Steven L. gotz
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I can think of a few different ways to mark a sequence to help you put videos in the 45 and 15 second slots.
One way would be to simply use markers.
Another way would be to create a 45 second color matte with the name “45 seconds” and a second matte with the name “15 seconds”. Put those on track one. You can copy/paste the two mattes over and over until you get to the 15 minute, 30 minute, or however long you want your standard video to be. Select both of them, Ctrl-C and then Ctrl-V and you can do this quickly.
You could also think about putting your intro and outro on track one as well.
After that, simply put all of your videos on track two and adjust them to the correct length. Although I would probably set the correct length in the source window before dragging them to the sequence.
If you want something that stands out more, make the two mattes different colors and set the sequence to show Continuous Video Thumbnails, and expand track one a bit so you see the color of the 45 second matte and the color of the 15 second matte.
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Martin,
Please clarify if you mean subtitles (burned into the video) or are you keeping them as closed captions?
Steven
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Yes, but the tutorial was for subtitles, not closed captions.
I think that search and replace using a text editor might be the only way to do this task.
Steven
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Be aware that if all of the images are the same size, you can scale all of them on the timeline at once. You just set the first one to fit the way you want it using the scale parameter of the Motion effect and then copy the image. Then select all of the rest and Paste Attributes.
That will get them all to be the same size.
Once you have a few different panning moves set up, you can copy one and paste the attributes on a similar image. Then just make the minor adjustments necessary to position the image.
Steven
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I think we are confused because the Program Monitor only shows the frame that is under the Current Time Indicator (CTI) on the sequence.
There is no need to “activate” the Program monitor. You just need to drag around the CTI to see what you want to see.
If your Mac doesn’t do that, you have a serious problem to solve.
Steven
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As Steve points out the rules are different. I only wish they were the same.
What my camera does is it allows me to set it so that when I am set for manual focus, I get a magnified image in my viewfinder when I turn the focus ring. I believe a real DSLR may call that “Live View”?? Mine is a mirrorless so it is all live view all the time.
I can’t afford a zoom lens that keeps the same aperture through its range. Therefore, with the aperture changing, you can imagine that the focus might change a bit.
Steven
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You can solve the movement issue the way Ann suggests, or you could use the Transform effect in the Distort bin. It gets processed differently than the Motion effect.
If you want to eliminate a track matter for part of the time, just cut the video where you want to stop and start again, and then delete the effect on the portion that is cut out.
Steven
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“Who cares what’s happening underneath – just show it through based on what’s above.”
Yes, that would be nice, but it isn’t how it works. Why? Beats me! I just know that to get around it you either use Transform instead of Motion, or you create you track matte sequence and then nest it.
Steven
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Not Transform: Camera View”. Just Transform. It is in the Distort menu.
Steven
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The order in which effects are processed might be causing you a problem. Track mattes do NOT like motion (unless the motion is in a nested sequence).
Use Transform instead of Motion and your problem may be resolved.
Steven