Maxon should not be there in the first place!   Especially on an SSD any space that's used up is a littler less space available for load balancing.   Don't make excuses for Adobe -  I didn't ask for Maxon and I want it off. ... View more

For me, it's under Quick actions: Ah, good, thank you!     But how would anyone ever guess that?    Does Adobe think we have nothing better to do than just randomly clicking on stuff?   They should make these things context-sensitive so when you click "Try It Now" it takes you to that action.  ... View more

How did you get that?    Since posting this, "Smooth Skin" has been replaced by "Blur Background" (why did it change?) , so using that, when I click the Try It Now button I get the same thing I got when I clicked that button with "Smooth Skin" which is the "Discover" panel with a bunch of generic topics, nothing called "Smooth Skin" or "Blur Background". (see attached) ... View more

There was nothing obvious in the Discovery panel related to the "Smooth Skin" topic.  There was generic layer stuff  and obviously smoothing skin probably involves the use of layers, but so does practically everything in Photoshop.   My question is, when I see one of these headings, what is it?   Is there, in fact, a "smooth skin" or "remove background" (another heading I've seen there) tutorial or workflow associated with it, and how do I get there by clicking on the image?   Or is it just some kind of clickbait? ... View more

There was one clip about 5 minutes long.  It was split in two; each half then had about 20 or 30 seconds removed from where it was cut. ... View more

I don't understand either part of your response. First part:      I did render it; that's when I noticed the problem. Second part:  trimmed back with respect to what?   Both ends of both clips have already been cut so this should not be an "insuffient media" situation. How would additional trimming help? ... View more

Is Show Transform Controls« checked in the Options Bar for the Move Tool?   Bingo!  That was it.  Thanks!   ... View more

Still images don't have a framerate just a duration. But you're still creating a video and a video has a framerate.   So I want to understand the relationship between them.   As Neil Haugen said, above, "So a still can be 14 frames, it can be 15, but it cannot be 14.98 frames."   That's obviously true but how do we confron it?       Since there are no fractional frames let's assume PP will default to 14.   The ratio of  15/14 is 1.07.   128 (my more precise actual output speed) /120 (my expected speed based on 0.5 second still duration) is 1.066, so this looked promising.     So I started tweaking my Still Duration time up.  It only gives you 1 digit to the right of the decimal point to play with and the best I got was 118.9 BPM at 0.52 seconds Still Duration.  Closer, but no cigar.   Premiere Pro also lets you set Still Duration by frames.   29.97 fps is close to 30 fps so I set it to 15 frames.   That produced 120.7 BPM, the closest yet.   But this comes back to Neil's question of "why 29.97?"   Why indeed?  Neil is one of our most experienced members, so I assume he already knew it was an industry standard and he was just asking rhetorically.   But it's relevant here.   Because it's surprisingly hard to find a Premiere Pro canned sequence that doesn't use 29.97 even when it calls it "30", e.g., DSLR 1080p30 is really 29.97 and most videographers say things like "30" or 24" when we really mean 29.97 or 23.976.    But to get this to come out spot-on at 120 BPM I need a frame rate of exactly 30 fps.   So I made a custom sequence from the DSLR1080p30 which I called "DSLR1080pTRUE30" and using that and a 15-frame still duration I got 120.2 BPM.   So the answer to my question appears to be to use a still duration measured in FRAMES and to set a custom framerate to fine-tune it to the target speed.   Care should be taken to anticipate  all the musical demands of the piece since the frame duration can only be in integers.    120 BPM is a common tempo for popular music, but lots of club/rave music is 140 BPM.   To accomodate both in the same piece a frame-rate of 70 fps could be used - non-standard but doable. ... View more

How exactly does Intermediate Media Timebase affect this?   In general, I've had a hard time getting clear answers to anything about timing in Premiere Pro.  Out there on the web there's a lot of "folk culture" about things like this ("try this", "try that"), but there's no reason why it shouldn't be mathematically deterministic:  If I have a set of still frames that I want to render at a precise rate (so they match a musical beat) it should be straightforward to compute the settings based on fps, still-duration, transition duration, timebase, etc.   Where can I get some precise information on this? ... View more

29.97 fps is a standard broadcast frame rate in North America so I just took the default.   But as I said, a fraction of a frame is not enough to account for the error.     29.97 fps is also a standard camcorder speed - if you were recording a 120 BPM metronome on a camcorder it wouldn't speed it up or slow it down by much.     How reliable is the Still Duration setting -  is it just a nominal figure or is it meant to be precise?   I can imagine things that would slow it down -  for example the default transition duration seems to be stuck at 2 frames, but if anything wouldn't that add time, trather than speed it up? ... View more

Bingo!    This is such a complex tool with so many interdependencies that if two people don't get the same result it's hard to figure out where the relevant difference is.  Thanks for making the extra effort!     I'm marking yours as the correct answer. ... View more

Nope.   That doesn't do anything.     I've attached two screenshots, before and after the crop.   After the crop I can click around with the cropping tool inside the blue border or on the image itself and I get nothing, nada, zilch. ... View more

In the Options for the Crop tool, make sure Delete Cropped Pixels is not checked, and that View > Show > Layer Edges is checked. OK, did that. After the crop is performed, you see the cropped image and its relative position to the whole image. Yes, that's exactly what I got.  So far so good. Clicking with the Crop tool will now show the whole image, with the crop in the same position. You can now re-adjust it. Nope.   Nothing like that happens.    But I am not sure I understand what you mean by "Clicking with the Crop tool".   I interpreted that to mean "clicking the crop tool".     Could you please clarify this because it sounds very promising if it works. ... View more

I'm not trying to get it to snap to a position - I just want to SEE where it is.  With the Marquee Tool when you move it around there's a little popup in the upper-left corner that says "x: nnn px / y: nnn px", telling you where it is as it's moving around.   With the Crop Tool you get arrows like ⇥ or ⇤ just showing you deltas, not the absolute location.   Ideally I'd like to save and re-use my Crop Tool to be a specific SIZE (not ratio) and be able to move it around and see a display of where it is (like on the Marquee Tool).   I prefer the Crop Tool to the Marquee tool because the Crop Tool has a selection of Overlays and some of them make it easier to see where the dead center is.  (Does the Marquee Tool support any targeting overlays?)    ... View more

specific pixel dimensions (such as 300 x 200 pixels).   This part is incorrect.  You cannot constrain the Crop tool to a specific pixel dimension.  If you use W x H x Resolution it computes the ratio of the W and H and gives you a crop tool with that ratio.    But the actual pizel dimension on your current un-cropped image are not reflected in W and H.   The pixel values used in W and H are what the image will be resized to AFTER the crop.    See https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-do-i-crop-to-a-specific-pixel-size-in-photoshop/m-p/13616565#M710135   ... View more

When you drag the Crop tool using a preset, it’s locked to however you preset it; you just have to position it. The positioing of it is what I want to retain.   I'm doing an art/video project where I'm making hundreds of crops in the same image, each one translated (moved horizontally or vertically) by a few pixels from the previous one.  So I want to do the crop, save the the result, UN-do the crop so I get my crop-box back, move it a little, and repeat over and over again.   If I do what you suggest using the crop tool Preset, is there a way to position it precisely?   I have my rulers set to pixels but that's not precise enough on images that are thousands of pixels high and wide.   Is there any way to get Photoshop to tell you the exact current location of the crop box while you're moving it? ... View more

Thanks!    Silly me thinking that to do a crop I would use the cropping tool!  😂 ... View more

That's a user guide, not a reference document.    How would one look up something in it?   The user guide has a table of contents but how would I look up what a particular dialog box does when I don't know what Adobe calls that diaog box?     ... View more

This is ridiculous.   Creative Cloud users like us are paying a regular subscription fee (I'm paying $30/mo)  - why should we have to sift through random web articles found with Google, or sit through a 30 minute video because the information we're seeking might be found at 19:57 into it?     I've been a Creative Cloud subscriber for about 10 years so they've collected a lot of money from me - they can't afford to document their product?   That's very unprofessional.    ... View more

Thanks!  Yes, that nailed it.   The guy who gave them to me can't even see those files on his Mac so he didn't know he included them in the fileset he gave me.  Typical Apple -  generate two files when only one is required; give them both an industry-standard filename extension (.jpg) even though only one of them actually is that sort of file, and then don't even tell your own users you're doing it.   "Think Different" = "Think different from sane and rational" ... View more