[David Bogie]

Depends on your target video output and whether you need subtitles burned in or captions that are user-switchable. Most captioning systems are encoded into a scanline and they are not necessarily possible in most nonlinear formats. You put them in when you print to video and it’s usually easier to have a captioning service do the job.
Then there are the different flavors of captioning and language versioning which new users easily confuse.
Try these sites for some information:

https://www.robson.org/capfaq/
https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php

The question is coming up here more and more often so try searching the archives for closed cpations, captions, and subtitles.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Air conditioning.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

All true but the .motn will not actually PLAY like it’s a movie. You will only be able to see as much of Motion’s action as your machine can spit out for you. If the project is more than a few layers or involves scaling and motion blur and drop shadows (and what project doesn’t?) the utility of being able to use .motn in the timeline becomes silly. Hope you machine is up to the task. Mine isn’t. Not for the complexity I’m doing now. So I usually output a proxy movie file at low rez. Doesn’t take too long to render and the rough timing is easy to correct later.
But that’s just the workflow I’m using with a few particular projects at the moment. Might change.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Adding up the kilowatt consumption is only the first part of the equation. For how long and where is the system sitting?

Here in Iderho, you will pay about $0.055 per kilowatt hour for residential. In Illinois or parts of California you can pay four times that much.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

I have no experience with iMovie. Get After Effects, the builtin stabilization is fabulous but other plugs are available.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

>
I am doing a video for a graphic design firm which has little experience in TV, and they are insisting on tiny little supers against black in some places. < But they refuse to trust an expert? This can be a delicate situation but there are technical limits to all media, even the ones in which they think they are gods. Each of their presentation systems, print, photos, Web, inkjet, digital signage, whatever, has presented them with new challenges in legibility. Video is all about pixels and the illusion of clarity because the pixels either move or are blurry. Chris, if you get a chance, drop by later and tell us how you made out with these folks. Luck. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

more possibly helpful information:

https://www.captionmax.com/faqTechProb.php

https://www.robson.org/capfaq/

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

> Generally defragmentation isn’t among the things one worries about in OSX as the system does it itself if left on.< this is a generally circulated myth. Unix automatically sorts through its directories and invisible files, left to its own devices. but OS10 will not degragment a drive's files. One of the reasons we like to say defragging isn't much of an issue is because drives are so huge these days. Generally speaking, disk maintenance just isn't the issue it used to be in earlier revs of OS10 and System 9. Almost all performance issues are software-based. But that's an over-generalization, of course. bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Drop shadows? I’m not having any issues with drop shadows at all once things are rendered. The realtime preview is unreliable so I don’t use it. Since they clog up everything while editing, I tend to set drop shadows up properly and then turn ’em off till the last output run is made.

I think most of us simply figure out how to cope with the limitations of the application and adjust our workflows. However, you may indeed be doing something incorrectly.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Create a second multicam sequence and then marry the two together.

bogiesan

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