I've never even heard of source patchers and indicators, so I don't see how that could relate to my problem. Here is the exact test I did yesterday - I did only these actions: I created a new project. I dragged one short video file from my computer into the Project pane. In the Project pane, I right-clicked the clip and selected "New Sequence from Clip". I navigated the Effects pane to find a simple effect to apply, decided on the Brightness & Contrast effect (just because it's easy to test), and dragged it to the clip in the timeline. In the Effects Control pane, I dragged the Brightness slider to the right. While dragging (while my mouse button was depressed) the change could be seen in the Program pane. I could continue dragging left and right, and the image would change accordingly as the slider moved. But as soon as I released the mouse button, the Program pane image reverted to the clip's original appearance. Whenever I dragged the slider again (even a little), the image in the Program pane would once again reflect the Brightness setting, but only until I let go of the mouse button again. ... View more

Anyone have any thoughts? Just now I installed PPro 2020 (I have been using 2019), and started a fresh project, but it's still having the same problem. ... View more

Hmm, the issue is bigger than just masks. Now I'm discovering that other effects aren't working either. Transitions work fine, as do the effects that exist on every clip by default: motion settings like position, scale, and rotation, and the overall opacity. But anything added (a mask or a non-default effect) only shows in the program preview when I'm holding my mouse down on one of the sliders in Effects Control (as if dragging the slider, although moving the mouse is not required). Once I let go of the mouse, none of those added effects are applied. After noticing this, I went back to the image I was trying to crop, and in the Crop effect, I revealed the sliders instead of just dragging the edges, and yup! If I work with a slider, the image shows as cropped, but as soon as I let go, it goes back to fully opaque. I tried several effects of different types, and they act the same way. What in the world is going on??? ... View more

I called Toshiba, and they talked me through the wackiest process I've ever seen: Click Start, scroll down to Application Reinstall, right-click and choose "Open file location", right-click on the shortcut file there and choose "Open with... Internet Explorer" (yes, you read that right - modern browsers won't do this) and click through a precise process to reinstall the original driver that came with the PC (which dates 2015).   It does work, but the current version of the driver keeps reinstalling itself when I least expect it, forcing me to go through the process repeatedly (I've done it three times so far). And I'm having other problems in PPro that might be caused by having a 5-year-old driver (masks and crops don't work - nothing becomes transparent) - I've asked about that on a new forum post. ... View more

I decided to bravely install the driver you recommended, but when I ran the .exe file, I got the popup shown to the right.   Clicking Yes brings up this page: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005469/graphics.html I have no idea whether my PC is 5th generation, 6th generation, or something else, nor whether my driver is "DCH" or not, which is apparently relevant. The "computer manufacturers" link leads me to a Toshiba page that is only for models sold in English-speaking countries (mine is Japanese, so it says my model number is invalid). I tried the Troubleshooting Wizard recommended at the bottom, but it leads me down a rabbit trail that makes no sense for my situation.   What now? Do I need to contact Japanese Toshiba support? ... View more

Any thoughts on this? I had forgotten about it (busy with other projects) until just now when I tried to use PPro again. I just want a little reassurance that uninstalling my (probably OEM) driver and installing the one Sumeet linked won't risk messing up my PC even worse. ... View more

Thanks, Sumeet. I'm a little nervous, though (perhaps I just don't know enough about how this stuff works). Two things make me nervous about installing the driver on the page you linked: My currently installed driver is version 27.20.100.8281, and my system says it's the latest version. On the Intel driver page you linked, the versions are listed as 27.20.100.8336 (latest), 27.20.100.8280, 26.20.100.8141, and so on. My 27.20.100.8281 is not mentioned (although it's only one digit off from one of them), and nowhere near the number 8336 that the page calls latest. The page says at the top: "Note: Installing this Intel generic graphics driver will overwrite your Computer Manufacturer (OEM) customized driver. OEM drivers are handpicked and include customized features and solutions to platform-specific issues. The generic Intel driver provides users the latest and greatest feature enhancements and bug fixes that OEMs may not have customized yet to address platform-specific needs. Users can check for matching OEM versions at OEM websites." It seems to be warning me that I might lose something I need if I overwrite the OEM driver.   If I mess this up, I'm afraid I might not be able to fix it. I googled my version, and even without including the words "Toshiba" or "Intel", just the number "27.20.100.8281" is nowhere on the internet except this thread! If I install the wrong driver, could the whole display fail, preventing me from operating the PC? And how would I know if overwriting the OEM driver will cause me to lose "customized features and solutions to platform-specific issues"?   One thing I didn't mention in my original post is that this is a Japanese Toshiba Dynabook with the Japanese version of Windows (although I switched the interface language to English after I bought it - I'm an American living in Japan). I don't know if this affects the discussion at all, but I thought I should mention it just in case. ... View more

What I meant by trimming is adjusting how much of the photo is visible in the object. In the old workflow, I would drag an object handle without the Ctrl key, and it would bring in that edge of the visible object without affecting the photo content, hiding that portion of the photo (e.g. excessive background or something). In the new workflow, if Auto-Fit is on, how would I do that? ... View more

I tried the Auto-Fit option, but that has two problems: If I don't exactly drag in a way that preserves the aspect ratio, the photo gets trimmed to fit. I guess that contrary to Derek's advice, I still need to use Shift. If I want to trim the photo after I've turned on Auto-Fit, I guess I have to go into Frame Fitting Options again and turn Auto-Fit off, trim the photo (make the object smaller than the content), and then turn Auto-Fit back on. How is this a better workflow than simply having my left hand poised on the Ctrl and Shift keys to selectively control what dragging does at any moment? I have been doing that so long, it has been second nature for years.   There are settings to control whether effects and the width of strokes are scaled along with objects. There really isn't a similar setting for corner options? I expected to be told where to find such a setting, not that it can't be done.   Derek said "from CC2019 upwards" - did this work differently in previous versions? I don't remember having this problem before. If that's the case, I have another question that might be related: I also can't get text to wrap around non-square corners, and I don't remember having that trouble before either. "Wrap around object shape" doesn't do it, no matter which type I choose for "contour options". To get wrap to honor the corners, I have to create an invisible rectangle the same size as each photo, round its corners, and use text wrap on that instead of the photo. (Text wraps correctly if it's a plain rectangle instead of a placed image.) ... View more

Okay, thanks. Not the answer I was hoping for, but at least I know. ... View more

Yup, I know about that Wikipedia page - that's what helped me finally figure out why my software and my printshop were saying different things.   You mentioned a document setup (in English it appears to be called a "document preset") - is there a way to change or delete those? In the legacy New Document dialog, page size is a pulldown, and I assume that's what you say is built-in. But in the new New Document dialog, everything appears to be document presets. If I click on the "Print" tab, there are what look like presets that came with the software, but they are styled just like the ones in the Saved tab. I thought I could edit the B5 one or change its name to "ISO B5" so that I could create a new one named B5, but I don't see a way to do that.   I will never need to create any document for a European printshop - I will always be using JIS sizes. Just like Europeans would not bother to say "ISO" all the time (you just proved that - you wrote, "With my German InDesign a B5 format is exactly that: 176 x 250 mm."), Japanese don't say "JIS". What is technically JIS B5 is just called B5 here. There is no mention of JIS on their packages of paper or anywhere else. ... View more

You can't edit after my reply? I wonder what's different about how we're replying to each other. I just tested, and I had no trouble editing (see above). [Sorry to all the other readers if we end up not cleaning this up - just ignore this side-tracked conversation.] ... View more

Thanks for that. But it looks like you have a random quote at the beginning - no one on this thread has said anything about inkjet, or even laser. For the sake of people who find this thread later, if you edit to remove the quote, I'll delete this reply. (After Rob's next reply, I'm now testing editing of a replied-to post, just to see if it's possible...) ... View more

You can change the key command I know - I just thought it was funny that it was so different between Mac and Windows. ... View more

One other note on this, if you want to save a JPEG grayscale out of Photoshop, it would have to be via Save As and not Export Save For Web—Save For Web converts Grayscale to RGB. Or, don’t use the lossy JPEG format at all—use .PSD. I never use Save for Web. But I see now why my Photoshop edits this time were staying RGB - I was using a Black & White adjustment layer so that I could tweak it if necessary, and that doesn't change the color mode of the file. If I work with an image in Photoshop, I do save the .PSD so I can edit it more later if necessary. But then I normally do Save As JPG and place the JPG in InDesign, because long term I don't want to have to archive the huge PSD file. Yes, I know it's lossy, but it's only one generation, and at high quality settings I can't see the difference. And most of the simple stuff I just do in Irfanview - it's fast, easy to use, and surprisingly powerful for a free tool. (Sorry, Mac users - it only supports Windows.) ... View more

Overprint/Separation Preview shows the expected CMYK print—the spell check underlining, hidden characters, text frames, etc. will not print so they are not shown. Yeah, I guess the text frames do go away - I didn't notice that before. But grids, guides, bleeds, objects on the pasteboard, and probably several other things still show. If I click Preview in the toolbar, everything like that disappears. You can toggle Overprint on and off via Command-Y. Haha, I guess they want to discourage Windows users - I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Y! If they add much more, I'll run out of fingers. Thanks for the help. I'm not completely happy with the way InDesign does things in this regard, but I now know what's going on and can work with that. ... View more

Randy Hagan : That is NOT the appearance I want. I just want a subtle increase in contrast near the text, not a black hard edged repeat of it. Avoiding features is not a solution. rob day : Overprint Preview was a clue - I had never heard of it before. Turning that on makes all the grayscale images the lighter version. "The preview isn't affecting the document’s output numbers..." Actually, that's not completely true - the type of PDF I was exporting for my tests (the version I send to the proofreaders, which is RGB) is definitely affected by Overprint Preview as well as transparency. If a spread has neither, grayscale images will have higher contrast in an RGB PDF. But of course that's not the ultimate goal, so I did another test using the PDF preset I use for sending the magazine to the printshop, and indeed, even with Overprint Preview off and no transparency, a CMYK PDF will have the lighter version. So yeah, Overprint Preview will indeed be a more honest representation of the final result. However, I have another question about Overprint Preview. For some reason, when I turn it on, the Normal view no longer has red underlining of misspelled words. What in the world does the spellchecker have to do with blending space and overprint? In theory it's not my job to check for typos, but I do fix them when I find them, so I want to see those red squiggles in Normal view. Also, Overprint Preview appears to force Display Performance to High Quality - that's fine when I'm actually working closely with images, but it's another reason why I'm not comfortable leaving Overprint Preview enabled all the time. (There might be other side effects - those are the two I've noticed so far.) Is there another setting somewhere to at least show spellchecker results with Overprint Preview? Or a setting to have Overprint Preview applied when in Preview view but not when in Normal view? ... View more

Thanks. I read the article, but I don't completely understand what is happening. This is a magazine with a document blend space of CMYK. All the color swatches are CMYK, but I leave photos as JPG and let the process convert them to CMYK automatically - I don't know if that happens at the point of PDF export or by the software at the printing company, but I've always been satisfied with the way the colors look. For the "News" spread, I use Irfanview (or occasionally Photoshop if I need more powerful editing) to make a grayscale version of the photos. In the article you linked, it says this: InDesign, on the other hand, will let you combine page objects and artwork with grayscale, CMYK, RGB, or LAB on the same page; it allows both CMYK and RGB profile assignments to handle the management and display of CMYK and RGB colors on the same page. Grayscale artwork and images default to using the CMYK profile (the black plate). Okay, that last sentence is obviously related to my problem, since the photos that are fading are grayscale. And upon closer inspection, I learned that although Irfanview creates a truly grayscale-type JPG, Photoshop does not (it just makes the R/G/B values the same for all pixels, I guess). And yup, the two photos on the spread that were converted in Photoshop (2nd and 3rd of the three people in the lower left) don't fade. Later in the article, it says: But as soon as you introduce ANY transparency into the document (for example, using an effect like a drop shadow, or placing an image with a transparent background), InDesign needs to convert everything in the document to EITHER RGB or CMYK. Hmm... This is where I'm confused. A few questions: The document already had transparency on other pages long before I tried doing this - gradient feathers, shadows on other text, etc. So if this is at the document level (that's what the sentence says), whatever was going to happen to the document should have already happened. Is the article wrong about it being at the document level and it's really at the spread level? How can I tell whether a spread has transparency somewhere on it? Is there some info/status that will tell me? I have other pages in the document that have a grayscale JPG, but adding an effect does not cause a change to them, so I assume there is already some transparency on the spread, so when I placed the grayscale image, I don't realize it is lighter than it otherwise would be. When I add transparency to a spread and InDesign has to then consolidate everything to a single blend space, why is it converting the CMYK elements to RGB, instead of the RGB elements to CMYK? As I said, my document's blend space is set to CMYK and all my swatches are CMYK. Are things colored with swatches (text, strokes, fills) also being converted to RGB on any spread that has transparency? I don't see anything like that visually changing, but it might be subtle. When I export the print-ready PDF, I'm pretty sure the swatches end up however they were in the document, because the printshop will reject it if there are non-CMYK swatches. (Occasionally an advertiser gives me something with an RGB spot color, and if I don't notice, the printshop kicks it back.) ... View more

Thanks for the kind response. I thought I had tried deactivating/re-activating before I write my original post, but either I didn't or a second cycle was needed, because now it's working. In case you're wondering, yes, it is Kinescope Regular - I didn't know there was any other type (that is the only one listed in Adobe Fonts). ... View more

Thanks, Steve and Mike. Yeah, I can totally imagine that Adobe Voco would be scary legally and socially. It's bad enough that people take virtual scissors to things other people say. In fact, when I looked at Lyrebird's website, I noticed that their two examples of clone voices were Trump and Obama - what a way to get people thinking about deception! SteveG(AudioMasters): I'm not looking for automatic detection. One needs to understand what he's trying to say in order to recognize the mistakes - I can do that. I just wish I could manually tweak it when I come across it. Mike: It's difficult to have him record a correction afterwards because it's a church message - after he is done, the room is not quiet for another three hours or more, and by then he and I have both gone home (he is not the pastor but gives the message once a month). Plus, I don't always notice his mistakes at the time, but catch them when I'm editing the video. And yeah, this is usually video, which adds to the challenge. Automatic Speech Alignment might help with certain situations - thanks for the tip. Lyrebird wouldn't be any better than having him re-record a word here at home (where the mic and room ambience would not be the same), and since it doesn't know Japanese, it might not be possible to find an appropriate English sentence with the syllable I want rendered with pitch/inflection that matches the context. But it's fascinating to learn that such a service exists! ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Barbara+Ash  wrote Sounds like you've got it solved, so I don't know if this would help, but in the Camera Raw filter if you select the Spot Removal tool, there is a checkbox in the lower right corner called Visualize Spots, and a slider to adjust. Thanks, but that tool doesn't seem to have a clue for this type of "spot". At the default setting, there are massive white swirls all over the real photo content, and with the slider all the way to the left, it still picks up most of the runners and even the edges of the road but only about a dozen of the largest spots of dust. ... View more