[Terence Kearns]

XMP files are plain text XML formatted files which sit alongside your assets (files like this are sometimes refered to as ‘sidecar files’ – eg, Canon EOS’ .thm files sit along side of each video clip and are JPG thumbnail files generated in-camera and contain attendant EXIF data about the video clip). Side-car do not interfere with the main asset file. External programs shouldn’t corrupt your files – period. If a tool is doing so, ditch it.

IMO, XMP files are a very welcome addition to Adobe’s workflow since XML is human readable and easily processed by the many XML capable APIs out there in the software development arena.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSE2397406-3FEB-43df-868D-68EB20BBC021.html

[Terence Kearns]

Sounds cool. Thanks again for the info John.

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks John.

Sounds good.

One other question. Are those new FASST plugins new and improved over ultimate-s equivalent functions or are they exactly the same? (I only noticed them after my previous post).

[Terence Kearns]

Exactly the same questions I have 🙂

Did we find out anything about the upgrade price?

I think I may want to in the future, but I don’t need all that functionality just yet.

[Terence Kearns]

Thank God someone explained this. It is driving me NUTS!

I’m not even an Illustrator user. I just want to get this stinking web banner done and it seemed like it was gonna be all too hard.

I tried changing the respective colours (dark blue through to black) to the RGB model but that didn’t fix it.

I followed your advice in mixing some of the original color in with 100% K. It seems to have worked partially. The gradient swatch still shows a really broad band of grey in the middle, but the actual shape that it’s applied to doesn’t have grey in the middle at all.

but…

it seems to go from blue to greyish warm blue to cool blue to black.

Still not the same result as what one might get in photoshop.

Grrrrr.

I can’t seem to attach images to this message, so here is a link to a screenshot
https://terencekearns.com.s3.amazonaws.com/illustrator-gradient-woes.png

[Terence Kearns]

Another good trick. Never thought of that.

Cheers.

[Terence Kearns]

Does not work for the default keyboard config in Vegas 12.

It’s doing something else (not sure what it’s doing actually). It’s not switching tracks.

[Terence Kearns]

Well you know how you can press UP and DOWN to navigate the tracks once the track header has focus? Well I want a shortcut key that will work all the time without having to click in the header first.

If I have to click in the header first so that it can get focus, then there’s no point even having a keyboard shortcut. You’ve already had to reach for the mouse.

I think a lot of these issues are stemming from the fact that keyboard shortcuts don’t work unless you have selected the relevant area of the application. This is tedious for a program which is otherwise super-efficient.

Keyboard shortcuts should work globally. Perhaps there is a plugin which fixes this?

For instance, I want the WASD keys to navigate events in the track view (regardless of where I clicked last). WASD is used in first-person shooters (FPS games) to navigate so it’s natural for anyone who’s ever played a FPS on a PC.
(A=left, D=right, W=up, S=down). The arrow keys are already thoroughly used up for other (similar) navigation and I don’t want to change those. I want my left hand to navigate as well as my right (arrows).

I just want to work faster.

[Terence Kearns]

“roll tape” is a figure of speech. I thought that was obvious.

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks muchly. I think I might hardware this method to my brain.

Much appreciated.