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‎Aug 22, 2018
07:06 AM
How do I find the bitrate of the original footage?
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‎Aug 22, 2018
07:05 AM
I also want to add that sometimes I'll get similar recordings from someone else and my conversion to WMV triples or quadruples the file size -- again, experimentation gives me no clues.
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‎Aug 22, 2018
06:54 AM
I convert recorded lectures for online viewing. I always use the same settings (with some experimentation mentioned in parentheses below) but the file sizes of the exported videos are wildly different. My settings, most of the time are: Windows Media NTSC DV 1920 x 1080 (same as source -- reducing this seems to increase the export time and file size) Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 1 pass (going from 2 pass to 1 pass solved a problem I was having a couple years ago) VBR Quality: 100 (lowering doesn't make a significant difference in file size but definitely lowers the quality too much but sometimes I'll try something different out of desperation) The duration changes but it doesn't correlate to the difference in file size. For example, the follow videos use the above settings: 27 minutes = 340 MB 23 minutes = 1.26 GB 17 minutes = 1.22 GB The longest videos I ever do are approximately one hour. Sometimes videos of 45-55 minutes are well below 1 GB, sometimes well above up to several GB. I arrived this morning to find a 33 minute video export with a file size of just below 10 GB. That broke a record. If anyone can offer any insight I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance.
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‎Jul 06, 2018
08:57 AM
Found the answer! In Preferences > General > Document options, deselect Enable Related Files.
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‎Jul 06, 2018
08:48 AM
Well, at least we know YOU aren't shady, Test Screen Name! You have a face even the most cynical person would trust.
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‎Jul 05, 2018
06:59 AM
What product is it you think I'm promoting? Unless it's me. I guess if I am a brand, as they say, I am most certainly a product. And, most certainly, I am pretty darn awesome. Oops, there I go promoting myself!
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‎Jun 28, 2018
09:33 AM
That would apply the changes to even more documents! That's the opposite of what I want. I only want changes to my open documents.
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‎Jun 27, 2018
01:13 PM
I'm using Dreamweaver CC 18.0 Trying to do a simple Find & Replace like I've done for many, many years using "in Open Documents." For some reason, Dreamweaver wants to go into every single CSS and Javascript file referenced in the open HTML files. I don't care why somebody thought this was a good way for it to work from now on -- I just want to know how to stop it. There is a little Show All File Types menu in the upper right and I can choose to not show either JS or CSS but I can't choose not to show both. I don't know if that's related ... it doesn't matter if I can't deselect both, I suppose.
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‎Jun 26, 2018
11:05 AM
Where might this Single Source Layouts pseudo folder be? What's a pseudo folder?
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‎Jun 21, 2018
07:53 AM
I want to change a 1920x1080 to 1080x1080. Nothing would get cropped -- everything that matters is in the center 3/5 of the comp. Is that possible? How about ... creating another comp -- comp2 -- that is a square and placing this one -- comp1 -- in comp2 so the empty space on the sides of comp1 are "cropped" out?
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‎Jun 14, 2018
10:54 AM
That is so ridiculously simple. I can't believe I didn't think of that myself. Thank you, sir.
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‎Jun 07, 2018
06:53 AM
I have two bars that will grow at the same time. Let's say one represents $750 and the other $1000. I want them both to reach $750 at the same time and then one of them keeps growing to $1000. Right now, the taller column grows faster because they're both reaching 100% of their size in the same timespan. I've got a few ideas but testing via trial and error with my currently limited knowledge is poor time management, I think. Here are my ideas (just to show I am putting my own effort and thought into this): Just make the taller column take longer on the timeline to reach 100%. Normally, that math might be easy but each second is just under 30 frames and ... yuck ... so I am thinking about using something like one frame per dollar and then multiplying that by something that wouldn't make it too fast. Make the taller column two pieces -- each column would be the same height so they reached the $750 height at the same time, then another column on top of the $1000 column grows from the $750 height to the $1000 height. Now that I think about that, though, I'd have to do math to figure out how fast that third shape grows so it's at the same pace as the others ... yuck. Is there an expression or something for this sort of thing -- to keep speeds consistent? And maybe I could use that with the first bullet above? Update: Would the best way to do this be to make them both the same height and use a mask for the small one?
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‎May 31, 2018
08:44 AM
How? Where? All of the irritating tips and tutorials that pop up in the new versions but I've never seen anything about this. I found a menu item for "Extension Exchange" with things called panels but that doesn't have shapes, symbols, brushes, actions etc. and they all cost money. The old exchange was a cool place where everyone shared stuff for free.
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‎Apr 30, 2018
09:59 AM
I'm hoping this still exists -- there used to be a place at adobe.com where people could find and share things like libraries, shapes, symbols, brushes, templates, etc. for all of their products but I can't even remember what it was called. Does it still exist? If so, where?
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‎Apr 14, 2018
07:44 AM
I forgot about setting up the External Editor in Preferences -- thanks!
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‎Apr 07, 2018
12:43 PM
Is there a way to search all of the javascript in a pdf? For example, if I get feedback in the console about a specific variable, how can I search for that variable?
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‎Mar 21, 2018
04:20 AM
Wait ... all it has are instructions that say you have to put up with it and click each one as they pop up! That's ... horrible! This is soul-crushing. For years I told my students Dreamweaver was the gold standard ... now I use it less and less and there's a whole stack of editors above it on the list and this is yet another reason NOT to use it. Adobe, you're breaking my heart. You're going down a path I can't follow. What's next? Killing younglings?
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‎Mar 21, 2018
04:17 AM
Even with it being under a different name/tab/whatever than Photoshop, I really should have been able to spot "New Feature Guides"! Thank you.
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‎Mar 20, 2018
02:06 PM
Thank you so much. Sometimes the best answer is, "Dude, it can't be done." Thank you for understanding my question.
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‎Mar 20, 2018
02:04 PM
An angel from heaven told us how to turn them off in Photoshop but there's no "Tools" section in DW's Preferences. Please help. Dear God, make it stop.
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‎Mar 20, 2018
02:01 PM
How do you do the same thing in Dreamweaver? There is no Tools section in Preferences.
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‎Mar 01, 2018
09:07 AM
Those were the two answers I needed -- thank you so much.
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‎Mar 01, 2018
09:05 AM
Just using the phrase "variable data printing" gave me something to feed Google and ... viola! I found tons of leads ... thank you.
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‎Mar 01, 2018
08:53 AM
I mean I want to see the layers and "inner" timeline stuff, not the properties. To me, a "template" is something you can dig into and customize -- this is just like ... a video clip unless I'm incorrect.
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‎Mar 01, 2018
08:48 AM
I have a post in here somewhere about wanting paragraph styles but I'd settle for leading that only affected intra-paragraph lines rather than also changing the paragraph spacing. My theory is it really isn't affecting paragraph spacing but there's something hinky with the paragraph breaks so that they're all more like manual line breaks so the leading is, in fact, only affecting lines but all the lines are one big paragraph whether you press Enter/Return or not.
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‎Mar 01, 2018
08:43 AM
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Thanks for the link. Watching it now. I think someone already posted this in another thread -- but I hate video tutorials. I hate sitting through content I don't care about, chatty stuff, waiting for what I need when I could scan and read an article in a tiny fraction of the time. Ooooooh, I take that back ... I just noticed those little blue dots with labels! And ... learned some really useful stuff I've been wanting to know -- thanks. None of it addressed the pasting issue, though.
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‎Mar 01, 2018
08:34 AM
I'm wondering if it is possible to sample colors in Illustrator like it is in Photoshop or if it isn't quite possible because gradients in vectors are different than gradients in Photoshop and/or layers & layered objects are different in Illustrator than in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I can open the color picker and easily use the eyedropper to grab any color like this: In Illustrator, however, I can't do that with the color picker ... I just tried it because the eyedropper has been inconsistent lately and I'm not sure why. I don't know if it's broken or I can't use it the way I thought or I just don't know what I'm doing. It used to grab all the formatting of the object I clicked. Now it only grabs some of it -- but that's a different issue ... sorry. Regardless, I'm looking for the best way to grab a color. Should I make a copy of the object in question and rasterize it then use the eyedropper by clicking and alt-clicking?
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‎Feb 23, 2018
09:15 AM
In the Premiere Essential Graphics panel, I found some awesome-looking templates in the [AE] News folder. How do I edit or customize those? Mostly, I'd just like to see how they were made as a learning experience. I couldn't find any option in Premiere and couldn't find any mention of templates in After Effects itself.
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‎Feb 23, 2018
06:42 AM
Can we no longer save titles as templates? The tutorial you linked to says Export a Motion Graphics Template Select a title clip in your sequence. Select Graphics > Export As Motion Graphics Template from the main menu. I selected the title on my timeline, but that option is disabled. This seems to be because I have a title selected and not a "graphic" made with the Type Tool ... the Lynda.com tutorial I'm trying to follow says to choose Templates from the Title menu. Of course, there is no Title menu anymore.
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