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Hi:

I am currently building a tutorial on how to use a software
created by the client. The only way I know to do this, is to extend
the voiceover sprite whatever lenght it is in frames and animate
the other sprites in the correct frame of the time line. Now this
takes forever since I have to start the voice sprite from the
beggining every single time. Is there a smarter and more efficient
way to work with voiceovers in director? Curently, with all the
voiceover sprites in the timeline, I am up to frame 39,000. If you
know any tutorial that can help me with this, please let me know.

Thank you.|||
“rafa@mediatech” wrote:

> The only way I know to do this, is to extend the
voiceover sprite

> whatever lenght it is in frames and animate the other
sprites in the correct

> frame of the time line.

Hi,

Yes, that is not the best way. Before I give the answer, just
some explanation.

Director is frame based. Sound is time based. This means that
Director will play

every frame of your movie and may veer off your set frame
rate. Time based media

always plays to a fixed time.

As an example, say we have a 2 second animation playing at 15
frames per second -

so 30 frames. Say this exists as a Director movie (frame
based) and a QuickTime

digital video (time based). Now I play both on a computer
that has a very bad CPU

that can only manage 10 fps. My Director movie will still
play all 30 frames, so

my 2 second anim now takes 3 seconds. My QT on the other hand
behaves differently.

Instead of playing every frame, it will drop frames, so will
only play 10 of each

15 frame group. So, retains the time of 2 seconds.

Your ears are more sensitive to your eyes. Dropped frames may
be OK but dropped

bits of sound would be disturbing. So when playing sound in
Director, the

computing resources are optimised to play that at its right
speed without

compromising.

So, now we know Directors frame playback and time based media
work on different

systems, you can see that using the Score to synchronise
sound to animation will

be difficult and may vary from one computer to another. The
best thing to do is

make the animation shorter than the sound and let it wait at
key points for the

sound to ‘catch up’ with the anim. That way, you have a
buffer for slower

computers.

So, now to your project. If you have sounds perhaps over 30
seconds long with

different points within the sound to match to something on
the screen, I’s say use

Cue Points. I have a tutorial on this at:

http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/Director/sound&inter/tut6.asp

This one uses the Temp channel to create ‘wait for cue point’
but you can use

Lingo instead. But, it should give you a start.

Hope that helps.

regards

Dean

Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast

http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director

http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

email: d.utian@unsw.edu.au

|||
Dean:

Thank you for your comments. I tried the tutorial you
suggested and it works fine. Now I just have to apply it to my
project.

Question, on the tutorial they mention a format called .pct.
I have Adobe Audition 2.0, and I dont see that format as part of my
“save as” options. Is this format recognize as something else?

Again, thank you

Rafael.|||
“rafa@mediatech” wrote:

> Question, on the tutorial they mention a format called
.pct. I have Adobe

> Audition 2.0, and I dont see that format as part of my
“save as” options. Is

> this format recognize as something else?

Hi Raphael,

The pct file is an image. At the start, it says download
JuliaRoberts.pct. Right

click that link and save and that will give you the file I’m
referring to. The

wav file is what you’d use in Adobe Audition to add cue
points.

Feel free to email me directly if you have any other
questions regarding the

tutorials.

regards

Dean

Director Lecturer / Consultant / Director Enthusiast

http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director

http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

email: d.utian@unsw.edu.au

Hi,

Hope someone can help me. I got the following information out
of the log before my coldfusion server stopped responding. Anyone
knows what is causing the error. BTW there is enough disk space on
the server.

// First Occurence

13249 “Error”,”jrpp-232″,”06/26/07″,”20:59:10″,”QasaOnWeb”,”
The specific sequence of files included or processed is:
D:\Inetpub\NieuwBouw\projecten\index.cfm, line: 2 ”

13250 java.lang.NullPointerException

13251 at
coldfusion.runtime.ClientScopeServiceImpl.GetClientScope(ClientScopeS erviceImpl.java:242)

13252 at
coldfusion.runtime.AppHelper.setupClientScope(AppHelper.java:486)

13253 at
coldfusion.tagext.lang.ApplicationTag.doStartTag(ApplicationTag.java: 247)

13254 at
coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTag(CfJspPage.java:1915)

13255 at
cfApplication2ecfm723934460.runPage(D:\Inetpub\NieuwBouw\Application. cfm:2)

13256 at
coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:152)

13257 at
coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:349)

13258 at
coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)

13259 at
coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.include(CfincludeFilter.java:33)

13260 at
coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:172 )

13261 at
coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.ja va:51)

13262 at
coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86)

13263 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:69)

13264 at
coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePers istenceFilter.java:28)

13265 at
coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)

13266 at
coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)

13267 at
coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)

13268 at
coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter. java:115)

13269 at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:107)

13270 at
coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:7

13271 at
jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:91)

13272 at
jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)

13273 at
jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java: 257)

13274 at
jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java: 541)

13275 at
jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.ja va:204)

13276 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPoo l.java:318)

13277 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.j ava:426)

13278 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool. java:264)

13279 at
jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

13280 “Error”,”jrpp-232″,”06/26/07″,”20:59:10″,,”Not enough
storage is available to process this command The specific sequence
of files included or processed is:
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\WEB-INF\exception\java\lang\NullPointerExceptio n.cfm
”

13281 java.io.IOException: Not enough storage is available to
process this command

13282 at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)

13283 at
java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:333)

13284 at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:513)

13285 at
coldfusion.jsp.JRunTagLibraryInfo.lookupTLI(JRunTagLibraryInfo.java:1 15)

13286 at
coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslationContext.<init>(NeoTranslationContex t.java:96)

13287 at
coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:25 7)

13288 at
coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:10 6)

13289 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.ja va:282)

13290 at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:188)

13291 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(Temp lateClassLoader.java:223)

13292 at
coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58)

13293 at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81)

13294 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader. java:422)

13295 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.newInstance(TemplateClassLoade r.java:391)

13296 at
coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.setTemplate(IncludeTag.java:149)

13297 at
coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.setTemplatePath(IncludeTag.java:84)

13298 at
coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:64)

13299 at
coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.include(CfincludeFilter.java:33)

13300 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.runBuiltInHandler(ExceptionFilter.j ava:508)

13301 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.handleException(ExceptionFilter.jav a:295)

13302 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:83)

13303 at
coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePers istenceFilter.java:28)

13304 at
coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)

13305 at
coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)

13306 at
coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)

13307 at
coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter. java:115)

13308 at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:107)

13309 at
coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:7

13310 at
jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:91)

13311 at
jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)

13312 at
jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java: 257)

13313 at
jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java: 541)

13314 at
jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.ja va:204)

13315 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPoo l.java:318)

13316 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.j ava:426)

13317 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool. java:264)

13318 at
jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

// Last occurence and stop responding of coldfusion

13350 “Error”,”jrpp-234″,”06/26/07″,”20:59:16″,,”Not enough
storage is available to process this command The specific sequence
of files included or processed is:
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\WEB-INF\exception\java\lang\NullPointerExceptio n.cfm
”

13351 java.io.IOException: Not enough storage is available to
process this command

13352 at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)

13353 at
java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:333)

13354 at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:513)

13355 at
coldfusion.jsp.JRunTagLibraryInfo.lookupTLI(JRunTagLibraryInfo.java:1 15)

13356 at
coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslationContext.<init>(NeoTranslationContex t.java:96)

13357 at
coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:25 7)

13358 at
coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:10 6)

13359 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.ja va:282)

13360 at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:188)

13361 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(Temp lateClassLoader.java:223)

13362 at
coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58)

13363 at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81)

13364 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader. java:422)

13365 at
coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.newInstance(TemplateClassLoade r.java:391)

13366 at
coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.setTemplate(IncludeTag.java:149)

13367 at
coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.setTemplatePath(IncludeTag.java:84)

13368 at
coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:64)

13369 at
coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.include(CfincludeFilter.java:33)

13370 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.runBuiltInHandler(ExceptionFilter.j ava:508)

13371 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.handleException(ExceptionFilter.jav a:295)

13372 at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:83)

13373 at
coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePers istenceFilter.java:28)

13374 at
coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)

13375 at
coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)

13376 at
coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)

13377 at
coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter. java:115)

13378 at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:107)

13379 at
coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:7

13380 at
jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:91)

13381 at
jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)

13382 at
jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java: 257)

13383 at
jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java: 541)

13384 at
jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.ja va:204)

13385 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPoo l.java:318)

13386 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.j ava:426)

13387 at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool. java:264)

13388 at
jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

————————–

Well this is a lot of information. Hope you can help.

Greetings Nebu|||
Nebu23 wrote:

>

> Hope someone can help me. I got the following
information out of the log

> before my coldfusion server stopped responding. Anyone
knows what is causing

> the error. BTW there is enough disk space on the server.

>

>
// First Occurence

> 13249
“Error”,”jrpp-232″,”06/26/07″,”20:59:10″,”QasaOnWeb”,” The specific

> sequence of files included or processed is:

> D:\Inetpub\NieuwBouw\projecten\index.cfm, line: 2 ”

> 13250 java.lang.NullPointerException

> 13251 at

>
coldfusion.runtime.ClientScopeServiceImpl.GetClientScope(ClientScopeS erviceImpl.

> java:242)

Are you using client variables? Are they stored in an Access
database?

Jochem

–

Jochem van Dieten

Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

|||
Thanks for the reply. To answer your questions

Are you using client variables?

Yes, session management in the appliaction.cfm file

Are they stored in an Access database?

No|||
Check your registry to make sure it isn’t full. Also, might
want to look at your JVM settings, make sure you’re allocating
enough memory for what you’re trying to do.|||
I am not a tech expert could you please explain what you mean
by registry.

I am creating a Captivate project and I have created and
animated .swf file that I want to continue it’s animation past the
“pause slide” point in the project. I know that the built in .swf
files (Arrows & Highlights) will continue to animate after a
button has paused the project while it waits for an interaction.
Did I miss something? Did I need to change something when I created
the animated swf file? Please help.

|||
Hi swbainum1974

You are in luck. This evening I learned something about this
from someone well versed in Flash. Essentially, what you need to do
is to create a Movie Clip of the animation. You then place the
movie clip on a single Flash frame. Once you do this, your
animation should loop appropriately. At least it did here on my PC
when he showed it to me.

Cheers and good luck! Rick
|||

Hey Rick

Thanks a mil for the fix on keeping my SWF’s playing. Problem
is that I, being a doddering old fool with minimal computing
skills, do not quite understand what to do. Would you please do us
a huge favour and give us step by steps (Arthur Murray dance studio
1.0) if you have the time??

Andrew
|||
Hi Andrew

Keep in mind that I’m not yet anywhere near what I would call
“Flash Savvy”. Basically, he created an animation that consisted of
frames and keyframes in the Flash timeline. Then he converted the
main bit to a “Movie Clip”. This seemed akin to gathering all the
captions and images on a Captivate slide and converting them to an
instance in the library. Then he removed the animation sequence
from the main timeline and inserted the Movie Clip from the library
on a single frame in the Timeline.

Not sure if this will help you. But I hope it does… Rick

OK I dont want to be the noob that doesn’t read the manual
and asks stupid questions, but I’m stuck here. It’s been a LONG
time since I had any real flash experience (Flash 5 in depth and a
little Flash 8). But now my job has lead me back into some flash
work & I’m basically starting from scratch. I’m trying to just
get a simple SWF to load an external class & have the class
retrun a value from a method.

I define

package

{

public class Greeter

{

public function sayHello():String

{

var greeting:String;

greeting = “Hello World!”;

return greeting;

}

}

}

in an .as file (which is located in the same directory as my
.fla) and then in frame 1 of my time line I have:

var myGreeter:Greeter = new Greeter();

mainText.text = myGreeter.sayHello(“Bob”);

When I try & test the movie I get 2 errors:

1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:
Greeter.|||
CPruittCCB,

> var myGreeter:Greeter = new Greeter();

> mainText.text = myGreeter.sayHello(“Bob”);

>

> When I try & test the movie I get 2 errors:

I’m only getting one, which is “Incorrect number of
arguments. Expected

no more than 0,” and the reason for that is because the
sayHello() method

isn’t set up to receive any parameters. If you change your
existing …

public function sayHello():String

… to this …

public function sayHello(msg:String):String

… just as a for-instance, that error goes away. Have you
saved both the

FLA and the AS file? If you haven’t saved your FLA yet, it
won’t know where

to find your Greeter.as file (that is, the Greeter class),
which would

explain your “type not found” error.

Check Edit > Preferences, ActionScript category, and
click the

ActionScript 3.0 Settings button to make sure your classpath
setting has an

entry with nothing but a dot (.) in it. That dot means “Look
in the current

folder” when Flash needs to start hunting for external
classes. Otherwise,

you’ll have to use the import statement to let Flash know
where that Greeter

class is.

Another thing to consider, if you’re expecting to see the
word “Bob” in

the text field, is that you’re not currently passing the
incoming parameter

back out of the method (because there is no incoming
parameter). Something

like this would do it:

package {

public class Greeter {

public function sayHello(msg:String):String {

var greeting:String;

greeting = “Hello, ” + msg;

return greeting;

}

}

}

David Stiller

Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers

http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj

“Luck is the residue of good design.”

|||
1. there’s no string to pass to your sayHello method

2. you must save your Greeter class file as Greeter.as|||

quote:

---

Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User

I’m only getting one, which is “Incorrect number of
arguments. Expected

no more than 0,” and the reason for that is because the
sayHello() method

isn’t set up to receive any parameters.

---

Under most circumstances I’d have been skeptical of passing
an argument when none is defined however I thought I’d heard (way
back around AS 2) that AS was being based on JavaScript sort of
rules so I thought perhaps that didn’t matter. And unfortunately,
that error wasn’t my typo, its actually printed that way in the
built in Flash help (see: Getting started with ActionScript >
Example: Creating a basic application).

Thanks for clearing that up, although I wasn’t getting the
error you mentioned. The compiler never got that far before it
bailed.

quote:

---

Originally posted by:
kglad

2. you must save your Greeter class file as Greeter.as

---

OK, this turned out to be the problem… Just on a hunch I
decided to consider case. Saving the file as
[greeter.as/i] errors out but [
Greeter.as/i] does not. Is Flash really case sensitive with
regard to file names? At any rate I’ve got my bearing a little
better. thanks a lot.

|||
flash is almost NEVER insensitive to case.

Anyone else ever seen this? I’ve yet to pinpoint the cause,
but just sometimes they randomly twitch.

They’re in movieclip that I’m dynamically attaching to the
stage..|||
post your file online with a link