General multimedia developer. Amiga neanderthal, Director veteran, Now Flash. Also use After Effects, Audition, Cinema4d, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator... | | | | Member Since: September 10th 2001 | | | | |
Friends:  demetri tashie | | | | |  | Mouse click event to stop video and audioby Tracey Myers 10 months agoHello - I am working in Flash CS5 and I am creating a video portfolio page on my new website. I have created the thumbnails as buttons so I can do a Mouse Over. I am then doing a Mouse Click event to | | | | |
| | | | | Add a predefined variable to an arrayby Lucas Kersken 11 months agoWhat i am basicly trying to do is to change the colour of letters in a text after a certain time and i want to add the instant name of those letters to an array. I just don't know how to tell the arra | Re: Add a predefined variable to an array
by Brodd Nesset 11 months ago
Hi! Instance names can't start with numbers. You should receive an error when attempting to do this. Use instance names like tf1, tf2 etc. By this 'limitation', the contents in an Array will self-sort
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| | | |  | mouseX problems Actionscript 3.0by Liam King 11 months agoHi all, I am quite new to actionscript 3.0 - I can do enough to get by on my work, but there are certain things that I'm not sure how to go about doing. I am creating an interactive timeline that cons | Re: mouseX problems Actionscript 3.0
by Brodd Nesset 11 months ago
Hi! To have the same bahavior on four elements like you describe, just duplicate the elements inside the excisting MovieClip and arrange them. Any MovieClip can concist of n number of elements! Otherw
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| | | | | Twistedby Brodd Nesset 11 months agoHi! I'm pretty sure television type flat panels will only accept horizontal-to-vertical ratio content anyway. Some computer screens are more flexible. For television, it means you must produce your co | | | | |
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| | | | | Motion Tween jitters...by Roi Turnoy 12 months agoHi guys I'm new to Flash and I'm trying to make some simple animations. I made background of a forest from some vector images I had. I imported a bike vector and I tried to animate it crossing the for | Re: Motion Tween jitters...
by Brodd Nesset 12 months ago
When framerate goes down, it's typically a result of 'too much going on at once' which requires more calculations than your computer can deliver at the given frame(rate). I suspect too much detail in
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| | | |  | Tutorial: Simple Multi-Video Player in AS3by Tony Ross 3 years ago Adobe Flash Simple Multi-Video Player in AS3 In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to create a simple multi-video player in Flash using Actionscript 3. You'll also le | | | | |
| | | | | Goodbye and thanks for all the fishby Brodd Nesset 2 years agoI have withdrawn as a forum leader for the Director forum. After nearly one thousand posts, some of them quite long and elaborate, I feel I've done my bit. I guess the post is vacant; just contact som | Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fish
by Manuel Minut 2 years ago
Hi Brodd and Bouke, It has been almost 3 years since I last posted here. I silently signed off, due to the same lack of time and shift of interest Brodd mentioned. Good luck and all the best! Manuel
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| | | | | PDF in directorby mark skinner 3 years agoIs it possible have a link with a director movie that opens a PDF placed in a local folder I was going to have a link to an on line version but my client wants to make sure people without a webconnect | Re: PDF in director
by Brodd Nesset 3 years ago
Well, INM have a product simple called "PDFxtra" as well. Much cheaper, I use it and have yet to come across a feature that I need that it doesn't have. Impressario IS more advanced, but perhaps 'over
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| | | |  | need your help with cuepoints!by Mooneesh Sid 3 years agoHi there! I have a problem, I have to add subtitles to video, though I am new to adobe director and the project is done by another person... It is a cd project in three languages, for one language we | Re: need your help with cuepoints!
by Brodd Nesset 3 years ago
Quote from my previous post: "Personally I'd aim to use one Text member and a formatted document with all the subtitling in one place," - but I understand the use of graphic PNG members due to challen
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| | | | | Render a 3dtext to photostopby Lasse Johansson 4 years agoHi! I'm trying to render my 3d text to photoshop. In the render settings i have enabled the alpha channel and global illumination. When i'm watching the alpha channel after rendering the text melts to | Re: Render a 3dtext to photostop
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
I'm not sure what you want here. To see the text only in the render, you have to disable everything but the text object in the object manager. Lower small dot in the View collumn should be red - this
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| | | |  | Glow Through Transparent Objectby Tom Slattery 4 years agoI am creating a chandelier with light bulbs inside a glass 'bowl'. When viewed above the bowl, my glowing light material for the bulbs glows just fine. When viewing from the bottom, the glow does not | Re: Glow Through Transparent Object
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
This is a limitation of the 'Glow' you can add in the standard Material editor. Unlike the other channels, it is not really a channel but a post effect, and it would be tidier if you had to add this t
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| | | |  | Ski Trailsby Kelly Johnson 4 years agoI'm needing to create long and smooth ski trails down a slope. I figure I would create a landscape, make it editable and then use either or both points and planes to create ski trails and then a hyber | Re: Ski Trails
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
Here are two approaches that might work: 1. Create two renders of your scene; one without any ski trails, one with trails - even in front of the skier! In a compositing program like After Effects, pla
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| | | | | iPod'ish materialby Brodd Nesset 4 years agoIm looking to make a set of illustrations where some elements should resemble the "iPod look" - iPod classic that is. I assign the Danel material, since it has that 2-in-1 property that can mimic plas | Re: iPod'ish material
by Adam Trachtenberg 4 years ago
Danel is a good place to start, or the Lumas shader in a regular material's color or luminance channel. But I think that reflections are a big part of the iPod material's look, so I would also play ar
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| | | |  | using an eps to cut a sphereby Damian Dunne 4 years agohey there guys, a C4D newbie here! Hope ya can help. What I have cerated is a primative sphere with a good amount of segment size. Next I have a map of the world created in Illustrator. The land is wh | Re: using an eps to cut a sphere
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
DUH! It's not evident from your screenshot, but my bet is that you're working on a sphere primitive here. Displacement only works on polygon objects - not primitives (i.e. built in objects like the sp
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| | | | | v11 is amazing!by Brodd Nesset 4 years agoCheers guys! I got v11 right off the disc duplicator (still lukewarm in the envelope) a couple of weeks ago, and I basically just wanted to tell everyone I'm really excited! (Not many posts about this | Re: v11 is amazing!
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
Thanks for this Adam. Your advice will save me huge amounts of time, and it highly appreciated. You can learn an old dog new tricks. I hope... Her lips said "no!" but her eyes said "read my lips".
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| | | | | Enabling scale in one directionby Gonçalo Perdigao 4 years agoHi there anyone knows how can i enable this " dots " in the balck squares (i don't know the name), in the image. Cause in my cd4 that's not enable, and i try to find out and no luck. http: img360.imag | Re: Enabling scale in one direction
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
In the Attributes Manager: check the padlock (on that window's top toolbar). The lock must be open. At least one Axis must be unlocked and active; these are the X, Y and Z buttons in the top row. You
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| | | | | Survey - please participate!by Brodd Nesset 4 years agoPlease take this survey: http: www.deansdirectortutorials.com survey DirectorRoadmap This is a serious attempt at collecting some real data about Director users, what they use Director for and what's | | | | |
| | | | | WMV and Mpeg Advance Xtraby Daniel De Avila 4 years agoHello Well I m not a Director developer but I m trying to help sort out a problem that I m having with a developer. I have provided some video to a developer and it seems that on playback the video be | Re: WMV and Mpeg Advance Xtra
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
I have not tried the MediaPlayer Xtra, but it looks good. You shouldn't have to resort to MPG1 these days. Windows media offers many advantages.Her lips said "no!" but her eyes said "read my lips".
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| | | | | Final checks (World's longest post!)by darren john 4 years agoHowdy there guys, Apologies in advance for the extra long post! But your advice would be greatly appreciated. You might want to grab a coffee by the way! Here goes... Been working on a massive project | Re: Final checks (World's longest post!)
by Brodd Nesset 4 years ago
Printing from Flash is a screendump of the Stage too, but it just seems crisper to me. As if Director prints at 72 dpi, but you get say 120 or 150 dpi when using Flash. With anti-aliased text this mak
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| | | | | Encore 2 on Jan 17thby Brodd Nesset 6 years agoYesterday, Amazon in the UK had several new items for preorder: - Encore 2 - Audition 2 - Premiere PRO 2 - After Effects 7 The 'Digital Video Collection' is renamed 'Production Suite'. My two cents th | Re: Encore 2 on Jan 17th
by Dominic Osborne 6 years ago
I'm gagging to find out what's new - normally there are loads of previews on the net, and interviews with key Adohe staff... and the UK's magazing Computer Arts normally gets some early coverage, but
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| | | | | DVD-ROM features for computer use of DVDby Greg Ekborg 7 years agovs. Set-Top Player use. I have created a Flash Projector for DVD-ROM content on the DVD for use when used on a computer vs. using a DVD player for television. Q. How do you get that DVD-ROM content (. | | | | |
| | | | | Useless error message - too much memory?by Brodd Nesset 6 years agoUpon adding some elements to my DV-movie of 36 mins length, I get this error message: Not enough memory available to create Audio data. 522694 K required, 920422 K available As you can see, the latter | Re: Useless error message - too much memory?
by TomoGOMO 6 years ago
Hi Just to be sure...You did change AE memory limit within preferences, right If not the do it . This latter number indicates total physical memory on your system, but AE might not be allowed to use i
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| | | | | Indeo 5 import for Premiere Pro?by Tom Rees 7 years ago I've got some old Indeo 5 files I'd like to import. I can open them and play them in Windows Media Player, but if I try import them into Premiere, I get the following error: Unsupported compression i | Re: Indeo 5 import for Premiere Pro?
by Brodd Nesset 7 years ago
I had to buy the codec to able to even see it in MediaPlayer. Perhaps you have an older version MP, or your XP is pre sp2 or even pre sp1 Quality is great, but editing is sluggish on my system (pretty
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| | | | | Best structure for large projectby Brodd Nesset 7 years agoHi all! My first serious DVD project is a large one; I have filmed and edited a dance contest with 115(!) numbers, and have calculated that these will fit on three DVDs. Its a non-commercial arrangeme | Re: Best structure for large project
by Brodd Nesset 7 years ago
Thanks! This will save me from taking the wrong route and do a lot of unnecessarry work. I will reconcider just how imperative it is to have that auto jump-back function. As for the other things, I wi
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| | | | | Color drift with TRV 900, tips on fixing?by Brodd Nesset 7 years agoHi! I filmed a day long dance competition recently. A lo-budget one camera thing, but still: a paid assignment. When editing it appears that I have a gradual color shift throughout the takes, like a s | Re: TRV 900 head wear? - I used DV rack!
by Brodd Nesset 7 years ago
You may be right about head wear. I worried about it too, and in fact this was the first project where I used DV-rack softwere and I recorded direct to disk with it. There's nearly 8 hours of footage
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