Smooth loop transition

I've created a flash movie using a 4-layer photoshop file
imported to stage and added stops for 0% and 100% alpha color with
tween motions. It looks great except the transition from the last
layer back to the first. I've tried changing the beginning layer
from starting at 0% to starting at 25% and changing the final tween
to only fade to 25% instead of 0%. It's a lot better but still not
as seamless as the other tweens. Any suggestions or tricks?

Hi,
Why not try adding a gotoAndPlay(2); action to your last
frame.
Or put the action on the frame which corresponds with frame
2.
Just a thought
Thanks
Alan

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I've been trying to find out how you make smooth page
transitions
on top of my currentpage no matter which page I got loaded
and
no matter what section I go to next.
What I mean is that I wanna use the same animation ON TOP of
the
current page so that it gets covered while swithing to
another section
of the website. I dont want help with the actual animation
but I wanna
know how I apply it easily and correctly to my webpage.
To show you what I mean check these professional web
templates
(just click on the different sections a few times and you'll
understand
what Im talking about:
http://www.template-help.com/screenshots/13400/13416.swf
http://www.template-help.com/screenshots/13600/13613.swf
Thx for listening/ AquaStealth

Wow, those transitions chugged on my machine.
Anyway, there are probably several ways to accomplish the
same effect. Looks like they just chose to run their "transition"
movie clip on top of the other stuff. So, if you clicked on a
button to go to another section, your transition movie clip plays,
covering the other images. When it hits the keyframe that it's
completely covering the images underneath, actionscript tells the
main timeline (or loaded swfs/jpegs) to advance to the next
section. Once there, the movie clip on top is told to continue,
therefore revealing the new section.

Timeline tip: did you know you can smooth multiple transitions at once?

Yes, you can :-)
Steps:
1. In the Timelines panel, control/shift click the transitions you care about.
2. Click the arrow to the right of the "Smooth Transitions" button to show the Smooth Transition Options dialog. Adjust options in this dialag as you desire.
3. Click the "Smooth Transitions" button in the Timeline.
All the selected transitions will be smooth according to your options
Tips:
- By default, smoothing will not change effects you have manually edited or added. To make the timeline clear out customizations you have made and just create new smooth effects, then check the "overwrite existing effects" option in the Smooth Transition Options dialog
- The "Fade Out - Move - Fade In" option in the Smooth Transition Options dialog gives you a common transitions design pattern. All objects disappearing from a state will fade out first, followed by any objects that move/resize/rotate, followed by objects that fade in to the new state. An example of where to use this is in a collapsible panel that hides and shows content. You don't want the panel to resize and collapse before its contents have faded out first. This option gives you that effect.

Hi Steve - if you are asking whether it is possible to change the duration of a number of transitions simultaneously as a group, then the answer is 'Yes'. You simply select them all (Command+Click), and in the Transitions Pane adjust the duration and hit 'Update'.
It is not possible to adjust the length of movie clips in that way, although it is of course possible to adjust the duration of a batch of photographs.
Has that answered your question?

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This may be more of a graphic design question than a photo editing question, but it seems like something that could be done in Photoshop Elements. Please let me know if this is out of the scope of PSE.
I am trying to create a smooth transition of colors say from a dark type of blue towards a lighter blue. I have inserted a part of an image that shows what I am trying to explain below. You can see how the darker pink gradually but smoothly turns to a lighter pink. I have been trying to achieve this with a blue stripe that I am working on, but when I do it, you can see a clear and defined point where the colors start to change, and I don't want that effect. I want to create this smooth and gradual lightening or darkening (whichever way you want to look at it) of the color without there appearing to be a distinct line where the colors all of the sudden change. I have tried the fade option with the brush, blending modes and am just not getting anywhere fast. I am hoping I can learn how to achieve an effect like this, but if it is some kind of real complex graphic design skill, then I don't know.
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Lee

You mean like this?
Use a gradient.

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Hello I am making a slideshow using Premiere Pro CS4. To burn a quick dvd to see how things look on a tv I am picking dynamic link to encore then just setting title button and end and burning it. When I view the dvd on a hd tv places where I have pictures moving (side to side, zooming in/out) as well as some transitions just are not super smooth. Is there somethiing I might be doing wrong? I would think an $800 program could get this, so I am assuming I am doing something wrong. Is there somewhere I can or should be using a HD setting? The pictures I am using in the program are in jpeg format (if that makes any difference). I just want a super clear and clean looking movie, please help me!
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You are on the right path. An NTSC (or PAL) calibrated CRT monitor will be SD. The two things that it allows will be perfect calibration/re-calibration of the colors and gamma, plus they show 100% of the feed, and do not "overscan," like most CRT TV's.
Now, HD is a can-o-worms, as there are different flavors of it, and different equipment handles it in a different fashion. Also, the proliferation of various types of display, LCD, LED, Plasma, etc., mean that calibration to any sort of "norm" is almost impossible. You can test it on a handlful of equipment and shoot for the middle, in hopes that your particular client will have the settings on similar gear to match what you adjusted to.
You could adjust for the same model of plasma TV that your client has, but because you live in San Diego and he lives in Leadville, CO, at 10,500', the displays will differ. Will it be enough to matter? Maybe.
I doubt that there will ever be an iron-clad standard with HD. If there is, then next month there will be a breakthrough with technology, and when those sets start selling, all bets are off. It was so easy for so long - use an NTSC calibrated CRT and you were good to go (though the client could have the color all out of whack, but that would be for their line in signal, as well).
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I've had a new Intel iMac for literally two months now, to replace my aging revA G5 iMac, and have not yet found the time to get it set up. I'm hoping to get to it this Sunday.
One thing that's been holding me up is the desire to have the transition as smooth as possible and worry that it might not be. This is a production machine (maybe not in the traditional sense, but I run my life on it, so that makes it "production" for me) and I don't like the idea of rocky transitions, particularly in the area of data and app migration.
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c) a couple of other infrequently-used user accounts (e.g., a couple of guests that very occasionally use the machine)
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1. So, first question is whether Migration Assistant can handle that kind of setup. I seem to remember using it successfully when migrating from my G4 iMac to my G5. My G4 iMac had four partitions (this was in the early days of OS X when some were recommending putting OS 9 on a separate partition). I don't remember what I did but do seem to remember using Migration Assistant for most of it.
2. Second question: I assume I will have to repartition the HD on the Intel iMac and reinstall OS X from the DVDs if I want more than one partition on my HD. I'll probably do 2 partitions again and leave a bunch of free space (not included in any partition) for other uses later. So my first boot should be directly from the install DVD.
If I do that, can I still use the Migration Assistant? Again, I'm thinking I must have done this when I set up the G5 five years ago. What would my procedure be, if it's not going to be really obvious?
3. I have all my data backed up to multiple external HDs using Retrospect 6. My alternative would be to restore data from the backups. The main issues with this approach are: (a) it might not be quite as "put it back exactly as it was" as Migration Assistant would do things (although Retrospect is *supposed* to do it); and (b) I don't have Retrospect 8 yet, and there continue to be reports of problems with it (although 8.1 or 8.2 or whatever they are up to now) is supposed to have resolved a number of the very significant problems with the 8.0 release.
So the next question: Should Retrospect 6 run under Rosetta under 10.6? Would you trust it to do so when restoring your data? Would you trust the latest Retrospect 8 to do so? Which would you pick?
4. Finally: I have read scattered reports of problems with using Migration Assistant to migrate from a PPC to an Intel Mac. Some of them seem to just involve slow performance in web browsers, possibly caused by PPC plugins or other lurking PPC code that I guess would require Rosetta to run, slowing down performance. (I have the tricked-out i7 machine so I'm not that worried about sluggish performance, although it makes sense to ferret out unneeded PPC code of course.) There may have been other problems reported as well but I don't remember what they are at the moment -- I'll have to look some more.
So: Is the Collective Mind aware of problems with MA in migrating PPC -> Intel, and if so, thoughts on preventing/mitigating the issues?
Thanks so very much. I know this is a ton of questions. I'm grateful to you for helping smooth out this transition.

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So Disk Utility in 10.6 lets you "hot"-resize partitions?
That came in with Leopard.
I had considered moving my primary user's home folder to the boot partition, based on advice in this forum (adaptive hot file clustering, etc). But it sounds like in some ways it may be simpler to make the initial setup more or less identical to my current one, and then change it later.
Probably. I haven't tested whether you can restore a second partition to the one you're running from; if not, it would take a couple of extra steps to get the home folders there without screwing up the permissions. And I always try to only make one big change at a time.
Since I have 1 TB to play with on the new machine, and only 250 GB +(edit: 150 GB)+ on the old one, I have plenty of room to create large partitions. My understanding from the links you posted is that I can enlarge a partition as well as shrink it (as long as the enlarged partition doesn't bump into an existing partition, and after backing everything up of course
Mostly. You can expand a partition "down" in the diagram DU shows, but not "up."
I wonder if I can create free space in between partitions in Disk Utility.
Yes, sort of, by making, then deleting a partition. But since you can't move or expand a partition "up," I can't think of a reason to do that. (I understand some other utilities can do that.)
You posted some reasons in this thread about why separate partitions are not recommended (seek times, adaptive hot file clustering), and I understand those. Are there others?
Those are the main ones I'm familiar with. Another (that you probably won't run into for a long time, if ever) is that if you guess wrong, you may either waste a lot of space on the OSX partition, or have too little there, with potentially nasty consequences.
One reason I've persisted in this partitioning scheme has to do with backups and restores, although I may be totally off base in this. I've envisioned some scenario where something on my boot volume gets so badly hosed that an Erase and Install is the best cure. But if my primary user data resides on a separate partition it would seem to make it much easier to get back in business -- I wouldn't have to worry about restoring my primary user data. The other user accounts on the boot volume would of course have to be restored.
There is no +Erase and Install+ anymore. No +Archive and Install,+ either. Just Install. It replaces OSX with a fresh version, without disturbing anything else. It even preserves configuration and settings in /Library, and files installed there by 3rd-party apps. Rather amazing!
Some folks do that, of course (perhaps out of old Windoze habits), but it's rarely required, or does any good on OSX. In some unusual situations, perhaps it would help. A couple of very experienced users here have not done a so-called "clean install" since 10.2!
I assume Setup Assistant will guide me through the steps of hooking up the old machine and booting it. I don't know if it needs to boot in Target Disk Mode for this to work, but I strongly suspect it does.
Yes. If you choose to transfer directly from it, which is probably best. You can also transfer from a clone (and, once you're on SL, a Time Machine backup). All documented in excruciating detail in [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Snow Leopard > Installation and Setup+ forum).
Thanks again. I'll post back after the surgery.
Cool. Fingers crossed here.

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I built a 10 second introduction text animation in LiveType & brought it into DVDSP.
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