Odd question. I don’t often do captioning.

I’d like to capion a sequence to use as an open caption. There are many technical terms/phrases/spellings that will need to be manually corrected. Very time consuming.

I have a clean prompter script. In the past I’ve used software that would use a text script to more accurately build a caption. I don’t see…

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Santanu. Not to continue the off topic, but yeah I agree. The “New” people aren’t required to develop the skills we did.

Hmmm. Sounds exactly like what I heard coming into the industry toward the end of the film era about video. I’m sure the new Film guys heard that, and the digital people will hear in a couple years.

Adapt or die, right?😀

Even without the clapper you may be able to find something, like an object set down, or a first word start, that will get you started with sync. Often the hard part is find the corresponding files. Unless they always roll and stop both consistently, the count gets out of sync.

If the timecode was running time of day you MAY be able to find the…

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No, I always work in the oldest version of Premiere that does what I need. Because I interface with many different systems, I’ve found this the best practice for me.

Once a project is opened (and Saved) in a newer version it cannot be opened in the older version.

Adobe is smart enough to tell you it is changing the version as you open it and saves…

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My workflow often involves the need to downgrade projects to previous versions. I’ve used the Edit XML/recompress technique successfully for years and it has saved me (and my clients) a LOT of headaches.

That method no longer seems to work. Now I get the “The project could not be loaded, it may be damaged or contain outdated elements” error. This…

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OK. It’s been a couple years. Does Adobe read this? I have submitted this feature request.

<font face=”inherit”>I’m a freelance editor who constantly runs in to this. And the standard “Work around it by jumping through hoops” is not always possible or </font>practical<font face=”inherit”>.</font>

It seems simple. You KNOW this project is missing…

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