Hi John,

Thus 2014 does have this.

Yes, but as I mentioned it has no actual animation of the object itself, apart from directional motion along the route. In contrast to MEP 17 and your VdeG.

Actually, for many of my intended walk animations, I reckon I won't use any object at all. The flowing line itself is often very effective on its own. Or maybe just a small 2D marker.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi

@browj2 - Have you applied the Geomodule fixes here for MX and 17?

@ Terry my MEP 17 loads maps OK but entering destinations fails, adding manual points works.

John

John E B,

Thanks for that. The fix works.

Terry,

I didn't get anything in v17TRA like you say. Very rudimentary car that aligns itself to the route.

I will get back to you about VdG. Speaking of which, I recompiled my tutorial video on the weekend (made a couple of improvements to my intro and added RiseShine effect to the text) and submitted it. I was careful to make sure that I selected the Flash Animation and 16:9. It hasn't shown up on the site yet. I hope it works this time.

@ Terry my MEP 17 loads maps OK but entering destinations fails, adding manual points works.

John

Same here (after the patch):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP17-TRA-Bug.jpg

And even the rest seems bug-ridden to me...

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi John,

Terry,

I didn't get anything in v17TRA like you say. Very rudimentary car that aligns itself to the route.

MEP 17 TRA no longer works properly (after the patch), in fact it's a total mess AFAICS. But here's a crude example I made just now. It seems that you're right in the sense that this facility is not built in, but relies on using the custom option. In this case with a GIF relevant to my purposes (animating walks). I'm vague about how/where I got it but John EB might chip in because we were working on it together.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2h3aqn2rwfmm8iv/Boots.wmv

I will get back to you about VdG. Speaking of which, I recompiled my tutorial video on the weekend (made a couple of improvements to my intro and added RiseShine effect to the text) and submitted it. I was careful to make sure that I selected the Flash Animation and 16:9. It hasn't shown up on the site yet. I hope it works this time.

I went to the Tutorials section expecting to see yours at or close to the top of the first page, but instead (after a refresh) got this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MagixInfo-LatestTutorials.jpg

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi Terry,

My tutorial still has not been re-posted.

Yes, it appears that not many people have been posting tutorials.

There is now a Magix competition on for tutorials, but if they cannot even post a tutorial submittal within a few days of then the competition may be a failure. I wonder what is wrong with mine, or is someone on vacation?

I will reply to your other questions about VdG in the other posting.

I contacted MAGIX about the problems with MEP 17. Here is most of the reply:

I'm afraid the TRA feature in the MEP 17 generation is definitely broken for
good. As you may have noticed in the past few years, the TRA feature in the
various versions would always occasionally cause troubles, mostly due to
changes on the end of the online services we are using to implement this
feature. We would then have to react and change our TRA module in the program
again and patch it to address those changes. Somewhere along the line, this
feature broke again, after the last fix we had issued for this that was
applicable to version 17. This will now no longer be patched for that version,
as it's no longer under support. We hope for your understanding.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

My tutorial still has not been re-posted.

 

Did you use Feedback (next to Logout, top right) to ask them why the delay? Akthough you might be wasting your time as I've never had any response from the half dozen times I've used it myself over the last year.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

I did what you suggested earlier today and just followed up with another one to Magix Editor.

Thanks,

Hi Terry,

They put up my tutorial and this version doesn't work either - still shows a green screen. I guess I will have to try something else. Any suggestions for the export format? The Flashplayer format doesn't seem to want to work on Magix' site.

Hi

I export to mpg for the Show and Discuss, for the forum I also use mov formats - have not tried this in other sections.

John

Hi John,

I think the solution is to go via a PDF.

All of my contributions to the Tutorial section were PDFs, with any linked videos using YT. Even a tutorial which lent itself to being entirely a video was 'embedded' within an introductory PDF, like this example:

http://www.magix.info/us/how-to-create-ken-burns-effects.online-training.858590.html

I'm no fan of the Tutorial section. However if I contributed another today I'd again use PDF, but probably with Dropbox or Vimeo instead of YT for my video links. My videos would be exported from MEP as MP4s, although I'd try John's suggestion of MPGs too.

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BTW, your earlier comment about a 'tutorial competition' reminded me of the same thing last year, when I had this typically unsatisfactory communication:

http://www.magix.info/uk/create-a-tutorial-and-win-a-magix-coupon.forum.911739.html

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@John EB

Re my post up-thread 3 days ago: any recollections about that work on animations?

I'm vague about how/where I got it but John EB might chip in because we were working on it together.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi Tery

Have fired up my old PC to locate the icons.

They are png files 48 * 48 px in size located in the Geomodule\AnimatedObjects folder.

Create your own and use the same naming convention ie  name_s.png

John

Thanks John, but I know about the PNG objects and the sets of 120 3-degree snimations in MEP2014. See earlier posts. I was wondering if you recalled the way that MEP17 integrated  them with GIFs like those of the boots?

I've today done something similar in MEP2014, but although fun it's tedious work.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK 

Hi Terry

AFAICR we looked at adding extra objects for the animation route to use instead of the standard ships, planes, cars etc.

I have done very little work with the latest TRA as I 'roll my own' and I have been investigating some useful effects plugins, however that is another topic.

John

Hi Terry and John,

Thanks for your help on formats for Tutorials. I added a comment with a link to the revised video on Dropbox. I will recompile the video and submit it on Sunday night.

I don't think that the tutorial competition is going to be a great success. Magix should pay more attention to the user forums than they do.

Regards,

Hi Terry,

On the Here.com site, is there anyway to get it to complete the map? When I zoom out, sometimes it gets the map, but usually I have Here all over except where I was zoomed in. When I go to my island, if I can find it, I can zoom in a lot and it gets the detail, but when I zoom out I see only the part that I had zoomed in on and the rest is white with Here all over it. It doesn't do this all of the time, or at least it didn't, but now it does this most of the time. See below - it never refreshes to give me the entire view:

Morning John,

Sorry, couldn't replicate that here. Zooming out over that whole area was OK, with tiles quickly populated.

Or for better quality: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/Here-ZoomingOut.jpg

Maybe a temporary server issue or perhaps a conflict of resources on your PC? No graphics card over-heating possible? (At your location, more likely to be the reverse!)

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Good morning,

The sun is shining brightly and the temperature is -3C but supposed to go to a balmy +5 today, before dropping into the deep freeze again on the weekend.

I tried Here.com again with a fresh reboot, and I still have the same problem. My BB Playbook has no trouble so it must be my computer. Why I have no idea.

I am still struggling occasionally with the problem that I described before where MEP skips out of Effects and goes to Import and then does something, like paging out to the HD. I have plenty of memory, 8GB RAM plus 1GB on the video card. It may be time for a cleanup.

I also downloaded Pro X6 trial and managed to crash it. After seemingly opening and viewing my latest long project, X6 did the same thing as MEP, switched from Effects to Import. Clicking on Effects would open the screen and then it would jump back to the Import screen until it had stopped doing whatever it was doing. I can hear a HD working hard. So I guess that it is my machine.

Lastly, my Tutorial was posted again, this time I used a wmv file. Now I can at least see the video but the proportions are wrong, 4:3 instead of 16:9. The file that I sent was definitely 16:9, I just ran it in WMP and the proportions are fine. I may give it one more shot, but this has been very frustrating.

Regards,