[Mark Allen]

It does! Thanks a lot for the link, it’s a great start.

Mark Allen
Allucinari
http://www.markallen.net/demo

[Mark Allen]

Wow, I wish I’d known about this – I just had a huge urgent render turn out all purple blue tinted. I guess I should have checked the files, but didn’t even think it was a possibility this could happen. Am sticking to TIF. Just adding a voice to say – yes, this is an issue.

CS5.5

Mark Allen
Allucinari
http://www.markallen.net/demo

[Mark Allen]

So I took a break from this while waiting for some responses and edited another project due Wednesday in FCP7. Finished it, decided I’d take one last look at the FCPX project file. Opened up FCPX and suddenly – my event is there again.

I have no idea why or how. I did nothing but use FCP7 all day since posting my problem. (And before posting I’d opened and closed FCPX a few times and restarted.) So I really have no solid solution for anyone who does this in the future except “Try opening FCP7 and making a new project and using that, then quitting and try again.” You could be right about the preferences if FCP7 and FCPX share preferences. I’m a little nervous about quitting FCPX!

I’ve now followed the correct way of duplicating the project inside FCPX and will finish the spot there… very very strange.

Mark Allen
Allucinari
http://www.markallen.net/demo

[Mark Allen]

I appreciate the information.

I am so on the fence with this app. There are things I really liked, but – boy – there are things that are frustrating.

Duplicating files for safety/back-up is standard procedure in every application I’ve ever worked with in the last 20 years – I think it’s a little irresponsible for Apple to allow such a common and simple action to be so destructive. If you are not meant to touch something in the finder, those things should be made hidden or enclosed.

I am totally dumbfounded and now facing probably a sleepless night rebuilding this (in FCP7) just to make a deadline. Not a good first impression especially after so much preparation to give it a fair test.

(About time machine – these files were on my external drive because i couldn’t fit all the media on the internal… and I didn’t back up the external except for the one file I was modifying which apparently didn’t help.)

Mark Allen
Allucinari
http://www.markallen.net/demo

[Mark Allen]

You just saved me a huge headache – or I should say shortened one, thanks for the tip.

[Mark Allen]

Thanks, Dan. I will look through this to learn a bit.

Seemed like a good script to learn from while being sort of useful (unless you count the time it took me trying to figure out how to write it. 🙂 )

[Mark Allen]

 // create undo group

  app.beginUndoGroup("Swap Camera Position");

  // select the active item in the project window
  
  alert("Make sure you have a comp selected and it is has a camera called Camera 1");

  // variable for the comp

  var activeComp = app.project.activeItem;
    
  var poiX = activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.pointOfInterest[0];
  var poiY = activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.pointOfInterest[1];
  var poiZ = activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.pointOfInterest[2];
  var camX = activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position[0];
  var camY = activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position[1];
  var camZ = activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position[2];
  
   activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position.setValue([poiX, poiY, poiZ]);
   activeComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.pointOfInterest.setValue([camX, camY, camZ]);

  app.endUndoGroup();
  }

Quick Update – I think this is maybe how setting the value is done, but it does not think my position information is a valid float now.

[Mark Allen]

I’m not a scripting guru – but I think basically what you’re asking is how to script this:

in your main comp you have an audio file and a sub comp

in the sub comp you have a bunch of stills – one each frame.

everytime the audio reaches a certain threshold, then trigger to move to the next frame using time remapping.

[Mark Allen]

So… boy, I’m sorry I’m not sounding smart here… but if layer “Button” has the expression… and at 1 secon, layer “graphic” moves into the x,y space of layer “button,” I want layer button to start playing.

Why would I need to “go back in time?”

[Mark Allen]

So… I should ask directly then. Is there any possible way for an expression to recognize when another graphic is in it’s zone? Because what I’d want to be able to do is just move the mouse graphic around and then have that trigger the animation to cue ideally. I could hand time them too, of course, but we’ll be doing this a lot.

thanks.