Making It Simple!
Geez, I thought iDVD was supposed to be a simple way to create a slideshow, etc. If this is a simple program, I'd hate to see a hard one!
Basic terms are not defined. Buttons, chapters, etc. - why do you need those? I pick a theme, and I see a bunch of animated stuff going across the screen. No explanations, no nuthin'. I've watched the getting started video about 10 times to no avail. I think this program assumes a basic knowledge of video editing before you ever get started.
I have a simple slideshow presentation. I'd like to add music to it. It's a travel DVD, so I'd like to add "chapters" - I think that's what you call the breaks in the presentation that allow for navigation. I'd also like to add pictures to the drop zones in theme, only I can't find the drop zones. Earlier, when I played with this theme, I saw drop zones and could add pictures. Now the drop zones seem to have disappeared.
I'm burning a copy of my first attempt with this program. It says it will take nearly 8 hours to complete. How is that possible? All I have are 255 different slides - no music, no chapters, buttons, etc. because I don't know how to do those yet.
Anyone here willing to help me get started?
Trust me, it is simple compared to FCP and DVDSP (Apple's Pro Apps). But I can sympathize with your frustration in trying to learn something entirely new compared to any former version of this same software. At times it does feel more like an entirely different application. But for the most part it does do the job of editing video well. The ten new themes alone are worth every dollar spent on this new software and are frankly outstanding. As is the option to use Pro encoding (even tho it does take twice as long), something new that simply wasn't available to us in any former version of i-Life.
Here's my suggestion. If you haven't already; download iMovie 6 FREE from apple's web site. It works perfectly with iDvd'08 and it will give you all the options you mentioned above and it is more user friendly IMO. It's the version many of us prefer to use on a daily basis.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
Good luck.
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package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
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import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var clockTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 60);
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public var stopBtn : GameButton;
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trace("timer");C:\Users\Claire\Desktop\CLOCK\secondHand.as, Line 8
1018: Duplicate class definition: secondHand.
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5000: The class 'GameButton' must subclass 'flash.display.MovieClip' since it is linked to a library symbol of that type.
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Need advice on making a simple Flash video file. Trying to accomplish two things.
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2. To allow the user to click on the video player and drag left/right to ff/rew.
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So far, I have already accomplished Goal 1. I made a new Actionscript 3 file, imported video (embed flv in swf and play in timeline), and then made the video loop on the timeline. This seems to export properly, and the video loops as needed. The only thing I can't figure out is how to make the video "interactive" and let the user drag left/right.
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Add a new layer and try adding this example script (or Download Source example here, saved to CS5):
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This is pretty simple. In the example source link above an object on the timeline (nice ugly red circle) moves right over 60 frames and then left over 60 frames (120 total). Consider that your movie.
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That should get your feet wet in how much you need to consider for your project. -
Making a simple calc applet. Where am I going wrong?
Hi everyone. I'm taking a introductory java class over the summer and so far I've been doing pretty good in it. I've been able to knock out and figure out how to do most of the assignments on my own. But this latest problem is driving me up a wall. I think I might be making it more difficult then it is. I'm supposed to a take a simple calculation program, and then convert it into an applet with new button functionality and text fields. In the applet, there will be two text fields(input and result) and two buttons(Update and Reset). In the first field you put in an operator and a number. Then from there you hit the Update button and the new value is put in the second field.
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import java.util.Scanner;
Simple line-oriented calculator program. The class
can also be used to create other calculator programs.
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try
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import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.util.*;
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Any help on this would be greatly appreciated becuase it is a major grade in my classHello,
I have been programming (in various languages) for years now. I also am in AP CS and I have been trying to think up a good game to make, i'm about 2 months ahead of my coursework in class and spend my time making and re-making various games during class.
If i were to program this game i would go about the Attack issue by having a class called Attack (as was mentioned early). In it have the methods and variables and such for the attack, i would have a database or something along those lines of all the attacks (but for now start small with a basic one) and then each player could have one (or multiple - depending on whether or not they have an assortment of attacks) class attached to it (or if multiple perhaps an array or vector of classes). The attack class would contain basic information like the Name of the Attack, the Damage, Type, etc. And the class could even include methods which get the 'Level' of the player and calculate the damage multiplier or something along those lines.
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I am really disappointed with iTunes 11. Stop making things SIMPLER!!!
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You can't open more than one playlist.
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Music files / itunes conversion - making it simple!
Hello
I am looking for some general and probably simple help with the file formats of my music.
I have a vast amount of music which is stored on my computer hard drive, some of which is stored in m4p format and some in wma and some in mp3? Some of my music files are stored twice and some are in different formats. When i convert my music to itunes i find that most of the music converts 3, 4 and sometimes 5 times? I dont understand this!
I really want to have a simple system for storing and converting music. If my music is to be stored on my hard drive i just want each music file stored once and in the same file format so when i search my music it is easy to find the artist i want. With itunes i just want the music to convert once. This all may seem very simple to someone but to me i feel like i have a complicated system and i just want to tidy it up and make it easy to manage. Can anybody help! Thank you.I really do not understand what all the different formats are so even trying to talk about this is difficult but i will try. I have all my music stored on my hard drive but it seems to be in different places. When i click on my music i have a number of artists listed with their music. I then have a folder in this section called itunes which has also got a big list of artists in it which seems strange. So i have one big music folder with all the music in plus an itunes folder with a lot of the music in also. Do i need to just copy all of the music to the itunes folder on my hard drive?
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Ideally, i would like one copy of each music file in my hard drive plus when i copy to itunes it just copies once. Also when i take this music to a seperate computer i want it to copy into the itunes library once.
If you require further info then no problem
I appreciate your time and help
Thank you. -
Need help making a simple script for my webcam
Hey everyone, fairly new to applescript programming. I just bought a usb camera for my macbook because I use it for video conferencing/playing around, and it is better quality than the built in isight. However, in order to use this camera I need to use drivers from a program called camTwist. This being said camTwist needs to be opened first and the usb camera must be selected from camTwist Step 1 list in order for any other application to use the camera. I just want to make a simple program that would open camTwist first, then select "webcam" from the list (double click it like I always have to in order to select it) in order to activate the driver, and then open photo booth which would then be using the camTwist driver in order to take pictures.
I made a crude program but it does not automatically select "webcam" from the Step 1 list in camTwist:
tell application "CamTwist" to activate
delay 10
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that’s basically it. I set the delay to 10 seconds so that when camTwists boots up first I can manually select my webcam. HOWEVER, I would like to make a script that would boot up CamTwist first, select my webcam from the list automatically, and then open Photo Booth with the CamTwist webcam driver already selected.
Don't know much about applescript so any help to make a working script to solve my problem would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!Solved my problem but now I need help with something else! First I used CamTwist user options to create user defined hot keys with the specific purpose to load the webcam. I chose Command+B. I tested it out in CamTwist and it worked. The program follows a logical order from there. First it loads CamTwist, then after a short delay it presses the hot keys in order to load the webcam from the video source list, then another short delay and Photo Booth is opened with the driver loaded from camTwist. Everything works Perfect! Here's the code:
tell application "System Events"
tell application "CamTwist" to activate
delay 0.5
--Press command+b which is a user defined hot key to load webcam
key code 11 using command down
end tell
delay 0.5
tell application "Photo Booth" to activate
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Can anyone help get me started on making a simple custom web gallery template?
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Full size images in a specific folder
Thumbnails or each full size image in another specific folder
Simple HTML code for each image which allows for image title and description information
The script takes care of the rest. So what I want to do is have Lightroom genereate the images in their specific folders, and the HTML code on the fly for each gallery I wish to publish to my website. I'm posotive this can be done, but I'm having trouble customizing the code. I've tried looking for tutorials and help, but the documentation on this is limited, and I'm not a programmer. I do however have enough experience with basic web design to be able to work with existing templates with relative ease but this is seemingly difficult as I'm not sure what each file in the plugin structure is actually doing. Any suggestions on how I can make a simple gallery output like this? Or a link for a good, solid, easy, step-by-step tutorial?
Many thanks in advance!
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I have a Samsung Convoy flip phone. I am trying to transfer my pictures of my dog and nephews to Verizon online so I can show them off on Facebook to friends.
You don't need the intermediate step of uploading to Verizon; you can upload directly to Facebook from your phone. You need to go to your Facebook account, and set up your mobile number; then you will get a personalized email address and you can send a text message with the picture and any caption you want to that email address and it will show up as a mobile upload on your timeline.
You *used* to be able to text a status update or a pic to 32665 (FBOOK) but that didn't always work. -
Making a simple gallery - issues with frames
Hi there,
Please help!
I'm at the end of my tether with this one.
I am a beginner with Dreamweaver and maybe I'm running before I can walk, but I thought what I am trying to make would be fairly simple. Haha!
I want to make a basic gallery, ie. you click the arrows or the thumbnail buttons and the next image appears within the page but DOESN'T reload to a whole separate page.
I managed to do this using a frameset and thumbnails - the images loaded in the main frame fine - BUT there are 2 issues with this:
1. The link to the homepage I added in the corner loads WITHIN the frameset, and so the homepage is cut off and the thumbnails are still there. I want the link to take the user OUT of the frameset and straight to the homepage (a totally different format, with no frames used) I can't find a way to put this homepage link anywhere outside of the frameset.
2. I cant centre the frameset, or have much control over the layout like I do with tables.
Could this problem be solved using tables? Or any way to solve this simply?
Thanks.
PS. I don't have fireworks, and I don't want to use a downloadable gallery as I want control over how it works/looks, also I dont think it would solve issues 1 and 2 anyway.kcoulton30 wrote:
Thanks.
PS. I don't have fireworks, and I don't want to use a downloadable gallery as I want control over how it works/looks, also I dont think it would solve issues 1 and 2 anyway.
I don't understand this comment at all. If you use a downloadable gallery you just edit the skin as you would any other HTML document and make it look like the rest of your site. And usually support communities for those products are fairly helpful for skinning. Learning to code something like this with frames for a first project is a little ambitious but it is heading in a direction that I know you are not looking to go. I have a feeling you like the interactive galleries that pop up and switch from image to image while staying on the same page.
To answer your questions:
1. You need to define the target frame with frames. By default links open within the window they are currently in. See this example: http://webdesign.about.com/od/frames/f/bl_faq4-2.htm
2. Framesets cannot be centered on a page. They are part of the overall page layout and cannot be positioned. If you need to position a frame on a particular part of a page you will need to use iframes: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp -
Problems making a simple chart
Im sure this is quite simple but im trying to produce a simple chart with an x and y value. The x and y's are columbs from a table.
I have 2 problems:
Firstly it makes a chart with 2 lines, 1 of which is just along the x axis.
2 the x axis isnt proportional. The x values are 0.0016, 0.0004, 0.0002, 0.0001 they will be spaced the same distance apart so producing a curved line instead of a straigh line that it should.
Any help would be really good
Thank you everyone
StuartStuart,
I'm glad that my answer was helpful. Sorry I didn't have time to elaborate at the time.
Scatter is for plotting values vs. values. All the other chart types plot a value vs. a text label. New in iWork 09, you can connect the points in a scatter chart, and you can add a best fit curve. In an 09 Scatter chart you can have multiple series, as with 08, and also as with 08, you can have only one Y-Axis. Unfortunately the 2-Axis chart option is a Category Chart.
Regards,
Jerry -
WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS VERSION WHICH IS MAKING A SIMPLE TASK SO IMPOSSIBLE??
Frankly quicktime 7 vs newest is making all movie work and viewing a nightmare. I have installed and reinstalled QT 4 times and the codecs etc which I have spent a lot of $$ on. Still having problems with FLV and more. IF ANYONE has any idea what to do or what not to do please PLEASE advise. I am using QT Pro the latest version and by the way - all was 10000000 percent until this *T&^ version appeared.
Thanks!
sandz
macbook dual core Mac OS X (10.4.9)
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)thanks for that rather tongue in cheek reply!!
I do have perian up and running (for a while now and I do export to MPEG.
With QT pro this is not a problem until the latest verion especially when creating streaming vids and publishing.
I will avoid all logs!
thank you! -
How might i go about making these "simple" adjustments?
Hi Folks
I am a bit of a photoshop novice, but have been sent a document with details of requested changes. I realise to many the changes may seem somewhat basic and straightforward but i was just wondering if you could perhaps point me (amateur) in the right direction so i would know what i would need in order to go about making these adjustments.
Any advice or tips are much appreciated. Please find link enclosed
Warmest regards
http://i47.tinypic.com/33vopz6.jpg
P.S I'm using CS5 extended, forgot to mention.In what file format was the illustration originally provided?
Was it CMYK or RGB?
Moving the cherry could be done with lifting the part onto a Layer of its own and applying a Layer Mask.
The recoloring can be done with Adjustment Layers, but those would probably need fairly good Masks.
Edit: But if the illustration was vector it would seem advisable to edit it in Illustrator.
Could you please post the unedited image? -
Loading External SWF Files: Making Things Simple... Still need help here =)
Hello everyone! First of all, sorry for my english... I'm Brazilian and english is not my first language.
This is my first post meant to be my first post and I'm learning AS3. Didn't know about this forum but now I hope to have the time to visit it a lot to help and be helped! =)
Well, I'm trying to import some external files to my main flash file with buttons. Yes, this is a newbie question, but I'm learning... I click button 1 and content 1 is loaded, click button 2 and content 2 is loaded, and so on. So, I got two ways for doing it:
edit: The code below is working fine now...
montreal.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, loadCity);
dublin.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, loadCity);
sydney.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, loadCity);
var box:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(box);
box.x=20;
box.y=20;
function loadCity (event:MouseEvent):void {
var currentCity = event.target.name;
// remove all the children of the box
while (box.numChildren > 0) {box.removeChildAt(0);}
var swfRequest:URLRequest=new URLRequest(currentCity+".swf");
var swfLoader:Loader = new Loader();
swfLoader.load(swfRequest);
box.addChild(swfLoader);}
The problem with this first option is that whenever I click a button, it don't renew the content of the "box"... instead, the content loaded is stacked over the last one and I don't know how to clean it... The user Andrei did the trick with the "while statement" so the above code is working but I don't know how to use tween with it...
So here comes the second option:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
montreal.buttonMode=true;
dublin.buttonMode=true;
sydney.buttonMode=true;
rio.buttonMode=true;
paris.buttonMode=true;
london.buttonMode=true;
home.buttonMode=true;
var box:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(box);
box.x=20;
box.y=20;
var cityLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("montreal.swf"); //I use this to show a city when the site is opened
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
box.addChild(cityLoader);
**Here I add the listeners to button, each one calling its own function like:
montreal.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadMontreal);
function cityTweens():void {
var cityIn:Tween = new Tween(box, "y", Strong.easeOut, -350, 20, 1, true);}
function loadMontreal(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("montreal.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
function loadDublin(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("dublin.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
function loadSydney(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("sydney.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
function loadRio(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("rio.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
function loadParis(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("paris.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
function loadLondon(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("london.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
function loadHome(event:MouseEvent):void {
var cityURL:URLRequest=new URLRequest("home.swf");
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
cityTweens();}
Well, the second option "is" working but I have some problems with the Tween... I have to wait the tween to finish before clicking another button or the tween will bug... I don't know how to disable the buttons until the tween is finished =/
Now, I used to have one tween for each function but now I got it inside a function and just call it inside each function. Simple for you but I was like WOW when I had the idea and put it to practice! But I'm still repeating a lot of codes here with the "cityLoader.load(cityURL);" but when I try to put it inside the function "cityTweens" it will just open the Montreal City, maybe because I'm calling it as soon as the site opens...
I'm almost sure I can make things simple, like mixing the idea of the first code (currentCity+".swf") so I don't need to call a function for each button. I just don't know how to do it...
Could anyone help me? I'll also be VERY happy if you point me to any tip like good practices that I'm not following.
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: newToAS3As I said in your previous post, removing the child would not do the trick. Technically, you need to remove it after the tween is finished.
In any case there are several issues with how you approach the whole thing. First of all, if you target your application to be on Internet - swf loading will not happen instantly - thus you, perhaps, need to consider waiting for swfs to be loaded before you doing anything with them. But if you just do it on local machine - you don't really need for them to show up. On the other hand, even with local environment it makes sense to take into account asynchronous/unpredicatable nature of external file loading.
Also, your code can be more comact and the same functionality delegated to a single function. The code below demonstrates one of the ways. This is not the bes way though because it forces to load objects again although they were loaded already. But this is another story. I did not check code in action, of course (this is just an idea) - it is up to your to work out bugs:
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.events.Event;
montreal.buttonMode = true;
dublin.buttonMode = true;
sydney.buttonMode = true;
rio.buttonMode = true;
paris.buttonMode = true;
london.buttonMode = true;
home.buttonMode = true;
var box:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
addChild(box);
box.x=20;
box.y=20;
var cityLoader:Loader = new Loader();
// this line will allow to wait untill content is loaded
cityLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoadComplete);
var cityURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("montreal.swf"); //I use this to show a city when the site is opened
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
// don't need the following line
// box.addChild(cityLoader);
// make it a single listener
montreal.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
dublin.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
sydney.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
rio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
paris.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
london.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
home.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadSWF);
// the single function handles all the loading
function loadSWF(e:MouseEvent):void {
switch(e.currentTarget) {
case montreal:
cityURL = new URLRequest("montreal.swf");
break;
case dublin:
cityURL = new URLRequest("dublin.swf");
break;
case sydney:
cityURL = new URLRequest("sydney.swf");
break;
case rio:
cityURL = new URLRequest("rio.swf");
break;
case paris:
cityURL = new URLRequest("paris.swf");
break;
case london:
cityURL = new URLRequest("london.swf");
break;
case home:
cityURL = new URLRequest("home.swf");
break;
cityLoader.load(cityURL);
function onLoadComplete(e:Event):void {
loadedContent = e.target.content;
// assuming that previous content will be moved out -
// place new content behind previous one
box.addChildAt(e.target.content, 0);
// now you can start tweening
// if there are more than one child
if (box.numChildren > 1) {
cityTweens();
function cityTweens():void {
// tween the topmost object
var cityIn:Tween = new Tween(box.getChildAt(box.numChildren - 1), "y", Strong.easeOut, -350, 20, 1, true);
// wait until motion finished
cityIn.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, tweenFinished);
function tweenFinished(e:TweenEvent):void {
// make Tween instance eligible for arbage collection
e.target.removeEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, tweenFinished);
// now you can remove tweened object from the box
box.removeChild(e.target.obj);
e.target.obj = null;
Edited some code. -
HELP MAKING VERY SIMPLE ANIMATION - Adobe Flash CS5
- First off, apologies for the simplicity of the task I need to carry out- cannot seem to find any tutorials on this. (All aimed at After Effects)
- I am hoping to make two simple animations;
1. Animate the word "water" so it appears to be moving like water itself.
2. Animate the word "sand" so it appears to crumble into sand itself.
Appreciate any help, very new to Flash - still no luck after Lynda and other tutorials.Not exactly the answer to your question but found a tutorial page that could help you.
Text Effects with Flash Professional 8 « Wonder How To
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