Thanks for the help Kevin! I'll keep watching for the fix. ... View more

Ann, Im not sure how your answer was marked as the correct one.  Your answer was obtuse and from a newbie's point of view, not helpful.  I'm not sure what swag Adobe metes out for correct answers, but Ali should get it.  He not only de-obfuscated your answer but answered the question about mask handles as well.  ... View more

Thank you for the translation and the added information.  Very much apprecaited! ... View more

LOL, okay.  I'll make sure when I'm trying to manipulate the OMH with my BTK to use the KBSP.   Thanks for trying, I really do appreciate it.   ... View more

Gee Adobe, still making the programmer's time a priority over your customers I see.  I would like my select tool back without disabling touch please.  That isn't a correct answer, that's a workaround.   Thanks! ... View more

Thanks!  I searched including the web) earlier for that setting with no luck.  My Realtek dialog doesn't look like that but I clicked on the start button and typed in Realtek and voila!  Now I just wish I know how it got lowered to begin with.  LOL   Have a great weekend! ... View more

Thanks for the suggestions Jeff.  But no luck.  I'm wondering why there's no way to adjust the input levels at the track level BEFORE recording the voiceover like I have on my PA board.  Kinda strange.  Right now, I'm just glad that Audition comes with CC.  🙂   ... View more

Oh boy!  Do I get to quote Emerson?!?! ... View more

I get it.  The more you know, the more you realize how little you know. And while your answer and explanation make sense, it still seems to be an anchor to the old world when a new world exists.    When I learned how to sail, I couldn't understand why a rope wasn't called a rope.  After many years of sailing, I still don't.  Seems to me it's a way to create jargon as a tool of exclusion.   If I was still cutting film, the cross dissolve would require I had frames on which to perform the transition.  Now that we're in a new paradigm, (the royal) we CAN create a more streamlined process for making an expandable still frame.  Placing the handle there was a choice by the programmer who was probably influenced by somebody whose feet were firmly planted in the old world.  After all, if I place a still image from Photoshop on the timeline, I can expand it to my hearts content.  Same but different.   Computers are about increasing productivity.  Sometimes you have to forget about the old world to obtain that efficiency.  Especially when the efficiency improvement makes sense.   ... View more

I understand your point Neil but if you strip out the emotion, he has a point.  I work at a smallish company now, so when we need video, I get to do it even though I haven't edited video in 15 years and never did it as a full-time gig.  The same thing is happeneing to me with Animate.  I was pretty good at AS3 but now have to learn javascript.  I made the grave sin of calling it java in a question and the "expert's" response ignored the meat of the question and said something to the effect of, "you don't need to learn java." Sometimes when questions are asked and people respond with one-word or two word answers without context, the person posing the question gets nothing but frustrated while all of the folks who KNOW how it works, say "How concise!" That doesn't mean I don't appreciate honest effort, it's just that some of the respondents' terse answers can sometimes be interpreted as snark when you're starting from a position of ignorance (as I am anytime I come here). I opened this post because I'm trying to add a freeze frame at the end of a clip.  When I do it using the frame hold option, I get the little triangle at the top right of the clip so I can't apply a transition effect.  This make zero sense to me.  A freeze frame has no "end."  I should be able to drag it for hours and then be able to apply a transition at the end. Of course, somebody will say that's the way it is, or has always been, or some other profound insight that doesn't address the question.  So it appears the only way to create a freeze frame and then create a transition is to snapshot the last frame, save it, and then place it in the time line.  You are then free to transisiton to your hearts content.  It certainly would be nice if the designers could provide a less cumbersome method. You seem like a good guy.  As you can tell I get a little wordy too.  How about helping out a newbie and suggesting places where I might go to become better at this?   Thanks for your post Neil!      ... View more

Thanks! I'll check the doc link to see if the commands I wrote will work.   ... View more

OK, but you have to promise to vote based on the merit of the suggestion, not on our rancorous introduction.  LOL Thanks for your help! https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/41560561-font-style-sheets ... View more

On your suggestion, I submitted the idea.  Lets hope seeing it here and in the feature suggestions make the dream come true. ... View more

I wholeheartedly agree.   When presenting project ideas, I try (and probably fail miserably) to allow the client to choose what font best suits a project.  It's funny, but there are lots of corporate clients that like Arial because it's a cheap (free) alternative to Helvetica, which I agree is a much better option.   In the end, these decisions aren't my call but I have to follow the demands of the people who issue the checks.    I really like the way Adobe products integrate to make the process easier.  I just wish the same could be said for font choice. ... View more

I can certainly see your need for a variety of styles.  For many of us this solution doesn't work well with our circumstance.  That's why I think creating an overarching style "sheet" that would apply to all Adobe products within a project makes sesne.  If I have a project or a client, and I could apply a font style sheet to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, and Premiere, it would help me to create consistent "branding" for the client or project.  The style sheet wouldn't have to be the same for every client or project.  Think of what this could allow you to do. . . .  Being able to globally change fonts would allow the creation of multiple mockups across ALL of your outputs with different looks you could present and sell to your client. Just dreaming aloud. . . . ... View more

You get what you give Monika.  Maybe you should get into comedy writing since you decided to stick with the personal, and evaded any real discussion of the "user-interface implications" of Adobe's decision.  When I mentioned the World Series, I was talking about being a results (customer), as opposed to profit, oriented one. ... View more

"What's so difficult about reading the documentation and then creating templates?" Nice snark, Monika!  Loosen up your man bun, girl.  No need to get personal.  Ross might fall for specious arguments, but not me.   I stick with my NEVER statement.  As long as I've been using Adobe products, they've been putting speed bumps in the workflow.  Adobe is JUST starting to get their documentation in order, so nice try Monika.   That you value their stock price over the creation of a user-friendly interface tells me all I need to know.  HAIL HAIL the OLIGARCHS!  How many document and or media styles do you work with?  Adobe is asking me to create "template" and "libraries" for EVERY type of art I make in EVERY program I use.  It would take their programmers MAYBE 100 hours to create a solution for this.  Instead, they make their users collectively spend millionsd of  hours finding workarounds. ... View more

This is the most appalling part of Adobe's user interface.  Every time I want to start a new document in ANY Adobe app, it gives me Myriad Pro (BLECCHH!).  You'd think Adobe would be a little more user-friendly after all these years of people bitching about this. If I work for a company and we have design standards, it would make it MUCH easier if I could globally set the default font style in ALL Adobe products.  Instead, I have to spend hours searching the web for a process that doesn't seem to exit.  THIS is where Adobe always falls short.  They are so worried about programming the latest whiz-bang feature that they forget the basics.  And like a baseball team that doesn't practice the basics, they look great in spring training but they NEVER make it to the world Series. ... View more

I think you're absolutely correct.  I appreciate your NOT trying to solve the problem.  ... View more

Typical Adobe answer.  It's the user's fault. Acrobat DC: Continuous Release 2020.009.20067 Windows 10 Pro 1909 Build 18363.900 Resolution 2736 x 1824 You have your numbers.  Go! Then, please ask the software devlopers to allow the user to size the columns in the recent files list.   ... View more

Thanks for your interest Charu, but none of your inquiries will lead to a solution.  This problem has been ongoiung since I installed DC (a long time ago).  I have a microsoft surface and am working with software that is at the latest updated version in native resolution.  But it's hubris on Adobe's part to think I would change these settings for one (poorly) designed feature of Acrobat.  If there is no setting in Acrobat to change, the real fix here is to correctly design the software. ... View more

My apologies.  The first response was from an Adobe employee and I was remiss in not realizing subsequent responses were from you, simply a good person trying to help.  I really appreciate it.   I haven't had a ton of luck with Adobe products lately or their community-based support.  Don't let my poor attitude change your giving, helping nature. ... View more

Thanks for your input but since my computer works fine with literally every other program I have, I'm gonna pass on the system settings advice.   If your programmers designed an interface that was this suceptible to slight changes in the system settings, do you think this is a user/system concern?  Or do you think Adobe needs to works on their interface. ... View more

I've provided everything you've asked for.  Windows 10 and it's done this ever since I installed the program.  It is NOT a recent problem.  I finally had time to report the problem. ... View more

No worries, here it is.   Thanks!   ... View more

Thanks for the reply.  Yes, it's windows 10 and I don't remember it ever displaying correctly.  ... View more