HT3576 A plea to improve the "Next Destination" feature
I L-O-V-E the "Next Destination" feature that occasionally pops up on my iPhone 4S pull-down screen. UNFORTUNATELY, it only comes up randomly and infrequently, and seldom when I really need it. I've been told that the feature "educates" itself based on my movements and location services settings, which I keep turned on in relation to the feature; this does not seem to be working for my situation.
I have a VERY long commute through some of Los Angeles' worst traffic, AND I have a very RANDOM schedule. Here's the improvement I would like to see for "Next Destination": it should either be programmable so that one can set it for one's particular situation, OR, preferably, it should be a feature that one can call up AT ANY TIME, on demand.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE—make it so!
Tell them about it here
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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Hi there.
I am trying to do the next updating in SSIS
UPDATE S
SET
S.COLUMN_A = OT.COLUMN_A,
S.COLUMN_B = OT.COLUMN_B
FROM
SQLT1 S INNER JOIN ORACLET1 OT ON
S. COLUMN_C = OT.COLUMN_C
This is what I am doing:
I am taking the Oracle data with the ODBC Source like this.
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I wonder is if there is another way to design this query or improve the performance of this task.
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Then use a subsequent Execute sql task and do the set based update in it as below
UPDATE t
SET COLUMN_A = s.COLUMN_A,
COLUMN_B = s.COLUMN_B
FROM SQLT1 t
INNER JOIN stagingTable s
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This would be much faster as its set based
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Improving the 2013 Macbook Air i7 battery life
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Here is the output:
Hardware Information:
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2
1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: (null)
System Software:
OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 13:15:5
Disk Information:
APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500,28 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499,42 GB (372,12 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
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[kext loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.67) Support
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[not loaded] com.zte.driver.cdc_usb_bus (1.0.26) Support
[not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSamsung (0.0.2) Support
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[not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMControl (3.2.12) Support
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[not loaded] de.novamedia.oem.vodafone.vtp.huawei.cdc (0.0.2) Support
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[running] de.novamedia.nmnetmgrd.plist Support
Launch Daemons:
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[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
User Login Items:
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Internet Plug-ins:
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
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User Internet Plug-ins:
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Flash Player Support
MusicManager Support
Xmarks for Safari Support
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Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Destinations:
My Passport Air [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 465.41 GB
Total number of backups: 1
Oldest backup: 2014-02-20 22:28:07 +0000
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3% WindowServer
1% hidd
1% mds_stores
0% fontd
0% warmd
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52 MB Google Chrome Helper
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6.03 GB Free RAM
998 MB Active RAM
97 MB Inactive RAM
633 MB Wired RAM
522 MB Page-ins
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Whereas Apple recently updated their apps to take advantage of Mavericks' energy saving algorithms, few other vendors have. I surmise the prominent "Energy Impact" hall of shame addition to the new Activity Monitor is Apple's subtle way of nudging them into compliance.
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#* In Firefox 29.0 and above, click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and select ''Options'' for Windows or ''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux.
#* In Firefox 28.0 and previous versions, click the orange Firefox button at the top left, then select the "Options" button, or, if there is no Firefox button at the top, go to Tools > Options.
#In the Firefox Options (or Preferences) window, click the ''Advanced'' tab, then select ''General''.
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* [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]
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How Can I improve the time it takes to start PSE 9's Back up?
PSE's backup to external HDD has always seemed to be clunky.
For example, when the process starts and you are taken step-by-step through browsing for your HDD and then creating your next incremental backup file and then browsing again to your last backup file, I have gotten used to this taking ages. e.g. often up to 45 minutes.
Because of this, I ignore the fact that the application shows no user sign of carrying out the task, but looks like the application has hung. (just the windows blue circle revolving!). Indeed, if I mouse click on the button again (or anywhere else on the open PSE Organizer window), then Windows provides the message that Elements is not responding. However, if I wait, and wait eventually the next stage kicks in. Tonight, I started this process and it took 2.5 hours to reach the point that Elements would start the backup. It then took only just over 5 minutes to complete the backup!!
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Can I do something to improve the process of backing up?
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Thanks for reading and considering all the above.
Elemtfunction(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}elemt wrote:
Arising out of our discussion yesterday and my stated intention to replace the current internal HDD with one that has a significantly larger capacity, I wonder if you, Ken, or dj_paige, or both, have any suggestions as to if I should keep my copy of PSE 9 activated when I make a mirror copy of the existing internal HDD or deactivate it before I make the mirror copy?
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Deactivate the old copy of PSE.
Uninstall that old copy.
Get your new primary hard drive set up.
Install PSE.
Activate PSE.
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function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}elemt wrote:
Then, I would copy across from the temporary external HDD, the 60.2 gb of images previously stored on the old E partition.
From both your comments, I am thinking that this might well screw up the database and PSE Organizer would be thrown by this. (maybe I could reconnect manually, but even if I could, that would be a massive task). It would probably mean my back up of my catalog that I made yesterday, unusable?
It might screw things up. I've never used the catalog Backup/Restore, so I'll defer to others who have, but I do know that Organizer's database (the catalog) stores a unique serial number ID for each volume that's used (C:, D:, etc.). I suspect that that serial number is derived from the serial number of the unit, but I could be wrong. I don't know how the database handles the situation where, e.g., photos on a Hitachi drive E: are then transferred to a Western Digital drive E:. It probably will involve "re-connecting" all the photos, but this is just speculation on my part.
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Hi,
Please give me some suggestions as to how to improve the performance of adobe form?
Right now when I' am doing user events it is working fine for first 6 or 7 user events. From the next
one it is hanging.
I read about Wizard form design approach, how to use the same here.
Thanks,
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The form is created using HCM forms and processes. I' am performing user events in the form.
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happen on the ABAP side and result will appear on the form. First 6 or 7 user events works correctly,
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Help to improve the performance of a procedure.
Hello everybody,
First to introduce myself. My name is Ivan and I recently started learning SQL and PL/SQL. So don't go hard on me. :)
Now let's jump to the problem. What we have there is a table (big one, but we'll need only a few fields) with some information about calls. It is called table1. There is also another one, absolutely the same structure, which is empty and we have to transfer the records from the first one.
The shorter calls (less than 30 minutes) have segmentID = 'C1'.
The longer calls (more than 30 minutes) are recorded as more than one record (1 for every 30 minutes). The first record (first 30 minutes of the call) has segmentID = 'C21'. It is the first so we have only one of these for every different call. Then we have the next (middle) parts of the call, which have segmentID = 'C22'. We can have more than 1 middle part and again the maximum minutes in each is 30 minutes. Then we have the last part (again max 30 minutes) with segmentID = 'C23'. As with the first one we can have only one last part.
So far, so good. Now we need to insert these call records into the second table. The C1 are easy - one record = one call. But the partial ones we need to combine so they become one whole call. This means that we have to take one of the first parts (C21), find if there is a middle part (C22) with the same calling/called numbers and with 30 minutes difference in date/time, then search again if there is another C22 and so on. And last we have to search for the last part of the call (C23). In the course of these searches we sum the duration of each part so we can have the duration of the whole call at the end. Then we are ready to insert it in the new table as a single record, just with new duration.
But here comes the problem with my code... The table has A LOT of records and this solution, despite the fact that it works (at least in the tests I've made so far), it's REALLY slow.
As I said I'm new to PL/SQL and I know that this solution is really newbish, but I can't find another way of doing this.
So I decided to come here and ask you for some tips on how to improve the performance of this.
I think you are getting confused already, so I'm just going to put some comments in the code.
I know it's not a procedure as it stands now, but it will be once I create a better code. I don't think it matters for now.
DECLARE
CURSOR cur_c21 IS
select * from table1
where segmentID = 'C21'
order by start_date_of_call; // in start_date_of_call is located the beginning of a specific part of the call. It's date format.
CURSOR cur_c22 IS
select * from table1
where segmentID = 'C22'
order by start_date_of_call;
CURSOR cur_c22_2 IS
select * from table1
where segmentID = 'C22'
order by start_date_of_call;
cursor cur_c23 is
select * from table1
where segmentID = 'C23'
order by start_date_of_call;
v_temp_rec_c22 cur_c22%ROWTYPE;
v_dur table1.duration%TYPE; // using this for storage of the duration of the call. It's number.
BEGIN
insert into table2
select * from table1 where segmentID = 'C1'; // inserting the calls which are less than 30 minutes long
-- and here starts the mess
FOR rec_c21 IN cur_c21 LOOP // taking the first part of the call
v_dur := rec_c21.duration; // recording it's duration
FOR rec_c22 IN cur_c22 LOOP // starting to check if there is a middle part for the call
IF rec_c22.callingnumber = rec_c21.callingnumber AND rec_c22.callednumber = rec_c21.callednumber AND
(rec_c22.start_date_of_call - rec_c21.start_date_of_call) = (1/48)
/* if the numbers are the same and the date difference is 30 minutes then we have a middle part and we start searching for the next middle. */
THEN
v_dur := v_dur + rec_c22.duration; // updating the new duration
v_temp_rec_c22:=rec_c22; // recording the current record in another variable because I use it for the next check
FOR rec_c22_2 in cur_c22_2 LOOP
IF rec_c22_2.callingnumber = v_temp_rec_c22.callingnumber AND rec_c22_2.callednumber = v_temp_rec_c22.callednumber AND
(rec_c22_2.start_date_of_call - v_temp_rec_c22.start_date_of_call) = (1/48)
/* logic is the same as before but comparing with the last value in v_temp...
And because the data in the cursors is ordered by date in ascending order it's easy to search for another middle parts. */
THEN
v_dur:=v_dur + rec_c22_2.duration;
v_temp_rec_c22:=rec_c22_2;
END IF;
END LOOP;
END IF;
EXIT WHEN rec_c22.callingnumber = rec_c21.callingnumber AND rec_c22.callednumber = rec_c21.callednumber AND
(rec_c22.start_date_of_call - rec_c21.start_date_of_call) = (1/48);
/* exiting the loop if we have at least one middle part.
(I couldn't find if there is a way to write this more clean, like exit when (the above if is true) */
END LOOP;
FOR rec_c23 IN cur_c23 LOOP
IF (rec_c23.callingnumber = rec_c21.callingnumber AND rec_c23.callednumber = rec_c21.callednumber AND
(rec_c23.start_date_of_call - rec_c21.start_date_of_call) = (1/48)) OR v_dur != rec_c21.duration
/* we should always have one last part, so we need this check.
If we don't have the "v_dur != rec_c21.duration" part it will execute the code inside only if we don't have middle parts
(yes we can have these situations in calls longer than 30 and less than 60 minutes). */
THEN
v_dur:=v_dur + rec_c23.duration;
rec_c21.duration:=v_dur; // updating the duration
rec_c21.segmentID :='C1';
INSERT INTO table2 VALUES rec_c21; // inserting the whole call in table2
END IF;
EXIT WHEN (rec_c23.callingnumber = rec_c21.callingnumber AND rec_c23.callednumber = rec_c21.callednumber AND
(rec_c23.start_date_of_call - rec_c21.start_date_of_call) = (1/48)) OR v_dur != rec_c21.duration;
// exit the loop when the last part has been found.
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
END;I'm using Oracle 11g and version 1.5.5 of SQL Developer.
It's my first post here so hope this is the right sub-forum.
I tried to explain everything as deep as possible (sorry if it's too long) and I kinda think that the code got somehow hard to read with all these comments. If you want I can remove them.
I know I'm still missing a lot of knowledge so every help is really appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance!Atiel wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion but the thing is that segmentID must stay the same for all. The data in this field is just to tell us if this is a record of complete call (C1) or a partial record of a call(C21, C22, C23). So in table2 as every record will be a complete call the segmentID must be C1 for all.Well that's not a problem. You just hard code 'C1' instead of applying the row number as I was doing:
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select 'C1' as segmentid
2 ,start_date_of_call, duration, callingnumber, callednumber
3 from (
4 select distinct
5 min(start_date_of_call) over (partition by callingnumber, callednumber) as start_date_of_call
6 ,sum(duration) over (partition by callingnumber, callednumber) as duration
7 ,callingnumber
8 ,callednumber
9 from table1
10* )
SQL> /
SEGMENTID START_DATE_OF_CALL DURATION CALLINGNUMBER CALLEDNUMBER
C1 11-MAY-2012 12:13:10 8020557824 1982032041 0631432831624
C1 15-MAR-2012 09:07:26 269352960 5581790386 0113496771567
C1 31-JUL-2012 23:20:23 134676480 4799842978 0813391427349
Another thing is that, as I said above, the actual table has 120 fields. Do I have to list them all manually if I use something similar?If that's what you need, then yes you would have to list them. You only get data if you tell it you want it. ;)
Of course if you are taking the start_date_of_call, callingnumber and callednumber as the 'key' to the record, then you could join the results of the above back to the original table1 and pull out the rest of the columns that way...
SQL> select * from table1;
SEGMENTID START_DATE_OF_CALL DURATION CALLINGNUMBER CALLEDNUMBER COL1 COL2 COL3
C1 31-JUL-2012 23:20:23 134676480 4799842978 0813391427349 556 40 5.32
C21 15-MAR-2012 09:07:26 134676480 5581790386 0113496771567 219 100 10.16
C23 11-MAY-2012 09:37:26 134676480 5581790386 0113496771567 321 73 2.71
C21 11-MAY-2012 12:13:10 3892379648 1982032041 0631432831624 959 80 2.87
C22 11-MAY-2012 12:43:10 3892379648 1982032041 0631432831624 375 57 8.91
C22 11-MAY-2012 13:13:10 117899264 1982032041 0631432831624 778 27 1.42
C23 11-MAY-2012 13:43:10 117899264 1982032041 0631432831624 308 97 3.26
7 rows selected.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 with t2 as (
2 select 'C1' as segmentid
3 ,start_date_of_call, duration, callingnumber, callednumber
4 from (
5 select distinct
6 min(start_date_of_call) over (partition by callingnumber, callednumber) as start_date_of_call
7 ,sum(duration) over (partition by callingnumber, callednumber) as duration
8 ,callingnumber
9 ,callednumber
10 from table1
11 )
12 )
13 --
14 select t2.segmentid, t2.start_date_of_call, t2.duration, t2.callingnumber, t2.callednumber
15 ,t1.col1, t1.col2, t1.col3
16 from t2
17 join table1 t1 on ( t1.start_date_of_call = t2.start_date_of_call
18 and t1.callingnumber = t2.callingnumber
19 and t1.callednumber = t2.callednumber
20* )
SQL> /
SEGMENTID START_DATE_OF_CALL DURATION CALLINGNUMBER CALLEDNUMBER COL1 COL2 COL3
C1 11-MAY-2012 12:13:10 8020557824 1982032041 0631432831624 959 80 2.87
C1 15-MAR-2012 09:07:26 269352960 5581790386 0113496771567 219 100 10.16
C1 31-JUL-2012 23:20:23 134676480 4799842978 0813391427349 556 40 5.32
SQL>Of course this is pulling back the additional columns for the record that matches the start_date_of_call for that calling/called number pair, so if the values differed from row to row within the calling/called number pair you may need to aggregate those (take the minimum/maximum etc. as required) as part of the first query. If the values are known to be the same across all records in the group then you can just pick them up from the join to the original table as I coded in the above example (only in my example the data was different across all rows). -
The Next Version of Premiere Pro CC - Warp Stabilizer
With the recent post of what's coming in the next version of PPro CC, I was sad to see no mention of Warp Stabilizer. As amazing of an effect as it is, it needs a bit of help. I know there are improvements and fixes that probably weren't mentioned in the post so I'm still holding out hope. We use Warp Stabilizer more than anyone I know. Several hundred times per week. Yes, per week, no exaggeration. Over the last few years, we've built an entire style of shooting around the strengths of this awesome effect that emulates the use of a slider, steadicam and crane all without having to have them. So we've become really familiar with its PROS and CONS.
Here is a short list of SEVEN things that should be addressed with regards to warp stabilizer within Premiere Pro CC to maximize its effectiveness (and yes we did submit multiple Feature Requests for these so far to no avail):
FIrst and foremost and by far MOST IMPORTANT to us - Allow users to create a CUSTOM PRESET with any altered settings that will engage (or begin Analyzing/Stabilizing) automatically when added to a clip!! This is huge. If you double click on Warp Stabilizer with a clip selected, it is applied to that clip and begins the process of stabilizing that clip. However, the vast majority of the time we need to alter the settings of the effect. If we create a custom preset, that's all fine and good, but when we add that to a clip, it does NOT begin stabilizing. Instead you have to manually go into the Effect Controls for each clip and select ANALYZE. Huge waste of time when adding this effect to hundreds of clips. PLEASE FIX!
BUG when saving projects!!! - If this is not a bug, it needs to be fixed because it's awful. - If you have more than one sequence with multiple warp stabilizations added and GPU ACCELERATION IS ENABLED, then after you SAVE a project (or if it auto-saves) when you toggle between the two sequences you are hit with a delay or freeze while the render bar goes from Yellow to Red...and finally back to yellow again. No work can be done during this delay/freeze. The more stabilized clips, the longer the delay. For us, on our larger projects this delay is sometimes 30 seconds to almost a full minute! Once it turns back to yellow, you can toggle between sequences without the delay...but as soon as it saves again...and you toggle between sequences, the delay hits again. If this is a bug, or somehow a result of Premiere Pro's way of CACHING projects after it's saved, then I sincerely hope it's fixed asap. It's awful!
The third is more of a feature request than a fix - Add the ability to set the maximum scale to work WITH the smoothness control so that if you never want your clips to scale more than say 105%, you can set that and have Warp Stabilizer stabilize the clip and adjust the "smoothness" percentage from the default "50%" down to whatever it needs to be in order for that clip to be fully stabilized and scaled to no more than 105%. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not possible currently. Right now we have to manually adjust each clip if it is initially scaled too much by dropping down the Smoothness %.
Another great feature would be the ability to manually keyframe the scaling so that if you have a longer clip that starts fairly steady, then needs to be smoothed out a bit more in the middle, before it ends relatively steady again, you can slowly and seamlessly ramp up the stabilization/scaling so that the whole clip doesn't have to be scaled to make up for the misgivings of one portion of the clip.
Minor bug - sometimes when you have extended the length of a clip, the clip needs to be re-analyzed again. However, the "analyze" button is often greyed out. You need to click away from the clip and then click on the clip again to make that button appear again. Nothing big, but still, a small bug.
After Effects Warp Stablizer VFX feature carried over - It would be nice to carry over to Premiere the ability to isolate what in frame is supposed to be stable (sometimes someone nodding their head can trick the effect into thinking that it's the camera shaking). Great to have it in AE, but would be nice to carry over to Premiere Pro CC.
Finally, I've always believed that no matter how cool "Subspace Warp" sounds, it is not as effective as "Position, Scale & Rotation". This SHOULD be the deafult "method" within the Warp's settings. I'd say 95% of the thousands and thousands of clips we've stabilized we ended up switching the "Method" within the settings to "Position, Scale & Rotation" because it either scaled the shot less or created less "wobble" in the resulting stabilized clip. I know everyone shoots differently, and sometimes Subspace Warp is the way to go, but we have stabilized all sorts of shots with great success by simply switching this setting. Granted...if #1 on this list was taken care of we could then easily have this set as our default setting.
Hopefully this list either reaches someone within Adobe that can do something about them or at the very least inspires others to write feature requests and bug fixes as we have. Even resolving #1, #2 and #3 would be HUGE and would save our editors probably 10 hours per week. It's an awesome effect, far better than "smoothcam" on FCP7, it just needs a little love.CoSA_DaveS wrote:
All good points, thanks for posting.
For #1, you can make this work in AE at least. This tip is from my colleague DanW:
If you make a preset by only selecting the values you change (and not a preset for the whole effect) then it will auto-analyze on apply.
Simplest way: apply WS, make edits, hit UU to reveal changed params, select all "i-beams" in the Timeline, drag them to the Effects & Presets panel.
For #4, you can get manual control over the scaling by setting Framing to Stabilize Only, and then keyframe Additional Scale to taste. At one point we were going to try to automate this, but found automatic scaling to be very subjective as to the best way to handle it.
For #6, Warp Stabilizer will not track areas with zero alpha channel. So you can pre-mask the input to reveal just the parts you want to stabilize. Do this inside a nested sequence, with Warp Stabilizer applied downstream (in the outer sequence). The just-announced masking & tracking capabilities of the next CC version should be handy for this.
-DaveS, Adobe Dynamic Media, Advanced Product Development
Hi DaveS!
Great to hear that you guys are taking a look at this list. Hope it helps make it better. #1, #2, and #3 are by far the biggest time killers for us so hopefully they'll be able to be fixed/resolved within Premiere soon.
Regarding your note about #1: Allowing this functionality within Premiere specifically would be very helpful. Would it be possible to eventually allow Premiere to auto-analyze when a saved custom preset is applied to a clip? I tried it in AE as you suggested, and couldn't figure it out. But realistically we use Warp Stabilizer on so many clips that round tripping literally hundreds of short clips to AE would be just as time consuming as going into the settings in premiere for each one and adjusting the parameters. We usually adjust the method and then adjust the smoothness scale so that it doesn't "Auto-Scale" more than 104%. That's where our #3 suggestion would help. I didn't quite understand how to make a preset of specific changed values. I tried, but couldn't follow DanW's suggestion. Granted, I'm not that great with AE. I really just use it for the Warp VFX's ability to isolate what in frame is stabilized (hope that comes to Premiere one day) and that's about it. And I really only have to do that a couple times per project. Anyway, I'm sure I'm doing DanW's suggestions wrong but regardless, I'm not sure it would save us much time when we have several hundred individual little clips that would all need to be sent to AE. Any hope for adding this auto-analyze functionality (hopefully allowing a custom preset on the whole effect and all it's adjusted parameters) in Premiere CC?
Regarding your note about #4: That is a valid work around for now. I appreciate that thought. Thanks!
Regarding your note about #6: I think I half understand what you described. I'd have to try it. Although, as I said before, the AE way of doing it is ideal and I just hoped that ability to show the tracking points and delete them over time would come to Premiere CC one day. When the next CC comes out I'd love to try this masking method although I think I'll have to claify exactly what you want me to do just to be safe. Is there no hope to port this added functionality that's in AE's Warp VFX over to Premiere's Warp Stabilizer? Again, not the end of the world for us. I'd rather #1, #2 and #3 be addressed inside Premiere Pro CC for now.
Fixing the first 3 on this list would be HUGE time saver for us.
Thanks again DaveS to you and the rest of the Adobe team for looking into this list. Very much appreciated.
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