The Ken Burns effect is achieved with a well place Anchor Point and then animating Positiong, Scale and Opacity. The template that you link to is probably AE camera slowly flying over a 3D layer whose source is a pre-Comp containing Type-on animations and video and stills in a newspaper spread. -Warren ... View more

It's all about sustained data transfer rate when it comes to your storage media.   You want to take a look at the bandwidth requirements of the video files that you need to be able to play. Then, you need storage that exceed those bandwidth requirements.  If your storage is too slow, you'll be able to store your files on it; however, you will not be able to play them without lag. Since you are doing time lapse (which means you are dealing with several still images the need to play one after the other), you want drives that can access files very quickly.  If going with standard drives, you would want 10,000RPM or 7,200RPM insetead of 5,400RPM or 4,800RPM.  That, or go with SSD drives. If RAID3 is getting you the bandwitdh you need, then yes.  If it's overkill (or not enough), then no. -Warren ... View more

I am guessing that you have an After Effects project file that started in a Mac and that you are not opening on your Windows computer.  The unsupported CODEC is probably Animation or ProRes. When you installed QuickTime, you would want to do a custom install and only do the QuickTime Components.  It's QuickTime Player that goes online and is no longer receiving updates from Apple (and as such a potential security threat). If you're looking to have a file that can be player from OneDrive when viewing it in a web browser, you want to go with a H264 MP4 instead of MOV  (while you can store an MOV in cloud storage, it is unlikely that it will play in a web browser from cloud storage). Go back to your project and add the Comp to Adobe Media Encoder and the use H264 for the Format and Match Source - High Bit Rate fir the preset.  Or you can drag and drop your rendered QuickTime file to the Adone Media Encoder Queue tab and choose the Format and Preset to create an MP4. -Warren ... View more

Hmmm... if you simply drop p23.976 footage into an i29.97 Sequence, you're not getting true 3-2 pulldown. You'd want to use After Effects to conform p23.976 to i29.97 so that you can control the Field Rendering Order and the 3:2 Pulldown Cadence.  This can be done to source footage or to an edited master.  For episodic television, applying it to source footage could be effective.  For theatrical, you'd likely do it to the edited master when ready to create the home video version. ... View more

There are two Thunderbolt ports on every iMac from 2012 and up. The 2017 models have Thunderbolt 3. The 2015 models have Thunderbolt 2. It sounds like your drive configuration is working for you as is.  So, I'd just leave it.  The AkiTio enclosure defaults to JBOD, so you can just pull the drives from the Mac Pro and put them into the enclosure.  Alternatively, you could boot the Mac Pro in Target Disk Mode until you decide on an enclosure.  You'll need a Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter to connect the Mac Pro to the iMac in TDM mode.  However, I think the 2008 model only sees the boot drive in TDM mode rather than all the installed drives (but, that may have been a firmware upgrade that allowed for all the drives to show up).  Also, the Mac Pro draws a lot of power to be used as just a drive enclosure. ... View more

You should consider removing h264 from your workflow.  While you're getting a great image with your camera, you're not getting a great format. For the kind of performance that you're looking for, you want to be working with a mezzanine codec. Try adding this to your workflow to avoid h264: Ninja 2 - Atomos -Warren ... View more

Was there a particular reason you wanted to avoid creating proxy files and/or transcoding to Apple ProRes422 (LT) or higher? You'll get good performance from any Mac thats 2012 or newer while using Thunderbolt or Fibre-channel storage. Perhaps look at your budget (do you want to spend $1,800 or $12,000?) and then buy a Mac with the most RAM, fastest processors, and largest internal storage that that will get you. -Warren ... View more

A Mac with Premiere and a G-Raid should work just fine. How much disk space is free on your Macintosh HD?  If it's less than 10%, that could be an issue.  Try to keep at least 20% of the boot drive capacity free at all times. How much disk space is free on you G-Raid?  If it's less than 10%, that could be an issue. G-Raid will tell you that you can go up to about 95% capacity and not lose bandwidth, but I'd still try to keep at least 15% to 20% free. How is the G-Raid connected to the iMac?  You may already be aware that Thunderbolt or FireWire are your best choices. What are your Energy Saver settings?  Make sure that the drives are not going to sleep. Have you run Disk Utility recently?  If not, run it on all of your drives and repair any issues that may be present.  Have your run Repair Disk Permissions recently?  If you're running a recent version of macOS that does not allow you to do this, consider purchasing TechTool Pro for this. What anti-virus software are you running?  If nothing, Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac or Malewarebytes are good choices (and free). If none of the above helps, create an external boot drive with just the macOS and Premiere Pro installed to test for a software conflicts. -Warren ... View more

I'm not sure if this was addressed yet. After doing Release to Layers, you have to promote the resulting layers to the root level of the document as the released layers are still sub-layers (that is, they're inside of a layer). ... View more

This thread could easily be consolidate into a blog about the top five things go check if your picture quality is not what is expected.  Great suggestions all around. ... View more

From your screenshots, it looks like pixelation rather than compression/decompression. Try changing the Magnification from 400% to 100%.  The picture will of course be smaller, but the image quality should match the source. -Warren ... View more

Hi Catherine: How did making your Blu-ray and/or DVD go?  Well, I hope. New Zealand is PAL.  As such, you'd want your DVD-Video data to conform to i25.  It's also "region 4" for DVDs.  So, you'd want your PAL DVD-Video to be either "Region 4" or "All Regions". Your post mixed Blu-Ray and DVD, but the only thing that hey have in common is the diameter of the disc.  The specifications are very different. -Warren ... View more

It sure doesn't show up in list of installed applications the Creative Cloud Desktop!  Thank you for pointing that out. I've also noticed that the recent version of Creative Cloud Desktop removes the newest Premiere Pro if you install the old one.  That's different than before.  ... View more

You should be able to locate Encore in the Apps tab of Creative Cloud Desktop and launch it from there.  Or if you click on the Start Menu, a list of programs should show.  If you don't see Adobe Encore CS6 in that list, look for "All Programs". If you opt to go with Nero, it needs a stand alone movie file instead of ready to author assets. -Warren ... View more

Thanks for clarifying, Judy. Let us know when you have your DVD burned! ... View more

Photoshop has PR beat hands down on his one, but you can do it. Locate the Hue Saturation Curve color wheel under Curves.  To reduce the reds, click the red circle swatch just below the color wheel. This adds three points along the path in the color week at the reds (you can also place these manually).  Then, click and drag the middle point down to reduce the reds.  You can reset the Hue Saturation Curve in the Effect Controls panel. -Warren ... View more

It's been so long since I've had a missing font in Premiere Pro that I completely forgot what happens. The Events dialog box (Window > Events) should name the font used for replacement.  For example, it might read, "Invalid font family: United Sans Reg, replaced by: Courier". One would then have to go to each title card and inspect it for Courier, replacing it with a suitable alternate. Yeah, this is a feature that could improve.  ... View more

In regards to creating additional title cards without having to set the Font Family more than once, you can copy and paste type objects from one title to another (assuming that you're using what's now the Legacy Title feature).  Alternatively, you can click the "New Title Based on Current Title" button. A nice thing about the copy and paste approach is that it does a "paste in place". For projects that require the same graphics look, it's common to create a PR project file with just the various title cards (main title, sub-headers, lower 3rd, interstitials, backplates, end plates, island card, etc.) and then import that project into a new project so that all the titles are pre-made. Of course, there's the new Motion Graphics Template, but it appears we're not discussing that here. On Mac, the default font should be Myriad Pro.  On Windows, the default font should be Arial.  It's the system default font, not the Premiere default. This may have already been mentioned, but if you get a missing font message the first thing to do is to install and/or activate those fonts and then re-open the project file. It's not uncommon to require a "Font Callout List" for each project.  That's just a text file that names every Font Family and Font Style being used in a project file. Avenir's a great font to design with as it provides a wide range of styles (black, book, heavy, light, medium, roman); however, the default system fonts are very close to it (the proportions are not as even, but san-safirs with very similar bowls, counters and loops.  It would take an experienced eye to spot the difference. -Warren ... View more

If you already have Roxio Toast or Roxio Easy CD, each application is pretty straightforward for burning a movie file to blank DVD media as DVD-Video data. -Warren ... View more

It looks like you are out-of-spec for MP4. To keep the native resolution, consider exporting to a format/CODEC that allows for 3840x4320.  Animation and Apple ProRes422 should both work fine for that frame size.  Although, the files will take a good amount of drive space.  If you're tight on drive space, give ProRes 422 (LT) a try.  Of course, I'm assuming that you're on Mac.  If on Windows, try Cineform at 4 instead. You could also try HEVC (H.265).  I just haven't tried HEVC myself at anything other than the standard 3840x2160. Report back on what you find works for you. -Warren ... View more

Okay... saw your video.  That is unexpected. Try deleting the 3rd keyframe (I'm assuming you haven't already). If you still get the blank frame, remove the Expression, set the second keyframe to Hold, then copy and paste the two Time Remapping keyframes as many times as needed to repeat the animation.  You mentioned not knowing how to copy and paste keyframe yet, right?  If trying what I'm suggesting without the Expression: Select both of the keyframes, copy (Edit > Copy or Control C), move the Current Time Indicator to one frame past the 2nd keyframe and the paste (the CTI determines when the keyframes will go and the where defaults to the same parameter that they were copied from unless a parameter of like value is selected prior to pasting (phew, say that five times fast). It does look like something is glyched.  But switching to plan B when plan A doesn't work  as expected comes up a lot in motion graphics. ... View more

How about use the new machines to render to something that renders quickly and is lossless.  Then use the older machines to do the H264 encode from that? ... View more