[John Nelson]

Good morning.

Thank you all for your input. I’ll get busy today with my trusty search engine once more, this time looking for ‘how to rip pal dvd’s’

Have a great day (supposed to nick the century mark here).

Roswell+1947+Cute little Greenies=Big $$$

[John Nelson]

Again, many thanks for your replies. Hadn’t really worked with, or tried using behaviors rather than keyframes. Still have miles to go before I sleep, or put to bed this thing called Motion. Great tool, as is the entire FCS suite. Now all I need is a great deal on a DVX 100…

I’ll give your suggestions a try.

Thanks again!
John

Roswell+1947+Cute little Greenies=Big $$$

[John Nelson]

Hi Jim,

Color me flabbergasted. Wasn’t expecting it. Thank goodness for wealthy relatives. Came with two 23″ displays, 2gigs of ram, 500gigs hd, the supersized graphics card plus all that software.

Just deactivated the dashboard and expose but it didn’t seem to do anything. Sometimes it happens all by itself or sometimes when I click on something. Think I’ll find an Apple tech between now and new years? It’s starting to get pretty annoying…

Thanks again,

John

[John Nelson]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Sometimes it happens even when I don’t press anything, just move the mouse. You’re right, I need to study a lot more on the OS as well as the other apps but I didn’t find anything in the help menus about this type of thing. The unit came with a ‘mighty mouse’. Think that may have a bearing? I’m careful not to press those side buttons since I haven’t figured out how to use them yet…

Thanks again and Merry Christmas,

John

[John Nelson]

Thanks Larry,

Been asking around here and may have a lead on a ‘loaner camera’ to git me through the night, so to speak. Will probably never get another request like this (famous last words)…

Thanks again!

[John Nelson]

I just did a “monty python” type animation where I cut out the head in Photoshop, cut out the mouth/chin, then blackened the head’s mouth portion. Then used liquify on the mouth/chin to get two or three different openings. Don’t forget to keep an original head & mouth/chin. Laid down my narrative in AE and went to work with keyframes. It was a P.I.A. but came out good and everyone laughed (it was M.P. style, after all)…

Hope that helps.

[John Nelson]

I just did a “monty python” type animation where I cut out the head in Photoshop, cut out the mouth/chin, then blackened the head’s mouth portion. Then used liquify on the mouth/chin to get two or three different openings. Don’t forget to keep an original head & mouth/chin. Laid down my narrative in AE and went to work with keyframes. It was a P.I.A. but came out good and everyone laughed (it was M.P. style, after all)…

Hope that helps.

[John Nelson]

Thanks Roland,
That was very helpful. I’ll do my homework.

[John Nelson]

Thanks Steve,

Do you think it has anything to do with my processor or ram settings? I mean, it takes a long time to just look at the results without even rendering…

[John Nelson]

You can adjust the softness with the light properties. Look for the Diffusion twirly and increase it.

Good luck.