[Dylan Murphy]

Thanks – good advice about replacing with a obvious “flag” texture – but the project was so convoluted and scary i chickened out and went with the very tedious, very manual way – opening each material in the material editor and clicking thru each parameter one by one and checking the texture – when it was one of the bad/missing ones – I cleared it. This wouldn’t have been a big deal with most projects, but when you have a hundred materials (!) IF ANYONE FROM MAXON EVER READS THIS – TAKE NOTE – THIS TEXTURE MANAGEMENT THING NEEDS TO BE EASIER AND MORE INTUITIVE

[Dylan Murphy]

bad textures mean errors when trying to save as project – that’s what I’m trying to get around

[Dylan Murphy]

Finally got back to this problem – if you’re new to C4D like me – and searching for an answer for this – I got the best result using an animated Plain Effector to reduce the scale uniformly to -1 (to obscure and reveal the text) and used basic keyframing of text parameter to change the text before a reveal.

[Dylan Murphy]

Hi Walt,

been following your imac issues with some interest as I have to purchase some new hardware for the next big project (requires shared storage) any word on the new imacs? Same controller? Same problem?

I’ve been searching but haven’t found out yet.

[Dylan Murphy]

New imacs out today – anyone heard if they have a new ethernet setup (fingers crossed)

[Dylan Murphy]

Thanks, I saw that – but it’s for windows. I’m on a mac.

[Dylan Murphy]

thanks for your response, but I seriously doubt I’m going to depend on Boris. As I said, I love the easing, but JAYSUS – it crashes FCP 7 every 120 seconds with a message blaming it on the BCC NRTAII plugin (whatever that is).

This wasn’t happening before I brought the pan/zoom plug into the sequence.

I’m just glad I’m working on a client’s system and I didn’t shell out a grand for this misery out of my own pocket.

Pardon my bitterness, but it’s very late and this issue has kept me here for many wasted hours.

[Dylan Murphy]

Just experienced this “op not allowed” error out of the blue.

Was able to get out of it and recreate it.

Luckily, I didn’t have any work I feared losing, so I quit FCP and re-launched.

In a new session, I was able to make changes and re-save them without issue. So, in my case, it had nothing to do with prefs or permissions.

I retraced my steps and performed the same actions that led to the error message – hitting save successfully after each one – UNTIL (dramatic music…)

I shift-deleted a nested sequence.

This gets me the save error message every time.

go figya

[Dylan Murphy]

Craig,

I’m in the same boat – do you know what they used to convert to solid 10fps animation?

Much appreciated

[Dylan Murphy]

So here was the low cost solution (in case anyone finds themselves in a similar spot)

The tapeless JVC had no firewire out – so I used the A/V analog out (RCA)

plugged into the 80 dollar elgato video capture

https://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Video-Capture/product1.en.html

which plugged into the USB port of the macbook pro in DC

The software that came with it had a decent preview image capability (never used it to capture)

then from LA, I connected via ichat and asked to share the macbook pro screen

I could watch the compressed preview screen and when I needed to see more clearly

I used a nice freeware utility called SnapNdrag (on the macbook) which allowed me to capture a still of just the preview window and drag it to my desktop 3,000 miles away

It was a bigger, cleaner image than you got from the camera’s flip out LCD

it worked!