[Dave Gage]

[Bret Williams] ”
Ah. I think some don’t look at the forum in thread view and realize replies are to a specific post and not just a linear discussion so it’s not generally needed to quote.”

Yep. Thanks to the recent addition by Tim, I now always view in the new option of “View Posts by Topic (Date Updated)”. The lack of quoting in these threads when viewing this way has always been a bit of a hassle. To figure out which post a new post is referring to I sometimes have to scroll up to guess which post was the one they were responding to. Most of the time I figure it out, but not always.
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Hey Tim if you’re following this thread…

Any chance of adding the option after “Reply” of “Reply with Quote”? I think most new posters and some veterans aren’t aware of the “Q” trick you can use after you hit the Reply link. This would help solve this particular problem when viewing by topic.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Tim Wilson] “So Dave, I passed your comment along to our IT Director, who took a stab at it. I think it looks great, but I’d love to hear what you think.

His name for it is “View posts by Topic (Date Updated),” which is the third one down.

How’d we do?”

Tim,

That’s great! I hadn’t been here for 2 days. This thread got buried on page two of topics. I typically don’t go to page two, but I was looking specifically for this topic. When I read the thread, I came back and chose the newly created view, this post came up on the first page so it’s doing what it should. It’s very cool that you can do the programming changes in-house.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Tim Wilson] “– For this forum in particular, I HIGHLY recommend setting the View Posts by Thread pop-up to “View posts by Newest.””

Tim,

Is there any way to add an option for:
“View Posts by Topics (most recently updated at the top)”

So, it’s basically a cross between the view you mentioned and the topic view and then whichever topics has been most recently updated are at the top with the most recent update number 1. This is the way most forums these days seem to be set up.

I like the fact that you give the users a choice as of how to view, but I think it’s missing this one choice. I typically view this forum and other Cow forums by topic and spanning a week, but I do miss out any new posts from longer than a week. If this new view is doable, then even a topic from a month back would pop to the top with a new post in it.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] ”
What I meant was, this forum defaults to a 4 day view.”

Yah. I get it every couple of months where the forum seems to forget my settings. I tend to use “1 WeeK” and “Topic”, but it forgets sometimes.

[Dave Gage]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Yepp.”

Robin,

I appreciate that, I can figure it out from here. That appears to be exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Yes, that’s a simple BLOOM transition. Available by default in FCP.”

Okay, I see it now. I incorrectly thought this was a “flash” as it looks like a camera flash to me.

I don’t like the way it looks by default in FCPX and there are no controls for it in the Inspector. I own, but have never used Motion. Do you know if there are other control parameters that could be applied to the transition in Motion? It would be nice to at least be able to control the amount of “bloom” and size and location, etc.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Bret Williams] “Sounds like you’re talking more about a lens flare with a blend mode.”

I don’t think so. Here’s the best I could find in about a 20 minute search-
https://video.foxnews.com/v/3877306671001/tahmooressi-i-gladly-took-prison-beating/#sp=show-clips/primetime

It’s at about 11 seconds in. It’s not the best example (and a bit of a strange clip), but the first I could find. I did a freeze-frame and then screenshot and it appears that the “flash” is only affecting the highlights of the frame.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Bret Williams] ”
I’ve never seen that. I see blooms and flashes all the time. Never seen it not affect the background.”

I’ll see if I can hunt down an example. It’s clearly a very simple transition, possibly one that just blooms or flashes the center of the frame.

If I don’t get this particular type transition happening, what would work for a quick non-intrusive transition between sentences? I’ve tried tons of things the last couple of years and have not been very happy with anything. Most transitions for this purpose are either much too much or too little which is why I like the quick flash look.

(By the way, your hood was brought up earlier. My first thought was the Green Arrow hood look a la the new CW “Arrow” show.)

[Dave Gage]

[Charlie Austin] “Maybe because the BG is keyed in, so there are 2 sources.”

Sorry, I guess I didn’t explain it very well. These are clips of speeches of talking heads like Pres Obama that get cut at end of sentences or even mid-sentence. There is only one source, the original clip. It’s a very quick flash that happens between words, not the whole screen, just the subject.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Bret Williams] “Publishing the strobe effect.”

Funny you mention the Strobe effect, I’ve been meaning to ask this question for a few weeks now:

I see on cable news where they use a few frame transition between talking head quotes which is enough to show that a cut has been made between two different thoughts, but not long enough to cut off any audio between the two shots in an awkward way. I’ve seen this done with the Strobe or Flash transition, but my FCPX version strobes the whole frame whereas on the news, the strobe is merely on the subject and the background remains the same.

1. Can this transition be modified in Motion to make it like the cable news version?

2. What other transitions are typically used for this kind of very quick cut that leaves the audio intact and is not too visually jarring?

Thanks,
Dave