R--T Preview FLASH (again) and Shrinking Masks :>)

[Warhen]

Hi Juan! I have 2 possibles. One I've reported in the past, something you hadn't been able to replicate, but which occurs on my system, a growing number of Windows-based friends, and now a client I tutored on their Mac. When a R-T preview is engaged (circle is red), toggling it off, then ON within the process module causes a momentary white flash- rather blinding. Toggling off, then on in the R-T preview window works fine.

Second, on occasion, I've used SampleFormatConversion to crunch a mask to 8-bit for storage savings. Many masks reduce in dimensions rather than reduce in bit-depth. It seems inconsistent though. Today, one star mask truncated fine, while the other went from 4,656 pixels wide to 1056. Some of Rick's ColorMask's do this, some don't.     

Thanks Maestro!

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Juan,

I concur with Warren's first anomaly - I also get the 'white flash' issue when toggling screen previews on/of within a Process instance (but not within the RT Preview Instance itself).

Further - I would love to be able to perform this 'toggle' process from the keyboard - perhaps the CTRL-SHIFT-Z key-combination could be re-used for this, after all the action being performed is very similar to that done when working with 'full' previews - and it is not as if an RT preview and normal Preview operation can be ocurring at the same time, as they are mutually exclusive by definition.

I cannot comment on your second observation Warren - I have never tried to do this.

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Juan,

I concur with Warren's first anomaly - I also get the 'white flash' issue when toggling screen previews on/of within a Process instance (but not within the RT Preview Instance itself).

Further - I would love to be able to perform this 'toggle' process from the keyboard - perhaps the CTRL-SHIFT-Z key-combination could be re-used for this, after all the action being performed is very similar to that done when working with 'full' previews - and it is not as if an RT preview and normal Preview operation can be occurring at the same time, as they are mutually exclusive by definition.

I cannot comment on your second observation Warren - I have never tried to do this.

[llpastro]

I also get the white flash.  I assumed it was the "nature of the beast"

Larry

[pfile]

I also get the white flash.  I assumed it was the "nature of the beast"

Larry

me too... in fact if you asked me i wouldn't have said it happened to me but i just tried it and there's the flash. i've become completely inured to it.

rob