Just wanted to point out in 2025 Ps and AI there is no pict file save option anymore. Gonna try PNG export then change file name to '.ico'. ... View more

It's a Saturday working in Premiere, with March Madness in the background. Good times. :basketball: I wanted to chime in again about the mysterious grabber hand not working. I'm finding as a great 'reset' to use the arrow tool and click on the upper left corner of the video preview screen, so that the video preview screen gets the blue key line and is selected. Now from there, change from the arrow tool to the grabber hand. Then move the screen around and reposition. It 'should' work. If anything changes again I'll try and re-post here. As an aside, Premiere has THE MOST sensitive ui I've ever encountered. Requires ALOT of patience. And taking copious tech notes. :memo: ... View more

Yes indeed! Nesting the clip with the mask did the trick, and was able to get the cross dissolve to finally work. ... View more

So awesome. That did it 👏. Nesting is my new friend. Thank you! ... View more

Thank you, maybe this will clarify -    Screenshots show I have Clip 1 and Clip 2, each one with a unique color key and mask. When I apply the transition between the two clips, such as cross dissolve, and make it a center cut between the clips, it only cross dissolves the masks and not the entire video with the masks. If that makes sense. It's as if the transition is treating the mask as a separate layer from the video clip. ... View more

Oh wait - I see the anomaly. So it's cross dissolving between these two different clipping masks I have on the two clips, but not dissolving the entire video. Somehow I need to 'embed' the clipping mask into video so that the whole thing can cross dissolve. Hope that makes sense. ... View more

Me again on a Sunday.. I have these two clips that butt up to one another. I add the cross disolve transition, and it's 'center at cut' over both clips. And still nothing. It's a sharp cut. What gives? ... View more

Ya know, I settled down after my separation anxiety with Color Balance (RGB), and found a good tutorial to adjust skin tones (which was the goal..) using those three color wheel thingys in Lumetri. Got the color to where I want it now. I appreciate ALL the feedback in this community on a Saturday at 4:30pm PST! I mean what better things to do on a weekend than to learn some Premiere. 😊 ... View more

Gotta reopen this old wound .. Why on this Green Earth did the developers axe Color Balance (RGB)?!?!?! This Lumetri business is overkill for what I need. If Photoshop has color balance, Premiere should be verbatim and in sync. That said, how would I get the 'Obselete' folder bin back into my Premiere. Currently Obselete does not exist - Using Premiere 25.1.0. TIA. ... View more

Ok, so this is a thank you note to you for your suggestion. I'm using the latest (25.1.0 Build 73) and not matter where I use the grabber hand tool on the video screen, it would not move. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Nope. Not moving. Driving me f..... But suddenly I searched and found this post and your suggestion. Now get this, when I 'touched' that tool, hit the dropdown, and reselected the same Transform option, now my grabber hand suddently works. I can now move the screen around in the video view. Adobe developers – Explain yourselves. 🤷‍:male_sign: ... View more

Select the font. Hit ungroup. Then release the clipping mask. Image Trace, Expand.  ... View more

Great info Bobby, thank you! I did check for both the CPU and GPU views, and I can see banding in both.   For my sanity sake, I went ahead and imported those AI background mesh gradients into Ps, and did a 16bit uniform noise @ 1% (monochromatic unchecked). That got rid of any evidence of banding. Imported those back into AI as 16bit cmyk TIFs. My AI file ballooned by 100 megs, but whatev. Extreme, but I gotta be sure. At the same time I'll ask my printer about their RIP application. ... View more

'Are you seeing the banding problems on screen or in print output?' Great question. Not in print only monitor. Monitor is playing tricks on me? Here's a screenshot. Just between two shades of CMYK grays.  That said should I just sanity check with my printer's prepress dept and ensure that their RIP application will smooth out gradients? Or what specifically should I ask with my printer? And thank you for your prompt response! Much appreciated at my 11th hour of prepping this file. 🙂  ... View more

I salute you good sir. Thank you! 🙏 ... View more

I appreciate the details in this response. Altering kerning tables would make my head spin, and no guarantees it would transfer cleanly from one machine to another. Should have updated this post (I mentioned this in another..), but I've found using Illustrator's 'Optical' than 'Auto' shows significant improvements. Illustrator always defaults to 'Auto' - Don't know why - and would llike to change that default in the AI prefs. This is enough for me to settle for Optical, then hand-kern certain typestyles on designs as needed. ... View more

Yes! This works better. Lists 'Fonts in Document' -     ... View more

Where's 'selection only' ? And you do have to hit a select all to get fonts to appear in window. Before -   After -   ... View more

The issue is I have to physically click onto the font in order for it to tell me in the document window what it is. I'm looking for a tool similar to InDesign - Just go to a window and it automatically gives me a summary of ALL the fonts embedded in the AI file. This is a HUGE file I'm dealing with that contains lots of different fonts. Not a feature? ... View more

Nope. No clipping mask on the font. ... View more

I'm having the opposite issue. I want to Convert Outlines to this SVG font I have. Right now it only gives me a bounding box. 🤷‍:male_sign: ... View more

I give up. What's Magnet? 😆 ... View more

Yes thank you. Mac OS Sequoia 15.1, Chip M1 Pro, 32 GB Memory, Ilustrator 29.0.1. When working with files containing the more intricate vector illustrations (lots of points and paths - see below) it slows to a crawl. When I had v28 working with the same file, this did not happen. Often I'm forced to convert the vector illustration to a bitmap, and bring it back into file in order to improve illustrator performance. But that of course defeats the printing benefits of having a vector illustration right? Any hoots it's a bit of a surprise since Illustrator has been a rock star for me with these type of files up until the v29 upgrade. Now there's regret. ... View more