Issue With Drop Zones

Perhaps there's something I'm missing, but whenever I drop clips into bumpers or an opener (specifically, the road trip theme) it shows the a still frame of the clip that is not the beginning of the clip. Whenever I add the desired clip after it, it simply starts from the beginning. Whenever the theme zooms into a clip, shouldn't it seamlessly blend into the clip? I've tried various ways and every time it jumps. At one point it zoomed into a white screen.
Am I missing something?

That's a known bug. Instead of playing from the start of the clip, the drop zone plays from the start of the clip's source file.
Export the clip to a Full Quality movie, import that movie into the project, then drop it into the drop zone.
Karl

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First post for me here...
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How do I get the best quality when creating an animation in Motion that I would like to use in a DVD studio Drop Zone?
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Hello everyone,
I have an IE6 display issue with a spry horizontal menu on a website I recently developed and hope someone can help me sort it out.
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This is a site for a new charity so obviously I'm very keen to get it sorted out as soon as I can. The easiest way to view the problem is to either view it in IE6, or view it IE8, turn on the Developer Tools and change the Document Mode to 'Quirks mode'. you'll immediately see that the sub-menus on the header menu display permanently as a full width list, and not as a drop down menu as they should.
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"Replace" does not work with drop zones?

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Is there another way to do this?

When you drag over a clip in the timeline you are replacing that clip - which is precisely what you are getting, so no weird behavior here.
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pseudo,
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Original
Elapsed: 00:01:02.17
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=6553 Card=9240 Bytes
=203280)
1 0 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=6553 Card=9240 Bytes=203280)
2 1 INDEX (FULL SCAN) OF 'EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE' (NON-UNIQ
UE) (Cost=15982 Card=2306303 Bytes=50738666)
drop index EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE
Elapsed: 00:00:11.91
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=7792 Card=9275 Bytes
=204050)
1 0 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=7792 Card=9275 Bytes=204050)
2 1 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'EVENT' (Cost=2092
Card=2284254 Bytes=50253588)
3 2 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'EVENT_TIME_NDX' (NON-UNIQUE
) (Cost=6740 Card=2284254)
create index EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE ON EVENT(NET_ADDRESS,TIME,EVENT_TYPE);
BEGIN
SYS.DBMS_STATS.GENERATE_STATS('USER','EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE',0);
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Elapsed: 00:00:05.14
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=6345 Card=9275 Bytes
=204050)
1 0 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=6345 Card=9275 Bytes=204050)
2 1 INDEX (FULL SCAN) OF 'EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE' (NON-UNIQ
UE) (Cost=12878 Card=2284254 Bytes=50253588)
4/3
Elapsed: 00:00:09.70
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=6596 Card=9316 Bytes
=204952)
1 0 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=6596 Card=9316 Bytes=204952)
2 1 INDEX (FULL SCAN) OF 'EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE' (NON-UNIQ
UE) (Cost=11696 Card=2409400 Bytes=53006800)
Statistics
0 recursive calls
0 db block gets
11933 consistent gets
9676 physical reads
724 redo size
467 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
503 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
1 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
3 rows processed
4/4
Elapsed: 00:00:17.99
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=6681 Card=9421 Bytes
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1 0 SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=6681 Card=9421 Bytes=207262)
2 1 INDEX (FULL SCAN) OF 'EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE' (NON-UNIQ
UE) (Cost=12110 Card=2433800 Bytes=53543600)
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0 recursive calls
0 db block gets
12279 consistent gets
9423 physical reads
2608 redo size
467 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
503 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
1 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
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INDEX_NAME CLUSTERING_FACTOR BLEVEL LEAF_BLOCKS DISTINCT_KEYS
EVENT_NA_TIME_ETYPE 2393170 2 12108 2395545
EVENT_PK 32640 2 5313 2286158
EVENT_TIME_NDX 35673 2 7075 2394055

Issue with Beta Zone account

I'm not sure if this is where I need to post this, but I am hitting a dead end trying to find help.
I had to reset my BlackBerry ID due to to many PIN changes. What I did was change the email address on the account that had too many changes, and recreate a new BlackBerry ID with my usual email. This caused me to have to pay again for some downloaded apps and I lost my BBM contacts as well.
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Go to Solution.

Hi and Welcome to the Community!
Massonite wrote:
I used to be able to login with a username and password, but now it requires a BBID (which is understandable) but when I try to login, it needs my BBID and when I try to go to https://beta.webapps.blackberry.com/defaults/bbidlink it has my email address in the username field and I can't change it.
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Massonite wrote:
I even tried to create a new Beta Zone ID and it says my email address is already in the system.
Which would be logical if you previously created a BBID with that email address -- there can be only one BB ID account per email address.
Massonite wrote:
I sent an email to [email protected] a week or two ago and got no response. I also sent a tweet to @BlackBerryHelp this morning. I really need to get this straightened out. So if anyone can help me, I would really appreciate it.
The issue isn't with the site, it's with your BB ID as well as your local browser and whatever add-on ID/password helper you have installed. I've no idea what your browser is nor what your ID/password helper is...you'll need to figure those out locally. Or try installing a different browser that does not have such an add-on and, if you know your BB ID credentials, you should be able to access them.
BB ID is sort of a "single sign on" for multiple BB-related products and services, so the core of your issue is with that rather than the specific site you were trying to access. And your local browser issue is I think really at the root of it all.
Good luck and let us know!
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We upgraded from BCM 2007 to BCM 2013. Now the BCM disappears from Outlook occasionally and the drop down menus are confused. for instance when accessing the drop down for phone numbers, the user selects company - but the field for TTY/TDD comes up.
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When you say that the rounded corners seem to disappear, what do you mean exactly? Are they there at first, but then disappear after you start playing the sequence? Or do the rounded corners not happen at all?
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