[Neil Orman]

Thanks for your perspective, Nick! During the pandemic I’m on my home wifi, via our Comcast cable modem, which I’m sharing with my wife and son. So it’s not quite a Starbucks or hotel but still somewhat shared. I originally wanted to upload a Prores version of this broll for a colleague, but it was taking so long I compressed it to 3 GB using Vimeo settings. But it’s good to know that set-up has worked for you, and I’ll look at different alternatives with our home set-up, as it would be nice not to have this limitation.
Thanks again,
Neil

[Neil Orman]

Thanks for the quick response on this, Greg! If possible I want to find a MacBook-based approach, because it seems our CEO is using his MacBook Pro for video stuff already and is familiar with that (again with the objective of making this as simple as possible for him, and me since I’ll likely be advising him remotely). He’s just never done it with a TelePrompter. So let me know if you or anyone else here has used TelePrompter apps much, especially on a MacBook or laptop, and especially if you’ve used them on a laptop that you’re simultaneously using for videotaping. Most of the ones I’m seeing, like Teleprompter from Pavonine Software, cost money to use. So it would be great to pick a good one. However, I’ll definitely consider iPhone-based approaches, especially if it turns out I’m wrong and that’s how he’s taping himself already. Do you happen to know how high res iPhone video is?

Thanks again,
Neil

[Neil Orman]

Thanks for the quick response on this, Greg! If possible I want to find a MacBook-based approach, because it seems our CEO is using his MacBook Pro for video stuff already and is familiar with that (again with the objective of making this as simple as possible for him, and me since I’ll likely be advising him remotely). He’s just never done it with a TelePrompter. So let me know if you or anyone else here has used TelePrompter apps much, especially on a MacBook or laptop, and especially if you’ve used them on a laptop you also used for videotaping. Most of the ones I’m seeing, like Teleprompter from Pavonine Software, cost money to use. So it would be great to pick a good one. However, I’ll definitely consider iPhone-based approaches, especially if it turns out I’m wrong and that’s how he’s taping himself already. Do you happen to know how high res iPhone video is?

Thanks again,
Neil

[Neil Orman]

Thanks for the great notes Mark, and the feedback on the video! I appreciate you watching it, you sharing great thoughts as always. And you make a good point on the perhaps too subtle opening to the music. I’m going to see what I can do there. I had this hardest time finding music for this video, due to its length, and this was the best fit I could find. But I agree it would be nice if the music had a more powerful start.
And great points on the images and the fair use question. I’m still having a hard time finding the copyright owners on 3-4 key photos, because the photos are so old. Life said they don’t actually own any of these images, and I’ll have to track down individual photographers, some of whom may have passed away.
Just let me know if you or others have more thoughts on that, and thank you again for the helpful notes!
Neil

[Neil Orman]

Sorry Andy, it looks like you suggested the very same preferences-resetting solution – thank you! I simultaneously discovered it talking to a video colleague, and didn’t see your response till later. Much appreciated again,
Neil

[Neil Orman]

Sorry, I realized you were talking about the Apple OS with your Catalina point, not the Adobe version. My apologies this issue has fried my brain. To answer that question, I’m running Sierra (10.12.6) on my MacBook. Also, I’ve since un-installed and re-installed PPro, and it didn’t fix the issue. But good news is I was able to fix the problem another way, when a colleague suggested hitting option and shift at the same time I opened my PPro app. That instantly fixed it!
Thanks again for your response.
Neil

[Neil Orman]

Thanks for the quick response, Andy. I meant to include before that I updated PPro this morning, before I posted on my problem, hoping that would solve this. It didn’t but I’m now running version 13.1.5. I don’t believe that’s Catalina but just let me know if you or others know different – thank you. I’ll going to try un-installing and re-installing PPro, but before I do I wanted to add that I’m seeing an error that says ‘a low-level exception has occurred,’ with one of those red triangle symbols with an exclamation point. Just let me know if you or others have any more thoughts here.
Thanks, Neil

[Neil Orman]

Hi Andy,
I was just looking at that PPro project and trying to recall the exact steps I followed. I did eventually solve it, and I’m 99% certain it was through playing with the Import Settings for the caption files. Those were created by a captioning company. I’m attempting to paste a screenshot (below) of what my changed settings looked like, when I got it to work. Let me know if you can’t see it. I believe the key point was to set it to ‘Open captions’ and make sure the aspect ratio was 1920 by 1080. Let me know if that solves it, or you find another solution, because I’d definitely be interested. And I totally agree – adjusting the caption size was never a problem in the 2018 version, so this issue is frustrating!

Neil

13773_captionfileimportsettings.png.zip

[Neil Orman]

Got it, and thanks for flagging that Mark!

[Neil Orman]

A related question on this came up, on ‘public’ versus ‘unlisted’ Youtube playlist settings. We have a series of videos to make public Monday morning that I’m prepping in advance, and they want to make sure I don’t accidentally release them early. In addition to setting the video’s public/unlisted/private designation itself, I believe you can do it for the playlist too, right? So I want to make sure I follow the correct process and sequence. I once had videos I wanted unlisted that I unwittingly made public on our channel because, I believe, the playlist itself had a public setting. So just to confirm, I need to make sure both the individual videos and the playlist have an unlisted setting, correct? And then when we’re ready, I make first the playlist and then all the individual videos public? Does the sequencing matter there? For most videos, I wouldn’t care too much about this but a lot of people are watching on this one.
Grateful for any tips!
Neil