Sean Meighan

General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: danj on August 18, 2015, 09:50:58 PM

Title: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: danj on August 18, 2015, 09:50:58 PM

I am seeing something I have not seen before (xl 4.2.1)--when I am pulling the left or right side of an effect to get it aligned with one of my (manual) timing marks, the cursor is "jumpy" and I having a really hard time getting the ends of the effects to align with my timing marks.   Does this mean that somehow I managed to set timing marks that do not align with the selected timing blocks (e.g., 25 ms)?   Thanks.

Running Windows 10

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: flyinverted on August 18, 2015, 10:20:01 PM

The timing marks and the effects are snapping to the underlying sequence timing. When zoomed in this is easily visible. You should be able to snap to the timing mark though. If you set 100ms timing (1/10th) of a second you won't be able to get a mark or effects to snap to .25 or .75, they will go to .2 or .3, .7 or .8

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: danj on August 19, 2015, 11:06:54 AM

I have it set to default (50 ms?)...    I'll zoom in tonight.  Just hadn't seen this before.   Looked strange...
THANKS!!!

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: danj on September 02, 2015, 11:27:35 AM

Ran into this again last night when adding some layered effects to megatree effects.   I zoomed in but still got the effect movement.   Interestingly, when I grabbed onto another model's effects (a group of arches), I did not see the same "jumpy" response.   The "jumpy" reponse seems to be limited to my megatree models.   I kind of worked around it by setting my arches' effects & megatrees' effects to the same timing marks--where the megatree effects were "trying" to get to...    That worked fine.   Figured I would update this one for info.

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: Gilrock on September 02, 2015, 11:47:11 AM

It would go a long way to explaining your issue if you could capture a video of what you're doing.

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: danj on September 02, 2015, 07:28:14 PM

Here's a screen cast.   The first effect I grabbed in the screen cast is a megatree model that is  "jumpy" and the second effect I grabbed is an arches effect that is not jumpy

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: logandc99 on September 02, 2015, 08:29:53 PM

Interesting. I had the same thing happen to me the other night but as it seemed to be an intermittent thing, I had presumed it was just my computer playing up. It got a little frustrating trying the get the effect into just the right spot. I'm guessing now it might not have been my Mac throwing a little hissy fit.

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: Gilrock on September 03, 2015, 07:17:25 AM

It would be nice to have that exact sequence and your config files.  If you don't know what your config files are then just open and close a sequence and hit the save button.  It will conveniently produce a zip file for you with the proper files.  Just add the sequence to that zip file.

Title: Re: When I try to move my effects to align with timing marks, they are "jumpy"
Post by: danj on September 03, 2015, 10:47:25 AM

Thanks Gil.  I'll do that