Thank you very much, James. I think I’ve found the problem in the SCC.

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I’d like to ask if you could please help me understand why Premiere is playing my .scc captions at the wrong frame rate.

My sequence and my sequence settings are both 23.976 fps and my caption file is also 23.976 fps. Why does Premiere show it as 29.97?

Even more important than fixing this, I need to know why it’s happening, because I…

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I’d like to ask if some slight compression artifacts are tolerable in a screener to be sent out to potential buyers and movie critics, and how they might be fixed if possible. I have a movie screener which looks fine in 4K, but in the 1080p screener it has two stills with jagged edges on the text (one is a restaurant sign and the…

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I’d like to ask those with experience in making or promoting movie screeners, if some slight compression artifacts are tolerable in a screener to be sent out to potential buyers and movie critics. In particular, I have a screener which looks fine in 4K, but in the 1080p screener it has two stills with jagged edges on the text (one is…

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Thank you, Devrim. I did a test of one clip using prores 422 and it came out nice! Now I’m looking at another one that has some kind of grimy noise probably due to low light and added scale fx. Hoping Neat Video can handle it.

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Could anyone please advise me on how to solve this. I have a couple of video clips to which I added various fx in Premiere. They look fine when exported in the original 4K, but get a lot of video noise when exported at 1080p.

I could run them thru Neat Video but I wouldn’t actually be able to see any before/after difference because…

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Thank you very much, John!

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I need to upload my 2 hr. 4K movie to the U.S. Copyright Office which accepts only files under 500 MB! Could anyone please tell me asap how I could so drastically reduce it, exporting from Premiere (on Mac Mini) and maybe zipping? Naturally the quality will have to take a much secondary place, as long as it doesn’t look like…

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Could you please tell me why “audio” is grayed out in this screenshot? It seems to occur only when there is only one audio track below. But the video clip above actually contains audio embedded in the video file (which is the Canon camera audio I’m trying to replace with the recordist’s WAVs). Could you please help me to fix this?

BTW I talked to a…

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Thank you very much, Ty.

Sorry: “cold out” and “If you’re close in time, but are too long” Thanks!

Thank you, Ty. That sound like it might be a good option but I don’t understand the jargon. Could you please explain it more simply? Thanks

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Can anyone please help me find a way to make a piece of music which must be cut short, to fade out smoothly on one note, eliminating the accompaniment that pipes in during that portion?

I’m on Premiere. I don’t see Adobe Remix as a solution (unless I’m mistaken) because I’d rather not change the music; I only want to change one note…

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Thank you very much, Tod.

Thanks so much for all that important info, Tod. That will give me quite a head start on my “first pass.” Hopefully the second will hit the mark!

Please also let me know if you know of any online guides to this process.

Thanks!

Thank you very much, Devrim and Todd. I guess I should have mentioned that this is a micro-budget production, so I don’t have access to high-end facilities. It seems like I would need to project it in a theater to do a proper quality control, but wouldn’t that mean making a DCP first, showing it in a theater (if they’ll let me) and then, based on…

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I’d be happy to hear from those who know, how to do a quality control viewing of my movie before making a DCP for theatrical projection. Should I view it on a big screen tv? Directly from Premiere, or as a Pro res 4444 export? It seems like everything should be already tweaked before you make the DCP, right?

Thanks

Thank you very much, Mads.

Thank you very much, Mads. My reason for exporting the AAF was actually to show the project to a potential audio editor to see how much he would charge me to sync it. Someone suggested I send him a FCP xml instead. What do you think?

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I just exported an AAF file of my Premiere project (a movie) and I got a pop-up listing the items that could not be exported. The first ones were just video FX but then came these audio export errors which I really don’t understand. Could you please help me with this? Isn’t WAV the same as WAVE? Please help me understand.…

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Thanks, John.

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After editing my whole movie I found out that the audio linked to my video is actually scrap audio recorded by the camera, and so I need to somehow replace it with the good audio recorded on set by the recordist. But of course I need to sync the audio to the video after it’s been cut up into a thousand pieces in the editing…

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Thank you all very much. The idea of not using a LUT might be the way to go. I just wanted a quick way to correct the LOG footage. The number of choices is daunting and I can’t delve too much into color, so when I learned about rec709 I thought I had found my quick solution. But when I added the LUT it was like pulling down the curtains! Yipes!

I…

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I’d really appreciate your input on this problem! When I started to color correct my movie I saw that many scenes became way too dark with the standard rec709 LUT applied. The camera operator (who imported the footage) says that the problem is that the scenes were not properly lit during the shoot. But the DP said he always lit well…

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Thank you, Hector!

Peace to all. Could anyone please advise me on how to key out a car rear window when the front window has reflections of passing clouds? I’m not interested in preserving the clouds. I just don’t want them to be problematic. Thanks!

As you can’t see in this picture, the clouds are moving pretty fast.

p.s. You can also write me directly at memorare.members@gmail.com Might be easier. Thanks!

Thank you very much, Mads! Have a nice weekend.

Someone suggested using Lockdown (aescript) but it’s not cheap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1prcd03L2s

Please do! Thanks, Mads.

Please see this clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18m7s6yvF5Y-DfqP1C8XWg77LkVMJLlSa/view?usp=sharing

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Would anyone out there know how to effectively remove 5 o’clock shadow (beard stubble) from an actor’s face?

Thanks!

Thanks, Eric!

Thank you, Mads!

Thank you, Hector.

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Could you please guide me in preparing clips from a movie sequence to be sent to a VFX artist remotely?

My first question is how to send an entire scene of two actors in a car, filmed against two green screens, and then edited into a dialog sequence. Can I send it “as is”, or do I need to send entire takes of each actor? If I need to…

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Thank you very much, Mads. I appreciate your kindness. God bless you!

The error message I was getting when I had tried to open the “corrupted” project said: “The project could not be loaded, it may be damaged or contain outdated elements.”

I just tried your suggestion to import the sequence I need into a new project. That really seems like the best solution. Also because over the course of a year I had accumulated so…

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Important info. Thanks!

Thanks, Mads! I should try that. I called it corrupted because Pr won’t open it. As I recall the error message said it might be corrupted.

Peace to all. I’d like to hear your kind advice on the risks of converting a project made in Pr 2023 to continue it in Pr 2024. I know it’s risky to update anything mid-project. My feature film project was corrupted so I’m faced with these options:

1) recover a recent auto-save (seems safest); or…

2) open it in Pr 2024, save, downgrade, convert,…

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Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Mads. We used a Cinema camera Canon EOS C70 with cinema lenses (don’t know what kind). I’d try the Mocha Pro if the trial version is completely functional. Thanks!

Peace to all! Could you please help me find a solution to this lens distortion? The Lens distort fx in Premiere don’t seem to help. Thanks!

Thank you very much, Mads!

Actually I have experienced some erratic behavior in Premiere: the timeline changing and suddenly playing back rapidly, disappearance of assets and even sequences from the Project panel, etc.

One Adobe agent advised me: “if you do not update your Mac your hardware drivers will not get updated and the performance will degrade for your Mac also you…

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Thanks, Eric!

Thank you very much, Tom.

Thank you very much, Dennis.

Thanks so much, Rob! Does that go for updates, as well (as opposed to upgrades)?

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Could you please share with me your experiences and practices regarding operating system updates, as well as upgrades?

Is there a standard practice among editors? I have been putting off upgrading because I’m in the middle of a very big project and I’m afraid of bugs. For the same reason I have been putting off updating, which would…

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