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Im starting to think its more the microphone setup, I did rush this out to help Creck I can always use caption but I would like to get the mic working ...............dave
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1. make sure you don't have the mic mute on. lol. sounds silly but my headset has a boxon the cord with a volume pot, and mute switch and I can't tell you how many times I accidentally muted it.
2. make sure camtasia is recording from the correct mic
3. in the mic properties level tab you may need to increase the gain
4. I think Dave suggests using PCM for mode
5. check all 4 tabs of the mic properties. The main one to look at being levels. But there are some test modes in there where you can record a small snippet and play it back to dial things in. There may be noise suppression, echo cancellation, and DC offset cancellation. I flip them all on.
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It may have been covered but when you create the motion path a start and end keyframe is create. If you find when you make the snapshot things get bunched up at the start and end it is most like due to the In and Out tangents being set to autotangent or ease in / ease out.
You want to set the in / out tangents to "linear".
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I am still researching a clean way to fix this. You can make two snapshots of the portion that is correct, and the portion that is incorrect and invert the up axis. But there has to be a more logical solution.
I continue to seek it out.
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Here you go this is a discussion about objects that flip as they go around a motion path or animation snapshot. I show one method that should work but behaves in a way that I just cannot explain. And two methods that work but seem overly complex to me.
https://youtu.be/28hyOzzPG6I
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Yes I did the same parenting a locator to the track anoying that it did not work, I dont think I have had the tangent problem but will look out for it, will play about with the mic set when I have some free time............dave
Edit:if you use a cube instead of a locator it some times works, I think its to do with the object up a locator is not a object?
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My guess is, in Maya 2012 at least, that the default in and out tangents are set to auto.
I went to windows / preferences / animation and found you can change the default in and out tangents to whatever you want. I should have set it to linear before doing the video and wasting all that time having to keep changing it.
However, it does point out the issue for those that run a version of Maya where the default in and out tangents are set to auto but I should have shown that the default could be changed.
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the only thing I can say is Autodesk and alias programmers have a sick sense of humor and did this because they thought it would be funny to make peoples heads EXPLODE!
But seriously maya has been out 14+ years and this issue has existed as far back as I recall. I have seen at least a dozen Rube Goldberg ways to solve this flipping issue. I have seen countless peoples posts pleading for a solution. It's been 14 years and still no response from Alias, or Autodesk. Not even an acknowledgement that it's an issue.
Yet another thing that should have been fixed years ago! I mean how can you allow people to create a motion path but not have the path form a loop without the thing on the loop flipping twice!
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It looks like each of the track pieces is pretty complex. I'd have to see individual links to see if they can be optimized. You could try to model them unsmoothed with bevels as that will usually produce a much lower poly count then a smoothed part. Then there is the normal mapping route, but to me that always looks like a game model in the end. But I will also admit I am still trying to learn proper normal mapping.
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Edit:Rick I could not get a good normal map for that grill
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