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You could also try either some Directional Blur, or any of the other blurs that let you blur the horizontal only.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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I’d convert the text to masks, and then animate the Mask Paths.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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You can paste effects on to multiple clips at once. You can also do a Paste Attributes on multiple clips. I usually do that after selecting a LUT or performing a general “one light” on one clip from a specific camera as a starting point to fine tune the color on individual clips.
I can’t help with the Color Trace question.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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They are on Mac, and probably on Windows, too.
I create a fresh set of prefs, and then immediately zip them so that I can restore quickly when they get corrupted, which happens WAY too often.
Here’s the path on Macs that’s probably similar for Windows: computer> Users>user that’s you>Documents>Adobe>Premiere Pro>14.0 (the version in question>Profile-your name
I make an alias to this folder (where I also keep the zipped prefs) on my Desktop because rarely a week goes by that I don’t have to refresh the prefs.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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If your crashing is unique to one project and not others (It happens.), then you probably have something corrupt in the project or a sequence. Start a new project, and then import the “bad” one into it.
You may have a corrupt sequence. Create a new Sequence, go to the bad one, select all, copy, and paste into the New Sequence.
You may have an effect corruption. I’ve had constant crashing on a Sequence that was fixed by deleting effects, and then re-applying them. If an effect is bad, you can sometimes find the bad one by either rendering or exporting, and make note of when the app crashes. If it’s 30% into the export or render, look for the bad effect around 30% into your Sequence.
You can have corrupt media too, that crashes the app as soon as your CTI gets near it.
Finding corruption is often a matter of search and destroy. Good luck. Be patient. Persevere.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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Yes. Use Clip > Enable. I have a shortcut assigned so I can toggle visibility on and off as needed. Works on one clip or a group of clips that you lassoed or shift-clicked or whatever.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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It wasn’t ChronoSync I was using at the time, it was ArGest Backup – my LTO archiving and restore app. However, I concur that it was probably at least complicit in this catastrophe.
I’ve had nothing but good luck with ChronoSync. I’ve been using it to sync my RAIDs for years. I’ve always had two RAIDs. Now, I have four. And I try to keep two of them turned off at all times, so this never happens to me again. I plan to sell my smallest RAID this weekend. Four is overkill. ☺
I haven’t had any KPs lately. I got a few within a week of receiving the MacPro, and I was probably on 10.15.2 at the time. I’m on 10.15.5 now, and I haven’t had to reinstall the OS since the last time, that brought me up to 10.15.5 from 10.15.4.
I forget how I did it – likely something in the Security settings, but I can boot off an external SSD I have attached via USB-C.
I’ve been all Mac, too, since upgrading from my Commodore 64. I feel hostage to it, given my considerable investment in software. Now, I’m too close to retirement to consider switching. I got eight years service out of my MacPros 2008 and 2012.
As for the lost mail and other Catalina horrors, that’s why I clone my boot drive every few days now. Having an SSD as a clone speeds that process up considerably. Takes about 15 minutes using the SuperDuper Smart Update feature.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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Haha. You weren’t around when I turned the air blue after discovering my unfortunate situation, Eric.
The good news is that I’ve got Gb fiber, so a reinstall takes about 20 minutes, which is far faster than my experience with all previous versions of OSX.
Unless I’m mistaken, there are no utilities to fix broken directories that Disk Warrior or Drive Genius could fix prior to APFS. So, short of Apple Disk Utility and the shells that run it underneath, reinstalling Catalina is the only way to fix Finder issues that Disk Utility can’t, AFAIK.
I got excited to see that Drive Genius came up with an update for Catalina, but Directory Repair still isn’t supported for Catalina. So, I passed upgrading it. I have CleanMyMac X, which I still run a few times a week (and is a better deal, IMO than Drive Genius, although it does fewer things, like defragging, which I’ve never done on any disk, anyway). It does the Disk Utility Repair and other maintenance tasks, including Repairing Permissions, which has vanished from Apple Disk Utility, or so it says.
Not having a working system is a deal-breaker according to my clients, a situation shared by most of us on this forum, I would suppose.
May The Force be with you and your new Macs and Catalina.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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It’s been a while since you posted. But, I bought DiskDrill after a major issue with files disappearing because of what appears to be a freak accident, and was able to recover quite a few of them.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5
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Hi Rainier,
I still haven’t determined exactly what caused the massive file deletion. I eventually got a reply from Tolis Tech support who claimed it was “impossible” the Argest Backup had anything to do with files being deleted. I’m skeptical, because the app will definitely overwrite files if you tell it to. I understand why nobody would want to take the blame for something so catastrophic.
Since writing this post, I reinstalled Catalina for what I estimate is the eighth time. That’s become a standard practice when the Finder starts acting strangely, which has become a too common occurrence. In the process, the installer upgraded me to 10.15.5. Once it gets to 10.15.6, it will get to where I’ve learned that OSX is approaching reliability.
Also, since first posting, I’ve installed a two drive 16TB RAID 0 internally (using that Promise kit for MacPro7,1) for daily backups from my big RAID. So, I’ve got a total of four RAIDs. I can keep two switched off (and unplugged) most of the time, and that should keep my media safer. Plus, I also have the LTO drive. I may sell my 128 TB QNAP NAS. Seems unnecessary.
I’ve increased the frequency of my boot disk cloning. Since I’ve had my User folder vanish two or three times now, not going too long between cloning seems prudent.
Thank you for replying.
Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.comMacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.4 (Warning: Don\’t do the Supplemental Update!)