEGIN_COL = 1
I_BEGIN_ROW = 2
I_END_COL = 8
I_END_ROW = 1000
TABLES
INTERN = T_DATA
EXCEPTIONS
INCONSISTENT_PARAMETERS = 1
UPLOAD_OLE = 2
OTHERS = 3.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
ENDFORM. " upload_data_fromexcel
*& Form process_data
text
FORM PROCESS_DATA .
T_FINAL-RESOURCE = 'Resource'.
T_FINAL-DATE = 'Date'.
T_FINAL-DURATION = 'Duration'.
T_FINAL-ACTIVITY = 'Activity'.
T_FINAL-B_NBILL = 'Billable'.
APPEND T_FINAL.
SORT T_DATA BY ROW COL.
LOOP AT T_DATA.
CASE T_DATA-COL.
WHEN 3.
T_DATA1-RESOURCE = T_DATA-VALUE.
WHEN 4.
T_DATA1-DATE = T_DATA-VALUE.
WHEN 5.
T_DATA1-DURATION = T_DATA-VALUE.
WHEN 6.
t_data1-activity = t_data-value.
WHEN 7.
T_DATA1-B_NBILL = T_DATA-VALUE.
ENDCASE.
AT END OF ROW.
COLLECT T_DATA1.
ENDAT.
ENDLOOP.
LOOP AT T_DATA1.
T_FINAL-RESOURCE = T_DATA1-RESOURCE.
T_FINAL-DATE = T_DATA1-DATE.
T_FINAL-DURATION = T_DATA1-DURATION.
T_FINAL-ACTIVITY = T_DATA1-ACTIVITY.
T_FINAL-B_NBILL = T_DATA1-B_NBILL.
APPEND T_FINAL.
ENDLOOP.
ENDFORM. " process_data
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FORM GET_FILENAME CHANGING P_FILENAME.
CALL FUNCTION 'WS_FILENAME_GET'
EXPORTING
DEF_FILENAME = SPACE
DEF_PATH = P_FILENAME
MASK = ',. ,..'
MODE = 'O' " O = Open, S = Save
TITLE = BOX_TITLE
IMPORTING
FILENAME = P_FILENAME
EXCEPTIONS
INV_WINSYS = 1
NO_BATCH = 2
SELECTION_CANCEL = 3
SELECTION_ERROR = 4
OTHERS = 5.
CASE SY-SUBRC.
WHEN 1.
MESSAGE I999 WITH
'File selector not available on this windows system'(046).
WHEN 2.
MESSAGE E999 WITH
'Frontend function cannot be executed in background'(047).
WHEN 3.
MESSAGE I999 WITH 'Selection was cancelled'(048).
WHEN 4.
MESSAGE E999 WITH 'Communication error'(049).
WHEN 5.
MESSAGE E999 WITH 'Other error'(050).
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I need to extract time-dependent Vendor Master.
1. The data source for 0VENDOR does not have fields to hold the valid date range.
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Hi Everyone,
Thanks for inputs on Special characters issue...
Finally resolved with below piece of code in the start routine:
DATA: FLAG,
 OFF TYPE I,
 LEN TYPE I VALUE 1,
 ALLOWED_CHAR(95) VALUE
'0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+ ' &
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz:;<>,.?/|\{}[]"'''.
CONSTANTS: C_CHAR VALUE '-'.
LOOP AT DATA_PACKAGE WHERE NOT /BIC/ZI_DESC IS INITIAL .
 DO.
 IF DATA_PACKAGE-/BIC/ZI_DESC CN ALLOWED_CHAR.
 REPLACE SECTION OFFSET SY-FDPOS LENGTH LEN OF
 DATA_PACKAGE-/BIC/ZI_DESC WITH C_CHAR.
 FLAG = SPACE.
 ELSE.
 FLAG = 'X'.
 ENDIF.
 IF FLAG = 'X'.
 EXIT.
 ENDIF.
 ENDDO.
 MODIFY DATA_PACKAGE.
ENDLOOP.
if abort is not equal zero, the update process will be canceled
ABORT = 0.
I have seen the link sent by 'Eugene Khusainov' today. Thought putting my piece of code that may help others...
Regards,
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When viewing most text on most websites, it displays properly. However, there are two instances where text will either tend to, or consistently, become jumbled into a mess of seemingly random characters. Oddly enough, these seemingly random characters are not, in fact, random. The same weird character will be used to replace the same regular English text character consistently across the entire area that has been jumbled.
The two instances where this tends to occur most often, or consistently in some cases, are, first, when a paragraph or particular section of formatted text contains special characters, such as Chinese or Japanese characters, or accented letters. When this happens, usually the paragraph that contains the special characters is completely jumbled, while the rest of the text on the page will have intermittent jumbling on a word or two. Most often, the word "the" is jumbled in this case.
The second instance where this happens is when a website uses specially formatted text in some form or another. I, not being an expert at web development, am not sure what kind of formatting causes it, but I can provide consistent examples in lieu of my experience:
- Example 1:
[http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9564/firefoxcharencodingissu.jpg]
Example 1 shows a portion of a screen-shot of the website "Joystiq.com". Every single article title on the front page of this blog is consistently jumbled, while the text of the article itself remains untouched. Please note that when this jumbled text is highlighted, it is visible un-jumbled in the right-click menu as well as in the source code of the page. Other consistent instances can be found within many search fields on various websites. For instance, the search bar located at the top right of "Kotaku.com" consistently displays jumbled characters both on its default text of "Search" and on any text that is typed into the search box itself.
- Example 2:
[http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9564/firefoxcharencodingissu.jpg]
Example 2 shows both the jumbling of the paragraph containing the character "☆" as well as the subsequent peppering of the rest of the article's text with small jumbled words. Below this is the DOM Source of the selected text which shows how the text itself is being rendered properly within the site's source. Additionally, for convenience, I have edited on to the bottom of the image a small snippet of what the search bar on the same page looks like. Notice how the grayed-out text that normally would read "Search" is instead jumbled.
This issue has been plaguing my browser for the past year or so, and I had hoped that it would go away with subsequent Firefox updates. It has not gone away.
Thank you for reading! Please help!

This issue can be caused by an old bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or (bitmap) fonts that Firefox can't display in that size.
Firefox can't display some old bitmap fonts in a larger size and displays gibberish instead.
You can test that by zooming out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.
Uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font or see if you can find a True type version that doesn't show the problem.
There have also been fonts with a Chinese name reported that identify themselves as Helvetica, so check that as well.
Use this test to see if the Helvetica font is causing it (Copy & Paste the code in the location bar and press Enter):
<pre><nowiki>data:text/html,
Helvetica abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 
Helvetica Neue abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
</nowiki></pre>
You should reset the network.http prefs that show user set on the about:config page. 
Not all websites support http pipelining and if they do not then you can have issues with images or other problems.
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Images_or_animations_do_not_load#First_steps

Error during data load due to special characters in source data

Hi Experts,
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'RECORD 5028: Contents from field **** cannot be converted into type CURR',
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Regards,
Ted

Hi Thad,
I was wondering, if system is unicode or non unicode that should not matter the amount and currency field . As currencies are defined by SAP and it is in pure English at least a currency code part of 3 Chars.
Could this because of some incosistency of data ??
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Check on special characters

In my program, on the selection screen a user can enter any variable except special characters.How can I put a check on special characters??

hi,
In our key board, these many special characters present..
so try your code like this..
data: spe_char(31) value '~`!@#$%^&*()_+-=\|][{}";:,./?><'. ( include all
special chars whatever u want)
spe_char1 value ' '. ( this is to check empty space)
spechar2. (this is to check single ' ).
Create one text element and assign ' as value to that text element.
in ur program code as given below.
spechar2 = text-001.
if (fieldname) CA spe_char.
MESSAGE "special character is present in the given input
endif.
if ( fieldname) CA spe_char1.
message "special character is present in the given input
endif.
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endif.
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Special characters in RSKC

Hi there,
I have some special characters that I need in my BW to be accepted both in lowercase and uppercase. It is special eastern European letter that are contained in my customer data (names and addresses).
When I enter a lowercase character in RCKS it is automatically converted into uppercase. Is it sufficient to enter the character in uppercase for the load to accept both lowercase and uppercase of the character?
Kind regards, Torben

Hi Torben,
RSKC accept capital letters. But you can force the system to accept lowercase letters. For it you need to check 'Lowercase letters' in the infoobject maintenance screen.
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Eugene
Message was edited by: Eugene Khusainov

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