#Bugs
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Just a couple problems/reports on using AAS:
1) Using Utilities/Stretch time on a movie that was 180 frames in length worked
until we stretched the time to 365 frames (that is, it worked on 364 and
below). At that point the program went nutty, trying to add around 800 or 900
frames instead of around 200. Yes, I know the help file says that this works
IF the movie is "around the correct length" or words to that effect, but what
the hell does that mean, really? Either it should work, or it should give you
an error like "I am about to go crazy, now" just so you know.
2) Loading in a compressed MOV file and then resaving it causes the compression
to be lost, unless you specifically go to Settings and choose a compression.
This isn't true of FLC files, so I can only assume it was an oversight (and a
nasty one at that, since QuickTime won't play a MOV file that hasn't been
compressed!). Moral: AAS should preserve the compression of whatever is loaded
and then resave it out that way unless told otherwise.
3) We ended up having to pad a lot of our movies by duping a frame repeatedly.
Pressing Control-L is fine for ten or twenty frames, but beyond that it's slow
and a waste of time. You can dupe a longer sequence of stills once you've
created them, but that also takes time to set up the sequence, copy it to the
clipboard, and then Control-L the exact number of times you need.
Since adjusting the length of a movie quickly and easily dupes the end frame of
it as many times as necessary, it would sure be nice to have an option that,
when you adjust the length of a movie, allows you to specify exactly where the
frames will be added (by default duping this particular frame over and over).
Perhaps just a frame number, or something, but I can see that we would have
used this feature a lot.
Thanks for listening.
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. Since adjusting the length of a movie quickly and easily dupes the end frame
of it as many times as necessary, it would sure be nice to have an option that,
when you adjust the length of a movie, allows you to specify exactly where the
frames will be added (by default duping this particular frame over and over).
Perhaps just a frame number, or something, but I can see that we would have
used this feature a lot."
Try copying 1 frame (select all of frame) to the clipboard and pasting to a new
1
frame movie.Set that length to 20 or whatever. Copy the segment (frame-mode,
with any tool but selection tools) and paste back
into the original. Should be faster than 20 Ctrl-L's, certainly 400.
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"I am about to go crazy, now" 🙂
>> hasn't been compressed!). Moral: AAS should preserve the compression of
whatever is loaded and then resave it out that way unless told otherwise. <<
good catch, Mike. i agree. otherwise, the assumption is intuitive.
>> 3) We ended up having to pad a lot of our movies by duping a frame
repeatedly. Pressing Control-L is fine for ten or twenty frames, but beyond
that it's slow and a waste of time. You can dupe a longer sequence of stills
once you've created them, but that also takes time to set up the sequence, copy
it to the clipboard, and then Control-L the exact number of times you need. <<
woh. copy desired movie frame to clipboard, make new movie, dup it out whatever
length you need and insert segment into original. much faster. features are no
replacement for technique. 😉
-dave
Well, we did what you suggested (copying the movie out, etc.) but the copying,
insertion, etc. still took way longer than simply adjusting the total length of
the movie. While I agree techniques have their place, they are no substitute
for features <g>.
(Besides, the system crashed several times when we did this — apparently the
length of our flics (1000 to 2000 frames) was too much to copy to the clipboard
and repaste back in to several of our longer movies).
I actually got the idea for this feature from several MIDI programs I own and
use — like CakeWalk — which not only ask you which segments you want to copy
when you hit Copy, but also where you want to insert the segments into. This
is the only way to fly.
>> Well, we did what you suggested (copying the movie out, etc.) but the
copying, insertion, etc. still took way longer than simply adjusting the total
length of the movie. <<
in AniPro, one simply goes to the frame desired and inserts a specific number
of repetitions. perhaps AStudio stupport will catch this and add it to list of
future features. 😉
>>> (Besides, the system crashed several times when we did this — apparently
the length of our flics (1000 to 2000 frames) was too much to copy to the
clipboard and repaste back in to several of our longer movies). <<
ouch.
>> I actually got the idea for this feature from several MIDI programs I own
and use — like CakeWalk — which not only ask you which segments you want to
copy when you hit Copy, but also where you want to insert the segments into.
This is the only way to fly. <<
i agree. this functionality without separate segment creation would be very
helpful. Cakewalk's a great program too.
-dave