Need help with flying saucer special effect

Hi--I want to create an effect in iMovie 9 of a flying saucer flying through the sky and then landing in a large open field, much like the scene in the 1951 version of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
Does anyone have ideas or tips how to do this? Thanks.

2y ago (OMG! it's three years ago!!), I made a StarWars fanproject with my lil son (the old beta version of the website still alive here) ...
all the droids and spaceships were created in some very cheap animation app, which allowed a socalled alpha-chanel - the background was 'transparent') - in FinalCutExpress you add a 2nd layer - compositing done.
in iM08 you could follow my advice for overlaying stills http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08_logobug
in iM09, you can 'abuse' the greenscreen effect for compositing... film UFO model moving before a green background and take a foto of your background scenery.
or, build a model of your UFO and use fishing line for 'animation' while recording scenery - the line will be invisible...-

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1. Describe the Performance area that you are measuring? What is the
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web application startup. It is currently taking 10-12 seconds when
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specified? Are you running with any special patches? Please Specify.
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temporary data since going to the relational database for each change
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expected? Are you doing partial node updates (via XmlModify) or
replacing the document?
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an automatic save every two minutes. The final save from the application
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before the users enter/modify data in the web application. This is a pilot
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query (and query plan) that demonstrates the problem.
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transactions flags you specify with any API calls.
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22. If your application is transactional, are your log files stored on
the same disk as your containers/databases?
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where the performance is currently insufficient.
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after your application has been running under "normal" load for some
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environment. If your application has a private environment, please
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you can obtain these measurements. If removing the DB_PRIVATE flag
is not possible, let us know and we can discuss alternatives with
you.)
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during the time you are measuring the application's performance.
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good choices.
Will give this information soon.
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login and then review the items one by one. The relational database
holds the data in xml. During application load, the application
retrieves the xml and then saves it to bdb. While the user
is making changes to the data in the application, it writes those
changes to bdb. Finally when the user hits the SAVE button, the data
gets saved to the relational database. We also have an automatic save
every two minues, which saves bdb xml data and saves it to relational
database.
Thanks,
Madhav
[email protected]

Could it be that you simply do not have set up indexes to support your query? If so, you could do some basic testing using the dbxml shell:
milu@colinux:~/xpg > dbxml -h ~/dbenv
Joined existing environment
dbxml> setverbose 7 2
dbxml> open tv.dbxml
dbxml> listIndexes
dbxml> query     { collection()[//@date-tip]/*[@chID = ('ard','zdf')] (: example :) }
dbxml> queryplan { collection()[//@date-tip]/*[@chID = ('ard','zdf')] (: example :) }Verbosity will make the engine display some (rather cryptic) information on index usage. I can't remember where the output is explained; my feeling is that "V(...)" means the index is being used (which is good), but that observation may not be accurate. Note that some details in the setVerbose command could differ, as I'm using 2.4.16 while you're using 2.4.13.
Also, take a look at the query plan. You can post it here and some people will be able to diagnose it.
Michael Ludwig

Need help with a simple process with FTP Adapter and File Adapter

I am trying out a simple BPEL process that gets a file in opaque mode from a FTP server using a FTP adapter and writes it to the local file system using a File Adapter. However, the file written is always empty (zero bytes). I then tried out the FTPDebatching sample using the same FTP server JNDI name and this work fine surprisingly. I also verified by looking at the FTP server logs that my process actually does hit the FTP server and seems to list the files based on the filtering condition - but it does not issue any GET or RETR commands to actually get the files. I am suspecting that the problem could be in the Receive, Assign or Invoke activities, but I am not able identify what it is.
I can provide additional info such as the contents of my bpel and wsdl files if needed.
Would appreciate if someone can help me with this at the earliest.
Thanks
Jay

persiandude wrote:
Topic: Need help with if, else, and which statements and loops.
How would I display 60 < temp. <= 85 in java
System.out.println("60 < temp. <= 85 in java");
another question is how do I ask a question like want to try again (y/n) after a output and asking that everytime I type in yes after a output and terminate when saying No.Sun's [basic Java tutorial|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/]
Sun's [New To Java Center|http://java.sun.com/learning/new2java/index.html].Includes an overview of what Java is, instructions for setting up Java, an intro to programming (that includes links to the above tutorial or to parts of it), quizzes, a list of resources, and info on certification and courses.
[http://javaalmanac.com|http://javaalmanac.com]. A couple dozen code examples that supplement [The Java Developers Almanac|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201752808?v=glance].
jGuru. A general Java resource site. Includes FAQs, forums, courses, more.
JavaRanch. To quote the tagline on their homepage: "a friendly place for Java greenhorns." FAQs, forums (moderated, I believe), sample code, all kinds of goodies for newbies. From what I've heard, they live up to the "friendly" claim.
Bruce Eckel's [Thinking in Java|http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites] (Available online.)
Joshua Bloch's [Effective Java|http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214349768&sr=8-1]
Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra's [Head First Java|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596004656?v=glance].
James Gosling's [The Java Programming Language|http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0321349806].

Need help with a Spreadsheet style app

I was just wanting some help in working with developing an app for my iphone... i had previous experience in microsoft visual basic but i don't quite understand this code....
I am in flight school and trying to develop an app that reflects the weight an balance forms we do... I am stuck on how to do basic multiplication and division with xcode, i have viewed several videos and tutorials but they each do things differently and i can't seem to bring it together into this app.
So in the picture below.... what i need help with is how to do the following
from
aircraft weight * arm = Moment outbound
front seats * arm = Moment outbound
to fuel @ landing
"0" fuel weight = aircraft weight + front seats + rear seats+ Baggage 1 + baggage 2
If anyone has any ideas or can lend me some tip or places that deal with stuff like this that would be great

A character class [...] robs some otherwise special codes from their magic. The +, for instance, is interpreted as a plus, not as "repeat ad nauseum" anymore.
So your try [\d+] will simply match either a single digit or a single plus. The solution is to move the + outside of the character class
[\d]+
.. and in that case there is no reason anymore to create a class for just digits, as you got it already.
The period *needs* to be escaped, because otherwise it will match *any* character.
Try this for a change:
\d+\.\d+

Need help with Page Layout and Background Scaling

hello, everyone.
I am in the process of designing a new website for myself,
and while I was researching nicely designed pages to use as
inspiration, I stumbled upon this site:
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/
obviously, the design is very impressive, but it also
incorporates a lot of web mechanics that I have been trying to
figure out, so I will use this page as an example.
one thing I need help with is backgrounds. as you can see in
the posted website, the creator used a seamlessly tiled paper
texture to display the bulk of his content on. also make not of the
pattern that is located to the left of the paper texture. how do I
create seamless backgrounds like this that will scale to fit any
amount of content or any resolution? I can't imagine that the guy
that made that site created a new size background every time he
made an update, so there has to be an easier way.
the second thing that I am having trouble with is general
site layout. I have read that most sites used series of invisible
tables to organize there content, but when I open the source of
this page in dreamweaver, he was using something different. div
tags? should I be using these? who do I use them? are there any
general layout tips that someone could pass on to me? perhaps a
link to a good tutorial?
please help me. i am very confused.
thanks so much.

IMO not a good site to emulate. To wit:
Top background image:
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/images/bg-top.jpg;
745px
x 350px 137K
Main background image:
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/images/bg-tile.jpg;
745px x 950px 130K
Total page size: 454K (Check here:
www.websiteoptimization.com)
Website usability experts routinely recommend a maximum page
size of ~80K
Check out the We We Scale @ www.FutureNowInc.com/wewe/ where
they suggest,
"You speak about yourself approximately 0,003 times as often
as you speak
about your customers. Might that have an impact on your
effectiveness?"
That is 100% consistent with the #1 Web Design mistake:
"Believing people
care about you and your web site." or to phrase more
expansively, "Our site
tries to tell you how wonderful we are as a company, but not
how we're going
to solve your problems."
www.sitepoint.com has some excellent books on making a
website actually
attractive and usable at the same time.
Walt
"beWILLdered_" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> hello, everyone.
> I am in the process of designing a new website for
myself, and while I was
> researching nicely designed pages to use as inspiration,
I stumbled upon
> this
> site:
>
http://www.jeffsarmiento.com/
> obviously, the design is very impressive, but it also
incorporates a lot
> of
> web mechanics that I have been trying to figure out, so
I will use this
> page as
> an example.
> one thing I need help with is backgrounds. as you can
see in the posted
> website, the creator used a seamlessly tiled paper
texture to display the
> bulk
> of his content on. also make not of the pattern that is
located to the
> left of
> the paper texture. how do I create seamless backgrounds
like this that
> will
> scale to fit any amount of content or any resolution? I
can't imagine that
> the
> guy that made that site created a new size background
every time he made
> an
> update, so there has to be an easier way.
> the second thing that I am having trouble with is
general site layout. I
> have
> read that most sites used series of invisible tables to
organize there
> content,
> but when I open the source of this page in dreamweaver,
he was using
> something
> different. div tags? should I be using these? who do I
use them? are there
> any
> general layout tips that someone could pass on to me?
perhaps a link to a
> good
> tutorial?
> please help me. i am very confused.
>
> thanks so much.
>

NEED HELP with ut2004 patch mu

HEY,
GREAT PRODUCT..BUT I GOT ONE QUESTION.
I RECENTLY INSTALLED THE NEW SOUNDBLASTEER X-FI UT2004 PATCH..WOW ITS AMAZING BUT WHEN EVERYTHING IS INPUTED WITH THE SOUND OPTIONS IN THE GAME.. THE "H/W 3D + EAX"... THE MUSIC DOESNT PLAY BUT WHEN I CHOOSE H/W + audio.. THE MUSIC PLAYS REGULAR BUT THE NEW WEAPON SOUNDS AND MUSIC ENHANCEMENT ISNT THERE.. PLEASE HELP ME TO GET THE MUSIC RUNNING IN THIS NEW PATCH, THE WEAPONS R AMAZING.. I JUST NEED HELP WITH THE MUSIC PLAYING.
thanks,
DANNY

Have you actually read what the patch does? If not, check it out here. http://www.soundblaster.com/products/x-fi/technology/ut2004/ What you are hearing is probably it. The weapon sounds itself don't change. It just sounds more immersi've in that you can hear the rockets flying from one side to another more clearly, or hearing flak scattering when it hits the ground, etc.. It's nothing significant, but it does make it a bit more interesting to play.

I need help with the Quote applet.

Hey all,
I need help with the Quote applet. I downloaded it and encoded it in the following html code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Part 2</title>
</head>
<body>
<applet      codebase="/demo/quote/classes" code="/demo/quote/JavaQuote.class"
width="300" height="125" >
<param      name="bgcolor"      value="ffffff">
<param      name="bheight"      value="10">
<param      name="bwidth"      value="10">
<param      name="delay"      value="1000">
<param      name="fontname"      value="TimesRoman">
<param      name="fontsize"      value="14">
<param      name="link"      value="http://java.sun.com/events/jibe/index.html">
<param      name="number"      value="3">
<param      name="quote0"      value="Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.|- Pierre Elliot Trudeau|000000|ffffff|7">
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<param      name="quote2"      value="The ubiquity of the Internet is virtually wasted without a platform which allows applications to utilize the reach of Internet to write ubiquitous applications! That's where Java comes into the picture for us.|- NetAccent|000000|ffffff|7">
<param      name="space"      value="20">
</applet>
</body>
</html>When I previewed it in Netscape Navigator, a box with a red X appeared, and this appeared in the console when I opened it:
load: class /demo/quote/JavaQuote.class not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: .demo.quote.JavaQuote.class
     at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \demo\quote\JavaQuote\class.class (The system cannot find the path specified)
     at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
     at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
     at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     ... 10 more
Exception in thread "Thread-4" java.lang.NullPointerException
     at sun.plugin.util.GrayBoxPainter.showLoadingError(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.showAppletException(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at sun.plugin.util.GrayBoxPainter.showLoadingError(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.showAppletStatus(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)What went wrong? and how can I make it run correct?
Thanks,
Nathan Pinno

JavaQuote.class is not where your HTML says it is. That is at the relative URL "/demo/quote/".

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