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Thank you very, very much for your explanation, Herbert. Much appreciated.

I’m a bit new to channels in Photoshop, especially Alpha channels, so will take my time to figure this with your guidelines as soon as I have time, and hopefully will have no further questions. =)

Thank you again.

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Thank you for the helpful tips!

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Sheer genius, Gabriel!!

I’m stunned, man. I had about 1% hope that there [is] a solution for this problem, and thought that I’d be stuck with manual tweaking until Adobe just improved the program, but this really does work! It’s awesome. I just used the up arrow and M, over and over again very quickly to place those markers, and the rest worked like a charm, just you described.

Thank you so much, mate! You’ve probably saved a lot of time for which I hope you will be rewarded (karma!). =)

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Many thanks for these resources and the explanation, Angelo!

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Thank you, Angelo.

Yes, each Title has a different duration, so selecting all is not an option unfortunately.

The After Effects tip is potentially powerful and relevant. I’m not familiar with its scripting, but I do some CSS, know basic JavaScript, and very familiar with XHTML; so where can I start to learn After Effects’s scripting?

The Titles must have those different duration values because they are synched with the voiceover audio. Does that clarify or invite any solutions?

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You may also find Conversations avec Walter Murch, by Michael Ondaatje, a worthy read.

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Hi Daniel,

I don’t have something in mind, yet, for storytelling specifically in the context of video editing (or for a video editor); however, one of the best books I know about the “art of storytelling” generally is The Anatomy of Story by John Truby. To its advantage for your needs, its main target audience is not novel writers, but screen writers. So there is a good chance that you can find some gems in it, which you can project onto video editing with some creative and smart connection-building and idea-matching.

I’m also curious about storytelling books in the context of video editing, so hope so see some more specialized and experienced editors contributing to the thread.

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Thank you for explaining this, Angelo.

YouTube only occasionally strips audio nowadays, as far as I can see, because they are able to advertise on material that contains copyrighted music and share the revenue with the copyright owner. That’s my understanding, at least. I also do not use famous music for videos to be used commercially or for advertising. So my main challenge isn’t the stripping of sound; it is YouTube’s inability to determine that I’m the copyright holder of everything on certain videos that are intended for quick monetizing, or to be used with ads than bring the uploader himself some profit from revenue-sharing. I would like YouTube to quickly find any answers for their pesky questions in such cases, without having to resort to the level of posting URLs of licenses and such in the video info, or—God forbid—in the video itself!

My understanding is that I can provide so much detail, including links to licenses, in the Metadata of any file that I produce, and that this Metadata can be embeded in the video file itself. When we export from Premiere, there is a Metadata button, which when pressed allows us to “embed in output file” and create sidecar file should we want that; and we can include so much detail there in the Metadata. So can’t YouTube simply datamine this info, including links that they actually ask for when they want you to prove ownership or permission to use all the elements in your video, straight from the file itself and save us both the trouble or delay? I would be shocked if it is confirmed that YouTube strips the file of this mine of data; they usually want more data, not less, especially if detailed and only in the background.

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Forgot to mention: another important reason I’d like to do this in the Metadata of the video file, or embed it in the video itself, is to make sure that others who receive a video that I make for them do not face problems with using it or publishing it on YouTube, especially if they don’t know all the license details.

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Thank you, Andrey. Andrew Kramer’s 3D Compositing video tutorial will surely help.

Hope some others will have extra creative tips to share, especially regarding effects on the still photo itself, or a sort of dynamic background that would make it look like it is moving or dashing.