[Alan Lacey]

Making progress now with this Adam. I found a 2010 posting of yours telling to use the point cache tag and then the bake object in the timeline to convert the animated deformed object to PLA.

Haven’t got it working perfectly yet but think I’m on the way now.

Many thanks

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Adam,

It works perfectly when I attach the controlled object to the reference object, however the reference object has a bend deformer on it and I’m after the controlled object moving with the bend result. The reference object’s hierarchy is ‘hypernurbs/polygons/bend’ and when I create the xpresso list as given it works perfectly with the object but not with the bent object. It’s the bend deformer that’s animated. I tried making the reference object the hypernurbs, the polygon object and the bend but none worked as hoped.

Do you think this is possible in xpresso? If not is there a way of creating a frame by frame PLA polygon sequence of the bend (it’s animated over about 4 sec.) thus getting rid of the deformer?

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Pleasure Don and good luck.

I was brought up using a tablet instead of a mouse right from the start. We had a DOS based graphics workstation called a SpaceWard SuperNova, a sort of poor mans Quantel Paintbox. It had a tethered pen and large tablet with all the controls spread around it. Based on a Pluto board and great fun to use. The real challenge was that Pluto was only 8 bit output but accessing a 24bit lookup table. As far as I remember the whole unit cost over £125k, how things have changed.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Hi Don,

I’ve been editing for years using various tablets, including the Intuous range although mainly PC and some FCP legacy and just love it. I’ve little experience of FCPX and none of navigating the timeline with it but I just set up easy keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out of the TL.

One small point I’ll mention is that I like using the pen like a pencil, resting the side of my hand on the tablet surface, using only small movements of the pen. I set this up in the tablet driver software using their mapping facility to map only a small, top left hand corner area, of the tablet to the whole screen. Works well for me.

Another thing you could do is assign one of the hardware controls on the Wacom, like the rotary controller on the Intuous4, to zoom in and out of the timeline.

Cheers Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

BUT.. It is formatted ExFAT. Having said that, the ‘save as’ command doesn’t open the dialogue at all, so no opportunity to save as test to the desktop.

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

No, I wish! (it was as simple as that!)

A

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Matt, that’s what I feared.

A

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Brian, it is very confusing. I did manage to solve this problem by just worrying away at it the way you suggested but didn’t feel I got a good understanding.

Originally I managed to get myself in a position where the previews showed the animation as I needed it but when I rendered it out it went to pot.

Alan

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Haven’t got a modern Compressor Jeremy, is it worth having?

A

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK

[Alan Lacey]

Olaf, that really takes me back. I remember out first TBC had enough memory for 16 lines of PAL SD! Even then the manufacturer (IVC) designed the system and then had to wait for delivery of the memory chips.

Alan(UK)

XdcamEx & HD, C300, DSLRs, all sorts of production & post gear and a very untidy desk. On the East Coast of the UK