Motion opinions wanted please!

I'm using FCPX for home videos and the occasional experiment, and am wondering whether Motion is worth buying?
I still have Live Type from my FC Express days, and thought that was a great little programme for titles. Motion seems to do more.
Does anyone have an opinion on whether it's worth "upgrading" from Live Type..... I expect I'll mostly use it for titles, but that's because I'm not entirely sure what else it can do!
Cheers.

salty777 wrote:
… I'll mostly use it for titles, …
although allready sold/bought, an additional info:
'titles' is by far more than just some 'dancing letters' …
imagine the complex animations in any sportsTV - not only allows M5 to do this, its feature PUBLISH PARAMETERS allows you to 'modify' those titles without leaving FCPX:
so, you create your own templates - and in FCPX you enter, in my above example, player's name & data. the inserted video is automatically re-sized, rotated and positioned, but the published parameters allow to shift and zoom manually too .....
LiveType was nice … M5 is nicer!

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Help:
I need you to tell me what features your ideal source code editor (with some project management tools built in) would have. Tell me anything, however big, however infeasible, or however trivial.
Background:
I'm starting work this summer on a major project, set to last until the summer of 2004 (2 years), during the course of which I plan to develop an advanced text editor (with project management tools), written in Java, that will be built from the ground up differently from any other. It will be freeware on release.
Features:
The software will be able to handle HTML/XML/Java/Prolog/LISP/C/C#/Perl languages and plain text, and will support plug-ins for other languages.
In the course of developing it, I want to experiment with novel features, built-in project management tools, support for numerous programming languages, different ways of viewing, editing and presenting the project/code, and the application of the latest AI research.
I also want to build a 'concept' GUI (as in 'concept car), that will be rather unlike any other application around at the moment and will be designed from the start to follow all the latest theory on user psychology, behaviour and preferences.
I have dozens of ideas for this, which sadly I need to keep mostly under wraps for the time being. However, this project is intended to create from scratch an entirely new text editor using user-centred design, and I need to know what all you novice and experienced users want.
Timeline:-----------------------------------------------
Prototypes expected by Xmas 2002.
First beta likely to appear late Summer 2003.
Successive betas to be followed by release
candidates around about Xmas 2003.
Final release to appear early Spring 2004.
Update Summer 2004.
(All these releases will be freeware)
As you can tell from the schedule, this is a serious project, and I hope I can produce a piece of (initially) freeware that will benefit everyone...
Thanks for the help!
Martin Robbins
UW Aberystwyth (UK).

same as jgitnick's comments, but I also like the features where your objects are displayed in dropdowns along with properties and methods.
version control and history are essential as are color coding identifiers, comments, etc... The version history should be easily accessable--I've used several tools that had versioning control, but then didn't let you access the history--what was the point?
Ability to set tabs and tab characters replaced by spaces (spaces inserted instead of tabs) for each tab used--this lead to a 3am coding chrisis when I was in college because the tab character was not supported well as white space by a compiler we used for one semester.
scope designator matching {} ()
replaceable character sets (support for multiple human languages).

Output not what I want, please try and help, code supplied... :-)

Hello everyone, please help me if u can, Im desperate. Essentially wot Im tryin to do, is create a cd collection program, whereby details of the cd are entered (price, quantity, title and artist) and I would like to return statistical data on the cd collection, such as total number of cds, most expensive and cheapest cds etc. As you can I see I have used arrays to find out the cheapest cd and most expensive cd, it seems to compile k but Im not getting the results/output I want. Its displaying the price fine, but I also want the quantity, title and artist details to be outputted as well, like I do in the cd list using the cdDetails method. Ive tried many ways but still cant do it.
If anybody can help please do if you've got a minute, I will gladfully reward you with duke dollars.
Below is the latest edition of my code:
Thanks in advance,
Larry
import avi.*;
public class CDCollection
private String title = "Unknown";
private String artist = "Unknown";
private int quan = 0;
private double price = 0;
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title = cdTitle;
artist = cdArtist;
quan = cdQuan;
price = cdPrice;
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return this.price;
public static double findHighest(CDCollection[] cds)
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if (cds.getPrice() > highestSoFar)
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return highestSoFar;
public static double findLowest(CDCollection[] cds)
double lowestSoFar = 1000; // lower than any valid
for (int i = 0; i < cds.length; i++)
if (cds[i].getPrice() < lowestSoFar)
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return lowestSoFar;
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     screen.write("�"+price+"\t"+quan+"\t"+title+"\t"+artist+"\n");
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public static void main(String[] args)
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cds[0] = new CDCollection (10.99,11,"All Killer No Filler","Sum 41");
cds[0].cdDetails(screen);
cds[1] = new CDCollection (12.99,8,"The best of","Sting");
cds[1].cdDetails(screen);
cds[2] = new CDCollection (13.99,4,"Best of","Beegees");
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screen.write("\nThe most expensive cd is: �"+highest+"");
double lowest = CDCollection.findLowest(cds);
screen.write("\nThe cheapest cd is: �"+lowest+"");

The findLowest method should return the instance with the lowest
price, not [only] the lowest price. That way you would
have your information.
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        lowest = cds[0];
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}findHighest: same struggle.

Neo 2 865PE Setup Options-Opinions Wanted

Hi, I finally got my new PC set up and I have some setup questions I'd like to get some opinions on:
1) My Hard drive is an ATA133 from Maxtor. Is it better for me to use the IDE1 slot or the Promise IDE3 slot? If I use the IDE3 slot, I will be able to run all of my IDE using peripherals as masters and I wont have to slave anything.
2) Sound- Is the onboard sound better then a Creative Labs Soundblaster Live card?
3) Bios Settings....what are the best performance settings I should use considering the following hardware:
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I read in Toms Hardware in this article that I should be able to Overclock the BUS to 900 and perhaps 1000 with a setup like the one I have...the only major difference is that I got 512MB of RAM where in the article he uses 1000 MB of RAM.
http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030812/index.html
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There'll be no difference of ATA100 and ATA133, the speed is not easy or almost impossible to be detected on daily usage.
I'm pretty happy with my NEO2's onboard AC97' chip, it delivers good quality sound for average users like me, regardless in terms of gaming, musics or movies. Unless you want very high quality sound likewise DTS, THX or doing music ripping, then you may need a better sound card like Audigy 2.
Your setup is ok, but be very careful with your RAMs as the NEOs are not yet very stable at support RAMs of more than 400MHz in speed, during the setups, if you're encountering instabilities, I'll recommend you to lower your RAMs speed to 400MHz and lower all latencies and increase the RAMs Voltage to 2.7v, set AGP/PCI Freq to 67.01/33.50Mhz.
All the Best... :D!!!

I'm drowning in the sea of HD export presets. Salvation wanted please..

Hello,
I hope the forum proves again its functionality like it did before. Cause my head's getting a little bit blurry now, from all the presets.
So, the big issue is that I want to export a HD project to a format in which I dont get a wrongly cropped/stretched/laggy/wrong-frame-rate/... image. I know it's not that hard, but I just cannot figure it out anymore.
I checked other topics and discussions, and found some concerning more or less the same question but I didn't find the right answer, sorry.
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Is this the export format i should use? Will my image not crop, shock, stretch.. ?
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Sincerly but dazzled,
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That of course managed to bring up some problems. I posted a thread which i'll repost here . Sorry for the repost, i normally do not intend to do this, but since this thread is actually about the same thing, i'd like to ask the same question to you. The end version is in AfterEffects, but that actually doesn't alter the question. It's about export:
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To project the video I need to connect the beamer to a computer capable of playing a heavy HD file (1), OR burn the project to a BRD (2) and play it using a BRplayer.
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So, is there one dimension that can be changed without changing the content of the video, and if yes which one (either the interlacing or the fps).
I'm not very familiar with the whole Blu-ray thing, I hope that someone can help me out."
Please give it a look.
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Jef

Customer Care and some goodwill wanted please

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2. various other diverse factors too complex to explain.
At the time of the floods they were about 8 months into an 18 month BB contract. The 18 months is up in October.
I have been in touch with Billing twice (on their behalf) with a suggestion that the BB is "suspended" until they get back in, after which it will resume.
However, the operatives I have talked to have their standard procedures, and if we want to, we can claim our £xx per month BB costs off the insurance.
In the grand scheme of things, £xx is a very small amount, and making this extra claim seems petty, as it is.
However, it is irking that we are paying for a service and due to circumstances beyond our control, we are getting nothing for it. Obviously this is not BTs fault - they are providing the service, it's just that we are unable to take advantage of it.
They phoned yesterday and put the £25 BB disconnection process into action.
I'm now looking for someone at BT with a sense of compassion
It would be really nice if someone at BT has the power and could say, OK, we've checked the records and we can see they haven't logged in since 20 November 09 and what we'll do is give you an appropriate amount of time on Broadband without charge, just as a gesture of GOODWILL, seeing as how BT like to purport themselves as a "CARING" company, and how we would like you to continue with us when your extended usage period ends.
I hope I find such a BT person here on these BT Care forums.
Any further information you require, especially the customer concerned, please let me know and I will supply.
Thank you for reading.

Hi Flooded_Out,
As you said yourself these circumstances are really beyond BT's control. Its not really a matter of compassion or customer care but of practicality. Insurance exists for reasons such this.
BT use our Customer Guarantee Scheme to ensure that any credits applied to accounts are given out when required and the conditions are applied equally to all our customers. Whilst I sympathise with your parents position I wont be able to offer a refund.
Sorry about that. However, personally, if I was entitled to money under an insurance scheme, no matter how small the amount, I would certainly claim and would advise you do the same
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Text in Hebrew has gone really weird in Motion and FCP - please help!

Hi,
I have been working in a project for a long time, and produced hundreds of simple titles in Motion in Hebrew. The font I have used throughout is Arial Rounded MT Bold.
In the latest title I added one text object and made it Italic. Since then, all my Hebrew text in this title and now any previous title I open appears really weird (the vowles are disjoined from the consonants). I have turned off the Italics option on all the titles but it still does the same thing.
This occurs even in a brand new title, where I paste the Hebrew directly into a new text object.
I am desperate for someone to help me, as I have a tight deadline on this one. All previous titles I open appear the same, even though they were fine in the past. I have tried deleting the preference file.
I am using Motion 4 (FCS 3) on a iMac bought last year, quad core intel.
Please help!
Thanks

Thank you so much!
Arial did not work, but Arial Bold and Arial Hebrew did!
The font doesn't match what I was using before. I have no idea what it was using previously, but at least I can proceed from here. My previous projects have all been output to movie files so even if the motion files are now messed up, it's not the end of the world!
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Encore+DVD&go=Go
where you will find a lot of good stuff.
ALso, http://www.doogs-tutorials.com/encore%202.html has some material that might state it is for 2.0, but is equally valid in CS3.

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I wanted to get some opinions related to Adobe BC. In January I made the decision to start an online marketing company. last week I published my site and officially opened my doors. My focus is on PPC advertising, but I wanted to offer web design as well because the two are so closely related. My plan all along was that I was going to work exclusively with templates. I don't have the time, knowledge, skills, or experience to build custome websites. But I can turn a template into a workable site fairly quickly.
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That all sounds good, but the price is a little steep. First there is the $989 sign up fee for me (I'm broke). Then there is the $16 to $39 a month fee for my clients, which is on the neighborhood of four to six times higher than a regular hosting plan and Google Analytics is free.
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I have a totally clean system. Everyrthing has been reinstalled - Is Motion just the buggiest progam ever? Please help me if you can - My clients are hanging in the balance. Im exporting as an animation millions plus. Not using compressor. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Thanks for the info -
Is there any way around it?
Why is there that size restriction?
At this point - Im resolved to render pieces til they work properly and re-assemble them in FCP or Motion withouth the 2048 size problem and cut my losses. That will take far less time then fixing all of the graphics that exceed that size restriction. I love the ease of Motion - its just frustrating some of the bugginess Im getting from the program.
Anyway - let me know if you have any other helpful ways around this -
Thanks for helping me solve this - I'll have to find more creative ways or use 3D plugins to make things 'fly' at you in the future.

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This is due to the fact of image size and scroll setup with fill, Please check this post which includes a similar discussion :
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1362457
Additionally this will help you :
https://helpx.adobe.com/muse/how-to/muse-size-resolution-graphics.html
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Application scope objects(opinions wanted)

Hi All
Looking for educated opinions on the pros/cons of application scope objects. I am thinking about creating a read-only application scope hashmap representation of some static data in my database. When queried at the database level it can cause relatively long delays (3-4 seconds) and sometimes must be stored in many sessions on the server. I am thinking just one read-only object stored at app scope will cut down on the waste of memory, as well as skyrocket the speed of retrieving this data.
Please give me your opinions!!! I can tell you a little more about the app if you need more info to make an educated statement...
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You can use the Properties Object for static data that can be persisted on a filesystem. Also, I assume that you can hold quite a bit of data too. A file read should be faster than a database query. Also if you do the connect once and save the connection for several reads, that works too. The only real slow operation, outside of large resultsets, would be the initial connect.
I always design up two or three possible solutions and sometimes I protpotype each one. Sometimes one of the tests will prove to be the exact opposite choice of the one you thought would work.
Now that I have written your response, I think that you could create a custom class to hold data, but would that not just be a copy of the properties object. If it's key/value you need, that's the choice.
Stand back and ask, "What is the data type of the high level objects?"
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David Whitehurst
[email protected]

Experiences/opinions wanted - NW IDM vs. Novell and Microsoft ILM

Hi all,
We want to integrate our identity management between SAP, AD and Outlook and be able to provide users with appropriate access based on their role in the organization (and easily change access as that role changes).
We have short-listed NW IDM, Novell Identity Manager and MS ILM. I have researched/compared functionality, technical specs, cost, etc.
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I have to agreee with Peter, this is difficult ground.
I will give you a very broad answe, and like Peter, feel free to contact me outside.
You really need to look at what your environment is and what you mainly need to support. If you run everything through SAP, SAP IDM is a natural lock, especially if you use an LDAP as an authoritative source
I think that says most of it.
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What settings on my iPad and iPhone will help prevent motion sickness, other than "Reduce Motion" switched on, please?

Please advise whether there are any settings other than "Reduce Motion" under iOS 7 that could help prevent motion sickness on an iPad 3 and iPhone 4S. I've set "Reduce Motion" on but it hasn't helped, I still get motion sickness within a minute or two.
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Unfortunately right now that is the only setting you can control.
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