Scott Thomas
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…and HDR black is going to look so much richer. You’ve never seen a screen so dark before!
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Maybe try to determine if there are different controllers for the different SATA ports. If the two SSD drives are on one bus, it may be getting saturated.
I took a look at the Gigabyte webpage and couldn’t determine anything beyond that it had 6 SATA ports. I would guess there are at least two or three controllers. Some will be in the motherboard chipset and others will be on separate controllers.
I’m most likely wrong, but perhaps try moving one of the SSD drives to a different port.
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I had not heard of the Claris app.
When CoSA released After Effects, I was a kid still using Commodore Amigas at home making graphics for a TV station that had no graphics capabilities beyond a weather computer, a Quanta CG and a GVG Kaleidoscope. They sent me to Promax/BDA in New Orleans in `94 where I went to a session called “Video and the Macintosh”. Using a personal computer for video production was still pretty esoteric and looked down upon by the elites, but this session drew a crowd. The last of four speakers was the art director of WIVB in Buffalo, NY, Kurt Murphy. He came with an hour’s worth of material, but had to cram it into 15 minutes. It was at that point I understood where the market was going. (Commodore had already gone bankrupt. :))
We didn’t buy After Effects until a couple of years later. Meanwhile, I was still using the linear room, but now had Photoshop, Illustrator on a PowerMac and Lightwave on a Video Toaster/Amiga system (A separate story).
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Thank you. I’ve been working on some projects lately where I finally decided I needed to start learning expression to make things more consistent for TV promo editing. I have a lot to learn, but there is so much stuff out there to pull ideas from. I saw Hiro’s question and thought it would be a good exercise to help in my education. 🙂
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I’m not sure how close I am to figuring out Hiro’s question, but I attempted to do something that is probably closer to your suggestion. I’m forcing nearly everything to reference the top right corner of the rectangle. The text area resizes the rectangle and the tail just kind-of follows that.
Scott Thomas
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We built something like this in an Excel spreadsheet.
It had macros to update fields with connections to weather.gov. It pulled XML data and populated the fields and there was a separate sheet within the document that would correlate the weather.gov icons to a local set of weather icons.
We used a Imagine (Harris) IconStation to display a rolling set of city conditions by pulling data from that Excel sheet.
It would work until there was a file lock and the sheet would stop updating. 🙁
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I just re-read the question. I see there is more to do. Sorry.
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I think I may have something. I built the bubble the same way you did with the two separate shapes and the merge.
In addition to centering the anchor point of the type to its absolute center, I have master anchor point of the shape layer set to the position of the rectangle:
content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").positionThe text position expression brings in both the position of the entire shape layer and the position of the rectangle.
pos = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").transform.position;off = thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").content("Rectangle 1").transform.position;
[pos[0] + off[0] , pos[1] + off[1]]
“pos” named for the position, “off” for offset
Is this what you were looking for?
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I know. I’m trying to figure it out as well. Just wanted to make sure I was thorough. I spent some time on it tonight, but I finally decided to go home. I’ll pick it up tomorrow.
