New Tutorial: Transitions & Media Handles

Since starting video work last April I have noticed the large number of people who have considerable difficulty understanding how Transitions and Media Handles work, and who have become frustrated when the transition has no effect - about one post every ten days I reckon. Therefore, I have put up an explanation and tutorial at:
http://www.today.plus.com/fce
to add to the help already available.
G5/2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 GB RAM, 150 GB HD, Sony DCR-HC96 mini DV, FCE HD 3.0 DVD SP 3

Here's MY favorite explanation:
It's late on a dark and stormy night and you've been driving down a lonely road. You're stopped by the local police on a flimsy pretext. They ask if you've been drinking. You say no.
They ask you to get out of the car, walk a straight line, which you do; but you wobble a bit because you've been sitting in the car for hours.
So they ask you to close your eyes, put your arms straight out in front of you and touch your fingertips together. If you get it exactly right, you cannot dissolve. If you blow it and your fingers overlap one or two joints, that's the possible length of your transition.
Hoping this real-world example helps you on your next traffic stop, I am your
Uncle Grump

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Announcement: New Tutorial On Using Premiere Pro And x264 With Encore

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Mods: if you consider this an unacceptable duplicate topic, please delete this one rather than the one in the Encore forum. Thanks.
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Since the process starts with PP, I think it's fine here.

[svn:osmf:] 10556: Changed location of regions sprite to new package for media player project .

Revision: 10556
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-23 16:49:37 -0700 (Wed, 23 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
Changed location of regions sprite to new package for media player project.
Modified Paths:
    osmf/trunk/apps/samples/framework/MediaPlayer/src/com/adobe/strobe/players/MediaPlayerWra pper.as

PS: For the avoidance of doubt;
var ur:URLResource = new URLResource("URL_TO_MEDIA_PACKAGED_IN_PROJECT_TO_ELIMINATE_CONCERNS_OF_WRONG_URL");
Should be:
var ur:URLResource = new URLResource(URL_TO_MEDIA_PACKAGED_IN_PROJECT_TO_ELIMINATE_CONCERNS_OF_WRONG_URL);
But it still doesn't work!

I'm looking for a new small, efficient media player.

Hi there.
The background that will give you insight into my situation but doesn't need to be read
I come from a very cushioned past media-wise. When I really started to get into listening to music I was still using Windows. It was Winamp first, which I liked but found a little much, but a few coincidences later found XMPlay, a free but closed-source media player capable of playing not only some weird file formats such as MO3, MOD, IT, XM, S3M etc, of which I have a few files in this format, but also MP3, OGG, WAV, and all the other general stuff out there. The timing was just perfect and I "grew" into my "media years" with this player. I used it across my transition from Win98 to XP, and also used it on a Win95 laptop - and I don't even think I had to "help" the system "like" the player to make it work, although I could be wrong.
However, XMPlay has no Linux version, and as far as I can see, no porting is planned. And as I said before, it's closed source, so not much can be done there.
In my setup I had a machine set aside for media playback because it had a SB16 in it, and I'd run it with the bass set to 100% and treble set to 0%. Despite what you might think, the output was awesome with headphones - it could give me a good headache or two without distorting at all.
So, when I first switched to Linux, I didn't initially switch this machine over, but left it running Win98. This got to me in the end so I switched it over... and immediately faced issues. Since there was no port of XMPlay, I needed to find a new player, and fast. XMPlay has a bunch of audio postprocessing features I had enabled, none of which I found support or equivalents for in Linux (for example, an EQ setting promoting bassboost, in addition to that provided by the card - you can understand the headaches). I eventually gave up and ran XMPlay using WINE... and left it that way, for several months. I mean, it worked, didn't it? Then the fact that XMPlay over WINE on a 450MHz processor (it's a P3, haha) used 50%+ CPU -minimum- for the player to even be running (IIRC) got to me, so I decided once again that a new player had to be found. After some digging, I found XMMS to be the most likely candidate (it supports LADSPA and I could configure a bass-boost filter), and for the most part, it worked well. Quite well.
Then... after I recently found myself recording some audio from the SB16's output to my main machine's input (the simplest way to get around the issue that the bass boost isn't very easy to feed back into the card - or impossible, I haven't tried it for so long), and had my headphones connected to my desktop to monitor the recording. Then, after that was done, I somehow started listening to some other piece of music (through my main box), for whatever reason. I immediately noticed a rather stark contrast in quality to what I'd recorded from the SB16 and what I was listening to. A doublecheck later confirmed that yes, my SB16 was of terrible quality, and yes, I needed a solution, since I wasn't gonna listen to that kinda sound quality anymore now that I knew.
Over the past few weeks (months?) up until this point I've slowly been weaning myself off the music I liked so much (XMs and MODs, and maybe the occasional S3M), and the postprocessing features I thought had glued themselves into my ears....
The, uh, like, point.
....so I need a media player that doesn't have much in terms of sound processing, but meets all the following requirements, either built in or as a plugin (as logically applicable):
* Can hide completely, leaving only a hotkey to bring it back. I don't use a system tray and don't want to, for any purpose.
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* Has configurable global hotkey support
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* Controls the hardware volume so that volume changes are instant
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* Has good file management / playlist support
* Is something I can throw a gigantic directory tree at and expect to load all the music in it, FAST. I could throw my entire 32GB HDD at XMPlay when I wanted to see/remember what new music was on it and I'd just leave it alone for slightly under 5 minutes. When I returned to it, bam, playlist. That was on the 450MHz P3, running Win98. XMPlay also gave me feedback - if you can recommend something that shows me where it is on the filesystem, that'd be great.
Up until now, Audacious has met those requirements. But it's had the following issues:
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* The system has no ability to add directories recursively - this was present in XMMS, but the BMP guys removed it (?!?!?!) and since Audacious is a fork of BMP, ...
* The latest version's global hotkeys plugin restores the window to a non-changeable location when I use the "toggle player windows" function. As a visual person I find this a huge blocker.
Now for the list of players that don't do what I want. XD
* mpd - expects all your files to be in one folder; mine are everywhere, even thrown across sshfs mounts to other systems.
* audacious - ...
* xmms - too boring. GTK1. old stuff. unsupported.
* xmms2 - seems too "unreachable". I haven't tried this player yet, mostly because Arch has no clients in the repos. *stab*
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* rhythmbox, banshee, amarok, exaile, quod libet - iTunes-ey UI. I hate iTunes-ey UIs.
* songbird - depends on the Gecko rendering engine. I have 512MB RAM, and I already run Firefox, thanks.
* bmp, xmms, audacious - winamp-ey UI. I want to move away from winamp-ey UIs.
If you have any suggestions... I'll be amazed.
-dav7
Last edited by dav7 (2008-09-09 12:55:22)

* Can hide completely, leaving only a hotkey to bring it back. I don't use a system tray and don't want to, for any purpose.
Sonata, disable system tray icon, modify any panel settings to ignore it
* Is written in a compiled language.
mpd is written in C
* Has configurable global hotkey support
Set up keybindings for mpc commands
* Isn't bloated, dependancy-wise, filesize or memory-wise, or desktop-real-estate-wise - something that uses basic C and has a basic GUI preferred
mpd uses basic C, many, many GUIs for it around, extremely small memory footprint
* Controls the hardware volume so that volume changes are instant
Keybind alsamixer commands
* Supports tracks longer than 60 minutes / 1 hour
Is there a modern media player that doesn't do this?
* Has good file management / playlist support
I never use mpd's playlist capabilities, but they do seem fairly extensive.
* mpd - expects all your files to be in one folder; mine are everywhere, evn thrown across sshfs mounts to other systems.
Apparently you have never heard of symbolic links. OH SNAP! Just create a single directory to collect all the links in. Also, mpd does not expect everything to be in one folder; it expects everything to be available from one parent folder, allowing you to organize beneath that parent.
The problem you're having isn't that you're looking for a music player, you're looking for a wm/media player/file manager, and that just doesn't exist on Linux, largely because we are sane (for the sake of argument, ignore Songbird right now, I don't think any of us are crazy enough to use it anyways). Like looking for a zebroctonoceros, even though a zebra exists, an octopus exists, and a rhinoceros exists, they do not exist in the same creature. For interfacing with X (keybindings and the disappearing music player), you're better off going through a configurable wm like Openbox. For the actual music playing, well, I don't see any problems with mpd besides your music files being messy, and you can't expect music playing software to solve a personal organization problem. If your file system is messy, then use a file manager to fix it, not your mp3 player. I put a lot of effort into keeping my music files properly tagged and accessible from a single top level directory called music, which then splits off into mp3/ogg files, flac files, podcasts, etc, and that largely solves the problem of wondering where s--t is.
Another idea for you, if you have multiple machines. Collect all your music onto a single machine, and then set up that system to serve exclusively as an mpd jukebox you can listen to from your other computers over the network. Give it a try.
Last edited by coarseSand (2008-09-11 16:03:31)

Transition Effects / Handles

Im using a Canon XL2 to tape and capture my footage (DV NTSC)..
Once I'm editing and adding transition effect on FCP 5.1.1 i find that it only lets me put 1sec transitions. If i want to make the transition anywhere longer than 1sec i have to have some sort of "handle" on the clip(s) my question is...Is there any way to have the computer automatiaclly add 1second handles to the start and end of each clip (i use the capture now feature and capture the whole tape then use the DV start/stop detect and make subclips)....i shoot weddings so im dealing with 200plus clips on any given project and it is very time consuming to have to munually add 1sec handles to the start/end of each clip just to be able to use a 2sec video and/or audio transition..thanks for anyhelp anybody can provide, it's greatly appreciated

dude ... this is what editing is! surely you don't use every frame of every clip you shoot? you look at the clip, you choose your in-point and out-point, whatever comes before the in-point or after the out-point is the handle you have left to play with ...if theres not enough space for a 2 sec dissolve then choose a new outpoint/inpoint or choose a shorter transition
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Hi,
this drives me crazy: I moved to a new mac and can not get my iTunes to work.
iTunes just does not find my media files.
My old setup on a PowerMacG4 was:
folder iTunes with libraries in my home folder, but the music was on another volume
So inside the "iTunes Music Library.xml" (thats how it is named in the old iTunes) there is the entry
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I used "Migration Assistant" to move data from old disks to the new mac. Having connected the old volume blabla new iTunes found the files.
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Does not work. It still believes the file are on volume blabla. It never looks into te files copied to the new location!
Hmmm, so i looked inside the "iTunes Library.xml": The "Music Folder" is set correctly, but the files location points to the old volume.
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Problem started after I installed the software updated
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RED Giant Universe is installed
Tell us about your computer hardware. Be especially certain to tell us about third-party I/O hardware (e.g., AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU).
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Are you saying that automounter only is the new custom? Quoted from that site you linked.
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I don't see automounters mentioned in that statement. Why do you even care? I can mount my USB sticks even to /opt if I want to. :D
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Developer-Online: New Tutorial Released! PHP jQuery Autosuggest Facebook like

PHP jQuery Autosuggest Facebook like
Building a database driven auto suggestion box with PHP/MySql and jQuery. We’re going to check what a user has typed in, check against what is in our database and where there is a match, pass the results back in a suggestion list, all via an AJAX call in jQuery.
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Then after looking at the page you've linked to and trying to understand the objective of the tutorial I've noticed that you are talking about something like this:
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It's pretty simple to do with the link I've referenced. Simply create your database with populated tables, use the mentioned script to convert the database data into xml syntax, then enter your dynamic database script as the location of the xmlDataSet in the spry page linked.
View source on this page which shows the non-destructive filter in action to see how it's done! You can also spice it up a little for products, etc. by using this method. The key is to create a dynamic xml syntax from your database and then use the dynamic xml script location as your xmlDataSet in the search page.
I have an example of the auto suggest search on my homepage http://DwFAQ.info
On the top-left side of the page click on the link that says Search Tutorials to reveal the search form. Then start typing characters into the search box to see the entries instantly filter according to the characters that are typed. You can also filter further by clicking on the category checkboxes to filter by keywords AND category.
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Need a new tutorial

Hello out there,
I am looking for a Dreamweaver tutorial that DOES NOT have pages/templates etc already set up in the lesson. I am trying to learn to build a page COMPLETELY from scratch. The online lessons all start with pre made pages. I want to learn how to do this. Where do I start? I can make a new HTML page, but as far as PLACING or INSERTING stuff on the page, The tutorials do not teach this, they already have items placed/inserted, and only show how to change what is already there. Even in lesson 1. The books are more of the same.
It's like starting a class with half the materiel done before you get there.
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Hello,
hm, in this case I only can recomend this:
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1_cs6.html.
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