[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Neil,

For what it is worth, there are plenty of websites out there offering video feedback tools.

But before choosing one, the bigger issue I’ve found is if your “end-client” can actually access the site, and watch the video?
Some of my broadcast clients uses iPad and other closed systems, where they can’t get some of the basics to work. That is not their fault, neither their problem, but ours to solve, right?
(One memorable moment up to a broadcast we had to Facetime the programme playing on my monitor as a live-stream, whilst the exec watched it remotely. Simply because even as it was a standard MP4 uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive – again, this was my error to sort out).

Vimeo has never worked for me – feels slow and unresponsive + quality isn’t always there, and now they have allegedly decided to price their product out of reach for many freelancers/SME’s that are relying on it.

Frame.io, when I’ve used it, feels like a better looking dropbox, but with less functionality IMHO. There was also an issue with making sure that stake-holders had access to and could review + comment, without paying for an extra seat. Still a mystery to me why Adobe made that purchase… But look at the positive side, something Broadcast News was doing 25 years ago straight to server/ NLE suite in full quality, Adobe is promoting “Camera to Cloud” as the new holy grail in video production – it is not (Although in fairness, back then we were mainly working in PAL or NTSC).

DropBox is painful to use if you are on a slow connection, and they decide to take over your computer and download random files, that will take up space in your Temp files for 3 days – unless you get that secret “location” from them to delete manually. It is the tool that I love to hate, or hat to love. But give them their due, it is made to work everywhere and crunch any video file that you can think off, which makes it accessible to a wide amount of devices (even the big VOD’s encode their video files up to and past over a 100 different formats, so you can watch your streamed video on any device of your choice – would expect DropBox to do something similar).

For my own business I share video reviews on WhatsApp, Slack or similar such as OneDrive. In the last year I have started using https://motionarray.com/review/ only because I am subscribing to the site for all of the other goodies that it has. It is OK and secure, not perfect, but so far none of my clients have complained about it. Although, they don’t tend to use it for adding comments. But is robust and looks good.

Finally, years ago I was a great fan Yousendit which later renamed to https://www.hightail.com/
My reason for not continuing was that they were trying to get me to use (pay for) a lot of features that I didn’t need. I have revisited their site, and it may actually now be of interest. One thing that they have got right from day one, is that you can not only track when the client have downloaded the file, but also which individual person and how many times – which helps in the process of making sure that everybody has watched it. They also have a fairly big section on reviews and comments, including comparing to previous versions.

There you go, You wanted a “quick” response.
I am sure that there are other people here who can add excellent choices to these.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Tad,

I don’t think that there is a “default” saving location for your exports.

Although, I tend to find that the system (HP PC) will remember the last location that you exported that specific sequence to.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Corbin,

Setting aside how to do the effect, from a Corporate communications point of view, the slide that you have to convey to the audience is already in a total mess – not even sure that if you showed it to the client, that they themselves would be able to follow it?

Sorry, that sounded harsh.

But there is only soo much that you can have on one screen, and only soo many arrows that can point in different directions.

To start with, I would suggest that you break the various parts of the screen-shot down to smaller “localised” sequences/animations, before connecting all of the dots/lines in the last video.
All done in a meaningful way, obviously.

By breaking it down, the various components of the TeamsIamge graphic becomes bigger, and easier to animate/apply effects on to. Without having 45 different “path” lines in 4 different colours and outline, competing for “Glow” and “Pulsating” on what could be a small screen.

Just a suggestion on how to approach the bigger issue with the job.

Hope that this helps.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dan,

You mention “Archived” file, which suggest that it is an older file.

Unless you have text file with the Chapter markers in (?) you might find it a longwinded way to edit them on the current file.

My advice is to pop your video file on a time-line in PPro, and redo the chapters.

I have just found this tutorial that is really easy to use on how to make Chapter Markers:

https://youtu.be/B6vsSrGRZcU

And although the Export window has changed, there is options to export a file with Chapter Markers.

Hope that this helps.

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Mads

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

I use MotionArray, and are super happy with it.

Although search functions could be better, I’ve just delivered a corporate video, where all music, SFX, logo animations and lower thirds + a bit of B-Roll was from MotionArray.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Gary,

Although not helpful to you today: Sadly Apple is a closed system, although new versions of some of their products are reported to come with tools for “home-repairs” – can only be a question of time, before that could include adding upgrades (from Apple, or otherwise…).

As an alternative, would a cloud rendering solution work for you?
Obviously you might need a fairly big data connection, depending on your source/out-put file formats.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Robert,

No problem.
I understand that using available resources are much better than making a big investment.

Just be careful that you don’t slow yourself down waiting for the hardware to respond, that in the end it takes the joy out of the editing process.

Do take note of Mark suggestions.

Adding to those, I would add:
Have CreativeCloud folder on the Mac Drive, with all project data mirrored on to the Adobe cloud.
Have all “Preview” folders and other back-up files on main drive too.
Get an external SSD drive for all media files – a Blue 2TB Samsung T7 SSD is currently retailing at $ 130.00 on Amazon US site.
WARNING: I know of one feature film edit where the drive was running hot, but that might have been fullres 4K files – don’t know, but do watch out for it.
If you want to run multiple drives, there are external Thunderbolt options for expanding the amount of ports that you can use.

Also, consider to break your edit down into smaller projects (film reels), so you don’t constantly have the whole movie in one time-line (Sequence). When needed, You can easily create a master time-line with all edits in for viewing sessions.

And, don’t be afraid of clearing your cache from time to time, and/or save new versions of the project.

If none of that works, then you may need to get a bigger machine to do the job on.

Good Luck.

All the Best
Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Danny,

There are plenty of plug-ins that “cartonize” video, and with a circular mask + fish-eye lens effect, you might get close. But not an actual face of a kid character.

But if you want Snap-Chat you are likely to have to use Snap-Chat.

A “faster” way might be to go to Blender to create specific faces that your client is happy with, and then animate those using NVidia Audio2Face.

There is a tutorial here (I have not used it, but seems solid + Blender is free to use with plenty of Freelancers out there who can work it for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XjCi5LdNco

It might also be worth asking around in the COW After Effects forum(s).

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Mads

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Hey Robert,

Sorry, but you have given us none of your specs except for the model name.
Neither have you offered anything in form of work-flow, such as how you’ll want to do the conform, grade and sound-mix.
And, the amount of rushes that you are dealing with would have an impact on storage, regardless of original or proxy.

In theory the idea with proxies are that you can work with them on any “old” machine that can run a recent version of PPro.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Selen,

I agree, ChatGPT will only tell you that A.I. can generate visual content, but won’t necessarily be able to do it by itself.

Then there is the question as to whether A.I. can generate anything new, out of nothing?
As there would have needed to be some Machine Learning for the A.I. to know what an object or expression is – take a tree as one example, or a smiling child.

There are tools coming through that are allowing you to generate images and video from text (and audio). Although not perfect, it is worth taking note of what is to come, and consider how we as a professionals fits in to this new world:
https://runwayml.com/#generate-videos

Here is a newsletter that was released in time for the Academy Awards, all out of some interesting R&D at Storia.ai:
https://oscars.storia.ai/

Midjourney is another one in development that looks interesting, check out their showcase:
https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/recent/

If you haven’t seen this, even though it is audio only, head over and read this article + watch the video:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7029142016055738369/
Copyright infringement suits might soon be a thing of the past, or it might expand big time.
But how do you sue an A.I., or more importantly, how do you stop an A.I. from using your footage/designs/masters?

NFT, non-fungible tokens might suddenly get a whole new extended purpose. 🙂

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Mads