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About NimChimpski
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Oct 16, 2013
Jul 04, 2024
NimChimpski
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Jun 25, 2023
09:07 PM
I tried the plug-in management - unchecked a bunch that I no longer own ... so far so good ...
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Jun 25, 2023
08:49 PM
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I have W10, RTX 2080 TI, 128 GigRAM. I have a dedicated cache drive. Unlike the previous version, this version has crashed every 10 minutes (ish) since I started work this morning.
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Dec 27, 2020
07:41 PM
Ah! Yes! A plug-in. The Intel box gives me a warning for a missing audio plug-in and font substitutions. It might just be hang time on AMD but I have waited a good 20 mins + to see... Intel = PP V 14.4.0 If I wasnt in such a rush I might roll back the AMD to the same version and see if it is the culprit.
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Dec 27, 2020
07:02 PM
I have found a strange problem. I have been given a PP project for an 80 minute program. It opens happily on my old Intel box but on the new AMD it fails most of the time. I have tried opening other projects and the determining factor seems to be size. I can open smaller projects but other similarly sized (eg 65 MB project file/80 minutes pgm length) fails. The load indicator races to about 65% and then stops. Task Manager shows almost no activity - maybe 1-2% memory changes and if I click on the cancel loading I get "program not responding". It does seem to open eventually - pot luck - 1 in 10 attempts. Closer look shows Intel pauses at the same place that AMD dies at but after a breif pause completes loading. W10 Pro 128 Gig RAM RTX 2080 TI PP 14.7.0
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Apr 18, 2019
10:24 PM
part presto! Video In Point and Video Out Point determine which subtitles get into the .srt I reset the in and out and the srt gave me the lot but now I have the pleasure of checking them against the edit. I duplicated the caption stream so I could keep a guide... I am most disappointed that my Bilby pictures (chocolate and real) didn't post!
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Apr 18, 2019
06:29 AM
and Happy Easter for everyone who is getting a break and don’t forget: in Australia at this time of year we have chocolate bilbys
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Apr 18, 2019
06:24 AM
I think I might have a hunch... I was talking to the editor today and he was explaining that he was taking caption instances and editing them around. I took one instance, put it in a new timeline and, on stretching out either end of that instance, I found what to me appeared to be all the subtitles but when I ask it to export it only exports the subtitles from within the bounds, before I dragged the tails out...maybe? I will check my hunch after Easter or maybe I will give in to burning curiosity and go in over the break...
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Apr 16, 2019
02:58 PM
Sorry, yes the first sub occurs at 18 seconds. Between 18 seconds and 26 minutes there must be about 200-300 subtitles. I am looking at them in Word. SRT is quite sensitive to formatting but otherwise just plain text. My assumption was that the subtitle immediately before the first one exported must contain something that breaks the rules but an elimination process looks like the only way I can track it down. My curiosity urges me to find the cause, my bank balance pushes me to find the quickest way to deliver. Modern dilemmas! Maybe today I will spend time looking at the first one that doesn’t work and see if that one has any unusual properties. In Word I can see the “<i> italic<\i>” embedded instructions. Maybe there is something like that doing something to break a rule.
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Apr 16, 2019
06:36 AM
They seem to be. I haven’t been able to check in fine detail but they start at 18 secs and go to 75 minutes in PP in the caption page ...hundreds. I didnt create the subs myself
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Apr 16, 2019
04:41 AM
Hi Stan. Open Caption. The caption object is split several times but after copying 1 instance out to a new sequence I found that all the captions were there after dragging the ends out either way. I exported from the export - caption cheers roen
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Apr 16, 2019
01:53 AM
I am looking at a project that has subtitles that I want to export as an SRT. The first sub lands at 18 seconds and there are about 800 but the .srt has the first sub at 26 minutes and there are only about 80. I have tried a few things but I thought I would try in here to see if anyone recognizes this issue and found a solution...
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Jul 29, 2018
06:45 PM
Thanks for the response. Its an essential graphic element - does set to/scale to frame size apply? And if it did - how come it doesn't reset the size after reverting? I found that for every change to the Sequence Settings aspect, the Essential Graphics elements were scaled again: first from 100% to 76% then to 58%. I think a maths boffin would be able to predict the next number in the pattern.
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Jul 27, 2018
10:22 PM
Hi, I am working on a project that is 1920 x 824. Yep. Designed for a museum to fit something specific. Unfortuneately Blackmagic card/monitor doesnt feel too agrreable to that so I reset the sequence settings to 1920 x 1024. I could see what I was doing and in the correct aspect ratio. A major part of this project has been all the text for which I have been using Essential Graphics. When I finished the first day, they wanted a 1920 x 824 H264 to send to the client, so I reset the Sequence Settings accordingly, rendered one out, saved and shut down for the night. This morning I started up, reset the Sequence Settings to x 824 and then noticed all the text was strangely resized. Couldnt work it out....client assured me that what we had sent was all good but now the text was all too small. I went through and resized it all. Interestingly the "scaling" box in the Essential Graphics edit panel was changed in all instances from 100% to 76%. It gets changed every time I changed the Sequence Settings. Is this expected behaviour? Is it documented? I realise that I can change the aspect in the render settings and that seems a way to go but leaves me short when it comes to gauging how far text is from a screen edge or framing large stills. Is it a bug? Is it a setting somewhere?
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May 10, 2018
09:41 PM
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thanks for all this - it is very helpful. The beauty of a subtitle file is that you can throw it back to the client to groom the titles against time as they care to and you just pop a new file into the mix. A bit like an xml or aaf for text. As I understand, there is xml implementation for subtitles. But ideally, if Adobe did implement professional subtitling standards within PP, you would be able to import directly to a video layer in the master timeline. cheers r
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May 10, 2018
04:01 PM
I meant moving a few frames, later or earlier. The clients regularly want to shift them a few frames to tighten the titkes association with the dialogue. The .srt puts titles against code. It can be offset etc. I have already confessed to being ignorant of the new graphics package but been using it on current project. My end roll....2 panels of end roll just crashed me yesterday but asides from that, I have been finding it quite intuitive. Is there a Master Text Styles tutorial you could recommend? Back in the mid ‘90s I used Collage by Pixel Power. They could accept .stl files. You set styles and positions and it popped them out against master code.
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May 09, 2018
04:54 PM
I don't mind how it is implemented but dealing with 600 subtitles and the client walks in and decides they want a stroke instead of a drop shadow and Helvetica at 75% width instead of Arial and 150 subtitle positions have changed by a few frames here and there then importing their newly amended .srt file and setting the attributes globally sure beats going through 600 subtitles 1 at a time.
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Apr 28, 2018
06:05 AM
Thanks Jim I had a setup prepped for DCP and thought I could just use that but after a test render I could see on the meters that L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs was not quite right. I then found a post on the net (not Adobe) where the guy was saying L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE. Still doesn’t seem right....and to top it off, after a 3.5 hour render it has a significant black shift. Solving these issues is about as much fun as I can have cheers
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Apr 28, 2018
01:53 AM
Hi All, I am trying to output a shortfilm for which I already had a DCP but this festival cant do DCP So I thought I would give them an H.265 10 bit with 5.1 but the track config for 5.1 seems different to what I am used to.... any tips? much appreciated cheers
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Apr 03, 2018
04:04 AM
Yes, they are calling me back. Their tech guy wasn’t there. We have a little time yet.
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Apr 03, 2018
01:07 AM
Yes, I know but I believe it’s possible isn’t it? It is for a film festival: Prores or mp4. I am PC so Prores is challenging. Maybe I will give an MXF OP1A and the client can get a Prores done somewhere....
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Mar 05, 2018
03:10 AM
I have been subtitling programs in PP with legacy titler. I think the new graphics package came in during the project. In the last 12 months 3 projects with 600 subtitles each. One project now wants to use .srt in DCP and asked could I export for them. Right now I have exported an FCP XML and will try that. It should all be easy within PP. It’s not glamorous stuff but would improve PP attractiveness to people facing regular subtitling. Surely, if one vision track was reserved for subtitles then it could be squirted out as .srt or .stl - they are not complicated formats.
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Mar 04, 2018
06:54 PM
.srt, .stl or any subtitle format interchangeability is something that needs implementation
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Feb 12, 2018
05:00 PM
My experience with double layer is not good. Even when it works there is the need to establish break points etc. i think Adobe had to pay licensing to ....Sonic Solutions(?) so it was expensive. Theis program was thousands....
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Feb 12, 2018
02:21 PM
I have been reflecting on this and IDEAS-Training is right: a CD/DVD ROM is not a conventional DVD and therefore you are not constrained by DVD video issues so H264 would be ideal. Its good to know that Encore is still available. I still use it for authoring DVD and Bluray but at home we haven’t loaded a DVD/Bluray for a couple of years. I think that on a DVD (4.75?) a 1 hour program at 8 meg per sec filled the disc but that is with the MPEG2 codec. H264 is much more efficient but you will have to research and calculate.
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Feb 11, 2018
08:12 PM
DVD standard def? MPEG2 is the raw stuff for DVD - Bluray can be MPEG2 or H264. I guess yo uknow that a DVD is 4.75 gig (?I think) you can get double sided but they often prove problematic. You need to do an audit of how big the files are/disk space. Adobe Encore is now decommissioned AFAIK but it had a great feature: you would set all resources to "auto" and it would calculate the best file size/bit rate automatically and transcode appropriately. If its DVD use MPEG2 - its the native format for DVD - BUT - if you put MPEG 2 into a system that will consequently transcode then you will be transcoding MPEG2 to MPEG2 and the result is not likely to be happy. therefore you would be better rendering out to something really robust so that the transcode will end happily. I hope this isn't too rambling....
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Feb 11, 2018
05:14 PM
If you want to make a DVD - a good old standard definition DVD then use the render pre-set MPEG2 - DVD. But you then need to author it in some way to burn. The USB "thumb drive" or "flash drive" option is far better really but that assumes your end viewer has the wherewithal to view it. DVDs are still popular with many of my clients because they can give them to peoples and know that in most cases they can pop it into a DVD player and it will play albeit at significant cost to vision quality. To play a USB drive on anything but a computer is challenging for many and consequently reduces the viewer experience.
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Feb 11, 2018
01:39 AM
I confess I haven’t read every post in this thread so if I am suggesting something already covered, please forgive. maybe Matroska should look after it’s clients and modify their codec to import into PP/create the plug-in? ....just pondering. If Adobe is amenable to Matroska import solutions maybe they can be phone-a-friend while Matroska irons out the bugs?
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Feb 10, 2018
04:24 PM
This is a very helpful article but it is a shame that it is so old. It would be helpful if Adobe were able to update it for relevance to CC2018 rather than CC5.5. Unless there has been no real change since then. GPU’s and processors have come a long way since then.
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Feb 09, 2018
06:42 PM
Hi Ann. I tried to follow the link you posted about the timeline render status but it keeps coming back with “not found”: Maybe it’s my location or something - I’m in Australia....
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