Gary Alan
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I have done that before. Maybe we misunderstood or I misunderstood. That does not help me having a zoom in and out on the FCP timeline. I can easily drag the cursor on the timeline instead of using the mouse H scroll on the ball. Thanks for the info anyways.
Gary
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The beta version has tutorials. I am on a Mac now and I did the CS3 stuff on a PC when it came out for public trial. It was in the area of using the Magic Wand for selection. Much better and easier than the older versions. Sorry I can’t be more specific. Just don’t have it running now in front of me. The tutorials had a picture of a cowboy demonstrating the new tool.
Gary
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tghe new CS3 PS makes it easier with some new tools for creating the cutout
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can you help me with the mouse scroll assign? i see no way in the system prefs to reassign the scroll action to horiz. i would love to have the scroll wheel on this mouse zoom in and out on the FCP timeline when i have focus on the FCP timeine. It should zoom in and out around the timeline cursor position and center in the view. It now only scrolls tracks vertically. I added two buttons on the toolbar for just zooming out, but the mouse scroll would be the easiest way. I don’t mind going to the scrpll bars pm the side to move through tracks vert.
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i will race you with one had tied behind my back using only a mouse and win the contest. 🙂 to each their own. the keyboard junkies will always have to reach for the mouse at some point juyst as we have to type on the keys evry so often. besides, how do hold your coffee ith both hands on the keys?
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you also need to move the cutout image foreward in 3D space so the AE camera moves around to simulate the look of depth
Gary
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30″s is way out of range. more like the 80’s when computers fina;lly came around and men started typing with all 10 fingers. I’s rather watch the monitor instead of small keys. how can three keystrokes be a shortcut over one mouse click on a tool bar? How can anyone remember the longcuts for 10 or twenty different apps when they are all different? I use maybe twenty apps in pro work. FCP, Livetpe, DVD SP, Shake, Motion, Sountrack, AR, PS, Maya, C4D….. etc
what mouse allows horiz scroll wheel? i have the mac wireless mighty and it lacks a lot of resetting functions. for some reason mac thinks people only want to launch apps with mouse buttons.
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I am a mouse person and I do not like using Longcuts (usually cslled shortcuts) sine they usually require two hands (taking one hand off the mouse), looking down at the keyboard, finding all three keys for the longcut and then looking back up to make sure it happened. Pf course the keyboardf junkies out there will disagree and say they hate the mouse. When I went to school, girls took typing to be a secretary and the guys took shop. 🙂
I use the button list and make toolbars as needed. I want to find a way to make the mouse scroll wheel do the zoom in and out like Sony Vegas. It was my favorite tool in Vegas sine I use it a lot in each session. A shame the scroll wheel is just sitting there to unly scroll tracks vertically.
Gaey
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IQ Nill
Even better. 🙂
Thanx,
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I just did it using Sony Vegas and Photoshop. For the sake of simplity and speed, I just used two frame grabs from the example clip only for this experiment. In other words I borrowed the cold parchment paper look and the line artwork of the castle. You should create your own new background, artwork and text for copyright reasons.
Two layers. Track 1 is text and it just dissolves in at the appropriate time in the center.
Track 2 consists of two pics. The first pic is the full blank gpld parchment as seen in the beginning of the clip with the spotlight effect for a hot middle and darker round corners. A circle gradient mask with feather and transparency would also do it. Duplicate that pic and then add to that duplicate pic the line artwork with the center area painted black where the text ends up.
Do a gradient transition between the two pics. Something like a cloud gradient will work. A noise generator could also do it. It just needs the black, grey and white gradient to create the wipe effect.
It’s the gradient wipe that makes the effect. This could be done in AE instead of Vegas and probably any other NLE tha can do gradient wipes. The parchment could also be created in some 3D apps like Cinema 4D with a rust style shader and tweaking. Or, find some sample pics on the web and recreate it in PS. Same for the line artwork.
Gary