No warping background in TM

On my new Mac Pro Tower, Time Machine seems to be working fine (performing/displaying backups), but my installation of TM only shows a white solid background.
Is there a way to set this to the default "Vortex" image?
(Note: I also had a problem with TM not showing my past backups until I "named" my computer in System Preferences>Sharing - now all my backups appear, but I still have the solid white background as before.)

Yes... I have two Apple Installed ATI 2600's - one each in slot one and two.
I was on the phone with Apple Tech Support today and we "suspected" the same thing, so while I was on the phone they had me try to remove the second video card and all I accomplished was breaking off the plastic locking tab at the front of the card. I have replaced probably 50 video cards, but I never saw one in that tight - it just would not budge, so I gave up since this was just to cure a "cosmetic" issue.
I hope the missing plastic tab will not cause any problems in the future - not like was holding anything in!
I have my main monitor connected to the card in Slot 1 by itself and my other two monitors connected to the card in Slot 2. Doesn't changing the card from slot 2 to slot 3 restrict the bandwidth?

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Erase and install?? a few problems...

Hello. This is going to be a long one, so you might as well get a fresh cup.
A little history. I started with a G4 Powerbook (10.4.11) some number of years ago. In November of last year I got a 24" iMac. Turned it on, set it up with a new user named "swank" (the same as on on powerbook.) After this, I realized I wanted to bring my old user over from the lappy. Using migration assistant, I tried to do this. I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure that because there was already a user named "swank", I had to change the one I was bring in. So, I changed it to "swanks." I also made a user for my girlfriend.
So, for a long time I used m$ office 2004 on the lappy. Then I upgraded to 2008. Everything worked fine and dandy. Then I moved over to the iMac. Not so fine and dandy anymore. Word works just fine, but PP and Excel have issues with saving documents. If I email a doc to myself from school, I can open it and view it just fine.
(on edit: actually, this is not true. I'm going over the details below and realized that I can access a file from a thumb drive, etc, but not email)
BUT, if I save it afterwards or save it from the email BEFORE opening it, it disappears somewhere into the ether. I eventually found out where this "ether" place is, but that will come later. I tried to reinstall office a couple times, to no avail. So I went to the local Mac store (non-corporate) the other day and talked with one of the techs about it. He told me about some files that needed to get deleted along with the uninstall. I did that a couple times, did a repair disk from the install disk (per the techs request as well), restarted between doing everything, etc, etc. Once convinced all was clear, I reinstalled office 2008. AAAAHHHHHH. SAME THING!!!! I don't get it. I don't want to talk with m$. I tried that once. It failed.
Now I am wondering about starting ALL over from scratch. I'm not sure how to proceed from this point though. I have a time machine backup (250 gb of stuff from myself and my gf) and I have a bootcamp partion (that time machine has NOT been backing up.) So I guess my questionS are:
1. can I do an erase and install on JUST the mac partition?
2. once reinstalled, will I be able to pick and choose stuff off the time machine disk? Or do I have to simply restore completely from it (which at this point I would rather not)?
3. is step #2 a good idea (bringing in individual files, if possible)? Or will this possibly bring in the corrupted-ness that I am currently experiencing?
4. is there a way to do this without a clean install?
Details of office problem:
1. I open a document (new)
2. Type anything
3. Save
4. Right click on file name at top of window
(this is what I was referring to as the "ether." *WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD SOMETHING GET SAVED HERE?* Even though I specified that it get saved in "Documents"?????
5. Bang head against wall
1. I ATTEMPT to open a document saved when office worked
2. 1 of 2 things will happen:
OR
(No matter WHAT file I try to open, only the last document I made will open, AND it will be called "juan")
2. Bang head against wall
Anyway, if you've made it this far, your are brave. Maybe you have advice. Thanks for listening.
Dave
Also, now, after erasing the m$ stuff, when I open a finder window in the user "swanks", the one I mainly use, the window for "swank" shows up. You know, with all the little red circle with white line through it things on the bottom right corner of a folder?? What the heck?

Before erasing the volume and reinstalling, there are a few things you might want to try first, which are less disruptive:
1. Force Office to generate new preference files. Go to /Users/swanks/Library/Preferences. Create a folder called "Microsoft_old". Drag the folder /Users/swanks/Library/Preferences/Microsoft into the new Microsoft_old folder. Drag all files in your preferences folder which begin with "com.microsoft" in there as well. Relaunch PowerPoint and test it out. You may find it was just a wonky prefs file causing the behavior. If you aren't seeing it in any other application, this is pretty likely.
2. Test the opening/saving behavior of powerpoint in the new user account. If it is fine, then you can just move your files over from one user to the other. There are a few ways of doing this, but the simplest is probably to put everything you want into the /Users/Shared folder and change ownership to your new user account via the Get Info window or the Terminal, if you are comfortable in the command line (using chown -R is usually faster and more reliable than using the Sharing & Permissions section of the Info window, in my experience). Also, you can use your girlfriend's account to test this - does PowerPoint work as expected when she is logged in?
If a new user account behaves the same way, then you probably have deeper issues than just preference problems. At that point you may want to consider rebuilding the OS.
To answer your questions directly:
1. can I do an erase and install on JUST the mac partition?
Yes. You do not have to touch the Boot Camp partition when reinstalling Mac OS X. When booted from the install disc, you will have
2. once reinstalled, will I be able to pick and choose stuff off the time machine disk? Or do I have to simply restore completely from it (which at this point I would rather not)?
Yes. When you browse your Time Machine Backup (with the fancy space-warp background), you can select individual files/folders to restore. It will prompt you to select a location where you want to restore the files.
3. is step #2 a good idea (bringing in individual files, if possible)? Or will this possibly bring in the corrupted-ness that I am currently experiencing?
I don't think you are dealing with actual file corruption, more likely broken preferences or damaged defaults. I wouldn't be worried about bringing over any non-OS files.
4. is there a way to do this without a clean install?
See above. Those are the things I would try first, before you do a clean install.
I hope this helps. If you have any questions, post and I'll try to answer.
Message was edited by: Duncan Wright

Warping in an out of focus background post grade

Hi there
I have finished grading in Color and sent back to Final Cut Pro. There was noise and 'warping' (areas changing) in an out of focus background.
I have applied noise reduction plugins that have seemed to work, but the warping is still very much there.
I have also tried placing another copy of the video above the original in the soft light composite mode and dropping the opacity, yet to no avail.
Has anyone any other suggestions?
Would be incredibly grateful as deadline is fast approaching...
Thank you.

Sorry it was quite random.
The areas are the shadows, and lighter areas of greenery in a park. Because of this background being out of focus, I think Color is picking up a limited range of information.
The 'warping' I previously described is actually these areas getting smaller and larger when there is movement (slow tracking) in the camera.
It is very complicated to describe, I just thought someone might have found this before when grading a slow moving shot with an out of focus background.
Thanks

Urxvt in the background is not transparent

Hello everyone,
I'm using Openbox and urxvt terminal and I was experimenting with running one urxvt pseudo-transparent in the background like in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … background. So I created new name "RootURxvt" in my .Xdefaults file:
RootURxvt.scrollBar: false
RootURxvt.transparent: true
RootURxvt.geometry: 80x24
the rest of my .Xdefaults reagarding urxvt:
URxvt.buffered: true
URxvt.geometry: 85x24
URxvt.transparent: false
URxvt.background: black
URxvt.foreground: gray90
URxvt.cursorColor: green
URxvt.underlineColor: yellow
URxvt.scrollstyle: plain
URxvt.secondaryScroll: true
URxvt.font: -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
URxvt.boldFont: -*-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
Then I put the appropriate entry to the .config/openbox/rc.xml
<application name="RootURxvt">
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>yes</focus>
<position>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
</position>
<desktop>all</desktop>
<maximized>false</maximized>
<skip_taskbar>true</skip_taskbar>
<layer>below</layer>
</application>
This is the rest of my rc.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc">
<resistance>
<strength>10</strength>
<screen_edge_strength>20</screen_edge_strength>
</resistance>
<focus>
<focusNew>no</focusNew>

<followMouse>no</followMouse>

<focusLast>yes</focusLast>

<underMouse>no</underMouse>

<focusDelay>200</focusDelay>

<raiseOnFocus>no</raiseOnFocus>

</focus>
<placement>
<policy>Smart</policy>

<center>yes</center>

<monitor>Active</monitor>

</placement>
<theme>
<name>Carbon</name>
<titleLayout>NLIMC</titleLayout>

<keepBorder>no</keepBorder>
<animateIconify>no</animateIconify>

<name>sans</name>
<size>8</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>8</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>9</size>

<weight>normal</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>9</size>

<weight>normal</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>



<name>sans</name>
<size>9</size>

<weight>bold</weight>

<slant>normal</slant>


</theme>
<desktops>

<number>4</number>
<firstdesk>1</firstdesk>
<names>
<name>1</name>
<name>2</name>
<name>3</name>
<name>4</name>
</names>
<popupTime>875</popupTime>

</desktops>
<resize>
<drawContents>yes</drawContents>
<popupShow>Always</popupShow>

<popupPosition>Center</popupPosition>

<popupFixedPosition>

<x>10</x>

<y>10</y>

</popupFixedPosition>
</resize>

<margins>
<top>0</top>
<bottom>0</bottom>
<left>0</left>
<right>0</right>
</margins>
<dock>
<position>TopRight</position>

<floatingX>0</floatingX>
<floatingY>0</floatingY>
<noStrut>yes</noStrut>
<stacking>Above</stacking>

<direction>Vertical</direction>

<autoHide>no</autoHide>
<hideDelay>300</hideDelay>

<showDelay>300</showDelay>

<moveButton>Middle</moveButton>

</dock>
<keyboard>
<chainQuitKey>C-g</chainQuitKey>

<keybind key="C-W-Left">
<action name="DesktopLeft">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-Right">
<action name="DesktopRight">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-Up">
<action name="DesktopUp">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-Down">
<action name="DesktopDown">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Left">
<action name="SendToDesktopLeft">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Right">
<action name="SendToDesktopRight">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Up">
<action name="SendToDesktopUp">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="S-W-Down">
<action name="SendToDesktopDown">
<dialog>no</dialog>
<wrap>no</wrap>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F1">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>1</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F2">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>2</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F3">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>3</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-F4">
<action name="Desktop">
<desktop>4</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-d">
<action name="ToggleShowDesktop"/>
</keybind>

<keybind key="W-c">
<action name="Close"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-Escape">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-space">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</keybind>

<keybind key="A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="A-S-Tab">
<action name="PreviousWindow"/>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-A-Tab">
<action name="NextWindow">
<panels>yes</panels>
<desktop>yes</desktop>
</action>
</keybind>

<keybind key="W-u">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>urxvt</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>urxvt</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-o">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>opera</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>opera</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="C-W-l">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>lock</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>xscreensaver-command -lock</command>
</action>
</keybind>
</keyboard>
<mouse>
<dragThreshold>8</dragThreshold>

<doubleClickTime>200</doubleClickTime>

<screenEdgeWarpTime>400</screenEdgeWarpTime>

<context name="Frame">
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Click">
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Move"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Right" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-S-Up" action="Click">
<action name="SendToDesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-S-Down" action="Click">
<action name="SendToDesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Titlebar">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Move"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="DoubleClick">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="Shade"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
<action name="Lower"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Top">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>top</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Left">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>left</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Right">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>right</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Bottom">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize">
<edge>bottom</edge>
</action>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Lower"/>
<action name="FocusToBottom"/>
<action name="Unfocus"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="BLCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="BRCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="TLCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="TRCorner">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Resize"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Client">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Icon">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="AllDesktops">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleOmnipresent"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Shade">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleShade"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Iconify">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="Iconify"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Maximize">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Middle" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeVert"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeHorz"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Close">
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Click">
<action name="Close"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Desktop">
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="C-A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Left" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="Focus"/>
<action name="Raise"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="Root">

<mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>client-list-combined-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Right" action="Press">
<action name="ShowMenu">
<menu>root-menu</menu>
</action>
</mousebind>
</context>
<context name="MoveResize">
<mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Up" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
</mousebind>
<mousebind button="A-Down" action="Click">
<action name="DesktopNext"/>
</mousebind>
</context>
</mouse>
<menu>


<file>menu.xml</file>
<hideDelay>200</hideDelay>

<middle>no</middle>

<submenuShowDelay>100</submenuShowDelay>

<applicationIcons>yes</applicationIcons>

<manageDesktops>yes</manageDesktops>

</menu>
<applications>
<application name="RootURxvt">
<decor>no</decor>
<focus>yes</focus>
<position>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
</position>
<desktop>all</desktop>
<maximized>false</maximized>
<skip_taskbar>true</skip_taskbar>
<layer>below</layer>
</application>
</applications>
</openbox_config>
Finally I added this to the .config/openbox/autostart.sh:
urxvt -name RootURxvt &
and hoped that on restart I will have nice pseudo-transparent urxvt on the background...It worked for a while but after another fiddling with rc.xml and .Xdefaults and restarting X it simply stopped working and the "RootURxvt" simply looks like normal urxvt without decor. I browsed the forums, tried "xrdb -merge" and restaring X and looked on the .Xdefaults and rc.xml files million times but I can't find what's wrong.
I could appreciate any help, I'm new to all this X resource stuff, maybe I just made some braindead mistake
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by martbab (2009-10-03 17:09:36)

Well, I didn't consider it, because I thought that for my application (borderless urxvt terminal embedded in background below all other app windows) the pseudo-transparency aka. "Inherit Pixmap" function implemented in urxvt (I hope I got that right ) could be sufficient.
I also thought that creating a new name "RootURxvt" in the class "URxvt" in the .Xdefaults file would allow me to have two types of urxvt terms running (terminal in the root window and normal "opaque" windowed terminals).
the similar thing is in the post #12 of this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45382 but only with geometry settings.

How do I hide the background when I shape an image in 3D?

This is a problem that has cropped up before but I'm going to simulate it.
Say in this instance I want to overlay the picture of a kitten over a ball image. I've already extracted (roughly) the background from the kitten picture. I want to use 3D to warp it to the shape of a sphere but I've still got the ball's default background colour as well. How do I hide the background colour of the ball entirely so only the, warped, image of the kitten is visible to overlay over the ball image?
When I wrap the kitten image onto a 3D sphere mesh preset I get the default background
And when I try to overlay it over the 2D ball image the background prevents correct overlaying. I want just the kitten pic
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You apply the texture to the transparency of the material.
Mylenium

Effects not automatically rendered in background while working on other things in v6.03?

Hi all,
I am relatively new to PP CS6, so pardon me if this has been asked before. I've searched thoroughly on the net - there are similar questions, but not identical ones.
i'm using a pretty powerful rig to edit my videos and here are the specs :
i5 2500k
16gb ram, allocated 14gb to PP, set to performance mode
gtx 560ti with 1gb vram, set to MPE mode from the hack
video source : iPhone, Galaxy Note 1080p, Canon 550D DSLR 720p videos
[img]http://i.imgur.com/aeERL.png[/img]
As seen in the image above, there's a small 'red' unrendered area in the sequence. I have added the warp stabilizer effect to a few of the clips, and most of them turned yellow after awhile, which means i can playback the seq smoothly without choppiness.
However, at times, I'm not sure why these effects, even AFTER being rendered, still shows as RED and would be extremely choppy when i play it. CPU usage rams up when i first add it and it does the processing. As of now, it is idling and does not finish rendering the RED areas. is it supposed to be normal?
I have to hit render entire work area for it to finish rendering all areas (which means I cannot do other stuff in the meantime!), and rendering takes EXTREMELY long. for instance, a 2 minute iphone clip takes around 40minutes to render ( minimal effects ).
i thought the MPE might be a problem, so i tried disabling it and ran on software. turns out it's even slower than usual.
any idea what i can do to make my CPU work full force in the background to render those RED areas while i'm editing other parts of the clip?
Thanks!

1st, go to the CS5 Benchmark http://ppbm5.com/ and view the results... an i5 computer is not "a pretty powerful rig" especially for DSLR video
Also, Iphone won't easily edit http://forums.adobe.com/thread/881246
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1011411?tstart=0
-and a fix http://forums.adobe.com/thread/934466
How many hard drives do you have... and do you have AT LEAST two separate hard drives?
Read http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html to help understand rendering

Warp Stabilizer

Hello,
I just bought a new workstation to optimize my work and the Warp Stabilize Effect take the same time ( 10 minutes) to analyse the background as my old workstation no graphic card inside ( Lenovo i5). Is it normal?
6 Core i7-4930K @ Turbo Boost @ 3.9Ghz
Asus P9X79-E W/S LGA 2011
C: SSD Sandisk 240 Extreme II
Raid 1 2x4 TB 7200 RPM Seagate
Asus GTX 780Ti
32Gb RAM @1866MHZ 4x8

What I know is that Warp Stabilizer is an effect that uses Mercury GPU acceleration, i.e. it uses your video card horsepower to render. If you have an Adobe unsupported (unapproved) video card, your system will bypass the Mercury rendering engine (feature) and use a plain old software rendering method which is HORRIBLY slow. You have two choices in that case... use the video card workaround to add your current video card to the file cuda_supported_cards.txt (Google it) thus enabling the Mercury rendering engine or buy a video card that is certified by Adobe, Life with Mercury rendering engine is so fast...
Hope this helps.
John

Warp Stabilizer in CS6 does not work at all

When using the CS6 Premiere Pro Warp stabilizer it starts to analyze but doesn't start to convert after it has finished analyzing.
- Add the Warp Stabilizer
- Blue bar over picture shows up "Analyzing in Background (Part1 of 2)
- Prozess finishes but nothing happens (Source does not get corrected, orange bar never shows up)
- Another blue bar shows "Click Analyze to begin"
When pressing Analyze the process starts over again without any result.
The used footage is some mxf from a Canon C300
The used PC gots 8 cores, 32GB Memory
Update:
When using a different Clip, or if i shorten the problematic clip, it seems to work now
Info to problematic clip:
File Path: xxx.MXF
Type: XDCAM-HD Movie
File Size: 44.5 MB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 25.00
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Mono
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Mono
Total Duration: 00:00:07:05
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Compression Type: MPEG 4:2:2

I could not help laughing at Jim's remark. I remember showing my 20 minute video of our trip to Italy to my brothers way back in 2002. In fact, it was my first Premiere project. I had the sense to cut it way down from 20 one hour tapes to 20 minutes. My oldest brother may have thought he was being a little insulting with his remark, but I was overjoyed. He said "It looks like a PBS travelogue." That was, of course, exactly what I was going for with the video and the voiceover.
In any case, I was able to use Warp Stabilizer this weekend on some footage of a children's birthday party. I can't show the results because of the subject matter. Not that they were doing anything wrong other than savagely beating a poor Super Mario Brother's pinata, but I don't have a release for them all.
I was a bit surprised at how long it took. I have a state of the art PC, and apparently the GPU doesn't help. I liked the results, but I sure would like to know what resources the effect utilizes. This is a screenshot of what it looked like about two minutes into the 11 minute process (the effect window estimated 8 minutes) for stabilizing a 60 second video (1800 frames). I think maybe I will start another thread to inquire about this. The CPU wasn't even breathing hard, the hard drives I am using for cache are in RAID0 - so should be reasonably fast. Hmmm. I wonder?

Decreasing contrast: taking the bright out of white background

I recently got a new app called Maple 12 whose window background is bright white, and there are no options for changing its color. Some other native Mac apps, such as Finder, have the same thing, also without apparent provision for modification. Since the nature of Maple (a computer algebra system) is such that one generally spends a lot of time concentrating on the window contents, I find that the high-contrast stark white begins to hurt my eyes after half an hour or so, making it hard to distinguish the foreground text. My age (69) probably aggravates this.
In almost all the other apps I use I've been able to arrange the background to be something less contrasty, such as a light gray, or at least a soft white instead of the bright white. I asked Maplesoft Support about changing this, but they informed me that Maple's background is controlled by the OS, presumably using the same default that Finder uses.
Nothing I've tried so far has helped. There are ways to increase contrast (the opposite of what I need), of getting a negative of everything, and of modifying the profile of all colors and shades in between the extremes of pure black and pure white. But those extremes always remain unaffected. Since OS X is Unix based it seems likely to me that there might be some way to modify this, possibly by a command-line Unix command, if only I knew the correct incantation.
Does anyone here have any suggestions about how I might be able to make the background more tolerable? I wouldn't mind if every instance of bright white were changed to soft white.

Thanks much for this helpful comment. It did indeed let me change the TextEdit background - and I suspect the same approach will work with some other apps as well.
Unfortunately, Maple isn't one of them. I went thru all the Maple menu tabs and options, and while there are many for modifying the text - its color, size, etc. - there are none whatever for affecting the background. So it seems as tho it is Maple that is simply lacking a capability that can be built in (how easily, I don't know).
In eComStation (the current incarnation of OS/2 Warp) one can often simply bring up the color pallette, pick a color, and drag it to another app's window to set the background. That doesn't seem to be possible on OS X, even tho it obviously has the machinery for it.
I want to suggest to Maplesoft to add the background choice capability, but that would probably be better received if I can suggest to them how to accomplish it. Since I'm not a developer and know nothing about OS X's internals, I'm unable to do that. If anyone has any ideas on this score, or can point me to relevant information, I would much appreciate it.
- Dushan

How to create this warp effect in illustrator

Hi guys!
I have a vector that I would like to add a line of text to in another language...
At the top of the image attached with have the word "News" which is in the Rockwell font. I would like to create the same warp and change the word news to news in Swedish.
I haven't a problem with the font or creating outlines etc...just getting the exact bend shown here...
I am not sure what tools would have been used?
bookie56

bookie,
I have noticed that the Type is also sheared.
The silliest way I can come up with right away, which will allow you to use live Type so you can freely change language, is as follows, using the image as a locked background:
1) Redraw the top and bottom (curved) lines of the heading area and create a one step blend between them and expand the blend so you get a central (curved) line;
2) Write NEWS (or the Swedish equivalent) with the right size, then Object>Transform>Shear with a suitable value (10% or whatever);
3) Create a rectangle with the same length as the central line and a height that exceeds the height of the Type, then position it so the Type is suitably placed (a bit above the middle, as desired left or right);
4) Group path and Type and Object>Transform>Rotate by -90 degrees;
5) Effect>Warp>Arch using a suitable value (6% or whatever);
6) Brushes>New Brush, as an Art Brush, ticking proportional and keeping the downward direction (keep the Group);
7) Apply the Brush to the central line.
For a change of word/language, you can tick the Group and turn it into a new Art Brush after 5) and then repeat just 6) and 7).
You could also prepare the text as in 1) - 5), making the rectangle height correspond to the heading area (the distance between top and bottom lines, then Object>Expand Appearance and rotate by 90 degrees, then join the two lines into a closed path on top in the stacking order, select both and Object>EnvelopeDistort>Make with Top Object. Well, that may be even sillier.

5 things which should be improved in the Warp Stabilizer

1. Performance.
When stabilizing any footage I always ask myself: "What the heck is he doing there?!" not even a single core is really working hard. It looks like an idle background process The GPU is idle as well, as the analysis pass is only run on the CPU.
This maybe okay if you still need much work to do in Premiere. But often, the next steps DEPEND on the stabilization and you have to WAIT and WAIT and WAIT...
It's just painful to imagine that, running a machine with 8 cores, more than 8 times the amount of video material COULD be analyzed.
The free Deshaker for Virtualdub actually uses more cores (even though not at 100%) but analyzes at about 20-21fps compared to the Warp Stabilizer at about 4-8fps.
Admitted, the Deshakers results aren't nearly as good (especially with rolling shutter, which can be configured though, but you don't always know the right percentage for the cam you're using).
This also applies to opening projects with much stabilization data. It opens... and opens... rarely any disk activity and rarely any CPU or GPU activity. Again: WHAT IS HE DOING THERE? Just waiting for the clock itself?! Or is he sending it all to the NSA? That at least would explain the unneccesary delay:P (just kidding!)
2. Stabilization data.
For me, I wouldn't have any problem with storing it just inside a project folder or a separate file. Just add a checkbox into the plugin settings:
[x] Store stabilisation data in separate file/folder.
This may be then called [projectName].stabilization
Inside that folder, there will be maybe one file for every effect used in the project.
...or you can use the old way, if you don't have so much stabilization work to do.
3. Small bugs.
When using "stabilize only", the resulting frame, at least in Premiere Pro, has a HUGE "DC offset" sometimes. This is a term from music producing, but exactly fits in here. You can clearly see it when there are still images that shouldn't receive much of stabilization. They're somtimes shifted far out of the viewing frame, leaving big black borders, so you have to manually adjust the frame position to fit back into a "neutral" position. This could be resolved to let the whole correcting curve undergo something like a "low pass filter" which will try to keep the resulting frame SOMEHOW centered.
In this image above, from a longer clip, there isn't much motion at all. But you can see how far the offset from the actual video frame is. I have to do this for almost every video, also after I change the "smoothness" setting.
4. More control
I would LOVE to be able to disable "zoom detection", because it gives me lots of "Vertigo Effects" in many cases.
I heard this has been alredy addressed for CC.
5. Improvements / new features
One thing I always do with every stabilized video:
Instead of synthesize edges, which takes AGES to render, I just do the following:
I place the same clip, unstabilized, behind the stabilized clip (stabilized, borders only) and give the stabilized clip softened borders with "rough edges". This even still renders fine on the GPU.
This would make a great option for the stabilizer. Just call it "overlay over original with blurred edges" or something like that.
This has worked extremely well for any stabilized footage so far and isn't nearly as disturbing as the synthesized edges.
I'm considering to join the Creative Cloud, because unless I do this I don't expect to see any improvements in my old and out-dated Premiere PRO CS6...

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform to file a feature request... insert a reference to this message link

How to make background of layer transparent so just the object shows up?....

Hi, I don't know if there's a way to do what I'm trying to but I'm trying to take a jpg picture that I uploaded onto my photoshop elements editor, then using the maze I have on microsoft word to make a maze out of the picture. I was able to paste the maze over the picture by using the over lay option for the 2nd layer and making it more transparent but the lines are getting too transparent also and you can't see some of the lines at all that is over white areas. Is there another way that I can make it so that the lines (of the maze) only show up and make it so the white background is totally transparent?
I'm also wondering how I can change the whole background color without affecting the picture or anything else. This is my first time playing with the elements editor, I was just thinking I guess I could make a botttom layer and make the layer the color I want or will it bleed through to the other layers or the other layers just cover it up? I really don't know what I'm doing and really don't know about these layers, I'm surprised I was able to do what I did.
Thank you for any suggestions or help.
IDK if I'm explaining this right so here is a link to the image.
Thanks

With this image, it will be easiest to select the white background.
1. I would recommend using the Quick Select Tool. Select the white background.
2. Because you want the lung guy on his own layer not the white background, you need to invert the selection. Select<Inverse.
3. Copy the lung guy onto his own layer. On PC, press ctrl + J. If on a Mac, the shortcut is cmd + J.
4. You can now copy/paste lung guy in the desired photo. Alternately, you can drag his layer from the layers palette and drop him into the other document. (If the resolution of lung guy doesn't match your image's resolution, he will shrink or expand as his layer will take on the resolution of the document he is moved into.)
Note: I would not use the lettering as you can see where the lung guy's image overlaps. It will be an easier project if you redo the lettering in Word or use the Photoshop Element's text tool...maybe with text warp and a layer style....to add the text.

Warp Stabilizer crashes in After Effects CC (OS X)

Every time I try to use Warp Stabilizer, I get the following crash.
1. I select a track, open up the Warp Stabilizer VFX panel, and click "Analyze".
2. The blue "Analyzing in Background" banner appears. At this point, After Effects locks up and becomes unresponsive.
3. Looking in Console I see "com.adobe.Adobe Analysis Server.application[285]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6". A crash report is saved. Here is a report: http://pastebin.com/RTnjNW28. Pertinent extract:
Application Specific Information:
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type dvacore::filesupport::dir_create_exception: $$$/dvacore/filesupport/DirCreate=The directory '@0' could not be created. Please check the parent directory protection or permission rights.
4. Within After Effects itself, after several minutes, the error "Could not launch the Adobe Analysis Server. (515) (25 ::101)" appears. After Effects then becomes responsive again.
This is on a fresh install of After Effects CC, installed via the Creative Cloud app. Version 12.2.0.52.
I have tried this on 2 different Macs: a 2013 MacBook Pro and a 2011 Mac Mini. Both with latest OS X 10.9.1. I also tried on the preview release of OS X 10.9.2. I have tried with several different source videos, of different formats.
I have no virus scanner, or other such apps installed. I have tried disabling all running background apps. I tried turning off FileVault. Rebooted several times. Same result every time.
Is there any fix? Any help greatly appreciated.

It seems that this issue is caused by some folders being created with the wrong permissions set. This morning, a new version of the Creative Cloud desktop application was released that fixes this issue.
See this article for more information:
http://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2014/02/12/prevent-crash-on-export-with-premiere-pro-c c-adobe-media-encoder-cc/
That article doesn't mention After Effects specifically, but I'm reasonably sure that the same fix will help here.
Let us know either way.

How to project an image onto a background image?

Hi,
I am looking for help with projecting an image over another image.
I am looking for a similar effect to the image above where it looks like the image of the player as (physically) been projected onto the tunnel.
Looking closely at the detail of the image you can see that the projection adjusts to the contours of the tunnel i.e. over the framing. This is what I specifically need some help with. I know how to overlay an image onto another using different layers but it doesn't really give a three-dimensional perspective and looks rather flat.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Ravi.

Hi Ravi -
Could you post what you have done so far, and include your expanded layers panel? The source images would also be helpful, if possible!
One thing you could try is creating a Displacement Map of your background tunnel image and then wrapping your overlay image to it. The video tutorial below shows you how to do this:
Beside this, you might just have to spend time tweaking your image to create a realistic overlay. This includes adjusting lighting, but also distorting your overlay image. Have you tried using Edit > Transform > Perspective to align your image to the tunnel? The other Transform tools like Distort and Warp might also come in handy.
I'm looking forward to helping you with this effect!
Cheers,
Kendall

Is there a way to access Warp Stabilizer's internal data?

Hello,
I have some footages where I pass through a relatively narrow gate with the camera. My footages are typically quite shaky and so far I have been using Warp Stabilizer with great satisfaction. It really works well. However, in these scenes it messes up: it seems to introduce a perturbation in the scale at the instant of passing through the gate (it quickly zooms out for a short instant), which messes up the background (which contains interesting stuff). Is there a way to access the internal data it produces during the analysis to cross-check my assumption, and try to manually correct it?
Thank you very much
Daniel

Hello,
Thank you for your response. I think the 'Preserve scale' option would do the job (if my suspicion is indeed correct). However, it does not exist for me. Do I miss something, or is it another version of PP? I am using Premiere Pro CC, and downloaded the app about a month ago (and I have only this 1 month of experience), so it should be pretty recent.
(It would be nice to have some graphs showing the corrections PremierePro calculated during the analysis, like scale, rotation etc of the camera - but this is for mere curiosity if the 'Preserve scale' did the job I need).
Thank you
Daniel

No warping background in TM

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