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Hey Max,

As Davinchi starts from free, I would suggest that you take it for a spin.

There are pros and cons with both Creative Cloud and Davinchi.
But if cinematography is the main goal, then you get a more complete set of tools for colour correction in Davinchi.
The down-side is, that you might not get the video codecs that you want to use in your pipe-line.

Also, to really get into using it, head over and do a LinkedIN course. Or Packt, ending today 29th Feb 2024, is running a disount on books, including:
“Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18″ by Lance Philips:

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Hey Dhiren,

Echo what Eric suggested.

But curious to know how far back you want to downrade it?
As there comes a point where won’t be able to.
As if you are using CS AfterEffects, it is unlikely to ever be able to read a CC version.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

I am with Tom on this one.

Best edits are those where you do not need transitions.

If you can do a complete edit without them, and the viewer still enjoys your film, then your job is done right.

However, music videos are often fast paced, and YouTube viewers have been “conditioned” to watch bad editing at a pace that eventually will either bore you or give you a headache. Sorry, that was a bit generic, but the message is the same.

Are we accepting the: “Hey, WHAT’s UP, FOLKS!!!” videos with loads of finger snapping at the camera and “machine-gun-jump-cut editing, whilst the editor frantically is trying to edit in a good take of the next sound-bite?😀

Talking about musicvideos specifically. Because they often have limited budgets with a restriction on location and kit. If you look closely, they often make use of in camera “transistions”.

One example is where you see the artist walking in wide shot, with something the foreground that they walk behind, then to come out in a close-up or new location on the other side of that object.

There are ways of making that very complicated (and expensive). Or you can just track the camera alongside the performer, whilst someone pushes a box, pillar or limosine in the other direction between the camera and the artist.😉

What we all know: There is no right or wrong when it comes to editing (or dissolving) a video. Only thing that matters is whether your audience will watch it, and if they watch it to the end.

Just an opinion.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Josh,

Am I right in understanding that the first and last frames works fine, but inbetween it goes wrong?

I am a great fan of Mocha Pro, but with some tracking jobs you might need to dumb-down the tracking process to only track the corners. Obviously this comment is made without having seen the actual footage.

In any case, you should report it to the Mocha team. They might have a method of doing it, that is not obvious to the end user.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Soman,

It really depends?

If you are doing some quick colour corrections, or matching up cameras, then there is not much difference in what package you use – except where you feel most comfortable.

Like Rob, but more recent for me, I’ve invested in the Blackmagic Mini panel, which comes with Davinci Studio. My thoughts around that, is that there are more high-end colourists that uses Davinci, simply because it originated as a professional tool for creative grading. And, Blackmagic has got a dedicated hardware solution that allows the “operator” to work more accurately, at speed, than your mouse or third party panel can perform on Premiere Pro.

Where as Adobe, they move their “boxes” around a bit on the screen + throw you scraps of improved tools, but is not really serious about the high-end users – they are currently putting most of their R&D cash into Adobe Expres and A.I. Further evidenced by Adove C-Level smashing up the Creative Cloud, by removing Cloud usage with their video tools for freelancers, SME’s and students.

It really comes down to what you are happy and best with using, and your future requirements. As if Adobe’s low-end offerings are hitting you harder as a professional editor, you either have to move up, or change your role.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Yash,

You have not told us anything about your system specs?
And, is your project HD, 4K..?

Worth checking:
1) Have you unknowingly updated to the new version of PPro, just out in the last day or so?
If you have, you might want to roll back.

2) Have you shut your computer down, left it for 5+ mins (I prefer 30), and turned it back on to see if that helps.

3) Trash your cache and preferences and see what happens.

But as said above, we don’t know your specifications. As it could as easily be your hard-drive filling up.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Alan,

I normally make changes manually inside the subtitle text tool box, or on-screen, in the line itself.
But then most of my subtitling are from translated interviews delivered in a word document.

However, this might help you:

Point 3 on the Adobe support page:

Change text position.

Use the Align and Transform options to align your text and change its position.

• Position captions with zones: You can choose from different zones to position your caption in different areas on screen.

• Fine tune position: Through Set Horizontal and Set Vertical Position you can add an offset to your zone setting.
  Vertical and horizontal text alignment are automatically set according to the zone position as well.

• Change the text box size: If you want to shrink
  or expand the text box size you can do this through Set Horizontal Scale
  and Set Vertical Scale. This will affect text wrapping and
  paragraph align settings. You can also change the text. box size using
  the text box controls on the Program Monitor.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/premiere-pro/using/working-with-captions.html

If you do it in the essential graphics panel you can save your set-up (track-style) and apply it to all captions on the captions track.

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Hey Jaeson,

Thank you for highlighting this – just found out that they closed Busyboxx too, which I also spent money with.

As these were lifetime deals, I would suggest two approaches.
1) Find out who the executor of the will is, as that would still be processed. And, make a creditor claim.
2) As they kept selling “life-time” deals, there could be a case for fraud across US and international lines, which suggest that authorities should be alerted.

If that doesn’t work, there is an option 3.

It is awful news that the owner passed away. But would he really want this to be his final reputation?

But it is more disappointing that Digital Juice did not email customers to let them know they were shutting down. I had a similar deal with a library of photos. They “handed” all their assets to a third party that is now selling them. I would not be surprised if the same happened with Digital Juice.

Please keep us updated on this thread.

Thank you.

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Hey Pris,

You need to create a clean plate of the grass.
I would look to do it on a frame about 1 second in.
Either in photoshop, or by layering and cropping different pardts of the video on top of tablet.
Say top right grass, is copied, cropped and moved to cover top right of tablet. Same with top left, bottom right and left.
Make sure that there is a nice blur or overlap between the frames…

Quicker way could be to to use generative fill in After Effects.

Or you can use BrotisFX Mocha Pro inside either Premiere Pro, or in After Effects.

But your starting point is to have a “clean frame” with no tablet in – actually, the latest version of photoshop might do that best and fastest for you.
I know that it is a still, so you might want to add some noise to it – but because of the speed of the zoom, the eye watching will hopefully be forgiving.

Hope that this helps?

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Glenn,

Agreed, you may regret using the main machine for both processing and editing.

But that does depend on your workflow.
The big difference, I hope, it that you are not generating new (multiple) clips, but instead only process the (part of) clips that needs processing.
And, that way you can easily within your DaVinci project identify the original clip.

Interesting question is when you have to process the whole master, whether you do the edit first. Then process the clean version of that master, before exporting a new master version with graphics, animations, etc added?

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