Potentially Quick Question That May Make Me Look Silly

In the timeline, what does it mean when there's a large gray plus sign inside a gray square on a video clip?
We're trying to export the film as a Quicktime (DVCProHD 1080i60) and everytime it keeps telling me there's "no movie in file" as an error before it even gets to 1%. I've checked the timeline for missing media and unrendered clips and found nothing. The only variable left is that a few clips have these plus signs in the little gray squares in place of the thumbnail images that the other clips have on them.

I looked it up in finder as suggested, and the source clip that 82A-2 uses is there, it's listed as a "Final Cut Pro Movie" and it's 1.8gb. However, when I try to open it in Quicktime, it says "This is not a movie file."
Checked the other "plussed" clips in the timeline, same deal. Same propertires, all around 1gb or slightly bigger, and none of them open in Quicktime. What gives?
It's strange because the entire film will play perfectly from the timeline. But I can't export it at all. Attempting to reconnect the media does no good, either, since the original clips seem to not be movie files anymore, for some reason. Any idea what's happened here? And why it would happen to only some of the clips and not others?
In the source folder that the original clips are in, some of them won't open, giving that "not a movie file" message and won't even offer a preview image in Finder. But other clips are fine. Same with the Final Cut project. Most of the clips in the timeline are fine, but the ones with these "plus" signs on them, when I look up the source clip by doing "reveal in finder," they all are like the above example.

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Hi.
I've used Photoshop for 13 years and recently made the jump to Illustrator and there's been a few things bugging me. I've been using 'my own way' of solving them, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong, and it's far too time consuming...
I'll have to use pictures to describe what I'm trying to say, so we'll use my origami frog...
Right, here he is...
Now, I've read that all paths must be closed before sending to clients / printing etc... In my next picture, how are you meant to close the highlighted yellow path? (And similar ones used as detailing lines on faces for example, since they're just a single line and can't join back to their starting point)
Also, where I'm pointing the red arrow... How can I make that triangular section a different colour? Since the leg as a whole is the joined path, all these thinner strokes inside the leg are singular, open paths, as you can see by the yellow highlight... Am I supposed to 'trace' the leg outline in the shapes of the smaller triangles? Because that doesn't seem very professional, and I can imagine it being annoying and time consuming with complex curved lines. So I must be missing something obvious.
^ Also, as you can see by the blue arrow, it doesn't meet up with the corner of the leg. Is this impossible, as it's just based on the stroke width? Because close up you can see its not very tidy.
And finally... Can I use the Pathfinder Minus Front tool on the arm layer (yellow outline) the rough edge bit hidden behind the body layer, because again, when you mouse over the arm, it looks untidy again... But If i were to minus front that hidden bit from behind the body layer, to line it up neatly to the outline of the body, again, if the body stroke was thinner than the arm stroke, then the arm stroke would show past the edge of the body stroke making it look horrible again?
This program can be very confusing. I hope someone can understand what I'm trying to say.
Thanks.
Shaun.

Shaun,
Now, I've read that all paths must be closed before sending to clients / printing etc... In my next picture, how are you meant to close the highlighted yellow path? (And similar ones used as detailing lines on faces for example, since they're just a single line and can't join back to their starting point)
That is not a general requirement. It is possible (but usually unnecessary) to create closed paths by combining segments/paths, such as copies of segments of the closed outer path and the inner open paths, using the lighter Stroke Weight of the latter.
Also, where I'm pointing the red arrow... How can I make that triangular section a different colour?
You should be able to use Live paint, or create a closed path as described above.
Also, as you can see by the blue arrow, it doesn't meet up with the corner of the leg. Is this impossible, as it's just based on the stroke width? Because close up you can see its not very tidy.
You could move the Anchor Point at the corner of the thinner inner path a bit to match the apparent inner corner of the thicker path.
And finally... Can I use the Pathfinder Minus Front tool on the arm layer (yellow outline) the rough edge bit hidden behind the body layer, because again, when you mouse over the arm, it looks untidy again...
Basically, there is nothing wrong in hiding something beneath something else. The viewer may just as well find it smart or intriguing that something turns up on mouseover.

HT204347 Thanks, the write-up was informative, But it do not answer for my question, that is where to look for serial # on my Macbook Pro Mid 2010 White Unibody Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 13.3"? Its not on bottom-case and the above article does not mention this m

Thanks, the write-up was informative, But it do not answer for my question, that is where to look for serial # on my Macbook Pro Mid 2010 White Unibody Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 13.3"? Its not on bottom-case and the above article does not mention this model?

Click on the Apple and then on about this Mac. In the new window, click on the "version 10.9.2" until you see the serial number displayed.

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What are the best ways to make images look a bit better? I shot my footage using a pretty bad camera, so quality already isn't the greatest, but what is the best way to make images look a bit more "movie-like"? The 3way color correstion is nothing for me, it's too hard to make images look good, they'll quickly turn too yellow or red, etc... Something to improve contrast maybe? Using Image Control: Brightness and contrast (bezier) doesn't seem to help much.

Okay, I took a couple of screenshots:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_1.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_2.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_3.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_4.png
Now I don't know alot about image quality or color, but I think there is not enough contrast? It all looks very cold. Luckily, image quality isn't the most important thing in this project, but it would be nice to be able to touch it up a little bit.

Hey just have a quick question that is ios7 coming on ipod touch 4g I heard that you guys didnt design ios 7 for ipod touch 4g so are u gonna design it or its never gonna come for ipod touch 4g

hey guys just have a simple question that i heard that ios 7 is not gonna come for ipod touch 4 they didnt design it for ipod touch 4 so are you guys designing it or its never gonna come for ipod touch 4g.
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As posted on Apples website since early June, the ipod touch 5th gen is the ONLY ipod that can handle ios 7.
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I'm working on a card game where I want to make my straight on designed cards look isometric. Does anyone have the quickest/simplest way to do this with the 3D tool in photoshop? I imagine it's something like Postcard, and then using the orthographic, with some angles set? I've had a try but can't get it right.
Thanks for any advice.

You may want to review the Wikipedia entry on isometric projection to get some inspiration regarding the numbers you seek:
Excerpts:
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In a similar way an isometric view can be obtained for example in a 3D scene editor. Starting with the camera aligned parallel to the floor and aligned to the coordinate axes, it is first rotated downwards around the horizontal axes by about 35.264° as above, and then rotated ±45° around the vertical axis.

Is there a way that to make text look like it is being written on the screen?

I once saw a tiltle (using the font edwardian script) that looked like it was being written on the screen.
I tried using the linear wipe transition, but this does not make the full effect i want.. for instance, when you make a letter "t" in cursive, you start at the bottom, then go up and then down and finally cross the "t". the wipe just went from left to right....
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I have done this for several Titles, using Photoshop and a Layer Mask, that gets "erased," revealing the letters. My Titles were of "handwriting with chalk" on a blackboard, so I could keep the edge of that Layer Mask, looking more like the "chalk." Photoshop also makes it easy to output Layer Comps for each "step" in the handwriting process. IIRC, I did about 5 Frames per Layer Comp on Import, but do not recall if I used an extremely short Cross-Dissolve Transition between those - I intened to do so, but just do not remember if I liked that, or went with just the Still Images? Will try to find that animation, and maybe create a full tutorial of the process. In my case, I also added an SFX of chalk on a chalkboard.
If you have Photoshop, it's really quite easy to pull off.
Now, I do not know if Photoshop Elements has Layer Masks yet, which make it so very easy to accomplish. One could do it backward, where the Text Layer gets Erased, and then one would have their full Image as the last in the sequence, and then the next would have a little bit of the Text removed, then a bit more, then a bit more - going backward, until the "writing surface" is clean. One could also do this with a Transparent Background, so that one saw the Video below, and no actual "writing surface" visible.
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A Question that may not have an answer?

I'm writing a book, nearly 400 pages, and its set up in 12 documents listed under one book. The problem I'm encountering is that I'm trying to link certain words to their definitions. The definitions are scattered through the second document. Is there a way to link multiple words scattered through various pages, to a specific location. Its not a foot note or end note.
Exampe. On page 225, 228, 257, 329 is the term WYLD ONE, and I want it to link back to page 30 where the definition is.

Im Nathan wrote:
I'm writing a book, nearly 400 pages, and its set up in 12 documents listed under one book. The problem I'm encountering is that I'm trying to link certain words to their definitions. The definitions are scattered through the second document. Is there a way to link multiple words scattered through various pages, to a specific location. Its not a foot note or end note.
Exampe. On page 225, 228, 257, 329 is the term WYLD ONE, and I want it to link back to page 30 where the definition is.
Do you want to create links that work in interactive PDFs, so that when a reader clicks the term on any of those pages, the viewed page changes to the definition page? Or do you want to capture the definition text from page 30 and display it at the occurrences of WYLD ONE on pages 225, 228, 257, 329?
For either of these, you can use an InDesign cross-reference. Search Google for terms like "indesign cross-references," "InDesign cross-reference formats," and "indesign cross-reference building blocks," without quotes for lots of good resources.
HTH
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Well I have jdk1.5.0_02/bin/jar.exe file into my file
with all of my classes which work using my schools
java editing program. I'm trying to get it to run and
I have my manifest.txt with "Main-Class: Driver" in
it. Driver is my class with "public static void
main(String args[])" in it and I have the cariage
return in the manifest.txt file. Thanks for the help.What is the problem? You told us what your are trying to do, not what is happening. If you get an error, you better post it. You could also post the command you are using.

Fixed and 2 quick questions (bios thread)

Hi Everyone, i need your help again...
[....]. since i installed Win2k3 on my system i was getting stability problems, especially lockups to black screen in games. On Win2k3 i was using the exact same drivers as I am going to list soon, and so I thought I'd install Windows XP again on a spare hard drive to see if this helped. I wish i'd never messed with my system my previous XP install was almost 100% stable, but that's another story.
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2)formatted new hard drive
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6)Installed Speedtouch USB ADSL Drivers 2.0.1.2 and went online
6.5)Enabled Hardware Acceleration on Displayt Properties
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7)Did full windows update: all the critical stuff, most of the recommended (except MEssanger, Media Player and a couple others) and the CPU driver (left my Gfx and Sound on the above)
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It lasted all of 10 seconds once I started playing.
Ok, maybe 5 seconds. Smae as Win2k3!!! I was running bios default performance options, with APIC off... so I ran Prime 95 for a while, got no errors .... about to try a memtest86 but I'm pretty cetrain the memory is good never had trouble with it before at all and I've tested it before too.
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AMD XP 1900+ (no overclock any more)
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2*512MB DDR266 Samsung 'Transcend' Memory (unbranded really) (16 chip DIMMs)
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a Promise Ultra TX100 Dual IDE Controller card (for CD Rom + expansion)
Enermax 431w PSU / 7200rpm fan on heavy HS.
Windows XP SP1 / DX 9.0a (going to reformat to Win2003)
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I could really do with anyone's working driver config for a windows XP sp1a system, and how to build it from the bottom up. If a given driver config that works 100% for others fails for me I can start hardware troubleshooting and cursing loudly, otherwise with any luck it'll fix my problem.... please help me out i know there are people out there still running NForce 1 boards!
Quick question that could help: what sound driver revision from windows update should i be using? I can get the archived ones....
Thanks,
Naveen.
PS If i manage to fix it i'll update here, but i need a hand plz

.... also, I have the same errors running the same game from Win2k3 on a SCSI drive through the PCI bus (adaptec 29160) on the 2.7 bios. It looks like there is still an issue with fast PCI bus read/writes, sound usage and AGP card usage causing crashes. Discounting the OS change and APIC, I have these scenarios:
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3) Running off scsi drive on Adaptec 29160 card: fails, game locks.
So we may still have an issue with PCI read/writes and stability on bios 2.7 and Nforce system drivers 2.03 ... which is big news really.
I hope one of the moderators can put MSI in the picture and get them or NVidia to look into this. I can try eliminating APIC and the OS/Drivers from the issue, and install the game on all 3 drive configurations to confirm the above if necessary, but it's what it looks like from here. Using Performance bios defaults with no overclock, underclocking didnt help.
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Quick Question: When to use ( ) and when to use [ ] and why the ( *)

Hi all,
A quick question that i'm sure is very simple but is slightly confusing me. I've just started trying to learn Objective-C and am a little confused by ( ) and [ ].
I get that you use the [ ] brackets when you want something specific from an object, i.e.
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I have just taken delivery of my first MacBook Pro so I am new to all that goes on underneath the cover. One quick question though...I had pre-installed three programmes to cover Exel, Word and Powerpoint. Can anyone tell me where to find them?

I have just taken delivery of my very first MacBook Pro so I am new to all that goes on under the cover. Can anyone tell me how I open the pre-installed programmes which are compatible with Word, Excel and Powerpoint?
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Your welcome, gald to be of help
Welcome to Apple Support Communites and to the Mac, after a little time you will be flying!
Make sure if you have not done so yet to run software update to make sure you MBP is up to date, you can do this by clicking on the Apple logo at the top left on your menu bar, and clicking on Software update.
One other thing that will help you when posting here is to make syre your profile is up to date/correct. You have in your profile as of now your MBP model and year which is freat, but you have for your operating system, iOS(mobile devces) 7.02, which would be for and iPhone, iPad, iPod. Your MacBook Pro operates on OSX (which in your case should be 10.8.5, you can find this info under the Apple logo, About this Mac) having this info available to anyone reading a question post is very helpful for them offer advice/sugesstions that may apply to your particular OSX, as well as eliminating confusion.
Thank you for the green check, by marking your respones it helps other users to find solutions if they are having a similar issue, if you are looking for something, after typing yor question, check the right hand side bar under "More Like This" and sometimes you may find an answer there.
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities and enjoy your new Mac.
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I have brightness control, which I used once to lower the brightness, handy, but not a deal breaker for me.
I have "Quick Scroll" don't know if that's the official title, but a letter will show up in the middle of the screen when you are scrolling thru a long list. This has come in handy. I don't have the alphabetical search, where you can use the wheel to select letters, but I don't think I would use it anyway.
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Which model do you currently own? If I were going to purchase a 'new' machine, I would visit the Apple refurbished store and purchase a 15" 2012 NON-RETINA model. It's user upgradable , has USB 3.0 ports (a big plus for me) and is fairly recent. I don't know what I'll do when my machine eventually dies - I've already purchased a Windows notebook to replace it - but I don't see myself giving up on Macs entirely.
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