Bret Williams
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Dropzones don’t actually have a dimension. They take on what you put in them. So if you want them square you’ll need to contain them with a square mask of specific size and placement.
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I think he’s talking about a bullet list and you’re talking about… bullets? ☺
Deysons works pretty well. But making something in Motion that has multiple timing points just isn’t something that doable. Not that I’ve found.
But here’s a trick. Use Deysons plug to manage the text and animated bullets. But to adjust precise timing, simply compound the title effect, then add hold frames to the compound after each line animates in. Then you can just drag the hold duration about to adjust the timing exactly.
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For the ported motion effect, and my plug, (which is just the motion effect published) you’ll get the shakiness thing if you’re using the first few frames of a video clip. Usually, just trim a little off and all is well. It’s a bizarre issue. Making the effect duration hr mitigated some issues, but as you can see there are some weird issues sometimes. Especially if you’re trying to use all of a really long clip. This is probably while Apple hasn’t put it in FCPX themselves.
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Can you offer up a screen shot of the inspector of the plugin?
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They, and Leno, and myself as well, are all just motion template based plugins so there shouldn’t be anything (99.9% of the time) to be a problem in Mojave.
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Glad you got it. i flipped the switch to some Cloudflare hosting stuff that might have taken a few minutes to take effect. Maybe just bad timing.
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Have bumped into it years ago in video production land where that was where the product had to be uploaded, but haven’t heard much in web design land. I see lots of plugins, themes, and page builders that support Vimeo and YouTube or self hosted (maybe brightcove would fall under that category) but I don’t see mention of brightcove being tossed around.
Vimeo is what I use, but occasionally even it isn’t supported. For example my video background in Elementor only supported YouTube or self hosted. Very annoying because YouTube has turned off support for some legacy code that let you embed without the title showing (showinfo=0) so now my embedded video shows the title if you have your browser window scaled very narrow. But it’s a loop and it only shows it’s the first go round.
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I take it back with the gestures. I forgot they do have special gestures so you can scroll and zoom like a trackpad. But still need the computer right there for audio or to get the app you want on the right screen (your iPad). And I found that if the computer falls asleep, it doesn’t all reconnect, so I often have to go back down to the basement, reboot the luna app, etc. So, it’s not really quite as useful as they’d like it to be. And sitting next to my Airport extreme you’d think the wifi is good enough 2.5ghz b/g/n but lots of lag and when you’re playing video everything gets a bit low rez. I don’t doubt with some amazing wifi router or something maybe it’s lag free and super nice image, but the whole experience is just kinda meh, why did I get this?
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And the answer is no. No audio. I ordered one anyway and I’m playing with it. It’s pretty slick, and mostly I like the idea of being able to access my computer in the basement, on my iPad from the living room. I’m trying it on an iPad 2018 9.7” with Apple Pencil. I’ve been playing with final cut and it’s pretty useless. The lag isn’t too bad. But as much as it appears that FCPX was designed for touch screen, it just isn’t. The major culprit is the skimming. Can’t do that with a pencil. And you can’t scroll with gestures, so you need to turn on scroll bars. Mine are off by default, and if you need to scroll down in the browser or timeline, you’ll need to actually grab a scroll bar. I don’t think I’ve done that in about 5 years. On my pad I also don’t have much real estate. Have to close everything but the browser and viewer and timeline.
So what about other apps? Well, maybe if you’re on a big iPad Pro. But one problem I’m having is actually seeing the app. I can launch any app remotely, but it’s always on the wrong screen. There’s no way I can make it be on the iPad if I didn’t drag it over from the computer.
So I think in reality it’s good just to be a second monitor for your laptop. And I think there’s cheaper alternatives for that. I guess it does bring some touch ability to regular apps, but there’s little advantage to being able to touch an app like FCPX if you can’t use touch functions fully. And it’s still quirky. I have a laptop with external display. If I close the laptop, Luna will lose its mind. And If the Mac goes to sleep, Luna on iPad can’t seem to wake it up. Probably send it back.
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Depends on if they’ve incremented the XML version in 10.4.4 and send to x. Can you export it as the previous version of FCPXML with send to X?
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