Joseph W. bourke
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You don’t mean the Dubner system, do you? It was the grandfather of TypeDeko, and the other Pinnacle boxes/software, and had paint, motion graphics, a live sequencer, and a basic 3D wireframe system (but the shading was pitifully poor – kind of like Phong shading). For its time, it was an amazing box. I moved up to that from a Quantel Paintbox, and was thrilled with the fact that the Dubner had K Language, which would allow you to convert graphic designs to text, which could then be programmed to take CG input from our CG operators. It was a system I could “monkey proof”, in that all the operators had to input was the data, and the correct fonts, colors, and sizes were hard wired into the macro. It save time and mistakes, and kept me sane, since most of the new CG ops seemed to have a great love for the Hobo typeface…
Joe Bourke
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I am not aware of any text animation presets in PPro – it’s generally a job for After Effects. My guess would be that a script such as TypeMonkey may have been used in AE, or more likely, its cousin LayerMonkey:
https://aescripts.com/layermonkey/
Joe Bourke
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Florian –
If I understand you correctly, you are trying to stretch the full mix. You should be working with the separate tracks, Music, Ambient, and Voice. My guess would be the artifacting and robotic sounding voice is due to the mix being used. You can’t properly isolate each piece and optimize your setting for the portion of the audio spectrum you’re working on. Ideally you want to record your voice to fit the allotted time as well, but that doesn’t always happen.
Here’s some information from Adobe which might be of help:
https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/using/multitrack-clip-stretching.html
And a bit more information:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/audition/cs/using/WS58a04a822e3e5010548241038980c2c5-7eeb.htmlAlso check your Splicing Frequency settings – the rate you use can introduce exactly the artifacts you’re talking about – try changing the settings.
Joe Bourke
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Glad to be of help, John – that script is a killer, and it’s also great as an idea generator – you can just keep punching the button until you get something you like. I’ve created a few templates by using just colored boxes, and saved them as separate comps – then I just replace them with video when I need them.
Joe Bourke
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Actually, there is a very useful script which will get you a good part of the way there (grid layout and borders). And it’s as simple as Select some Layers and Click Create – whew!
https://motionboutique.com/collage-script-328/
The animation part of it you will have to do yourself. I would just create a duplicate layer or layers, then mask out the layers I want to animate, then animate them.
Joe Bourke
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I would suggest that you use MediaInfo – a free utility which allows you to identify the type of files which aren’t working:
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
Joe Bourke
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Have you tried looking here?
https://us.focusrite.com/answerbase/saffire-pro-40-troubleshooting-guide
Did you set up your latency settings for Firewire? Sounds like that might be the culprit.
Joe Bourke
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This Particular preset might do the job for you – looks pretty good:
https://thomaskovar.com/rain-trapcode-particular-preset-footage
Joe Bourke
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You could do this by hand, but it would be one heck of a chore. I would suggest that you experiment with some dedicated morphing software. This will at least enable you to quickly give your client an idea of what it could look like, and save you hours. There are several free packages out there, and here’s one which is only 30 bucks:
https://www.morpheussoftware.net/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com