[Michael Paul]

I have found this tutorial https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/CC_Heart_Monitor/video-tutorial which I think is pretty great and useful.
Now I just need some help by sorting out my personal brain farts (yes I’ve said it). Here is what I am trying to do: You see a person that’s first calm and then she gets stressed. Should I just animate a normal beep line – it fades it black – swap the picture with a line that has a lot of peeks? Does this make the most sense? Or should I animate 1 normal one, 1 extreme one and 2 in betweens and then I build up tension? What is the best way to go about this? How do those heart monitors work? Does it jump straight to the highest peak? I mean what I could gather is that it monitors the heart rate and displays that with one line, then it refreshes the picture and monitors it again so the line will never move…hmm so should I have a normal line (up down) with a big peak in it all of a sudden???

I am just very confused about all this.

[Michael Paul]

yeh that did the trick. its just annoying that i have created a lot of folders because i like to keep things organized. so now i have to go into each folder separately but its works. better than having to click on each file by hand. by the way it’s mixed footage: video in all formats, audio and also PSD files.

[Michael Paul]

Oh yeh I have that checkbox that says: Automatically relink all other files as well (or whatever it says in English- it’s the second check box for me at least) checked and it doesn’t work.
Is there a way to force that “offline media” dialog at start up because that always used to do the trick while once I am in Premiere and stuff is offline it is offline and it will only select that ONE clip that I am relinking by hand…

[Michael Paul]

Alright I have figured it out myself STILL in case anyone is wondering this thread might come in handy to someone in the future so here is the solution: Disable or enable the work area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3HxXeTTro

[Michael Paul]

First of all I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU two you guys for the great help and detailed reply. Sorry for my late reply.
I have to admit that I have learned things but still I am VERY lost and don’t fully understand how to tackle my task.

Here is my problem: I get a lot of street interviews / vox pops and the DB will constantly be at around -21DB and going up to -3 DB when ONE person is talking. So its ONE and the SAME person and his DB has side wide range. Now people will complain about it and what I am doing is: I am adding points in adobe premiere (using that pen tool) and moving those points up and down so that the audio stays in the same level – somewhat. 1) I feel like this is a terrible work flow 2) I don’t feel like this is the right and best way to do it 3) I guess the audio that I am given is just not good (really going from -21 up to -3DB…isn’t that a lot? But that’s also what I get when voice actors do audio for me but god knows if that’s right anyways…).
Anyways I am told that the max for my audio is -3DB, it can also go up to 0 if that happens for a split second or really shortly but what is prefered is an area of -6DB and -3DB- in that range.
Now I still do NOT find settings where i say: Lowest and Highest like minimum DB and maximum DB.

I do not understand why you give me ratios like 2:1. Well I mean I understand it ratiowise but Adobe Premiere doesn’t put it like 2:1 (like it’s a scale by 1 to 5). In adobe Premiere it’s like: Ratio: 2.19. So they write a dot. I am wondering if 2.1 in adobe premiere is just like a ratio of 2:1).

Also I am using a filter called Dynamics. Here are the settings I have got:
AutoGate (I don’t think I want to fiddle around with this because I don’t want to filter anything- what would i even want to filter? I mean its often noisy because it’s street interviews so maybe I can filter something with that AutoGate?)
Threshold/Attack/Release/Hold ; and a Soft Clip Button

Then I have my Compressor:
Threshold,Ratio,Attack,Release, MakeUP

and an Expander and a Limiter.

you have described what does what above already so thanks. Still I do NOT know how to achive what I have described above. What would the settings have to be?

I am TERRIBLY sorry for asking like an idiot.

[Michael Paul]

WOW! Thanks A LOT for even making an example file. Thats really great. Thanks for this. Now in Flash I can simply say: display frame this and display frame that. what would be the best way to do this in AE?

[Michael Paul]

Yeh thanks a lot for that. I eventually figured out to just use Media Encoder instead of using the render queue. Still thanks a lot for the reply.

One thing that bugs me: Media Encoder does NOT remember my last used path. I am exporting all my stuff into ONE Export folder yet Media Encoder always set a totally different folder as target folder so I have to change it by hand each time. Is there a setting like : ALWAYS USE THIS FOLDER FOR EXPORT?

Thanks a lot

[Michael Paul]

This is not what I have wanted / what I am looking for. It seems like you do not understand my question / I have worded my question/request wrong so I will try to explain it better.

I have a time line full of clips. Okay? Those clips are segments of other clips – longer clips. Now I want to see the length (in time) of those clips in the TIME LINE. I do NOT want to know how long the original clip is. Do you understand what I am asking?
In Avid you just get a text on your clip like “AAA247 4:30” or something like that so you can directly see in your time line that THIS clip is 4 minutes and 30 seconds long. How can I EASLY see how long a clip is IN THE TIME LINE without doing any math?

[Michael Paul]

I know that I can create a cut/edit where my IN point is and create another one where my OUT point is and then I just need to CLICK on that now isolated part and I can delete it.

This method involves clicking. It’s way too mouse heavy. I am sure if I can press X to delete it there is also another keyboard short cut for JUST deleting it with leaving a gap.

[Michael Paul]

I am not sure if I was clear enough but I want hardcoded subtitles already visible on my video material. I have found this video https://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-adobe-media-encoder-cc/export-closed-captions-from-premiere-pro-to-adobe-media-encoder/ and this is exactly what I was expecting. The guy only gets subtitles if he enables those inside Quick Time Player. Completely useless since I want my subtitles to be shown on broadcast.