Ooops! On re-reading I see you were talking about a different program, TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5. >>I don't need tutorials I'm a brand newbie and I do.  I've been watching so many of them lately it's all starting to run together.  My apologies for not paying attention. ... View more

Put the image you want into a premade button: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYx56bqPOlE ... View more

It looks as if Adobe Encore CS6 will export subtitles when burning a DVD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSPLG1edW0 I have been playing around with the trial of Movie Captioner this morning. I can't figure out how to add the .scc file to Premiere Pro CS6 so I can see it.  Any suggestions? thanks, Paz ... View more

Thanks, guys. >>The "forum search" function is indeed cleverly named "Ask a question".  The point is, you can ask all you want, it will never give you the answer you are looking for.  Most likely it will return some completely unrelated topics from 2008, but never anything that contains the keywords you have entered. Ah.  Yes, I eventually tried that.  That's exactly what happened. More Jive from Adobe.  Shame.  Used to be the best forums on the planet. (BTW, I copied the >> text above, put it on my clipboard, and when I used Jive's quotation marks, Hunt's post popped up.  Jive again.) ... View more

PECourtejoie wrote: Paz, Jp, this extract from the Eula is what grands Adobe the right to host the file for you. At no point you do transfer ownership of the files. How would that be in Adobe's interest to do that? Pierre, Take a look at the very beginning of the 'agreement' via the link I listed.  Notice there is a date and it says that this new agreement takes precedence over the old agreement.  Back when I first noticed the language granting Adobe rights to users' creative material I do not remember there being any option to opt out.  The agreement back then went so far as to grant Adobe rights to use and/or edit other's creative material with technology that didn't/doesn't even exist  - yet.  It seemed pretty permanent ownership for Adobe. I've run a couple of forums myself.  Never did I make membership conditional upon myself becoming owner of anyone's creative content.  I've never noticed such language on any other photography forum I've ever agreed to join, either. Back then I had just posted what may be the best photograph I've ever taken or ever will take.  And then I came across language saying it belonged to Adobe because I had posted it on their forum... (So I deleted all the images on my own website server that had been posted on Adobe's sites.  I'm finally relieved to see language that indicates that now that action would be enough to retain my own ownership of my own creation.) That, combined with the banishment (for life, apparently) of so many prior forum regulars who complained too vociferously about Adobe's transfer to JIVE forum format was my reason for pretty much abandoning Adobe's forums.  As I mentioned earlier, when word got out about Adobe claiming ownership, Adobe's photography forum pretty much dried up.  Of course, JIVE may have had as much to do with it as anything. Why would Adobe want to own others' creative content?  Adobe was, at that time, beginning to set up a photo image sales service along the lines of Getty Images, I-Stock, ShutterStock. I've known photographers who have been shocked to learn that images they have submitted in photography contests suddenly belong to the companies holding the contest.  Sure, there's one winner, but everyones' images now belong to that company.  The same holds true when submitting works of art in painting competitions.  Adobe creates wonderful products.  But their corporate actions often smell. ... View more

http://www.facebook.com/adobecreativecloud It's already there.  I don't do facebook... more unhappy Adobe customers who frequent another forum where complaints are being discussed brought it up. ... View more

PECourtejoie wrote: Could I see the part of the TOS that made it sound like "all your pixels are belong to Adobe", so that I can look at the legalese? Thanks! Hello Pierre!  It's been a long time.  I hope you and yours are well. Adobe's Agreement Terms are here:  (The ability to opt out used to not be in the agreement.  All the same, post a photo in any of Adobe's forums and it belongs to them.) http://www.adobe.com/misc/terms.html " 9.5 Licenses to Your Material. Adobe requires certain licenses from you with respect to Your Shared Material in order to operate and enable the Services. Accordingly, you grant the licenses to Your Shared Material as follows: (a) For Your Shared Material that’s Shared in a public forum (such as discussion boards or public galleries that may be browsed by anyone with an internet connection, etc.), you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to adapt, display, distribute, modify, perform, publish, reproduce, translate, and use Your Shared Material for the purpose of operating and improving the Services and enabling your use of the Services. You may revoke the license and terminate Adobe’s rights at any time by making it no longer Shared. (b) For Your Shared Material that’s Shared in a public forum or shared privately with other Users of your choosing, you grant other Users a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferrable, and sublicensable license to display, distribute, perform, and reproduce Your Material, subject to Section 10 of these Terms. If you join or participate in a group that allows for sharing of Your Material within the group (such as a “group album” or shared workspace), then you also grant the Users within the group a license to adapt and modify Your Material that you have decided to share with such group. If you do not want to grant other Users these rights, then don’t Share Your Material with other Users. (c) For Your Material that is shared privately with other Users of your choosing, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferrable, and sublicensable, license to distribute, modify, publish, reproduce, translate, and use Your Material for the purpose of operating and improving the Services and enabling your use of the Services." ... View more

Matt J Kuhns wrote: I would like to ask as politely as possible that the Cloud-or-nothing policy be reconsidered. I'll second that request. ... View more

Jp Cooper wrote: Additionally I do not want to EVER store my project files or master files on 3rd party hosted servers. Where because of some lame Terms of Service - Adobe now owns the rights to a copy of anything I upload which can be used as Adobe's discretion and whims without due compensation to the file owners (and you give Adobe permission in the Terms by accepting the use of their "service product"). This is true.  One reason, in addition to the goshawful change of forum software from WebX to JIVE that Adobe's Photography forum has died on the vine. ... View more

professional.pirate wrote: I wonder why they decided to complain about things that didn't affect them? For the same reason as the others who have posted on this topic.   When some people see something that is either ethically or morally repugnant to them, they feel compelled to speak up against it. ... View more

I saw the commercial as a lead in to a video news report on CNN on the web the other day and I found it absolutely offensive.  Not surprising, considering the bullying Adobe has allowed to go on in their forums in the past, which I found offensive as well. Sadly, some of Adobe's customers were banned from the forums for life for complaining about it. What a company! ... View more

  Apparently, Adobe doesn't care.  Ha! Hi OzPeter!  Great to see you're still around! Paz ... View more

Got it.  Thanks again, everyone, I'm looking into all the suggestions...except the Mac only one. Paz ... View more

"These include various services that produce a font from your handwriting " Just now seeing this.  We must have cross posted, Herb.  That's exactly what I had in mind.  Having worked as a professional artist most of my life, I can do handwriting - calligraphy well enough when needed.  Does FontStruct work this way? thanks, Paz ... View more

Thanks for the info on software for font creation.  I figured there must be some.      "Your question is kind of like saying you can't find a good..." Yeah, that's me.  I wanted a house but I couldn't afford what I wanted so I studied what I needed to know until we ( two of us) built it, from digging the trenches for the foundation to the roof. Everything but the septic tank.  County regulations. I hadn't really thought about taking someone else's font and adapting it, but that's a good idea, that is, if it's considered ethical. What I want is a script that can flow from page header to page header for website and business cards.  Not too delicate.  Not too bold.  Not grunge, but not too frilly either.  I've searched through hundreds of them and none is exactly right. I'll keep at it.  Thanks for the software recommendations again, Paz ... View more

Kath Howard Buko Anne Shelbourne Phosphor Those names come to mind right away.  But it's been a long time. ... View more

Dave Milbut said:  "They figured they could get about half their regular users to quit and stop posting so much by switching to cr*p forum software!" It WORKED! http://forums.adobe.com/thread/776244?tstart=0 And what a same on Adobe it is, too. (Hi Pierre!) Paz ... View more

Well said, Claudio. Adobe's customer base will be the first to suffer the loss of the knowlegeable people who have fled these forums. Who knows?  Over time, Adobe itself may regret driving their customers away. As for Oz Woman, I don't know if she was banned or not.  All I know is that she was anonymously accused. ... View more

Banned Person B says this: "If I was really upsetting so many people - multiple complaints against all the banned? - the most I would see as reasonable would be this: Email telling me I was close to the wind and risking a ban. Maybe a week or so read-only in FCA - a month at a push - and possibly the Lounge. NO change to privileges in product forums where I am helpful and innocuous. I did pay for the damn stuff! And I should be entitled to ask and answer product questions." Edit by Paz: Adding this, said by Banned Person B: “Adobe said: These individuals were banned as a result of repeated complaints from other forum users. I've been reported for abuse exactly once - and the complaint was rejected.” ... View more