Simple how to question ...

... here is the situation: I'm brand new to Motion ... I received footage and applied some simple lower thirds to it ... now, I received much higher resolution footage ... how can I re-use/merge/export the motion effects I created with/to the new high resolution footage?
It is probably not the correct venue, but I'm kinda under the gun timeline wise.
Thank you.

Alan, brief follow-up question: I finally got the new footage (1280x720 ... oh my, so crisp!) ... I imported the elements from my first, low res project ... all good ... but now I can not move the imported elements freely ... I can move the group (the "old" project was 720 x 486) within the new canvas, but individual elements "disappear outside the old canvas dimensions ... almost like a mask has been imported, masking everything beyond the old dimensions ...
Thanks again,
Stephan

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Simple Design Analysis Question before designing dimensions and facts

Hi I have a simple question ... (I think its simple)
Suppose that i have the following staging table with the following columns:
Student_Name | RollNo | Test_Date | Subject-Taken
with data such as
Kevin |123|12-4-2010|Physics
now suppose that I want to design a cube on the basis of the above table so that I can succesfully get the result of a query such as
List the names of all those students who took the test b/w 12-4-2010 to 12-5-2010 of the Subject Physics
Here what i need to know what dimensions/Levels would u set and what would be our fact?
I think that one dimension would be time ( but i am not sure how i would accommodate and handle duration... any idea )
would it be wise to make each column a dimension ??? for example the student_nanme a dimension and details of the student its attributes??
Anyways the main thing is what bothers me is looking at the query we see that we are required 3 things the name of the student , the TestDate and subject taken so if i make the 3 columns the dimension i am still not sure that i would be able to acomodate the query properly...any ideas on how to approach and handle these situations
Edited by: Johnacandy on Dec 14, 2010 9:26 AM

ScoobySi wrote:
Yes I mean Time dimension, however in a DW you will have many Time dimensions, instead of creating a physical object for each you use a ROLE. If you edit a dimension in OWB you'll see that you can specify a ROLE on the first tab.
Thanks for the great explaination... could you explain the process of roles a little more that will really save me some time... furthermore u stated
+ "instead of creating a physical object for each you use a ROLE" +
The way i create dimensions is right clicking dimensions and selecting dimension.... for a standard dimension
however incase of a time dimension i use a wizard... I am still a bit confused about "Physical objects" ... Id really really appreciated it if you can clarify this up...
as discussed before one dimension would be Student and other would be subject
and 3rd one would be TEST_DATE with role ?? and should that be a time_dimension or a standard dimension with a role defined ???

Simple how to question ...

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