Question for experienced SDDM modelers

Questions for the more experienced or knowledgeable SDDM users. Knowing what you know now, what advice do you have for experienced data modelers but newbies to the SDDM tool? Are there any posts in this forum you've found most helpful in this regard or to the questions below? I've taken the OTN online training and reviewed the documentation.
I've been data modeling for more than 15 years with ERwin and PowerDesigner and prior to that used Bachman and ADW. Just started a data modeling job that requires me to use a free DM tool (at least for awhile) so I found SDDM.
What SDDM features have you found most useful? and what are short-comings and the work-arounds you've employed?
Have you used SDDM for Dimensional models? Any advice on engineering between Log DM, Rel DM and Dim DMs?
Thank you in advance for any tips!

Check out the articles on this blog: http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/data-modeling/
He is one of the product managers and has great tips with screen shots.

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For all experienced users, a few observations and questions:
1) Is it really true that Compressor 2 takes over 24 hours to encode a 15 minutes piece of 1080i HD video from FCE into an H.264? or am I doing something wrong in the settings?
2) The same piece of video encodes a QT movie in 2 hours but the artifacts make the video look extremely unprofessional (to put it mildly).
3) It cannot be true that after spending this much money on professional equipment, that I receive results this poor. I see that others have voiced the same frustrations with Compressor 2 and DVDSP4, HD video etc. What I am referring too specifically is poor encoding in Compressor ( the answer "get a different piece of software" is not acceptible) and DVD's that have artifacts that make the results look worse in quality that amature video from several years back,
this is why I and others depend on sage counsel from more experienced users. so people with condescending or sarcastic pseudo answers need not reply here.
4) Please recommend a workflow that does not produce artifacts from 1080i HD video, to FCE 3.0.1, to DVDSP4 ( via QT 7 or Compressor 2) using the system speced below.
5) Please also recommend a workflow of the same for video that can go out on the web or for cell phone content. ( refer to the problems with H.264 with web content, and any info you may have on the 3G content)
Thanks
BBP/BR

Well, Mikey and PQRTV or whatever really got to the heart of the reason why I placed that line in my first post:
I got my mac system about a year ago. before I got the system, my cousin the computer genius lovingly teased me because I literally didn't know what a jump drive was. 8 months later, I gave a presentation at the apple store about filmmaking with the mac. my point?
using the mac system as a (professional) tool does require a new thought process ( coming from the PC windows lower ****). I too look(ed) for quick fixes, but a little bit of time with FCE, DVDSP4, Compressor, etc. teaches U very quickly that things take time and patience and study. having no previous IT or computer background, it was and still is a challenge, but I get it more now.
in general, just keep in mind that a post may be from someone who 1) might be new to the idea that You have to think a bit differently when trying to execute processes with a mac/professional system, 2) might not have a whole lot of IT experience ( mac makes it really easy to get Your arms in up to Your elbows really quickly), and 3) is after all a human being who is, when they posted, 4)most likely sleep deprived, working on a dead line and stressed at level 11.
and Yo PD, I thought the weeding video quip was kinda funny but snide. we can at some point "philosofahzize" about what kind of hussle one sometimes has to get into to keep the rent paid while pursuing the real dream.
And as my man Mikey pointed out ( and I'm sure PDFTV and others will agree), authoring, filmmaking, graph design, music, is all an ART FORM and CRAFT and it takes dedication and perseverence to "master" just ONE aspect, let alone those of us who write, produce, shoot, edit, author, burn, make the soundtrack for, make the poster for and finance our own projects. ( raise a fist and go "yeah" if U feel me on that!)
so if U are a newbie, KEEP THAT IN MIND when U are about to pound Your head or the computer or both against the wall becuase it doesn't happen the first time You try.
ANYWHOOOO
I exported the 1080i HD video ( 10 minutes long) from FCE 3.0.1 compression type 1080i60, current frame rate, key frames every 24 frames ( we shot with that cineframe funtion on the camera) and checked frame reordering. data rate automatic and NOT prepared for web streaming. sound: uncompressed 48kHz ( I wanted to take it into DVDSP4) I got a GREAT LOOKING but rather large (1.45 GB) QT movie . my subtitles at the bottom made in FCE looked a bit fuzzy at full screen size, but the Live Type looked GREAT. NO ARTIFACTS in any size. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, DVDSP4 agve me an "imcompatable asset" message when I tried to import it. ( and by the way, it took 2hrs and 10 min to process to QT movie)
SOOOOO.....
From FCE I exported the file to compressor 2, setting: the 90 minute best quality 16:9 MPEG 2 6.2 mbps 2 pass setting. this bad boy LOOKS GREAT and took a whopping 10 HOURS to compress. but my sound file didn't come out (?) so I exported QT movie sound only from FCE and this took 10 seconds. brought them into DVDSP4 and got myself a pretty kick a@@ looking widescreen SD video.
oh, my DVSP4 settings? 4:3 letter box, encode on import ( although since it was already an MPEG2 it was no sweat) with 6.0 mbps min and 7.5 max.
I'll keep in touch on other posts with more experiences. Thanks for the help!
and with this post concider the question offically, answered!
peaceBBP/BR
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Questions for experienced GB3/podcast users

havent read a single thing about podcasting etc
yet i know GB 2 like the back of my hand!
this is what i have in mind to do.
i have 1000's of photos. Pro shooter.
with a theme in mind id like to use ken burns effect and also introduce the themes ive written as background music on GB2 as background for the photo show.
so i would actually in essence have an Imovie with music.
i would then be able to introduce a vocal to narrate where the photos are from and interesting facts about them.
this is what i visualize happening.
now...
do i really need GB3 to do this?
if i do use GB3 to do this what would be the advantages of using it? Can i edit in GB3 my photos to zoom and pan or must that come from an already pre made and imported imovie?
in another words all the podcasting will do for me would be to allow text some unnecessary sound effects????
please differentiate the two if you have experience already with doing imovie and podcasting on GB3. Please dont answer with " i guess you could do that" etc....
ofcourse putting this with iweb to a web site would be the kicker and that will happen.
just the rudiments first
thanks alot
please feel free to rant and rave about GB3 and what it can do for you with respect with my initial question

Hm. Certainly GB won't help you create the photo effects. I actually see two ways to accomplish this feat:
The hard way, if you want an exact sync of pics and music: Do your music in GB, import it into iMovie, edit your slideshow like you would edit a movie, and add the commentary on the second sound track.
Easier, but not very editable: Create a slide show in iPhoto, do your music in GB. While the slide show is running, record your commentary on another track in GB. Mix down the sound in GB and play the slide show in iPhoto, with your finished sound track as background music.
In the second version you have a constant change rate for the pics, automated effects and not very much control about music/picture alignment. And you can only present it, not turn it into a movie.

Please answer a programming question for an admin

I'm not a programmer (although my interest is growing), so I can't answer this question in a discussion regarding how Win32API w/OLE and COM is SO much better than programming for Unix/OS X applications.
The original discussion was in regards to OS X's superior Unix based security, he devolved to this. Having only begun my venture into programming, his questions are a little above my head at this point. I'm also interested (as an amature programmer), how this would be accomplished in OS X/Unix.
Thanks in advance.
Here's his position:
*(1st entry)*
I have unsed Windows and many flavors of Unix and I have written programs in Assembler, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, RPG, Smalltak, Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi, C, C++, C#, Java, and Perl, and I have been programming for over 20 years, so I do have extensive knowledge about programming.
So I have one question for you:
If you had to build a business application that has to allow users to, spell and grammer check, and perform financial calculations, and render the HTML, how would you compare the effort to do this in Windows versus that in Linux, AIX, Solaris or any other Unix operating system?
I can make this business application have these features in ONE DAY on Windows, because COM and OLE lets me, use Word to spell and grammer check, Excel to do the financial calculations, and IE to render the HTML!
I make my living building complex customized business software, and Windows allow me to build these applications by myself in weeks, when it would take me and a team of programmers months to do these same things in Unix because of the lack of an the Win32 API, COM, and OLE, or I would have to BUY third party libraries that did these things, and deal with the licensing, versioning, and vendor problems that go with them, and none of those third party librabries would be close to Word, Excel, and IE in CAPABILITY!
HONESTLY tell me and others reading this thread how you would go about create the customized business application I described above by yourself in a Unix instead of Windows, and tell us how many MONTHS or YEARS it would take you, or how you would have to BUY some other third party libraries to do what Word, Excel, and IE!
Anyone who thinks a Unix has more CAPABILITIES than Windows, has never used Win32API/COM/OLE/.Net, and does not build customized complex business software for a living, because we people that do are the reason that you find some much customized business desktop software for Windows, and so little for any Unix.
I have nothing against Unix, and it is great for simple business tasked server software, but for complex business tasked desktop software Windows with Win32API/COM/OLE/.Net wins hands down!
*(2nd Entry)*
A System administrators view of an operating system and an application developers view are entirely different, and the Win32API/COM/OLE/.NET simply make my job so much easier, and you simply don't understand because you do not have to deal with the "dirty' details of making what a user wants, which is why your definition of "integration" and mines are totally different!
With the spell check you talked about, how will you keep in in synch with the dictionary in Word where the user is constantly adding and removing words?
No, you would have the user to have to maintain two different spell check dictionaries, and you would totally ignore the grammer check requirement!
Cutting and pasting data between applications is simple integration, and not the complex type that I am talking about.
Can you make your application display and use the MacGourmet menus appear in its own window, and to access and use the MacGourmet functionality (ie. search for a recipe) in its own window?
Give me one example of a Unix application that can display the menus of another application, yet alone control its features!
Of course you can't, because you need COM and OLE!
I am quite familiar with different flavors of Unix, but those operating systems do not have the rich API and program integration features namely COM and OLE that Windows has, because it violates the Unix idea of security by process isolation!
Yes that idea of process isolation keeps the operating system safe from malicious code in applications and from one application taking the others down, but you lose the power of programs working together, and you simply cannot build the type of customized business applications that I build by myself, without reinventing the wheel over and over and without having a large team with lots of programmers.
For example, my customers and millions of others spend all day working in Word and Excel, and the Windows idea that I can transparently integrate my complex business applications right in Word and Excel menu, and into their templates and macros, is why third party developers like me prefer Windows over Unix, regardless of how much better security in Unix is.
Do not get me wrong, Java improves business application development on Unix, but unfortuantely it is not feasable to rewrite ever legacy application in Java, and Java does not integrate well with other programming languages.
I used to code business application for both IBM MVS and Sun Solaris, and I never want to go back to those "bad" old days again, once I took the time to learn how to PROPERLY code using Win32API/COM/OLE/.NET!

At risk of feeding the troll I'll wander in here:
NOTE: Since this is an Apple programming boards and I have limited experience programming on traditional Unix systems (and most of that in college) I will confine my answers to the area I know.
If you had to build a business application that has to allow users to, spell and grammer check, and perform financial calculations, and render the HTML, how would you compare the effort to do this in Windows versus that in Linux, AIX, Solaris or any other Unix operating system?
I can make this business application have these features in ONE DAY on Windows, because COM and OLE lets me, use Word to spell and grammer check, Excel to do the financial calculations, and IE to render the HTML!
Note that this scenario assumes the user has Microsoft office installed. The person argues that they don't have to purchase libraries to program but what they are effectively doing is simply transferring that cost to user. I don't have to purchase libraries but everyone of my users needs to. Good for you, very good for Microsoft but bad for your customer - IMHO. OK, I know "But all Windows business users have Office installed already." When it comes free with the system then I'll retract my objection.
Under OS X and Cocoa many of these functions are intrinsic to the system layer and do not require any applications to be installed. Using Cocoa you can write a simple Word processor that has rulers, full font manipulation (including kerning, spacing and leading), Document Save and Load, Printing, Export to PDF as well as spell-checking in under 10 lines of actual code. Adding a custom file type and icon for full system integration will add another 5 minutes to your programing.
In case you think I'm blowing smoke here is a tutorial from 2002 (yes, this has been possible for over 5 years) outlining the 8 line Word Processor build in Cocoa. http://www.stone.com/TheCocoa_Files/What_s_sofunny.html
And yes, Cocoa also includes Webkit so I can add full HTML rendering by dragging in a WebKit window to my user interface. For an experienced Cocoa programmer this certainly sounds like less than a day of programming - in fact it sounds like a good tutorial for a middle-experienced training day or 2 day class in Cocoa.
I won't include the link to the 1 line web browser you can build in Cocoa using Webkit because it's shorter than the description. Feel free to search for it if you want to.
HONESTLY tell me and others reading this thread how you would go about create the customized business application I described above by yourself in a Unix instead of Windows, and tell us how many MONTHS or YEARS it would take you, or how you would have to BUY some other third party libraries to do what Word, Excel, and IE!
BUT this is all done from the stock system that is on every OS X computer not simply those with Office installed. Obviously you'd need to add some features that were more complicated than this - because any halfway decent programmer could turn this stuff out - and polish takes a while but to meet the requirements of the challenge it would take 2 days tops.
Is every *nix programming environment like this? I don't know I can only answer for the system that I have experience with and is the concern of this board. If you really have questions regarding *nix programming then I suggest you find an appropriate board and troll^H^H^H^H^H ask there.
If you're ever serious about programming on the Mac feel free to stop by and actually take a look at it. I think you'll be surprised.
=Tod

Questions for I/O interface experts

I have few questions for I/O interface experts:
I have a Power Mac G5 2.3 Ghz 8GB of RAM, PCI-X slots, and am running Final Cut Studio FC version 6. I currenly have an HD project on my timeline (uploaded directly form a P2 card via 400FW), and I'd like to be able to output on a HD VTR deck as wellas a BetacamSP deck:
1) which AjA Kona cards (3, LHe, LH) is right for me?
2) did you personally experience, or are you aware of any issues with this Kona card and Final Cut version 6? Any tips before I purchase?
3) will this card allow me to output uncompressed HD, that is, the same quality I uploaded?
4) in which of the slots on my back tower does it go? 64bit 100MHz or 64bit 133MHz?
Cheers,
Rinaldo

I think FireWire is probably the best route.
The main difference between the two seem to be that the 1814 has more inputs and the ADAT interface, the 410 has more outputs.
So are you planning on recording, then go for the 1814.
If you envision that 2 mics and 2 inputs is enough for your recording needs and you eventually want to mix surround you'd need the 410 as it is the one with enough outputs.
If you want specific advice about interfaces I suggest you ask in the Logic forums as those users would be most experienced with this aspect of an audio system.

Question for dketcham and redfalconf35 regarding their "homework" solutions

I have a question for dketcham and redfalconf35 regarding their "homework" solutions in my handy-dandy homework solutions thread:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5227051&messageID=9925415#9925415

I promise I came up with that completely without the use of these forums!
(Well, with the exception of the quality commenting, which is a vital part of any "urgent" set of code)
Also, regardless of the question, the answer is 42, as any experienced programmer should know.

How can you change your security question for I tunes?

How can you change your security question for I tunes?

If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) set up on your account then the steps half-way down this page give you a reset link on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your questions) then you will need to contact iTunes Support / Apple to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps half-way down the HT5312 link above to add a rescue email address for potential future use

I have a new email address and my old email keeps coming up on icloud when trying to update apps and i don't know the password or security questions for the old email. I can sign in with my apple id which is tied to another email but not itunes how to fix

I have an apple id and it has my current email attached to it. however when i go to update apps it's asking for the password for an old email. I no longer have the old email and can't use it. when I go to icloud on my ipad it asks for the password for old email. it doesn't allow me to change the old email to current. when i go to reset it i can't remember the password or security questions for the old email so it doesn't let me go any further. How do I fix this? Do i need to call apple support?

I have the same problem - it is maddening. I rely on this iPad for work so this is not just an annoyance! The above solutions of changing the appleid on the device or on the website do not work.
The old email address no longer exists - I haven't used it in a year probably and I no longer have the account. I logged into the appleid website and there is no trace of the old email address so there is nothing that can be deleted or changed there. On the iPad there is no trace of the old email address so nothing can be deleted there either. I have updated the iPad software and the same problem comes right back. Every 2 seconds I am asked to log in using the old non-existent email. The device is currently useless.
The only recent change to anything was the addition of an Apple TV device, which was set up using the correct login and password.
Does anyone have any ideas? The iPad has been backed up to the iCloud so presumably it now won't recognize the current iCloud account? So restoring may notbe an option?

I am having trouble answering my old security questions for my itunes account and it is creating a problem because I am not able to purchase apps/songs on my new IPAD. What phone number/email adress should I call to get a quick response to my issue?

I have recently bought an IPAD 2 for my girlfriend and have encountered a problem with purchasing apps through my itunes account. It is requesting that I not only enter my pasword (which I know) but answer my old account questions, which I have forgotten the answers to. It had since locked me out of changing my questions for eight hours. Is there any number I can call to prove that I am the real owner of my itunes account so my girlfriend will be able to use her ipad to purchase new apps without having to go through the trouble of using one of my other apple devices? Random information: I believe my questions were set back in 2007 when I purchased my first ipod nano, since then I have used this same itunes account for my own ipod touch and ipad 2 and my girlfriends iphone 1st generation. I have never run into a problem regarding my questions before on any of these devices

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/

Can somebody give some real time questions for alv report

hi guru
can somebody give some real time questions for alv report.
answers also.
regards
subhasis.

hi,
The ALV is a set of function modules and classes and their methods which are added to program code. Developers can use the functionality of the ALV in creating new reports, saving time which might otherwise have been spent on report enhancement
The common features of report are column    alignment, sorting, filtering, subtotals, totals etc. <b>To implement these, a lot of coding and logic is to be put. To avoid that we can use a concept called ABAP List Viewer (ALV).</b>
Using ALV, we can have three types of reports:
   1. Simple Report
   2. Block Report
   3. Hierarchical Sequential Report
<b>Reward useful points</b>
Siva

Please read my question carefully, this is, I think, a question for the experts. It's not the usual name change question. When I setup my new MacBook Pro, something slipped by me and my computer was named First-Lasts-MacBook-Pro (using my real first and

Please read my question carefully, this is, I think, a question for the experts. It's not the usual name change question.
When I setup my new MacBook Pro, something slipped by me and my computer was named First-Lasts-MacBook-Pro (using my real first and last name).
I changed the computer name in Preferences/Sharing to a new name and Preferences/Accounts to just be Mike. I can right click on my account name, choose advanced, and see that everything looks right.
However, If I do a scan of my network with my iPhone using the free version of IP Scanner, it lists my computer as First-Lasts-MacBook-Pro! And it lists the user as First-Last.
So even though another Mac just sees my new computer name, and my home folder is Mike, somewhere in the system the original setup with my full name is still stored. And it's available on a network scan. So my full name might show up at a coffee shop.
Can I fully change the name without doing a complete re-install of Lion and all my apps?

One thought... you said the iPhone displayed your computer's old name? I think that you must have used the iPhone with this computer before you changed the name. So no one else's iPhone should display your full name unless that iPhone had previously connected to your Mac. For example, I did this exact same change, and I use the Keynote Remote app to connect with my MacBook Pro. It would no longer link with my MacBook Pro under the old name, and I found that I had to unlink and then create a new link under the new name. So the answer to your question is, there is nothing you need to do on the Mac, but rather the phone, and no other phone will display your full name.

I seem to not enter the correct answers to my security questions for itunes to buy an in-app purchase and also cannot answer the questions exactly like i answered them when creating the account for my ipod, how do i find out what answers i put

I seem to not enter the correct answers to my security questions for itunes to buy an in-app purchase and also cannot answer the questions exactly like i answered them when creating the account for my ipod, how do i find out what answers i put for my ipod touch and itunes?

Try these previous discusssions:
recover answers to security questions: Apple Support Communities
how do i change apple ID security...: Apple Support Communities

I want to reset my privacy questions for my apple i.d. But when i request to do so it sends it to a email address that isnt on my file can anyone tell me why its not working?

I want to reset my privacy questions for my apple i.d. But when i request to do so it sends it to a email address that isnt on my file can anyone tell me why its not working?

1) Apple ID: All about Apple ID security questions
Torrifromny wrote:
I want to reset my privacy questions for my apple i.d. But when i request to do so it sends it to a email address that isnt on my file ?
2) See Here. Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
Ask to speak with the Account Security Team...
3) Or Email Here > Apple Support iTunes Store Contact

I can't reterive sequerity question for my apple id

i can't reterive sequerity questions for my apple id
<Email Edited by Host>

You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of contacting them include clicking here and picking a method for your country, phoning AppleCare and asking for the Account Security team, and filling out and submitting this form.
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Can anyone help or answer this question for me. Is there a way to have a private album for pictures sent to my phone? Don't exactly want kids ( niece and nephew ) to play on my phone and see private pictures of my girlfriend

Can anyone help or answer this question for me. Is there a way to have a private album for pictures sent to my phone? Don't exactly want kids ( niece and nephew ) to play on my phone and see private pictures of my girlfriend

What about this?
https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/best-secret-folder/id488030828?l=en&mt=8

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