Hi Lovely Adobe Community,   I've been doing a fair bit of multi-cam editing, proxies and virtual choir videos of late. If you're interested.... For Christmas I edited this version of 'Come All Ye Faithful' with over 45 submitted videos from participants.   I'm currently editing a new project combining 70 separate videos filmed in every kind of format, phone and camera.   Once I set up the project and got into the edit, my laptop just ground to a halt!   The tech & setup: MacBook Pro 2019 2.3Ghz 8 Core i9 - 32gb RAM 0 Radeon Pro  Vega 16 4GB card & 1TB solid state hard drive. Big Sur All video assets, footage, proxies stored on 2 TB solid state SanDisk via USB-C Thunderbolt  Video final output will be 1920 x 1080 25fps H264 Original Proxy outputs were the standard H264 Low Resolution Proxy which output at 1024 x 540   So obviously, now is the time to create some slick, custom proxies! I did a lot of reading up - learning that H264 are frowned upon for good proxy work - and I watched this excellent video which is what governed my workflow.   Proxy setting attempts: - I tried smaller H264 videos first but they snagged just as bad - Then I tried to output Quicktime versions using 422 and 422 proxy - I resized them to 1280 x 720 but the filesizes were massive at 2-3gb and it totally locked up the laptop. The original files are only around 300-500 mb each! - My final attempt was Quicktime GoPro Cineform (see screenshots) at 480 x 270 - filesizes were comparable to the originals   This final Cineform effort has been the best and is just about workable... but still a bit snaggy. I'm progressing with this until someone helps me out with some better knowledge / experience. I'm thinking this edit will take me two or three days currently.   I'm wondering to the community.... do you have some suggestions for the smallest, fastest proxy settings? I will 'love you long time' - if you can help! Thanks in advance   ... View more

Hi Heroes! Today's noob conundrum is, I'm sure, REALLY easy to fix - but I just can't find it! Having added this 'Saber' effect to my footage I wanted to have it start earlier than it does... but I can't see where this option / control is! Here's the video of me trying to find it. I also tried physically shifting the actual footage on the timeline to see if it would start earlier - but that didn't work either. I know you've already spotted it! - So please come to my aid! Many gratitudes in advance   ... View more

Hi, I love keyframing... and I understand a lot of it... but I want to totally control the bezier curves to make the footage do exactly what I want it to... but every time I grab a bezier handle everything just goes wonky. I made a video (linked here) of my general experience which will show you pretty much where I'm up to. What tends to typically occur when I venture into this world is either: a). I slow down the end position/animation of a clip intentionally only to dramatically INCREASE the speed at the start unintentionally. Or b). By shuttling the bezier handles on the 'duration' line in all kinds of configurations, I seem to effect the size or location of the clip rather than the speed with which it executes.... Basically I'm obvioulsy missing some vital schooling in the art of mastering keyframe beziers - and I can't find a YouTube tutorial or any online resource that covers this level of detail. Please help! - And many thanks in advance.   ... View more

Guys, I've obvioulsy overlooked something silly..... help! Here's a vid of my experience https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qywwzpgsxhuqlt/noob%20at%20after%20effects.mp4?dl=0    Please help - it's driving me nuts! ... View more

Hi lovely team.... someone help me please... I'm at a dead end...   Here's a video of my problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5gutbzi6gqtmou/matte%20key%20producing%20weird%20results.mp4?dl=0   Basically, I'm creating a track matte key on a portrait photo which I want cropped to a black matte frame, but when I apply the key to the alpha of the matte it selects a completely different shape! ... View more

Hi guys... this has been driving me NUTS! - I'm a noob in AE but I've followed a bunch of tutorials to track an object. It took me hours as I had to manually keyframe a lot... but I finally had a path laid out... created a new NULL, I set the keyframes to work in the NULL layer and then used the pickwhip to connect the NULL to the object I wanted to move... but a whole bunch of the keyframes had inexplicably moved. Here's a video I did of my process: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dokdkyl4kdyv8dy/lost%20with%20keyframing.mp4?dl=0   You'll notice I'm clumsy - and I've found this weird way to even get back to viewing my tracking keyframes which can't be right either - so do please help - I'm at my wit's end! ... View more

Hi, I created a video showing my situation here:- https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r3559qk8cz9e3m/sulas%20gallery%20wont%20sort%20by%20capture%20date.mp4?dl=0   Here's a quick description: I have a collection in LrC CC 2020 on Mac. Everything is updated and current. I sort the collection by cature date/time and it's working fine I publish the collection online and make it public the collection through a browser is in a jumbled up order I go into LR mobile through Chrome on Mac and adjust the order there - it's already set to capture date etc I change it, refresh and change it back I copy the link and re-paste it into the address bar of Chrome - no change I open Safari and paste it there... no change  What's up with this? Help! - Please!   xx     ... View more

I had this problem for what seems like years, then when CC updared to I think 8.4.1 it went away. Now it's back! I have 2 images that are in constant sync state.   Meanwhile I have thousands of images in hundreds of online, sync'd collections.   Lightroom won't tell me which files it's trying to sync and it doesn't offer any on board solutions to a stuck procedure.   The internet is full of sledgehammer remedies for this... including 'just delete your whole collection and rebuild it' and 'just uninstall and re-install Lightroom' etc.   My screenshot of the sync prefs doesn't seem to really tally with the above story either - but it's all I got! Please help me! - it's just two files (for the last few weeks anyway) - I want to locate them and fix whatever it is that Lightroom doesn't like about them. Can this be easy please? I am ok with going into a library file somewhere and rebuiling a db if that's what it takes.... but would like some professional help at this point. ... View more