[Jona Taylor]

Nesting… who would have thought?
Thanks again Ann 🙂

[Jona Taylor]

Solved!
I spent 10 hours trying to solve this… wish I would have posted here earlier.
Another heart felt thank you Ann and to all the members here who continually help out… my dreams are slowly coming true thanks to you! 🙂
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

But wait! I’ve just made a nest out of the entire bunch of clips and there is no glitches where the dissolves happen!

I guess this makes it difficult to easily go back in and make changes to individual clips so I’d better keep a copy of the original before nesting. Correct?

Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Sorry Anna…

I just got all the nested clips back in place and the film dissolves applied and rendered… the glitches are still there on the first few frames of every dissolve. Just like on the un-nested clips. The images look pixelated with small blocks.

I should mention that the affected clips are ProRes (converted from XDCam 29.98fps), H264 and some XDCam 23.976 on an 23.976 XDCam sequence timeline. One of the clips is rolling at -100 speed. Magic Bullet Looks filters applied to all clips and also an opacity on some on the clips.

10 hours trying to solve this… I’d be grateful if you or anyone could help me sort this out. I’ve tried everything 🙁
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Very good Ann 🙂

I figured that’s what you meant and am now putting everything back together on the timeline.

I have a feeling that it is going to work out. My guess is that ‘nesting’ makes a new sub-clip that is not so unstable when when colliding with others while using effects.

Thank you again for your time and help here 🙂
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Hi Ann,
There are 8 clips in total. 6 on video track 1. One clip on video track 2. One on Video track 3.
I added 15 frames to each side of the clips.
Then I control clicked each clip and selected nest. Each clip turned green.
Then is trimmed the 15 frames off of each side of each clip until they were the original length and fit them all back together the way they were.
Then I tried to add the dissolves again but was only able the place the dissolve directly on the cut. Then a message saying ‘insufficient media’ appeared.
I tried to copy the tracks to higher track and do the same but to no avail.
I know I’m doing something wrong here. I’ve never do this an no experience nesting clips.
Can you point to an example or provide a little more clarification please 🙂
Looking forward and thank you one again,
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Hello Ann 🙂
Thank you very much for the reply.
I will give your advice a try and report back to this thread with the results.
Kind regards,
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Thank you Steve!

I’ve just downloaded Subsfactory and am just having a go at it to see what the process is.

So far I can not find a way to see the text over the video. Is this possible? I believe it would be best to see the font so as to know how much of the subjects sentence (text) fits on the screen and if I have to condense the subjects text so that it will fit into the title safe area correctly. I often find that I have to tweak the text a little so that it will fit. The challenge is here is to do it so that it remains true to their words and the meaning that they are trying to convey.

And also, I can imagine that each time I make a change to the text in the editor over the coming months I would generate a new subrip file and then plug it back into Premiere Pro. Correct?

Big thanks for your continued support. Your last post moved the ball up the field a decent distance.
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Big thanks for your continued help here Steve 🙂

“… Not if you use the ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’ script solution. Simply open the After Effects project back up…”

Ok so, if I understand you correctly, are you saying that I can continue creating text files over top of my footage (man speaking Hindi) and then when I’m finished the film, I could open the project up in AE and by using the ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’ script solution plugin I would be able to make changes to the font or maybe even the language without having to scroll through the Premiere Pro timeline and modifying each text file? Correct?

See the thing is that I’m still very much in the rough edit and am adding subtitles to the footage so that I understand what the subject is saying. As I am building the film in Premiere Pro I want to see everything in front of me on the timeline as it is happening so that I know that it is happening correctly and everything is lined up. As I don’t have much experience with AE and ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’ script solution I have no idea at this point how or if I need to implement these tool at this early stage of the edit. Know what I mean? But if AE and ‘pt_ImportSubtitles’ script solution can be used to batch modify subtitles later down the road then this may come in handy.

The truth is that this is the first time I am in this process with Premiere Pro so have no idea if I’m going about this subtitling in the right way. I just know that when I watch/ hear the subject speaking in the program monitor I want to be able to read what he is saying so that I’ll know if I want to select that footage for use in the film.

Any tips or tricks before I get too deep into this would sure be welcomed now. I just finished the first 5 minutes and it took 1.5 hours. There are 10 hours still left to go. I won’t subtitle every single thing but at least half of it and then take just the best stuff in the end.

Again Steve, I would very much appreciate anything you or anyone could add at this early stage in this huge process 🙂

Theatrical Release
Font:
Bold Helvetica: 48
Y Position: 1000
Inner Stroke: 5
Outer Stroke: 10

Jona
2013Macbook Pro
CS6 (Premiere Pro 6.0.2)

[Jona Taylor]

Hi Steve! Thank you for the response.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I’m on a Mac. I’ve scoured over everything I can find on Creative Cow and elsewhere and there seems very little that will help make this process less cumbersome.

I just started creating ‘titles’ and hour ago. If I go hard I should be done in a month.

My fear is that if after creating thousands of titles that sit over the video timeline, I’ll want to or have to make changes to the font settings (and since there are no batch functions) it will mean making the changes one by one. I sure hope I have made the right choice in selecting the font attributes. Incredible that this could be left out of the functionality. I did put in a feature request today.

I’d be grateful if anyone might have a better approach to what is an enormous undertaking I’ve just started!

Best regards,
Jona
2013 Macbook Pro
Premiere Pro 6.0.2