Motion or Twixtor for Speed ramping & Retiming?

Can anyone tell me if Apple Motion can create "the same" speed ramping & retiming effects that Twixtor does?
Yeah, I'm new!
Any help is appreciated.

Yes, it has optical-flow retiming - it can analyze footage based on motion vectors. But it works pretty straightforward, Twixtor has a lot more options to control the effect, like using massk to track specific motion. So basically the technology is the same, but options are very limited.

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http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3023
Message Edited by Jordan F on 02-06-2009 04:35 PM
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I am trying to master infographics and basic animations like these:
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I've got a very simple function that i need
use to order the result of a SELECT.
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the SELECT), and the other does not
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BEGIN
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ferran Foz ([email protected]):
I've got a very simple function that i need
use to order the result of a SELECT.
I takes two parameters. One is the current code (that keeps changing with the values of
the SELECT), and the other does not
change.
I'm using Oracle 8.1.5 under Linux and i'd
like to optimize this for speed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot!
FUNCTION OrdenarNomenclator2 (CurrentCode in varchar2, CodeToFind in varchar2) return number IS
BEGIN
IF CurrentCode LIKE CodeToFind| |'%' then
IF CurrentCode = CodeToFind then
return 20;
ELSE
return 10;
END IF;
ELSE
return 0;
END IF;
END; <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi,
you are right. In the example it was just a Problem with the output.
Now here is one little part of the project which brings the runtime error allone, which brings the runtime error (just if the optimize option ist activated).
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bye & thanks
amin
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Is there any way to copy and paste variable speed ramp curves from one shot to another.
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