We are considering replacing our live-streaming hardware and getting a LiveU Solo Pro – finally HEVC! Im finding it nearly impossible to get any information about the services and cell plans that accompany it. I can’t think of another company with such terrible customer/sales service. Also with so little actual detail on their products.

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You’d have to do it in a vector editing program. In Motion there is no way to edit inside of a vector.

For social media what you need is an .srt file if you don’t want the captions “burned” into the image. You can simply export the captions as an SRT file. You don’t have much control over how it renders, as it’s completely dependent on Facebook or Youtube to control text size, position etc. The advantage of using SRTs for social media is that… Read more

I did the following things which had no effect:
– deleted cache file to force re-render
– created new library and dragged project into it
– hid inspector
– made into compound clip
I would say that it’s unlikely it has to do with particular render files because I’ve re-rendered I think about 5 times now from scratch. It must have something to do… Read more

iZotope RX’s “Dialogue Isolate” is about as close to magic as noise reduction gets. One parameter to set and it does a phenomenal job. But, it doesn’t work as a plug-in and it is only in the RX Advanced Suite. If you find yourself doing a lot of audio denoising it is well worth the steep price. I have CrumplePop’s first version of DeNoiser, and it… Read more

I’ve been having problems with complicated, graphical timelines being unable to playback. I’m using some relatively complicated Motion templates. I get why it won’t playback even remotely close to real time when not rendered. But what I don’t get is why after it is rendered it still won’t play back. It hitches dramatically during complicated… Read more

I think you are misinterpreting what attack and release times mean in a compressor. They don’t shape transients in the way you’re thinking. (there are plug ins that do this but they aren’t compressors – SPL Transient Designer for one).

Attack refers to the time it takes to ramp up (or down depending on how you look at it) to Gain Reduc… Read more

It is definitely hard to set a compressor right, which is why products like Vocal Rider are great. And I’m not saying there is absolutely no sonic difference between the two. But they are both doing a form of Gain Reduction for peaks. The ballistics are a bit different though, and that may be where the advantage of the Vocal Rider comes in. Here… Read more

[Oliver Peters] “I do feel like I get better acoustic results with the iZotope RX plug-ins”

Definitely. I tested the Accusonus when it came out and it really wasn’t even in the same ballpark as iZotope for heavy noise reduction. I tend not to do real-time processing. While iZotope RX7 does work quite well with realtime in FCP X with Adaptive… Read more