Make a counting CLOCK with motion ??

i am trying to make a 30:00 clock that counts UP from 00:00.
i started to do this as an individual text layer for each second,
ie - 00:00, 00:01, 00:02, 00:03 - etc.
this was taking me more time than i thought necessary.
please suggest to me a better method.
i had the idea to make :00, :01, :02, :03 etc through :59 and
copy that layer thirty times, then substitute the minutes ..
also seemed like a lot of work. this quickly turns into a
nightmare for my compy - copying the layer to the clipboard
took about a minute itself, then pasting it took another minute.
i can't imagine the render time this behemoth would take.
is there a quick fix ? some sort of fancy replicator thing ? some
sort of behavior that allows text-content to change over time ?
as last resort, i believe i will simply FILM a movie of a digital
stop watch and then edit that thing together .....
thanks.

You create a rectangle mask to only show one line at a time of that vertical text object. You then animate that object upward. This effect by itself would give you a dial effect, where you can see the numbers animating upward. This isn't how a digital clock works - those numbers change instantly.
So you don't want to see a tween between the positions of 00 and 01. Follow me?
So we need to figure out how to get it to jump to the correct spot without having to create 60 key frames.
The idea I had was to make the project exactly 60 seconds, animate it all the way up, export it out at 1 FPS as a QT movie. That should show you the numbers animating to the correct position without having the tween. You would then import that QT movie back into your main project.
I'm speculating on some of this, just ideas to try.
I was playing with the parameter behaviors to see if I could get the text object to jump versus smoothly animate. I think Patrick did something like this with Sawtooth Oscillating? I don't remember.
In the time it is taking to figure out how to do it quickly, we could have probably created the ~90 key frames required to do it manually. LOL

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How do I make interactive DVD/Blu-Ray menus with motion?

So, adobe doesn't support Encore anymore which means I can't use dynamic link to AE to create interactive DVD/Blu-Ray menus with motion.... or can I? Is there something I'm doing wrong? While in Encore, I go to dynamic link and boom, dynamic link to AE is not highlighted. If I can't make an interactive menu with motion using adobe, then what can I use? This is causing a major problem for me and my clients. (if i over looked the answer to this in another post, my apologies)

You can use the "Create After Effects Composition." This prompts you to create an independent version of the Encore PSD menu file, and opens the layered file in AE CC and creates a new composition with appropriate settings. AE no longer has mpeg export, so you export from AE to AME.
There were some workflow options that I did not play with much, but they were never what I saw as the basics for using AE to create the motion background.
You need to understand these two help pages:
Adobe Encore * Menu timing and looping
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSF49EA5DB-3743-49c2-9831-F66328B192F8.html
Adobe Encore * Using After Effects to enhance menus
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
I'm not sure what you mean by "interactive" unless you just mean creating navigation.

Video blurry with motion when trying to create WMV video to share

I have a Sony HDR-cx350. I am currently using PE 9. In the past using my standard def camcorder and PE 7.0 when I wanted to share a video for online I would usually select "share - windows media" and use the LAN preset to create a WMV file that I would upload to photoshop.com and share with friends. Now with new camcorder and PE 9.0 using these setting any motion in the video become blurry/jagged. The only way to improve on this is to go into the advanced settings and increase the average video bitrate setting which make the file get large fast. I dot believe I am using the best project presets to use because PE changes it for me. But based on MEDIA info below maybe you can tell me what the best project presets would be. Please HELP my son's football season is starting soon and the coaches depend on me to shoot game film to share with the coaches. TIA FILE INFO using MEDIA INFO PROGRAM CompleteName :es\DCL video 2011\20110615103137.m2ts Format : BDAV Format/Info : Blu-ray Video FileSize/String : 71.7 MiB Duration/String : 53s 14ms OverallBitRate/String : 11.3 Mbps OverallBitRate_Maximum/String : 18.0 Mbps Video ID/String : 4113 (0x1011) MenuID/String : 1 (0x1) Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format_Profile : [email protected] Format_Settings_CABAC/String : Yes Format_Settings_RefFrames/String : 2 frames Format_Settings_GOP : M=1, N=30 CodecID : 27 Duration/String : 52s 986ms BitRate_Mode/String : Variable BitRate/String : 10.6 Mbps BitRate_Maximum/String : 16.0 Mbps Width/String : 1 440 pixels Height/String : 1 080 pixels DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9 FrameRate/String : 29.970 fps ColorSpace : YUV ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0 BitDepth/String : 8 bits ScanType/String : Interlaced ScanOrder/String : Top Field First Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.228 StreamSize/String : 67.1 MiB (94%) Audio ID/String : 4352 (0x1100) MenuID/String : 1 (0x1) Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Format_Settings_ModeExtension : CM (complete main) CodecID : 129 Duration/String : 53s 56ms BitRate_Mode/String : Constant BitRate/String : 256 Kbps Channel(s)/String : 2 channels ChannelPositions : Front: L R SamplingRate/String : 48.0 KHz BitDepth/String : 16 bits Compression_Mode/String : Lossy Video_Delay/String : -67ms StreamSize/String : 1.62 MiB (2%) Text ID/String : 4608 (0x1200) MenuID/String : 1 (0x1) Format : PGS CodecID : 144 Duration/String : 52s 487ms Video_Delay/String : -67ms

I feel your pain. The Adobe forum software does some odd "stuff" with formatting, and once that happens, there seems to be nothing to do about it. I have been caught in that "trick bag," more times, than I can count.
As for Encoding to WMV, Adobe programs, are not known to do a good job of this, and that is both PrE and PrPro. For years, many users recommended Windows Media Encoder, which was free from MS, and to use that, one would Export/Share to an intermediate file, then use WME to do the WMV Encode. MS discontinued the old WME, but one user (Neale, IIRC) found a replacement. Unfortunately, I do not recall the name, but it was something like MicroSoft Media Encoder Live, or similar. That user tested the new, replacement utility, and thought that it also did a much better job, than PrE/PrPro.
Still, quality, and especially with motion (either subject, or camera) needs a good Bit-Rate to produce good results, however at the expense of large files. As all Encoders are not created equal, the best that one can do is to find one, that does a good job, and then experiment with the Bit-Rate to get highest quality at a manageable file size. This is the same "balancing act," that we all fight with.
Good luck, and maybe those, with better memories, can come up with the name of the MS WMV Encoder.
Hunt

How Do You Make an Image Flow with the Text?

Hello all,
I am using CS4 InDesign on Windows Vista. I am fairly new to Indesign but try to do my research and homework well before asking what I hope is not a really dumb question.
I am writing a book of approx. 350 pages that is an illustrated encyclopedia of 156 plants and their oils.
Each 2 page spread is a single entry for a plant. The graphics frames on each spread are identical in size, position and styles for a consistent look throughout the document.As you can see (hopefully) each page is a single column. See screenshot below
In order to overcome my first problem of positioning and sizing the graphics frames uniformly, I created the master pages with the graphics placeholders sized, positioned and formatted to my liking. This worked wonderfully and I placed all of my 300+ graphics by simply over riding each frame.
Then in my editing I decided to add another 2 page spread somewhere in the middle of this fairly large document.
What a NIGHTMARE. The text predictably shifted but now ALL of my graphics were no longer associated with the corresponding text! Arrrgghhh.I had not anticipated this behavior (used MS Word for 15 years) or I would have done something different.
3 hours later I finished re -"placing" the images associated with the correct text.
I researched the help file and found out about the neccessity of anchoring graphics to text. I have read through the threads in this forum, followed links to "indesignsecrets.com/make-an-image-flow-with-the-text" and " Working with anchored objects by Anne Marie Concepcion"
My concerns are this.
An inline graphic places the graphic back onto your text layer for some reason ( Previously my graphics each had their own layer)
Not wanting to start (again) from scratch with my graphics I converted them to inline/custom anchored objects.
But to select then cut then paste every pre existing graphic to anchor it inline seems to be cumbersome and counter intuitive although the top smaller graphic did position well and the text seemed to wrap ok.
When I placed the larger bottom graphic on the left facing page using custom positioning I was not able to get the text to wrap at all.( The in line anchoring did not seem to allow for positioning on anything but the 'Y' axis).
It seems that there would be a simpler way to place text and graphics where you want them and have them associate and flow together (or not) when you want them to and have text wrap easily around an anchored object without keyboard gymnastics. It would seem that the concept of a certain graphic being associated or linked with certain text would not be an unusual concept in desktop publishing.
Am I missing something?
Can you place an anchored graphics frame on the master page with your desired options?
How would this be done if possible?
Is there any other way (i.e grouping) to keep graphics associated with the desired text so that it flows together if extra pages are added?
Is the fact that my graphics frames are on my master pages responsible for my text wrap difficulty? (I have text wrap enabled on my master pages)
Are there any settings, redundant or otherwise, I need to be aware of?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or directions
L.N.

Hello Again,
Thank You Bob but I am still a little fuzzy on this. I have already created object styles for the graphics frames. For instance the small graphic underneath the heading (Its a drop of oil) has an object style applied. Now I checked and it has the anchored object options checked in the style dialog box. When I reapply the style to the next similar graphics nothing happens. It is still not anchored. Do I need to create a new style based on "nothing" add my effects plus the anchoring options? Basically start over. If thats what I need to do thats OK. As to your instruction that object styles could accomodate this anchoring thing...thats what I thought too but somehow I can't get it to work. See object style dialog box screenshot below:
For the larger graphic on the bottom of the left facing page. I still cannot get any text to wrap. In the screenshot example the text describing this particular plant doesn't go to the bottom of the page so the wrapping issue on this page is moot. However I have some entries where the body of the description is more involved and does go to the bottom of the page and the text WOULD need to wrap around the plant (larger ) graphic.
Hi there Harb, Yes I found out early on that object styles can't apply size (that would be on my wish list for sure) That is why I found that creating my graphics frames on the master page with the correct size, effects and positioning tickled me so much. Can you believe I originally went through and MANUALLY resized and repositioned each and every 300+ graphics in this book but it still wasn't right. I'm nothing if not persistent. (Now if I could just get my grown sons to pick up their socks!)
Anyway the master page graphics frames idea would be perfect if I could get the images to anchor in their respective spots on the master page as well.
For your second suggestion. I am not clear about why I would need to break the threads of each spread so that each spread is a seperate article. Is the threading issue the thing that is causing my text to move on leaving their associated graphics behind? If so how do I go about doing this?
So to recap:
1. I need to know if I can modify my object style or recreate from scratch with the anchoring option (as I said it didn't work)
2. Can't get text to wrap around the Custom anchored graphic at bottom of page at all
3. Im not clear on the breaking the threading on the spreads
I am willing to go back through and start from scratch (new master pages, styles etc ) if neccesary. This book is the culmination of 7 years of research and artwork.Basically the project is DONE. Now if I can just format it correctly.
I can't thank you both enough for your time, suggestions, expertise and patience.
Thanks again
LN

I see people from different ages at my work and every month I need to count how many people from each age I've seen that month. How can I do to give the entries to numbers in a single cell and make numbers count them for me?

I see people from different ages at my work and every month I need to count how many people from each age I've seen that month. How can I do to give the entries to numbers in a single cell and make numbers count them for me? The final result would be a spreadsheet telling there were 8 people from 20 to 39 years old, 14 peolple from 40 to 59 and so on...

jpqcampos wrote:
This appears to be an 'input form' using 'Radio Buttons' to select the category. Neither of these features are supported in Numbers '09.
You can input the data on one table and summarize it on a second table, but the input table will continue to hold data for each event.
And by using the Reorganize button, you can hide all but two rows of that table to approximate the appearance and performance of an input form.
Here are the two tables, Data on the left and Summary on the right. Notes below.
The grey-filled columns in both tables are 'working' columns, and may be hidden (as shown in the image below).
Data table:
D1 contains the word "TRUE" (in capital letters). (This row is always shown.)
D2 is empty, or may contain any value except "TRUE" (This row is always hidden under the Reorganize rule.)The rest of Row 2 of this table requires the data shown: a number outside the range to be counted (999), and two checkboxes, both checked.
D3 (and filled down the rest of column D): =AND(OR(B2,C2),NOT(OR(B3,C3)))
The formula returns TRUE only for the first unused row in the table (ie. the first row for which neither checkbox has been checked)
Summary table:
Column A contains labels for the age ranges to be counted.
Column B contains the same information in the form necessary for the formulas in columns C and D. They need a numeric value, and that value must be the largest acceptable value in the range to be counted.
C2 (and filled right to column D, then both filled down to row 5):
=COUNTIFS(Data :: $A,"<="&$B,Data :: B,TRUE)-SUM(C$1:C1)
Two changes from the previous example:
COUNTIFS is used to separate the Native and Foreign counts as well as the age range to be counted.
The amount subtracted from each result is the SUM of the earlier results, and includes the text value in the first cell of the column (which is interpreted by SUM as a zero).
See note below regarding my earlier formula.
When the greyed columns are hidden and the checkbox in the Reorganize pane is checked, the two tables will appear as shown below:
Close the reorganize pane, and the 'data entry form' is ready to use.
To use, enter the age first, then check one of the boxes.
As soon as one box is checked, the row will be hidden, and the next (unused) row will be shown.
Regards,
Barry
Note regarding formula in my earlier post:
The earlier formula will give erroneous results as it subtracts only the count directly above it from its count of persons in the age range 0-n.
In E2 of that table, replace "-E1" with "-SUM(E1:E$1)
Fill down to E8.
Ignore the instructions (in that post) following "Fill down to E8."
B

How to make the counter count or start at different time

Hi,
How to let the counter count the time, that doesn't start at the same time ?
This timing system is a sport timing system for canoe competition, it need to track 6 competitor that start at different time .
I have a problem , I have 6 counter in a VI that use to track 6 competitor, but it start count at the same time, how to make it count separately for each competitor ?
Do you guys know how to solve this problem ?
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
multi competitor.zip ‏50 KB

HI,
ya, i run it. I mean i know how to make it to 6 competitor already , and yes, it works but the time, it still count or start at the same time. I need to run each competitor at different time , like this competitor A 20-2-2012.VI . This is the one i do but it cant put a stop button. once i put a stop button, the clock stop counting but the whole VI is running.
Regadrs,
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My new iMac with FCPX crashes when rendering complex templates and crashes when exporting with Motion 5

My new iMac with FCPX crashes when rendering complex templates and crashes when exporting with Motion 5
Using Motion 5.0.6 and Final Cut Pro X 10.0.7 on New iMac (December 2012) Mountain Lion,
Intel Core i7 quad-core a 3,4GHz, Turbo Boost fino a 3,9GHz
32GB di SDRAM DDR3 a 1600MHz - 4 x 8GB
Fusion Drive da 3TB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5
During the rendering of complex FCPX mac crashes and I have to force a restart.
I also happens when I try to export movies with Motion 5.
Does anyone have the same problem with my new iMac?

Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
First, empty the Trash.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it, then drag or copy it — do not type — into the Terminal window:
find . $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl $ 2> /dev/null | wc -l
Press return. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
The output of this command, on a line directly below what you entered, will be a number such as "35." Please post it in a reply.

Still image with motion has flicker pulsating problem

I use FCP 5.0.4
I have read the many threads about this subject and am still not able to succeed in getting rid of the flicker/pulsating in a still image with motion.
I would say about 25% of the stills with motion have the jitters; all the rest look great.
The first thing I tried was
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Field Shift:none
as well as
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Flicker Filter min, med, and max.
Maybe 5% were corrected with this, but the other 20% still had the jitters even after using a combination of the above or by themselves.
I just burned a test DVD using a variety of the persistently jittery stills from my current project and although the jitters change a bit, they were still there so all of these failed:
1. Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace Upper (odd)
2. Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace Flicker Filter minimal
3. Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace Flicker Filter max
4. Effects:Video Filters:Color Correction:Broadcast Safe conservative 115
5. Effects:Video Filters:Video:Flicker Filter max
6. All the tricks together which means
Effects:Video Filters:Video:De-interlace set at Upper (odd)
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Flicker Filter max
Effects:Video Filters:Video:Shift Fields: none
Effects:Video Filters:Color Correction:Broadcast Safe conservative 115
I know this issue has been kicked around a lot and i know some folks are not happy that it has to be kicked around at all. But I am doing something wrong because my DVDs look very un-PRO. Would anyone like to talk me through this nightmare preferably with as many details as possible since I am obviously missing something critical.
Thanks in advance.

There is no 'secret formula'. It just takes thinking through the issues.
1. Set the image size for each image that makes sense within the context of your project. Going significantly larger than the displayed area of that image (including movement) is just asking FCP to do additional work to resize the image. FCP is less sophisticated at resizing images than Photoshop. Use Photoshop and your planning of the movie to get the images to the appropriate size.
2. Wasted effort and totally irrelevant- you could set it to 7200 dpi if it makes you feel better.
3. Good idea - be sure to knock down areas of pure or very bright white. These are the elements that will give you the most trouble.
4. Don't do this unless you want to throw away HALF the picture information. Deinterlace deletes half the picture and then photoshop recreates it through interpolation of the remaining half of the picture. Why do this?
5. Make your determination based on what works. If you have properly exposed and sized the material, the need to blur is greatly reduced. ONLY do it on the images that need it. Why degrade every image if you do not need to do so?
6. See number 5
7. Lay out your time line early, view the work on an external broadcast monitor and only mess about with the images that require it.
In the psycho business they have term for much of the referenced post - it's called superstitious behavior. Basically it comes down to "It worked before so we recommend it to everyone without regard to their situation" ... here's another example:
Many years ago in my architecture practice, we had one of the early 512k macs (upgraded from the 128k!) I needed to show one of the interns how to create a project budget spread sheet in Excel. Inadvertently I clicked on Word, said "oops", closed it and opened Excel and we went to work.
A week later I was walking by the computer and overheard the same intern explaining how to work with Excel to another architect. "First you open Word, close it, THEN you open Excel", she explained. When asked by her 'trainee', why do you have to open Word first, wouldn't it just be easier to simply open Excel? Her answer was just perfect, "Well, it works every time, what's wrong with that?" so it goes ...
good luck with your project.
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Acquire encoder position with Motion and DAQ

Hi,
I am trying to acquire an encoder position with Motion. It seems impossible to set the frequency of the acquisition with Motion and I must poll for the position in a do-while loop.
I have read in a lot of threads that one can use RTSI lines to retrieve encoder position with a DAQ Board though it is acquired with a Motion board. But there are no examples at all about this.
To sum up, I need to send Encoder Phase A to RTSI0, Encoder PhaseB to RTSI1 (which I already do), retrieve info with a DAQ device and then calculate rpm.
Christophe
PS: please don't answer with measure angular position.vi or explain me in what this Vi can help me

Hi Christophe,
I'm not sure I understood well what you need. You have the angular position and you need to know the timing, am I right? Can you use an other counter on your card to get the period (or the frequency) of your signal? From that, I think you should be able to calculate the velocity.
I hope this helps,
Charlotte F. | CLAD
National Instruments France
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How to make a trasnparent background in Motion

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I think you may be mis-interpreting what the blend mode does.
If you apply the screen blend mode to the fire clip in Motion without anything below it, and view transparent in the viewer, you'll notice that the blacks in the fire clip don't disappear. It's waiting to blend it's values with a clip below it. If no clip is below it, then nothing visual happens. If you place a colored solid below, then you'll see the effect of the blend mode.
FCP handles composite modes differently. If you do the same thing in FCP, the blacks WILL disappear from the fire clip even though there is nothing below it. Perhaps that is why they are called "composite" modes in FCP, and "blend" modes in Motion.
Finally, a Motion clip is like a QT clip. It can contain, video, audio, tc, and transparency info. A blend mode is not technically transparency information. Besides, in the example that you give me, the blend is between the fire and the text clip. Not between the motion project file and FCP clip in the timeline.
How ever the Motion project looks in Motion is how it'll look in FCP (with the exception of Motion Blur).

Display Synchronised System Clock With Milliseconds (HH:MM:SS:mm)

Hello All,
I need to display the system clock with hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds (the system clock it synchronised via NTP or GPS and needs to be accurate)
Using the Buddy API time functions I can display the time with an accuracy of seconds but the inbuilt lingo "the Milliseconds" and Ticks does not correspond to the system time.
for example I tried using
member("MyTimeStamp").text = baSystemTime("%0H"&":"&"%0M"&":"&"%0S"&":"&chars(""&the milliseconds, 6,7))
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Any Idea how I can derive milliseconds using the system time? HH:MM:SS:mm
thanks.

10-12 ms delay (error) is the correspondent of a 80-100 FPS (polling interval).
Theoretically speaking, to get 1ms delay (error) you need to run your script at 999 FPS (the max value allowed by D12).
Practically speaking, that's not possible (many other factors are involved here).
cheers

Frustrated with Motion's instability

I am pretty frustrated with Motion right about now. I understand it has some powerful capabilities (of which currently fulfill all my needs) and is in a relatively infantile state, however.... it is completely useless if it can't do what it should do because of poor performance and bugs. I am glad I'm not importing anything from Motion to FCP because judging from this board, that's a whole other pandora's box of eggshells.
I've read posts here of Motion crashing due to 10.4.3, Decklink desktop settings, ANY image filters, font issues, QT version issues, projects too big, etc... I started off pretty good, but as my project has grown during production, Motion has gotten shakier and shakier. Constant beach balls, random non-responsiveness, crashing with no rhyme or consistent cause... you name it. How can Apple call this a "Pro" app?! I read a post stating that Motion is not meant for anything larger than a few second effect or lower-third graphic... what the **** good is that?
I've tried removing my duplicate fonts, I don't have a decklink card, I deleted preferences, I repaired permissions, I installed (and reinstalled) updates, I changed export settings many times, I am even forced to disable image filters when I'll be working on that section because if that filtered image has to be drawn for the screen, Motion crashes. This is insane. I can't even tell you how many folks have written on here how Motion's problems seriously crimped their tight work deadlines. I'm in the same boat. And quite frankly, I'm very concerned that this project won't get built and rendered in time because of Motion's instability.
I'm beginning to wonder if I should have went with AE instead. This project isn't that hard. If Motion can't handle a 1 minute piece, with 2 short movie clips, and no audio... what can it handle?!
-J

Heya Justin,
Motion has its strengths and weaknesses, but as a motion graphics artist and/or compositor, you'll want to have a few tools in your arsenal. Motion, for example, plays fairly well with AE. You can open Motion projects as QT movies in AE and see automatic updates when you make changes to the projects (in Motion).
Combustion is a great tool, as Patrick pointed out. It has a somewhat long story behind it, but it is considered a direct competitor to AE. Among its strengths: a superior (to AE) 3D implementation, decent particles, awesome keyer, awesome tracker and more.
Nowadays, picking a tool means picking a community. AE has been around for more than a decade and has a userbase in the hundreds of thousands, so there are a lot of resources out there. It's also a bit long in the tooth, on the downward curve of its product lifecycle. Combustion has a much smaller community and Discreet has been slightly fickle about developing it. For a while, it was a major focus for the company, then it went into limbo, then it came back.
Regardless of all that, try familiarizing yourself with some of the other tools on the market. You really can only appreciate each one until you've tried another. And don't be discouraged: time and technology (things get more powerful and ever-cheaper) are on your side.
Good luck!

Macbook pro with motion

Hi!
My MacBook Pro 2.8ghz/4GB is very slow in Motion when I try to make a slow motion -effect with optical flow mode. It also seems that the result is as bad as just slowing the speed down in fcp.
Is my computer too slow to work with Motion/slow motion/optical flow??

It also seems that the result is as bad as just slowing the speed down in fcp. < </div>
You'll need to explain what you mean by "bad." Most similar posts exhibit a naivety of the poster, expecting Optical Flow to create dramatic super slow motion when the original footage is not appropriate to the task.
bogiesan

How Can I Driving the PXI Backplane Clock with a PXI-6608?

How Can I Driving the PXI Backplane Clock with a PXI-6608?
Is the PXI Backplane Clock the timebase of the PXI Trigger BUS?
How Can I use a PXI-6608 as the timebase of the PXI Trigger BUS?
Thanks!

Hi,
The 6608 must be in slot 2 of the chassis. Once you make a call to the DAQ driver, the OCXO on the 6608 will be routed to the PXI_Clk 10 line.
More information on the backplane and routing clock signals can be found in these Knowledge Bases:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/5EC370419A5ECA7A86256CFC0061C528?OpenDocument
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/D5B8D4D3B67DF1E086256BF8007BBF93?OpenDocument
I hope this helps. Have a Great Day!
George

Getting GMT time to make a world clock

I'm currently living in Greenland with most of my family in Denmark. There's a time difference of 4 hours, and I want to make a world clock on my web-page, showing the time in Greenland and the current time on the computer logged on. I use a script from Kurt Grigg from the JavaScript Kit-web page, but I can?t use the time.gethour() command, 'cause with this I only get the local time on the computer, not how it?s placed according to GMT. Do anyone know a work-around to this problem?

Have a look here:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=31&thread=443496

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