Help with a few various effects...

Hello Adobe forums! I come to you today with a question!!
I have searched the web round and round but due to the fact that I have no idea what this effect is called I have not found the solution. So could someone please help identify the effect commonly used in sports scenes (such as wakeboarding, skateboarding, and snowboarding... boarding types) that creates little 'ghosts' of the person while they are performing a trick.
i.e. Snowboarder flies off a ramp doing a 360 or something and on the video 'ghosts' appear behind them frozen in place every few frames.
Also, what would be the best plugin or technique to make streamers in action scenes? Such as in the snowboarder scene discribed above but the board emits neon coloured streamers.
Thanks!

The Echo effect is a good starting point for the sort of time-offset "ghosts" that you're talking about.

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Need Help With Waveform-driven Image Effects

Hi,
I've been working on a full-dome 3D animation for a couple of years now and I'm looking for someone to help with a custom plug-in for After Effects, Photoshop and/or Combustion. I need to be able to drive filters and effects like Brush Strokes and 'sketchy' noise with the waveform from an audio file. I've been using a very poor mans workflow in which I've mapped the waveform by breaking it up into vertical ranges of varying intensities and then applying respective levels of the effects and filters to the sequential images based on where they fall in the waveform ranges. So for the test Ive done, I've been literally applying Photoshop actions to very small packets of still images from rendered sequences, and it has been dizzyingly time-consuming. Ideally I would want to be able to do this dynamically with a motion graphics package, but really I'm looking for as much help as I can get.
This project began as my master's thesis and I'm working on it during the free time I have between teaching and freelance work; I don't have much money but I am willing to pay for help with this goal. There is still a lot of 3D work that I still need to do and the rendering process will be slow, so this wouldn't be a job with strict or tight deadlines. The final images will be very large (3200x3200) and with the growth in the full-dome market, these sizes could easily increase. If anyone is interested or could help me with this endeavor in any way, please respond to [email protected] Thank in advance to anyone who reads this.
Max

See the SDK_Backwards sample to see how to acquire audio data from a layer. This is the same access method used by AE's own waveform drawing plug-ins. Feel free to contact me directly with any questions.

Urgently need some help with a few Swing questions

Hi
I'm hoping someone can help me, I need to get these problems fixed very soon or I'm in trouble.
Scenario: I have a JTreeTable inside a JScrollPane inside a JPanel that is inside a JFrame.
Problems I'm having (solutions or help with any of all would be greatly appreciated):
1. I'm trying to make it possible to do a selection in the JTreeTable by right-clicking the mouse (as well as the normal left click), but only if there is nothing currently selected, so I do something like this:
        int[] sel = treeTable.getSelectedRows();
        if ((sel == null) || (sel.length == 0)) {
            treeTable.setColumnSelectionAllowed(false);
            treeTable.setRowSelectionAllowed(true);
            treeTable.setRowSelectionInterval(0, 0);            // but I don't know what these values should be set to, where to get them from?
        }I want to select the row at the mouse cursor, I have the x/y values but I don't know how to relate them to the row index. The full feature that I require is I need
2. I have a popup menu that appears after a right click on the JTreeTable, it's handled by a MouseListener attached to the JTreeTable, I want this to also appear anywhere else in the JScrollpane. I've tried moving the MouseListener to the JScrollPane, but then the popup stops working if user clicks inside JTreeTable, if I add it to both, it almost works, except that user cannot click below the JTreeTable's first column. Any ideas on this?
3. How can I change the JTreeTable selection behaviour so that you can only multi-select using Ctrl/Shift and not the mouse? Mouse must only allow single connection, I'm currently using:
treeTable.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.MULTIPLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION);But this allows mouse drag selection as well, which shouldn't be there. How is this avoidable?
4. I want to make the minimize button to make an icon in system tray and be able to restore it by clicking on it. Also I want to be able to minimze from a popup menu, I've currently got the following:
        thisApp.getMainFrame().setState(Frame.ICONIFIED);
        thisApp.getMainFrame().setVisible(false);
        thisApp.getMainFrame().pack();
        try {
           tray.add(trayIcon);
        } catch (AWTException ex) {
        }thisApp is a copy of the SingleFrameApplication variable that is passed to the main frame constructor (main frame extends FrameView). This code above doesn't do anything except create the tray icon. If I click on the tray icon (code below) then it opens up a blank window:
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            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                thisApp.getMainFrame().setVisible(true);
                thisApp.getMainFrame().setState(Frame.NORMAL);
                thisApp.getMainFrame().pack();
                tray.remove(trayIcon);
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Please, please help!
Lionel

Issue 2 has been solved, was an error in the MouseListener code.

Newbie to iPhoto - Can anyone help with a few questions?

Hi everyone,
I have had iPhoto since December and I love it. I have been able to naviagate around it pretty well and love the fact I can put names to faces. I own a childcare business so this helps me individualise each child's photo's which I put on a thumb drive each week.
The things that I am having problems with are...
1. When I am uploading photo's from my SD card do they go directly into Events?
2. Why do they have event and albums? Is this to create just a few photo's from each event etc.? I am trying not to have double ups as when dealing with so many individual kids it can be confusing.
3. I noticed in the albums there is
- Photo Stream
- Last Import
- Photo's
If I delete these albums will these photo's be deleted from my events?
4. I also have photo's on FB which appear to be showing in my albums below (facebookTraceyBrock)
if I delete any of these do they delete photo's from my facebook?
5. Why is there events and albums? don't they both do the same thing? or as a guess is it just because you can import only the photo's you want to a specific album.
Any help on the best way to organise photo's would be so very much appreciated!
Thankyou in advance
Tracey

1. When I am uploading photo's from my SD card do they go directly into Events?
Yes.
2. Why do they have event and albums? Is this to create just a few photo's from each event etc.? I am trying not to have double ups as when dealing with so many individual kids it can be confusing.
Basic Concept: Every Photo is in the Library. Events are a view of the Library. Delete a photo from an Event and you delete from iPhoto
More opportunities for organising. Events are handy, but very limited: Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken. You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated.
Events also contain the Actual photos. So if you have a photo in more than one Event you are using more disk space than you need.
Albums contain pointers to the Photos in the Library. A Photo can be in 50 albums and use no disk space extra disk space whatever. You can mix and match in any way you like in an Album. Photos from different events, photos categorised or selected in any way you fancy.
I'll post a longer answer at the bottom of this, showing some of the possibilities of Albums
I noticed in the albums there is
- Photo Stream
- Last Import
- Photo's
If I delete these albums will these photo's be deleted from my events?
Photos is not in Albums. It's under Library, like Events. It's another view of the same material. Like different windows into the same room. Deleting Photos from Photos is removing them from the Library
PhotoStream and Last Import are just handy shortcuts. They don't contain the photos, just pointers to them. There is no duplication here. There is no need to delete anything from here.
I also have photo's on FB which appear to be showing in my albums below (facebookTraceyBrock)
if I delete any of these do they delete photo's from my facebook?
Yes. Because you're using iPhoto to manage the pics on Facebook.
5. Why is there events and albums? don't they both do the same thing? or as a guess is it just because you can import only the photo's you want to a specific album.
See above. Some of the possibilities of Albums, Smart Albums and so on:
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 40k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.

Just Switched To Mac's and Need Help With A Few Issues!

Hi All,
I finally did it and switched to a Mac!! Never thought it would happen as I always felt guilty about the cost but after 5 laptops crashing on me - well, I just could not take it anymore! I managed to get a fairly good deal on a 15" Macbook Pro - 2.2/120GB version. I still don't know much about the mac way but am trying to learn so any help would be appreciated!
1). Is there any kind of video tutorial (preferably free!) that I can use that will help me learn the Ma OS X? I have Tiger 10.4.11 on my MBP (Did you hear that - MY MBP!!!)
2). AOL Assured me that they fully support Mac before I purchased (only 5 times!) but after I had bought it - they then told me that they do not! I got the AOL disk for Mac but it kind of ***** - features are missing etc. Does anyone in the UK run their Mac's with AOL and does it run as per normal? Any advice with AOL & Mac?
3). AOL also told me - hey, no probs - of course you can transfer all your old emails, favourites folders, personal filing cabinet from a PC to a Mac - but then, after I bought it - the so called dedicated Mac Experts at AOL tell me that simply is not possible - What advice can anyone give me who has switched from PC to Mac with AOL and who needed to transfer all their stuff over? AOL tells you totally different things depending on who you talk to and even from what their web page state! I am really fed up with them!
4). If I am ever successful in getting all my many years worth of data from AOL on a PC to a Mac, I am really intent of changing ISP's - what are the best ones for Mac that offer good Mac support, good deals and no charges for telephone support?
5). I was initially happy with Tiger as again, AOL assured me they supported it but not Leopard (even their website says so) and as I stupidly thought that it must be true (we are talking AOL here!). Now I know that they don't support anything Mac, I am contemplating moving to Leopard - I am a little cautious as I heard there were/are many bugs and unhappy leopard experiences - have the majority of these been solved yet and is it advisable to change to Leopard or should I wait until an updated version comes out?
6). My MBP was originally bought in the US but is registered to my name in the UK. it has 6 months Apple warranty left and I wish to buy Applecare. Apple says it 'recommends' buying Applecare in the country at which the item is registered (not bought, as I understand it). Does that mean, if I buy Applecare in the USA, Apple UK will still accept it and service my MBP as they would do any other or will I have to have the hassle of sending the thing to the USA if it needs attention? Applecare USA T&C's state only for the 50 States & Canada and Applecare UK state only for the UK & EU. Both however state international servicing?! I am a bit confused on this one. I travel a lot and need to know, that any Applecare I buy will not then be limited to just the places they state in the T&C's. As It reads to me, Applecare purchased in the USA/Canada will not cover the UK/Europe/ROTW and vice versa. Is this true or am I missing something or just plain thick?
5). I really wish to upgrade the 120GB HDD. My understanding is that it must be done by either Apple (who charge really silly money) or if correct, at an "Authorized Apple Service Provider" who of course will be much cheaper. If true, does this mean at ANY authorized apple service provider on the planet or just ones in which the item is registered? If I do the upgrade with a service provider, will Apple then also service the new HDD if something goes wrong as per normal anywhere in the world or will they then say, sorry, will not service the new HDD and you have to go back to the place where you had it installed, even though it was one of their authorized service centers? (that would really suck)!
6). The spelling and dictionary (and a few other things) are set to US English - how can I set to UK English? I have tried but to no avail so far.
7) What and how should I set the Firewall settings so I will not get attacks by any form of malware? (I do not know much about this area and what the implications mean)!
Well, that's it so far - please bear my ignorance, I am so new to Mac's and hope this to be one of the smarter decisions I have made in life! Already I have strange sensation that I never had with all those years of Microsoft & PC's - I kinda feel reassured, safe, that if I have problems, they will get sorted, My life will now be easier and not having to worry so much about crashes, viruses, trojans etc, gives me a sense of liberation and contentment almost - very strange feeling but a **** good one! (if only the women in my life were like that)!
Thank You All From A PC to Mac Switcher (and NO! I do not feel guilty or scared anymore)!
SuaveBhav!

I can help you with your questions about AppleCare, and can also reassure you that both the macbook pro and Leopard will be worth your investment and the time you are putting into figuring out how to get your data across. I switched from windows when I bought my macbook a year and a half ago and would not use any other system now. The other day I completed the transition by erasing parallels and Windows from my system entirely.
As for AppleCare, you can get warranty care anywhere in the world, no matter where you buy your AppleCare. Mine was bought and is registered in the US, I live in Slovakia, and have had it serviced several times in Austria and Slovakia under the warranty without any problems at all. There are differences, however, in exactly what the warranty covers from place to place, in accordance with the law in each place that AppleCare is issued. Even though I live in the EU, my agreement with Apple is an American one, and the American guarantees hold. If EU law would demand that Apple fix more things, for instance, than American law does, I could not get those things repaired under my agreement, and vice versa.
Basically, though, I understand my agreement with AppleCare to be that they will fix all problems/damage that are not my fault free of charge for two years after my initial one-year warranty runs out, and that is good enough for me.

Please help with a few drivers for z60m after fresh install

I got a bad virus(several actually) that I could not eradicate. I was advised to just wipe and reinstall the OS since it is not under warranty anymore. I could not find the recovery disk, must have been lost inthe last military move could not find a replacement recovery disk at the IBM website so I went out and bought an xpprof OS thinking it should not be that hard to find any drivers XP does not provide . I had no problems doing that on our acer laptop and a friends HP laptop before so was pretty confident.. Boy was I wrong this has been the reinstall from hell. I reinstalled the audiodrivers from theIBM website but the speakers still don't work. The laptop will not recognize the wireless, even after installing the drivers for that and I can't find anything out about why the dock does not work, I assume there are drivers for that too. I also have 4 ugly yellow question marks that I can't seem to get rid of in device manager. At this point I am already out the price of XP Prof but I really need this laptop my husband took the acer laptop when he deployed to Afghanistan, only because I was confident I could get this one fully functional. I see now my self confidence was badly misplaced ,even though I am working on a degree in computer technology this laptop is kicking my tush.
Is there anyone that could help please
1. help me find why my speakers still dont work even though they are recognized as soundmax in device manager
I found several references to this issue in the forums but there does not seem to be a resolution
2. help me figure out why my laptop suddenly (after the fresh install)does not know it even has a wireless capability even after numerous attempts at installing the driver(driver seems to install just finebut upon reboot there is still no wireless available
3. figure out how I can get my dock to work again
the laptop has always worked great til now and all these things were functional before the virus and reinstall of the OS)
4. get rid of ugly yellow exclamation points under Other Devices, I am sure they must be important( I am sure at least one or more of them has to do with the wireless)
sorry this is so long Im just frustrated thanks so much for anyone that can give some guidance on this

hanaleia, welcome to the forum,
download and install ThinkVantage System Update, it should get the drivers for you. Please ensure you read down the site as you may need to install a patch for XP SP2.
Let us know how you get on.
Regards
Andy ______________________________________
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Help with gradient and 'ghost effect'

Hello. I created this image many years ago and I have forgotten how I did it.
I now want to create the same effect with this image ..
The brown is #a03506 - I have tried in vain to replicate what I did. Radial gradient? I just can't remember.
Can anyone help me please?
Regards - Paul

It's a little hard to tell what the original image looks like, but I'll give you some ideas of what you can do.
I'm assuming you want something like this:
If so, you need to turn the image into a layer.
Double click the thumbnail of the image in the Layers panel.
This opens the New Layer dialog box.
You don't have to do anything here. Just click OK. The image is now its own layer.
Click at the bottom of the Layers panel on the Add Layer Mask icon.
This adds a rectangle next to the image in the Layers panel. This rectangle is the layer mask. Anything you put in this rectangle will hide parts of the image.
Make sure the four "corners" of the layer mask are chosen, NOT the four corners of the image. This means that what you are about to do will affect only the image. (Don't worry about screwing up your image. Your working on the mask, not the image.)
Now go and choose the Gradient tool from the Tools panel.
Now, take the Gradient tool and position it over the image. For the ghost image I showed at the top of this post, I put the tool in the center and then dragged down to the bottom of the image. Look carefully and you can see the little line to the right of the door.
Release the mouse. The image should be ghosted.
Now, look at the Layers panel. See how the rectangle for the layer mask goes from white to black? That's because you drew a gradient on the mask. And anywhere there was black, you can't see the image and anywhere there is white you can. And there is change in opacity as the rectangle goes from white to black.
I like to teach people that the layer mask is like a dirty window. Where the window is clean, you can see through it to see the image. Where the window is black, you can't see the image. And anything in between lets you see a percentage of the image.
If you want a different effect, you can change the gradient shape. With the gradient tool still chosen, go to the top of the window and choose another gradient. For instance, radial. Then drag on the image making sure the layer mask is still chosen in the Layers panel.
This will change the appearance of the layer mask and the effect on the image.
You can use gradients or brushes or anything on the layer mask. Just make sure it is chosen and not the image or you'll be screwing up the image, not the mask.
Let us know if this is what you need.

Help with a few programs

I'm a beginner to java and i really have no clue..
I have a few programs that need to be done by tonight - been trying to make sense of it, but i dont seem to be getting anywhere.
is there anyone that can help me??
1..)
Write a program which asks the user to enter an integer, a double and a String, then prints out these lines:
The integer plus one using the increment operator.
Cast the double into an integer and print it out.
The remainder of the integer divided by the double. Cast the double into an integer first and use the remainder operator.
The String in quote marks (").
Assume the integer and the double are the dimensions of a rectangle then print the area of the rectangle (as a double).
Each output line must have an explanation. E.g.
Value of integer plus one is:
2)
Write a program which calculates a price (in $�s) then adds tax (at 15%) and P&P (Post and Packing) at $4.50.
Ask the user for a value (double)
Print out nicely the original value
Print out nicely the new value which is the original value plus tax and P&P.
3)
Write a program which asks the user to enter 3 values - a double less than 50.0, an integer greater than 5 but less than 100 and a String. (You need not bother checking these!)
Use the Random class to generate a random number between 0 and one less than the integer entered
Printout the total of multiplying together the random number, the length of the String and the double entered.
Important Information
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Uhh...
You are screwed so I will help you out with one of the first tuts I was able to make sense of.
Here is a anual interest program, it really won't be hard to edit it into Tax and it already has the input box.
public class Interest3 {
               This class implements a simple program that
               will compute the amount of interest that is
               earned on an investment over a period of
               5 years. The initial amount of the investment
               and the interest rate are input by the user.
               The value of the investment at the end of each
               year is output. The rate must be input as a
               decimal, not a percentage (for example, 0.05,
               rather than 5).
            public static void main(String[] args) {
                double principal; // the value of the investment
                double rate;       // the annual interest rate
                TextIO.put("Enter the initial investment: ");
                principal = TextIO.getlnDouble();
                TextIO.put("Enter the annual interest rate: ");
                rate = TextIO.getlnDouble();
                int years = 0; // counts the number of years that have passed
                while (years < 5) {
                   double interest = principal * rate;   // compute this year's interest
                   principal = principal + interest;     // add it to principal
                   years = years + 1;    // count the current year.
                   if (years > 1) {
                      TextIO.put("The value of the investment after ");
                      TextIO.put(years);
                      TextIO.put(" years is $");
                   else {
                      TextIO.put("The value of the investment after 1 year is $");
                   TextIO.putln(principal);
                } // end of while loop
            } // end of main()
         } // end of class Interest3So now save that as Interest3.java in a notepad doc under all files in a directory such as Tax on your desktop.
Now here's the longer one...
(I uploaded it so just click the link)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=04SJA1J2
^^^^^
Save it as TextIO.java under all files in the "Tax" directory.
Compile it using this: (Notepad, all files, Compile.bat in tax directory)
@echo off
title Compile Tax Program
javac *.java
pauseThen run it using this: (Notepad, all files, Run.bat in tax directory)
@echo off
title Run Tax
java Interest3
pauseNow just edit the system.out.println from "Enter the initial investment" to like "Enter the amount of money"
Then "Enter the anual interest rate" to "Enter the tax amount"
Then remove the calculations for 5 years and rewrite that outprintln. If this is incorrect, as I didn't really read your entire post, I'll quickly slap together a tax program.

Help with a snow globe effect?

Hi all-
I've searched the forums but unable to find exactly what I'm looking for there. I'm designing an invitation to a winter themed event. I'd like to put my nonprofit's logo or the name of the event inside a snow globe. I've played with various tutorials on creating custom globes, but I think perhaps it would look best with an actual photo. There are a few nice images on istockphoto.com but prefer I waste credits, I'd like any advice on how to make my image look realistic (so the logo or text looks like it is INSIDE the globe and not on top).
Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance!
Rick

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blsnowglobe1.htm
I know you said you looked, but there are quite a few very passable snow globe tuts listed on google, start with the one i linked above (the about.com one). if that doesn't fit, see this search link:
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=photoshop+snow+globe&btnG=Google+Sea rch

Help with Resolution/Document Raster Effects

I am wanting to upload my logo to my credit card company to put on the face of my new card.
obviously this will be small in size (1.5"x3") but the cc company requires the upload be at least 400pixels x 400pixels.
I don't want to upload a 13"x6" because they shrink it down and it loses quality.
I have tried changing the Document Raster Effects to 300 ppi, but the rulers still show 72 ppi and when I save it to jpeg, it is only 72 ppi.
How can I get a 1.5" x 3" document to save with 450px by 900px dimensions?
Here is a link to the file: http://buffalomooncoffee.com/images/small_logo.ai

I am not certain I understand the need to pen this in photoshop and all this other stuff but you can simply export it as a jpeg.
I am going to show screen shots because this comes up all the time and everyone gives strange instructions.
1 Make the art and artboard 3 inches wide constraining the proportions (works out to 3 x 1.37) the art is of course a little smaller.
2. Export it and choose jpeg as the format (select use artboards)
3. in the jpeg options dialog choose maximum quality and then choose for resolution high, which is 300ppi.
Now you have a jpeg that is 3 x 1.367inches at 900 x 410 pixels

Help with Flash CS3 Particle Effect Tutorial Code

I did the tutorial from http://www.schoolofflash.com/2008/03/flash-cs3-particle-effect/. I used a star to replace the circle. Here's my code:
var starsArray:Array = new Array();
var maxStarss:Number = 8;
function addStars(e:Event)
    var stars:Stars = new Stars();
    stars.x = stage.stageWidth/2;
    stars.y = stage.stageHeight/2;
    stars.alpha = Math.random() * .8 + .2;
    stars.scaleX = stars.scaleY = Math.random() * .8 + .2;
    stars.xMovement = Math.random() * 10 - 5;
    stars.yMovement = Math.random() * 10 - 5;
    starsArray.push(stars);
    addChild(stars);
    stars.cacheAsBitmap = true;
    if (starsArray.length >= maxStarss)
        removeChild(starsArray.shift());
    stars.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,moveStars);
function moveStars(e:Event)
    e.currentTarget.x += e.currentTarget.xMovement;
    e.currentTarget.y += e.currentTarget.yMovement;
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(50);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, addStars);
myTimer.start();
This time, I'm trying to make the stars shrink and transparent as they move away from the point. So I coded it like this:
import flash.events.Event;
var starsArray:Array = new Array();
var maxStarss:Number = 8;
function addStars(e:Event)
    var stars:Stars = new Stars();
    stars.x = stage.stageWidth/2;
    stars.y = stage.stageHeight/2;
    stars.alpha = Math.random() * .8 + .2;
    stars.scaleX = stars.scaleY = Math.random() * .8 + .2;
    stars.xMovement = Math.random() * 10 - 5;
    stars.yMovement = Math.random() * 10 - 5;
    starsArray.push(stars);
    addChild(stars);
    stars.cacheAsBitmap = true;
    if (starsArray.length >= maxStarss)
        removeChild(starsArray.shift());
    stars.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,moveStars);
    stars.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,animeStars);
function animeStars(e:Event)
    trace(this.starsArray);
    this.scaleX-=0.01;
    this.scaleY-=0.01;
    this.alpha-=0.01;
    if (this.alpha<=0) // remove this object from stage
function moveStars(e:Event)
    e.currentTarget.x += e.currentTarget.xMovement;
    e.currentTarget.y += e.currentTarget.yMovement;
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(50);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, addStars, animeStars);
myTimer.start();
I couldn't make it work. All I got was an error message saying "
1084: Syntax error: expecting identifier before rightbrace.
Help?

It is because of this line of code at the end
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, addStars, animeStars);
if you read the documentation on addeventlistener it looks for these type of arguments to be passed
addEventListener(type:String, listener:Function, useCapture:Boolean);
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myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, addStars);

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import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
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var i:int = -1;
var delay:int = 720%str.length;
var timer:Timer = new Timer(delay);
timer.start();
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,gotime);
function gotime(e:TimerEvent)
textbox_txt.appendText(str.charAt(i));
i++;
if (i>=str.length)
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Thanks for getting my brain going Ned!
-Ab Infinito

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Hi--I want to create an effect in iMovie 9 of a flying saucer flying through the sky and then landing in a large open field, much like the scene in the 1951 version of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
Does anyone have ideas or tips how to do this? Thanks.

2y ago (OMG! it's three years ago!!), I made a StarWars fanproject with my lil son (the old beta version of the website still alive here) ...
all the droids and spaceships were created in some very cheap animation app, which allowed a socalled alpha-chanel - the background was 'transparent') - in FinalCutExpress you add a 2nd layer - compositing done.
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in iM09, you can 'abuse' the greenscreen effect for compositing... film UFO model moving before a green background and take a foto of your background scenery.
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Mike The Dude With A Serious Problem

Here's the contact information for Adobe Technical Support:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact
Before contacting them, you might want to try these methods for clearing a corrupt font database:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/900/cpsid_90025.html
Going through the first two solutions on that page can clear up a lot of font issues.

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