[Andy Engelkemier]

Ah, thanks. You’ve helped me in additional ways as well. My laptop has no page keys. I have to hit function+up/down arrow. I think that doesn’t work in conjunction with the shift key. That’s what I get for going with a 15 inch laptop.

You also made me laugh when you said snappy. It reminded me of hitting the spacebar to pause on a project with a few layers and effects. Not snappy. The opposite of snappy.

So anyway, I’m used to not snappy. I think most of us are. So We’ll see how not snappy it might be.

[Andy Engelkemier]

As people mentioned above, don’t copy and paste, or duplicate the title as you might with any other object in Premiere. Instead, duplicate/copy the title using the top left button from within the titler. That creates a New copy of the title.

I really think this is a huge oversight on Adobe’s part. Especially since it’s not a true instance, and only seems to mess up Some of the time.
But anyway, it’s just something to learn. Never duplicate a title from anywhere other than the titler.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Do you work for Adobe? That’s about the response I always get from them regarding just about anything.

My impression of Adobe:
You want something to work better? No, just use something else that better suites your needs. We aren’t interested in making things work better. We’d rather just throw a new features in here and there that people won’t use, to make them think they need every version of our software even though it hasn’t really changed all that much in the last 5 years. Like, 3D printing inside of Photoshop. Because that seems like a great use of resources, and people will Definitely use that. 3D printers definitely don’t come with their own software that works better than what we could supply.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I’m not sure I follow dave. Wouldn’t that mean I’d have to split my clip for every area of a clip I want to remap to?
Sure, I could just split the clip and use the rate stretch tool as well, to accomplish what I Think you’re saying. But then my timeline would be Filled with tiny short, relatively unmanageable, clips. And if you later realize you put the split in slightly the wrong area, you run into some big troubles, AND you’d likely end up with frame dropping/duplication at every cut.

That method is fine if you’re rate stretching ONE clip. And that’s what everyone online seems to show. They have a few ways of speeding up/slowing down one clip. And then they mention the ability to add keyframes and quickly show that you Can do it. But there’s a difference, a BIG difference between showing that you can do something, and showing how.

Like, in photoshop you can select things with the lasso tool. I would then show you how. Then I would say, Oh, and you could use the pen tool also, and all I do is show you that I could click around a little bit making a rough shape without explaining anything behind how it works.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Here’s the best workflow I’ve figured out for myself so far:

First, I HAVE to work left to right.
I go through the video and add a time remapping speed keyframe wherever an action ends. Then I’m going the the music, or another clip I want to match to, from left to right, and adjusting the speed between those keyframes by showing the time remapping on the clip from within the sequence timeline. Drag the line up/down to increase/decrease speed until the next keyframe aligns with the time in needs to align with.

Whatever is coming up just seems Really imprecise. And if you want the time change to be gradual? Dream on. When you change one side, it effects the other as well. And the handles in the middle are pretty damn wonky. It looks like it starts off linear, and you just tilt that bezier looking widget and it makes the dual looking keyframe more of an ease/ease.

It all just seems really clumsy to me, so I wondered if my workflow was just no good. I haven’t found anything that is remapping to try and match something else. Back in school I remember I recorded myself playing piano from several angles, then put those all together. Then I matched each key press with the note. I remembered it working more like AE. But now, that seems like it would be incredibly painful.

If anyone could shed some light, I’d really appreciate it.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Thank you, that works fine.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Well I’m not impressed with their customer service at all.

This was my solution, which I found on someone’s post on the adobe forums:

Uninstall red giant link And your plugin.
Now install it again, but right click and install as admin.
When you install it lets you choose which versions. Choose both 2015.3 AND 2015

That’s it.

It worked for me. It couldn’t hurt, other than potentially wasting some time. I had those errors and the issue definitely wasn’t graphics card. I changed nothing else. It’s a brand new computer, with a decent graphics card. When I’m plugged in, the computer has it’s choice of the built in Intel, 970M 6GB, or a Titan X 12GB. Those are Pretty new. I don’t think that should be happening.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Ha, Re: “what do you mean.” I wasn’t aware you could do that. Although, it’s Quite annoying that you have to completely tear off a composition in order to do it. In case that’s still not clear…..
Often enough, I’ll need an attribute to utilize an attribute from a nested composition. So I’d Love to just start my expression, use the rubberband tool to highlight that, then it fills out the attribute. It Should work by just hovering over a tab for a second, then it switches to that. If you hover over a layer that is collapsed, then it should expand. Hover over the attribute group you need, and same thing. Then you could select the object you need from there, let go, and it should pop you back to the composition you were in where you can add more expression to what you just rubber banded.

But instead, you need to open that composition, tear it off to a floating window. Then go to the attribute you plan on pointing to, then go back to your composition, and you can rubberband to the attribute.
It’s not that it’s bad. It’s just a time consuming activity that can save you hours if repeated often enough.

Regarding the Ai workflow, I’m not sure what I have to add. the trick mentioned about adding extra layers just to store whatever additional objects you might need is a great idea. I’ll just use that in the future. One thing that is really missing is size. I’d like to control the center point, but if someone makes a change to the file that would change it’s center, that’s a big issue. So how to handle that can be quite annoying. But that Rarely comes up for me. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t frequent for someone else though.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Just to be sure, you’re using the pan behind tool in the composition window, and not on the position/anchor point slider, right? No one suggested that, so I thought I’d state what isn’t necessarily obvious. Also, you Do have to select your layer first, in the timeline. Then use the pan behind tool.

I’d love to just be able to hold some key like ctrl or something like that while moving the anchor point to not move position. But unfortunately, you either move it on screen, your have to move it in position/anchor first, then move the other number in the opposing direction. But if you just need the general area, then the pan behind tool in the comp view works great.

[Andy Engelkemier]

Thank you. That’s a fantastic idea. I will definitely do that moving forward. I figured the solution to the issue was a simple workaround like this.
Excellent.