George Socka
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You need to know before you omport the clips how long you want them to be. Cant be specified after the fact.
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In PPro the black box can be a separate “title” that is used over and over – or stretched as long as needed. If you have 1 and 2 line titles, create standard 1 and 2 line boxes. Anything outside will not likely work since you need to line up each subtitle with the dialogue??
Agree with using Word rather than Notepad since it has a spellchecker, in most languages. Put each line of dialogue on its own line in Word, create a title with just a space where the subtitle should be using the font you want, select the line in Word, ctrl-C in Word, ctrl-V in PPro when the cursor is in the title area – double click the aforementioned space, save as using the text you pasted as a file name – again Ctrl-v, ctrl-Z to undo what you just pasted … do over as required. In the project window the new titles will be in the order created. Select them, drop onto a new track on the timeline, move around, Viola
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No problem in PPro, even P6.5 – do a scroll title, apply Basic Perspective effect to suit. 4 mouseclicks
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Also requires a round trip back and forth to AE for each tiny change. Plus a render.
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It has a nice built in titler, but you cannot animate/keyframe effects on individual letters. I understand that live type can deal with each letter separately. Hoever you can create each letter as a separate tile object and stack them up
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Apply teh motion before you apply the dissolve otherwise you cannot see what you are doing because the dissolve has already done its thing
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My vote is for plain vanilla PPro. Process your images in Photoshop first for basic color correction and resizing, cropping, close cropping and alpha channel tricks, new backgrounds. Save all as psd’s. If you need the same image as multiple versions on several layers, merge (stamp) to a new layer and save as separate files so that if you make changes you affect only that one image. Season with video and other still backdrops, track matte to taste. Mix mpeg, QT and avi with impunity.
Use built in transitions and motion keyframing to make the moves. The dissolve transition is a lot less work than keyframing opacity. The slide transition is less work than keyframing motion. Use PPro’s title capability to create actual titles, masks and color blocks. Use separate sequences to build repeated items like logo blocks.
Just finished a project of 22 minutes at 5 sec per image so that is how many images… 7 video tracks deep in places. (80 photos as 5 sec each is only 6 minutes or so). Then they wanted a 4 minute teaser so I just copied the sequence and started deleting stuff until it fit. Need an approval copy as a wmv to email or post on the web? Just export directly from PPro
Sure AE has nice text effects, 3D and the card dance effect and the shine plugin, but if you thought PPro was slow to render wait till you export from AE… And how do you get from AE to a DVD – well you render. PPro will export to DVD directly without some intermediate format to add artefacts, and if you need more control over DVD structure, will export to mpeg2 right from the timeline for use in your favorite authoring tool. And I have yet to figure out how to edit audio in AE.
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CTRL-S is your friend – sometimes. Also consider when opening the project for the first time in a day, do it from Open Project, not the list of recent projects. Then, in the file window, do Ctrl-C Ctrl-V to make a windows file copy of the project file. After a while you will have a series of copies. CTRL-S will happily save the corrupted project on top of itself.
Other things ti try : delete the previews, delete the conformed audio, remove all of the media files to another folder ( bring them back later). Each of these may let PPro get further.
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Thanks
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And turn on automatic saving. The association between the project and the rendered files is only saved when the project is saved. Crash = not saved if you are saving “manually”