Comments on: Episode 064

By: Don W.

Don W. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:08:52 +0000

@Simarilius–Thanks, Another discovery. I un installed 046, reinstalled from same release but did NOT run as admin, both effects worked. Problem seems to only be the “Run as Administrator” option. On an earler release of 046 I could not get the perspective to work until I used the “Run as Administrator”. Maybe someone fixed it.
Later, Don

By: Simarilius

Simarilius — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:56:47 +0000

@Don - Interesting discovery, thanks for doing the digging. I’m probably the only dev masochistic enough to actually be on a Vista box, so will have a play when i get home. Cant promise I’ll fix it, but I’ll have a play

By: Don W.

Don W. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:01:55 +0000

More Info (Vista)
As suspected, the problem points back to VISTA. (dam M$). If User Account is activated drag & drop doesn’t work but perspective does, if User Account is not activated perspective doesn’t work but D&D does . I guess we (Vista users) have to pick our effects. 045 and 046 works well for both effects in XP-Pro. (dam M$).
DRW

By: Don W.

Don W. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:31:45 +0000

@RQ-Sim–Thx for the help. I think I found the problem, now to find a way to correct it. In 045 it works
(drag & drop) when you run NOT as admin. When you run AS admin it stops. 046 only seems to work right if run AS admin. If I remember the Perspective effect won’t work if (046) is run NOT as admin. I’ll do
a little more searching and report back.
BTW OS=Vista.
DRW

By: Simarilius

Simarilius — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:40:56 +0000

@Heathen - Not sure i’d dare mess with Bulias baby, ironically enough he was the one who helped me make the rows/cols one nice and friendly. Think the problem with the tile clones one is just that it can do so many things.

@Don - No idea why that wouldnt be working I’m afraid, file a bug on it at the inkscape site with details of platform etc, hopefully we can work out whats going on.

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:47:45 +0000

@Don - I have exactly and equivocally zero solutions for you. It works fine here… on my XP box at work. Are you sure they’re not coming in very very very small or something weird like that? I guess being able to import them fine precludes that possibility though.

@Simarilius - I did a contact sheet type of print for mothers day 2 or 3 years ago. Took about 20 photos of my daughter, did small b/w versions of them and produced a nice tiled print at 8×10. Unfortunately I wasn’t using Inkscape then and fumbled through it with Paintshop pro or something using a calculator. The row/col method in Inkscape would have saved me literally a couple of hours likely.

By: Don W.

Don W. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:33:16 +0000

@Simarilius
I don’t seem to be able to drag and drop dotpng files to Inkscape 046. Am I doing something wrong. Import works ok.
Good to see a developer on the site.
DRW

By: heathenx

heathenx — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:12:56 +0000

That’s interesting. I’ll have to try that.

Since the Rows and Columns dialog is dead simple (thanks for that) then we will hold you responsible for redesigning the Create Tiled Clones dialog…and we expect it by days end…so stop what you are doing and get ‘er done…the clock’s ticking.

By: Simarilius

Simarilius — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:58:54 +0000

I created it cos I was trying to do contact sheets for pictures. If you drag and drop a whole folders worth of images onto an inkscape page then do rows/cols it will lay em out in a nice grid for you. It should be smart enough that if you drag em about to rearrange the order then reapply it will keep them in the new order.

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:45:35 +0000

@Simarilius

Glad you liked it. Like heathenx says, I find it more intuitive for this kind of thing that doing tiled clones. Makes more sense to me…

Thanks so much for creating it!

By: heathenx

heathenx — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:05:11 +0000

@Simarilius

You know those engineers…they gravitate to the most practical tools first.

By: Simarilius

Simarilius — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:37:30 +0000

Nice post
Good to see someone actually uses that Rows and Grids dialog. Coded it to scratch an itch, but wasnt sure anyone else was using it. Love the maple leaf image too.

By: screencasters.heathenx.org/blog » Blog Archive » Possible Grid Masking Photo Project?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:18:29 +0000

[...] this… I was thinking about using a similar grid mask to that used in Screencaster’s Episode 064. Essentially a grid of say, 9 rounded rectangles. I would take a nice image that I like and and do [...]

By: screencasters.heathenx.org » Blog Archive » Possible Grid Masking Photo project?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:15:48 +0000

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:19:22 +0000

@cloddo

I’m trying to figure out what formats Perian enables, but funny thing is that when I try to access their site (perian dot org) it closes my browser. I’ve tried this both in FF3 and in Epiphany, and it closes both.. hmm. strange.

Anyway, it may just be that Perian doesn’t provide the required format to play our videos. I suggest using VLC or Mplayer for OSX as heathenx previously suggested.

Sorry for all the trouble.

Also note though that you can actually download the flash (.flv) file and play that locally too. I know that VLC can play flv files and likely QT can too. See heathenx’s comment on episode 062 to see how to do that. That may solve your problems too. Here is the comment:
http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-062/#comment-340

By: cloddo

cloddo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:49:02 +0000

Also with Perian installed Quicktime can’t dsplay the video…

By: heathenx

heathenx — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:11:46 +0000

Yeppers. The video is H.264 and the audio is mp3. Neither Richard nor I have a Mac of any kind so we have no idea what the people do on that team to get videos to play. Personally, I always had a little trouble playing our videos in Quicktime on Windows. VLC is fairly good at playing them but I prefer an MPlayer app of some kind. I would recommend MPlayer for OS X (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net).

We encode video and audio with Mencoder which means that any MPlayer based player will play the files.

Btw, We held a poll a few weeks ago regarding switching over to Quicktime/iTunes compatible MP4’s (take a look at our blog posts) but the majority wanted things the way they were…so no change.

By: DuhhUhh

DuhhUhh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:40:33 +0000

Just found found this show through Meet the Gimp.
Really love it.
Quick question, if I play your vids in quicktime or frontrow on OSX I get audio but no video.
Works fine in VLC.
Not sure if anyone else has had this problem.
I watch a lot of different videos in quicktime and all play fine except yours.
I read that it’s encoded as H.264, which should work, but mabey I’m missing a codec of some kind.
Thanks

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:47:43 +0000

@llogg

No I could have used the clone tool, but I have never really wrapped my head around using it properly. Making the copies and just adjusting the number of rows, columns and spacing just feels more logical to me. As you quite rightly point out, it may not be the best tool for the job. It’s just that I understand it better than the clone tool.

By: llogg

llogg — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:26:39 +0000

Great tutorial and an effect I really love. One question that came to mind, however, was why you wouldn’t use the clone tool to creat the grid rather than making duplicates. Using the clone tool seems like it would make it simple to ensure you get the right dimensions and be able to edit the shapes of your grid after the fact. Any reason why you chose the duplication technique instead, or just personal preference?