Images resized from Intel to PPC Using Motion 3

Hey guys, I'm having a reoccurring issue. I work on an animation using still images doing basic ken burns animations with some masks. However when I open the same exact project on my Dual G5 Power Mac which has the same version of Motion. the images get re sized and the mask's are displaced. I originally create the animation on an intel Power Mac. I know it's something with the intel-PPC thing because when I open the same project on my intel Mb Pro it looks the same as the Intel Power Mac. I have all the preferences set to default except turning off the setting to automatically re-size large images in the preferences. Any thoughts?

if you watch the scale of your objects in the media tab does that change?

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I have an .iso of my OS X Leopard 10.5 DVD (backup copy) that I want to burn using Disk Utility on a DL DVD, then use it to install Leopard on the PowerBook G4.
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Nothing wrong - it's a feature :).
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Box interpolation (also known as nearest neighbour, but it's the honest implementation, not JDK fake):
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http://www.chainline.com/Lanczos_3.jpg
http://www.chainline.com/Lanczos_3_from_png.jpg
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http://www.chainline.com/Ideal_5S.jpg
http://www.chainline.com/Ideal_5S_from_png.jpg
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Hello all
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**boojum**
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Are there any incompatibilities between Intel/G4 versions of the iPhoto apps or Library Packages?
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Welcome to Apple Discussions:
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2007-08-02 13:23:39 -0500 can't add repository (not a directory).
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..... about a thousand lines like this.....
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cp:
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Click New Install or New Boot button in the toolbar to create another image
Message was edited by: dmccoy26

Looks like I spoke too soon. After making the modification things went fine for a while but then I got
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Message was edited by: Sean Murphy3 -- didn't read the log properly first time.

Can I use same USB drive for Intel and PPC backup?

Hi, I have a USB hdd that was used for TV recording but failed on that so I reformatted it as Mac OS extended journaled with 6 partitions (GUID), and using SuperDuper, cloned Lion from a Macbook Air and Tiger from my eMac into different partitions, with the idea of using it as an extra backup.
Tested the USB drive on Disk Utility verify disk function and it said all 6 partitions appear OK. Can boot the MBA from the USB drive (although slow) but the eMac does not show the disk image on the USB drive as an optional restart item. I have eMac backed up on a separate Firewire drive but would like to use the USB drive as a second line of defense.
My question is, would I be able to restore from the Tiger dmg on the USB drive, given that it is GUID and not Apple partition scheme. Would I have to reformat it to Apple partition scheme. Also, how would you go about a restore from the USB drive if the eMac's OS was kaput?

You can't store a clone of an Intel-based Mac and a clone of a PowerPC-based Mac on the same drive.
That's because an Intel-based Mac can start from a GUID partition table, but a PowerPC-based Mac can only start if your USB drive is using Apple Partition Map instead of GUID. In your case, you have to buy another external drive to make a clone of the PowerPC-based Mac or the Intel-based Mac.
To change the partition map of your USB drive:
1. Open Disk Utility (it's in Applications > Utilities folder), and select your USB drive in the sidebar.
2. Go to Partition tab, and press "Options" button, where you can choose the partition map you want: GUID, MBR or Apple Partition Map. Note that you won't be able to start an Intel-based Mac from a drive that uses Apple Partition Map

Ways to implement image resizing using plug-ins?

Hi Photoshop developers,
I'm a developer with a few Photoshop filter and selection plug-ins under my belt, and I have a good understanding of the SDK and tools and suites it provides. My next project is an algorithm for enlarging/resampling images to different pixel dimensions. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for or experience with the best combination of plug-in types to implement this.
Clearly, I can't just write it as a filter plug-in, since there is no way to change the image dimensions from within a filter.
I'd like the resized image to remain within Photoshop (as a new window or in the original one), so an export plug-in on its own is not sufficient.
Import plug-ins seem promising, since they allow the creation of a new document of the required size. However, as best I can tell from the Photoshop 6.0 SDK documentation, import plug-ins cannot access the image data from other open documents (or even the clipboard), nor do they provide any support for channel ports and the Channel Port suite.
My best idea at this stage is to create an export plug-in to provide the user interface and calculate the resized image, and then an import plug-in to import the resized image back into a new window. (I'm supposing a further automation plug-in would then be written to perform this export/import sequence.) The difficulty I see with this approach is how to communicate the resized image data between the two plug-ins. Since the resized image will potentially be very large, the ideal solution would be to store it in channels managed by the Channel Ports suite. However, I cannot see how the channel ports created in the export plug-in could be communicated to and used by an import plug-in. The alternative would be for the export plug-in to save the resized image to a temporary file on disk, however this seems unnecessary.
So, my questions, specifically, are:
a) Is it possible to create new channels using the Channel Ports suite (sPSChannelPorts->New()) in one plug-in, and have those channels persist to be used in another plug-in?
b) If so, how would the channel ports be communicated between the plug-ins?
c) Alternately, are there any alternative architectures available for implementing an image-resizing algorithm using the plug-in types that are available for Photoshop developers.
Any responses would be greatly appreciated; I know this is a low-traffic forum...
Thanks,
Matthew.

I would make an automation plug-in and a filter plug-in. 1) Run the automation which runs your filter to gather current image information 2) Create a temp file of the new document 3) Make a new document 4) Call the filter again to reload the temp data on disk <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Hi Photoshop developers, > > I'm a developer with a few Photoshop filter and selection plug-ins under > my belt, and I have a good understanding of the SDK and tools and suites > it provides. My next project is an algorithm for enlarging/resampling > images to different pixel dimensions. I'm wondering if anyone has any > suggestions for or experience with the best combination of plug-in types > to implement this. > > Clearly, I can't just write it as a filter plug-in, since there is no way > to change the image dimensions from within a filter. > > I'd like the resized image to remain within Photoshop (as a new window or > in the original one), so an export plug-in on its own is not sufficient. > > Import plug-ins seem promising, since they allow the creation of a new > document of the required size. However, as best I can tell from the > Photoshop 6.0 SDK documentation, import plug-ins cannot access the image > data from other open documents (or even the clipboard), nor do they > provide any support for channel ports and the Channel Port suite. > > My best idea at this stage is to create an export plug-in to provide the > user interface and calculate the resized image, and then an import plug-in > to import the resized image back into a new window. (I'm supposing a > further automation plug-in would then be written to perform this > export/import sequence.) The difficulty I see with this approach is how to > communicate the resized image data between the two plug-ins. Since the > resized image will potentially be very large, the ideal solution would be > to store it in channels managed by the Channel Ports suite. However, I > cannot see how the channel ports created in the export plug-in could be > communicated to and used by an import plug-in. The alternative would be > for the export plug-in to save the resized image to a temporary file on > disk, however this seems unnecessary. > > So, my questions, specifically, are: > > a) Is it possible to create new channels using the Channel Ports suite > (sPSChannelPorts->New()) in one plug-in, and have those channels persist > to be used in another plug-in? > > b) If so, how would the channel ports be communicated between the > plug-ins? > > c) Alternately, are there any alternative architectures available for > implementing an image-resizing algorithm using the plug-in types that are > available for Photoshop developers. > > Any responses would be greatly appreciated; I know this is a low-traffic > forum... > > Thanks, > Matthew.

I get no image sent from my iMac to my second monitor using VGA adaptor

I am not getting any image sent from my iMac to my second monitor. I am using a VGA adaptor. Any suggestions?

Is it not detected in Displays?
Which exact eMac is it?
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B0

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