CompuServe Thread

#New Features!

5 messages in this thread
#122365From: Gary KleinerSep 13, 1995 4:04 PM
Chuck, Today I have discovered two features that I have been pushing for for months. They are not documented, so they came as a most pleasent surprise. 1> When an effect will not run, the requestor tell you HOW MANY more frames it needs! 2>If you PLAY FROM a highlighted EFFECT, it starts playing from a few seconds BEFORE the transition (not the whole previous clip)! Thanks, NewTek for listening. Regards, Gary
#122371From: dean rectorSep 13, 1995 5:43 PM
<<2>If you PLAY FROM a highlighted EFFECT, it starts playing from a few seconds BEFORE the transition (not the whole previous clip)!>> It does! It really, really does! I bang my head in amazement! Wow! (Chuck! You could have told us!) Thanks Gary, dean
#122391From: Mark WoollardSep 13, 1995 8:43 PM
Thanks for the tip Gary as well as your past suggestions to NewTek for useful enhancements. Some less adventurous types, like me, are not likely to go looking for new undocumented things, so it's nice there are some explorers out there. Regards Mark
#122403From: Gary KleinerSep 13, 1995 10:07 PM
>>go looking for new undocumented things<< More like stumbling onto them, Mark. When you spend as much time editing as I do (8-12 hours/day), you're bound to find stuff. Regards, Gary
#122424From: RAD Moose @ NewTek, Inc.Sep 13, 1995 11:09 PM
Well, if I hadn't had my head buried in this other project, I might have known about those features to tell you. I've got a few more days on this, and then I am going to concentrate on my online work and getting in lots of time with the Flyer and my favorite Lightwave! I had been informed that error messages were being made more informative, and more of that is on progress. Yes, we listen, and we are very grateful for the comments and suggestions that help us shape this product to your needs. Just as a note, interest around here about the compuserve threads has grown to the point where a number of those who were merely getting specific topics forwarded to them have requested copies of my complete buffers. Traz in particular now gets a passaround copy, as do most members of the management level, and Test ends up being a litter of pages as they test out anything that is mentioned here that they might have missed. Anyway, thanks for the great suggestions, and thanks for your patience with the short shrift I've had to give the work here during the last couple of weeks. You are a great group to work for! Chuck.