Very helpful. But also sadly revealing of Premiere's baffling immaturity. All of the source files are MP4s.  Of course, after color-correcting, I'm not going to recompress to crappy H.264, so I've rendered out to ProRes HQ.  Thus... all of the filename extensions are different.  The source clips are all .MP4, whereas all the color-corrected ones are .mov. But Premiere doesn't offer the option to ignore filename extensions when locating offline files.  Seriously?  This is such a predictable scenario. Even worse, if you select "Locate" for the offline files and select the directory that contains all the color-corrected files, Premiere will simply reconnect to the original files in a totally different location without telling you.  So you might think you're playing the color-corrected files, but in fact you're playing the original files that you just said were offline. Unbelievable.  What version of the software is this?  20? ... View more

Thanks. I already did that. The question still stands. ... View more

Thanks. I'm familiar with these annoying variations, but Epson simply refers user's to Apple's Software Update for drivers for this printer. ... View more

Thanks everyone, but there's no "color matching" or "color management" option in my printer driver. ... View more

No problem; thanks for the reply. No, I don't think the problem was solved. I ended up just doing everything the slow, drag-&-drop way because I didn't have time to research or inquire with Adobe as to why there are redundant target selectors on each track, some of which work sometimes and others not. ... View more

McFlydoubleG  wrote If there's no sequence to insert and/or overwrite to, the keyboard shortcuts don't work. Who said there was no sequence? ... View more

I would speculate that it's better to denoise first. I haven't used the Red Giant denoiser, but if it wants you to take a noise sample the way Neat does, a large swath of solid green should make a good area for noise sampling. Then again, it might provide a distorted noise profile because of the high signal in the green channel and low signal in the red and blue. However... you still have the non-green portions of your image for sampling. Thus there's still no disadvantage to doing it before keying. Also, the denoising process should smooth out your greenscreen. I can't think of any advantage to doing it after the key. ... View more

Thanks, Jim. That seems redundant. What's the point of having an entire additional set of target selectors in that leftmost column? We already have target selectors for each track; why not use them? ... View more

Well, enjoy them while they last! ... View more

Likely Mac-specific then. I'm seeing the overlays every once in a great while as I work. Annoying. ... View more

Update: I discovered another peculiarity about this bug.  To see if the overlays would work on the source monitor, I clicked on its "wrench" button and enabled overlays. They then appeared in the program monitor (but not the source monitor)! But unfortunately even that was only temporary. They're now missing again, and no amount of twiddling the setting under either monitor will bring them back. This release looks terrible so far. On first use, I've found two major bugs in basic functionality that drastically impede getting work done. ... View more

There are no formulas in the form. Beyond that, I don't care, since I get paid anyway. If Adobe is going to pull this rip-off, it's time to abandon Acrobat as a file format. Most governments prohibit this kind of proprietary BS in public standards. ... View more

I'm filling out the form, not changing the form's boilerplate. The "edit" is to put a PNG signature on it, which I've done many, many times over the years and there's never been a problem. Nor can there be, logically: I'm E-mailing the form anyway, so it will always be an electronic representation. Here's the solution: Open the PDF in another application (like Preview) and simply save it as a PDF or print it to PDF. Open in Acrobat and edit as you please. Rip-off foiled. ... View more

I just opened what appears to be a regular PDF form (a W-9 from the IRS, 2014 revision) in Acrobat Pro DC, and now I can't edit it. This is the first time I've had a problem editing any form, let alone an IRS one. What's the point of Acrobat now? This attempted rip-off is a double failure, because if you go to the LiveCycler page at Adobe, there's no way to buy it (not that I ever would). It appears to be a defunct or unreleased product. ... View more

Not all of the updates are on the updates page.  For example, SpeedGrade. ... View more

You can run Windows natively on a Mac, making it "a Windows box."  I included Boot Camp among the options. Because it's not necessary to point out that you can run Windows apps on a Windows machine, you can infer that I'm talking about ON A MAC.  And on a Mac, your best bet is to run a competent Windows program in whatever way you choose. ... View more

Ah, OK.  Either way, I didn't feel it was necessary to point out that you can run Windows programs on a Windows machine. ... View more

The ability to run Windows programs on a regular PC is a given.  I made that comment because we're in a Mac-only product forum. ... View more

Adobe doesn't care.  When faced with several concrete examples of defects in the Photoshop UI (which persist today), a Photoshop rep answered, "Those are misunderstandings." Illustrator is abandonware.  Fortunately, Windows users have a much better option in Corel Draw.  On the Mac, vector-art creators are really screwed.  I've tried all of the alternatives (that I could find as of a couple years ago), and they suck.  Your best bet at this point is to run Corel Draw under Boot Camp, Fusion, or Parallels. ... View more

Just installed CS6.  Sure enough, this pathetic defect still isn't fixed. ... View more

No problem!  You're probably right. ... View more

I wouldn't make any estimates of engineering time without some basis.  I don't make any expertise claims, because they invariably sound pompous and this is an anonymous forum and nobody can prove anything, so why bother?  But since you brought it up twice: Yes, I have 20 years of professional programming experience in customer-facing, image-processing and editing software (among several other kinds) on Windows, Mac, and Unix. Even that doesn't mean I know Adobe's code base (which, in a product as old as Photoshop, is almost surely a mess).  My conclusion of the ease of "paste as new image" is based on the fact that Photoshop already prepares an image of correct size based on the clipboard contents when you say "New image."  If you hit Return at that dialog, you get a new image containing the clipboard contents.  And that's what should happen with "paste as new image."  The necessary code is already there; you can see it in action. As I mentioned, this is not some quirky feature that caters to a minority.  It's a standard feature in other graphics-editing and even audio-editing applications. If they're not going to do it, then they're not.  But the portrayal of every request as somehow absurd doesn't hold water. ... View more

"What I was doing was simply attempt to disabuse you from your pre-conceived notion that everyone is for migrating, copying and deploying stuff" I never said people want to do that.  I sure don't want to do that, and I'm pretty sure that no one really wants to do that.  What's your alternative? You say you would rather re-record or re-establish all of these workarounds on every machine one by one.  That's fine for you.  But it's absurd on a large scale or for experienced users. "You're asking for functionality that already exists." Exists if you record a macro.  Fortunately, you can load action sets.  And nice try with the condescension about "simplistic users."  Pasting is not an action that caters only to "simplistic users."  That asinine suggestion and tired strawman amounts to the old "you're not using it right" excuse, which is never accompanied by an explanation of how. Adobe's longstanding failure to address design defects is evident all over Photoshop: 1. Dialogs don't remember previous settings. The Image Size dialog is a great example. Every time you pull it up, the units of measure are reset. So you have to switch from pixels to percent, or inches to pixels, over and over and over. The Save As dialog demonstrates the same disregard for user choices. 2. By default, Undo alternates between Undo and Re-do. Other applications have had multi-step undo for 20 years, and there's already a re-do key. 3. You fix #2 by remapping Ctrl-Z to "step backward" (on every system, because of the hotkey problem we've already discussed). This reveals another longstanding bug: "Step backward" inexplicably changes the layer that you selected, in addition to undoing the last action. If you were on a text layer and then switch to a bitmap layer and make a brush stroke, try pressing Ctrl-Z. Not only is the brush stroke undone, but the text layer is reselected, making it impossible to make a new stroke until you go and reselect the bitmap layer. 4. After drawing a selection box with the Rectangular Marquee tool, you can't resize it without going up to the Select menu and picking "Transform Selection" (or mapping a key for this on every system). Why can't you resize it by dragging any edge immediately? Even the free software that comes with scanners handles this properly. 5. Zooming with the mouse wheel doesn't snap to standard zoom factors. In fact, if you zoom with the wheel, you often can't even return to 100%. It will go from 99.4% to 102%, skipping 100%. Common sense would dictate that the zoom snaps when crossing Photoshop's normal zoom levels, like 25%, 50%, 66.7%, 100%, 200%, and so on. Note "when crossing"; I'm not saying the wheel should ONLY go to those factors. 6. No integrated thumbnail browser. It took until what, 2005, before Photoshop had any thumbnail browser at all, and it arrived in the form of a bloated separate application. Shareware photo-editing programs in the '90s had speedy and efficient thumbnail browsing, but in 2011 Adobe still can't pull it off. We hoped "mini-Bridge" was finally going to address this, but nope: You still have to have Bridge running. Sad. And that's just what I can think of at the moment. Then there's Illustrator, which is practically abandonware at this point. If you want to talk about "many users over many years," this glaring defect is a great example: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/856221?start=0&tstart=0 So you guys can get to work, or just keep making excuses and blaming users. I wonder what it'll be. ... View more

Then how do you address the numerous gaps in Adobe functionality, which people in Adobe forums will defend by insisting that you do just that (create workarounds with macros and hotkeys and copy them around)? For example, Photoshop's baffling lack of a "paste as new image" option.  This has to be one of the most common operations in an image-editing application.  Actually, that's too limiting; even audio-editing applications typically have a function to paste the clipboard contents to a new file. Yet year after year, despite customer requests, Adobe fails to add the three lines or so of code to supply this function.  Apologists always point out that you can do this with a macro. But you're claiming that no one wants to do that.  So have you also filed requests to have such missing functions added?  Have you taken up the debate against the apologists?  If not, why not? And what are the rest of us to do?  No matter what you ask for in these forums, no matter how obvious the missing function is, you can count on someone to piss and moan about how everything is perfect just how it is, or that there's already a solution.  But now you're condemning that "solution." But back to the original question: If you hate migrating settings around, what's your workaround?  Do you manually re-record every macro and remap every key on every machine you use?  And run around revising them all should that become necessary? ... View more