Hey Steve,

Admittedly, I asked Gemini, as I was curious – and too busy to go to the source:

The author’s intuition in the second half is spot on, though the math in the first part has a minor technical discrepancy. Premiere Pro will not detect or strip out duplicate frames on its own.

1. The Math Check (Premise 1)

• Duration & Count: Slowing down to 1…

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Hey Shin,

Many NLE editors now comes with excellent noise reduction baked in.

If I have to go further, I use Izotope.
Although I have the bigger suite, I originally got the starter plug-in pack, and never looked back:
https://www.izotope.com/products/rx-elements
(Izotope is now owned by BorisFX)

Obviously, the spanner in the works is A.I..
As in that…

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Sorry, if the above looks garbled – blame it on WordPress…

However, here is a 7-day link to what Gemini told me:
https://share.google/aimode/xMLnlBrSKAdY0awnI

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Hey Tim,

Did a search, using my new friend Gemini, but centred it on Black Magic Fusion.

I have no idea as to whether this will work:

To export multi-layer EXR files in Blackmagic Fusion, you need to combine your different passes (such as Beauty, Z-Depth, Ambient Occlusion, or Motion Vectors) into a single image stream using Channel Booleans or Merge…

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Hey Mark,

What a pain.

Are you able to roll back PPro to the previous version, or are locked-in on the new features?

What happens if you setup a new project, and import the Sequence (TimeLine) and try again?

Next I would try is to dissable the Morphcut, if you use it anywhere, and see if that will make the export happen?
If not, maybe dissable the…

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Hey Johnny,

Are you slowing down and speeding up the audio too?

Or is it just the video?

Don’t know if you have mentioned it in another post, but it would be helpful to know what version of VEGAS you are working on, and the codec you have recorded your gameplay in?

Some lower-end codecs are Long-GOP, which I call “never-the-same-timecode-twice”.
In…

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Hey Rob,

What kind of project is it?

Talking heads, music video…?

There are loads of tools out there that can find you a similar-looking video, but accuracy is difficult as they need to look at multiple frames to make an accurate match.

Although not entirely hopeful, You could try PPro’s Media Intelligence…

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Hey Chris,

eBay might be a good place to start.

Depending on where you are based, you might be able to get a local transfer facility to transfer from DV to Digital file for you.

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Hey Denise,

It is attractive to consider using A.I. for everything, but that won’t neccesarily solve the basic problems on a production.

Yes, you can use A.I./3D software for advanced low-cost story boards. But if you as a film-maker can not visualize the end result, how will you be able to go on set and give directions, or operate the kit?

This is…

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Hey Denise,

Good point about always making the test first.

However, over one hundred years of film-making, good cinematography (DOP/Lens/Lighting/Angle) can make most ordinary scenes look amzing. Or at least give enough space for the actors to do their bit.

Two good actors, dressed accordingly to what the script wants them to be. With a couple of…

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Hey Tim,

Yes, Motion Array was great, but turned into something useless.

Admittedly, I rarely use transitions apart from dissolves and the odd wipe.
Call me old-fashioned, except when I must do something more elaborate.

You might have already looked at these, but here goes:

MotionVFX pending takeover by Apple, may already be in the FCP Studio…

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Yes, Let’s do it, who else wants to take part?

Hey Roland,

Thank you for sharing.

Admittedly, it looks crazy good; more importantly, a good indicator of what is to come.

But the question with Adobe is always: At what extra cost in form of A.I. tokens or add-on subscriptions?

However, if anyone needs an education of what happens when Creative A.I. meets Agentic A.I., hit that link and watch…

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Hey Nina,

Sorry, I am bit late to anawring so you might already have found a solution to your problem.

We will need a lot more dtails than the screen shot, please:

Like Davinci version number?

Are you PC or Mac?

Have you previously been able to back up the project, to the same location?

And so forth.

If you have found a solution, please feel free to…

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Hey Eddie,

Just had alisten to both your version on YouTube, and honestly could not hear the difference – but keep in mind that a vast majority of your viewers will be watching YouTube shorts on a mobile phone or tablet. And, depending on where they are based, YouTube (Google) may throttle the full quality version, to prioritise a contineous…

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Hey Kouraib,

You make a really good point.

I am not sure that I agree with CG Toon, not least as he is using a poor persons version of slow moving music, that would fit a 1980’s arcade machine. And, he is a self-confessed beginner with Blender, so not sure that he is there, yet.

Setting that aside, there is A.I., and then there is A.I..

Question is:…

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That is good news!

And at least you can get on with the actual job.

Good idea to export EDL/AAF to see what happens, maybe send it to Davinci or similar?

Admittedly, I have got the latest version of AVID MC Ultimate, just need a bigger project to take it for a test run on.

Still remember the days when AVID off-line started from about £50K for a…

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Have to confess that after finding a lot of VR games, at a competitive price, it is becoming fun for my boys to use.

But proper VR headsets are IMHO still too heavy for anything else.

Likely the StarTrek HoloDeck will be the next big step, or not…

Hey Nina,

You are stuck between a rock and a hard place, as it sounds like the production might need to get the funding for completion, based on your amazing edit.

My advice is to make sure that the production understands that even if it’s “unconventional”, it still needs to be in a format where the finished documentary can be enjoyed.
Don’t know if…

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Hey Nina,

Are you finishing the project on AVID, or will ot go to a third party?

When it comes to framerates, there can only be the one that you deliver the final master with.
Obviously from that, you may be doing down, up or cross converts depending on the delivery specs.

If the amount of footage that you are dealing with is manageble and you have…

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Patrick,

You need to pull your finger out of your backside, and do some work yourself, maybe pull your head of that hole too as you appear angry that no one want to volunteer their spare time for something that you are either not equipped to do yourself, or just too lazy to do.

There is a great thread already on the internet, why don’t try this out…

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Yes, in my opinion the “4060 is a better version of the 2080”.

You can benchmark them, as I’ve done here:
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-4060-Ti-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2080/4149vs4026

There is a more recent version, the RTX 5060-TI:
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-5060-Ti-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2080/4183vs4026

Keep in mind that they…

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Hey Matthew,

Once you start tearing your PC apart for small gains, you run the risk that it won’t work when you put it back together again.

Saying that, if you are in the lower end of the 4K spectrum, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB VRAM) looks interesting. It is a 2023 release v your current 2018 release version.
But if you felt that the…

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Hey Matthew,

Great news that you have found a monitor that works for you in your current setup.

Hopefully you can now dedicate time to get the best end-result out of the kit that you have.

And upgrade your kit as you go along.

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Hey Mert,

Thank you for your insights.

Sorry for the late response, but I’ve been on a job.

“i’d be cautious about updating a production machine straight to 26.2.2, especially mid-project.”

For clarity, I was told not to update to point releases which I normally don’t do anyway, except v25.X gave nothing but problems.

Even so when support emailed me, I…

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Hey Matthew,

It would not be a surprise if some monitors have near identical output, as there are only soo many patents and factories for making the core component for the screen (OLED/LED/???).

And at the money that you are initially spending, you can easily be spending too much time researching whether to spend $200 or $500, where it really only…

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Hey Matthew,

You’ve built a great setup.
And it is fab to hear that you are getting excited about grading HDR.

For what it is worth, and it is not necessarily the advice that you are seeking, but this is my opinion:
even a “small” 13.3″ HDR display is not going to give you the scale that you are looking for. And the small ninja is even worse, as y…

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Hey Jean,

Much better, well done!

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Hey Jean,

Sharing knowledge is what makes the COW a great place to hang out.

Yes, see each pass as an export out to a video file.

Then import that video file, add the deflicker filter again. If it shows no difference to the flicker with the filter added to the exported file, tweak the settings until you see a change, then export again.

Obviously make…

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Hey Jean,

That is OK, we all need to work within budget.

I suggest that you give Davinci a go, and follow the advice of making multiple passes on the render (new render for each pass, and then import that to your timeline).

And see where that takes you.

There are other DeFlicker tools out there, some which may be on monthly subscription.

But I still…

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Hey Jean,

That is some serious flickering.

First and Second pass is something I often use for Green Screen keys. But multi-layer the effect instead, and do one render out.

1st fx layer is the main green, 2nd + is for dealing with the variations that did not get taken out by the first key – this is an old way of doing it, but sometimes works.

With…

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Just heads up:

Adobe, with the latest version of Premiere Pro 26.2.2 (Build 3), appears to have rolled it back.

Instead of fixing bugs, it is now crashing all over the place.

Currently editing MP4 footage with ProRes intro and outro – nothing too tasking.

I am on Windows 11, intel Core Ultra 9 processor, 64GB RAM, NVidia RTX 5090, 5th Gen SSD and 5th…

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Hey Dennis,

Sorry, your experiences sounds way past painful.

And, you are clearly doing all the right things to make it work.

Initially there are only two things that you don’t mention, which might be relevant:

1) In your setup, do you use external drives HDD/SSD?

2) What is the codec of your video source files?

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Hey Sam,

You are very welcome.

If VR is something that you’ll be doing more of, there is every good reason to make friends with the Product Marketing department at Canon.
They may be able to help you with a loan of the kit, but that is a far stretch, and if any footage works for you to pull data from, then stick to that.

Although this might come at…

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Hey Mike,

That’s annoying.

Sounds like you need to free up space:

What does your System > Storage > Temporary files show?

WARNING: DO NOT “REMOVE YOUR DOWNLOADS FILES” – unless you have checked them, or backed them up to a seperate folder.

Have you deleted render files (temporary pre-renders) for all of your projects?

If going manual, A.I. suggests:…

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Hey Mike,

Great that you got it to open again.

Would be interesting to know your machine specs?

Although, you are sorted:
Good idea to check how much space you have on your drive?
Where is your Virtual memory sitting, and how much space does it take?
Don’t know if you use CCleaner, it starts from free, but can help you clean your drive for orphan files…

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Hey Sam,

Sounds like an exciting project.

Hopefully there will be someone here who has what you are looking for.
I don’t, but as a recent owner of a VR headset, I am interested.

As you haven’t told us where you are based, I apologise in advance if my suggestions are not relevant:

1) Have you reached out to your local country Canon office? I would be…

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Hey David,

OK, I hear you:
“The idea is: once you already have a cut — rough or otherwise — it watches and listens to that version and returns timestamped notes on things like pacing, clarity, continuity, etc.”

On paper, that sounds great.

In reality, on bigger projects, my client get a Transcript with TimeCodes from me in a word.doc format. Where the…

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Hey David,

Your idea sounds interesting, and as you suggest from the outset, the A.I. will be able to speed up putting the clips in order (rough-cut). But it still requires the editor to make it flow.

But if what you are looking for is the rough-cut itself, and changing that. Then I am not sure what I would achieve by sharing it, unless you have all…

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Hey Nigel,

Without seeing the actual shot, it is near impossible to give advice for your specific issue.

The short version is that you need to isolate (add a mask) to the area that you want to change.
Magic Mask is a good place to start.

If you search for “Davinci magic mask neck”, you will get different results.

But Mr Alex Tech has this video that…

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Hey Nigel,

Adding to Joseph’s excellent comments, it might be worth you looking up Davinci v21 retouching, there is new tools currently in beta.

All the Best
Mads

Hey Anthony,

Marc has already given you excellent advice, and if he can find you an engineer, even better.

My intial thought when I saw your post, was in part about whether the camera is running hot?

The other is the “hidden” trouble that users have experienced in recent years with SanDisk Extreme Pro SD Cards that are causing Photo and Video file…

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Hey Jessica,

What are your source files and/or data?

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In other words; you are too lazy to put in the time yourself to find out what works best for you:
Adobe Premiere Pro or BlackMagic Davinci.

Taking in to account that one of those are free, what have you got to lose, escept for time?

Patrick,

Now you are moaning again over people being helpful to you, but not giving the answer that you were looking for, as that does not exist here.
Remember, you only later revealed that your question is based on your own prejudice:
“I’m just looking to know what feature Premiere has that Resolve don’t”.
As everybody here is telling you, dependi…

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Hey Patrick,

And that list of yours is already out of date.

Why, because the Davinci-Resolve team are good at listening to their user base, one thing that the Adobe team don’t seem to be doing.

As suggested AI can give you those answers, here is one example:

“In DaVinci Resolve 21, the Edit page masking capabilities are enhanced by faster AI tools and…

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Patrick,

That is OK, but every user have their own experiences with the software.
The way you are framing your research is “I’m just looking to know what feature Premiere has that Resolve don’t”.
Why?
That premise is based on you wanting to know why Premiere Pro is better than Davinci, so why not state that from the beginning.

As Premiere Pro has bee…

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Patrick,

That is somewhat of a passive aggressive answer.

Davinci and Premiere Pro is no different than meat pie from your local supermarket.
Choose two brands, read the ingredients on the back of them, and you have your answer.
If that is too much, try ask AI.

But don’t come seekeing for help, if you are just after a list of differences, because you…

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