[Tom Morton]

Have you though of just using the captions tool in Premiere Pro or even the credits roll feature? Both would give you similar effects and they’re built in as standard…

[Tom Morton]

Had to download to view, wouldn’t be mega complicated to do this using expressions if you’re familiar with them. If you’re not, I suggest watching some tutorials or doing a course on them first maybe, this will help you find the best way of doing it.

[Tom Morton]

position and scale properties for all objects are natively changeable via expressions, what have you tried so far?

[Tom Morton]

Let me know if you get this sorted, because I’m interested – as far as I know, I didn’t think there is a way to guarantee this. Can you tell me what you’ve been using in the textReplace function? What values are you using?

The big killer here, as far as I know, is that most font sets i’ve seen don’t include curly quotation marks as standard, because most word processors such as Word, Indesign, PagePlus etc will use an algorithm to automatically change the look of the standard double quote included in the font set, and adapt the design to look like a curly quote. These page processors also will replace missing glyphs from different font sets if required too, making the whole process very smooth.

I would say that it would be difficult to try and imitate all this just using expressions within AFX. If you’re using a certain font set, you could create the curly quotes in that font if they’re missing. You’ll need to create open and closed quotation glyphs and then you could use textReplace() to change standard quotes out when required.

If they’re included in the font set, you could use Character Map in word to check they’re using the right key codes.

I know you can get curly quote marks in ASCII and Unicode, but AFX doesn’t default to either of these, and I don’t know if they have keycodes in a standard character set. If not then you might be fighting a losing battle trying to do it natively, and you’ll find it easier to use a workaround like updating the font as above.

Not sure what else to say, but feel free to add more info about what you’ve tried and we can keep thinking…

[Tom Morton]

Sounds good to me Gerry, a lot of stuff is personal preference of course but if you have put as much thought into the rest of the system as you have into the hard drive arrangement then you’re off to a good start.

Just off the bat, the first thing that came to mind is that an M.2 is probably faster for a cache drive, but depends on specs of the drives – also motherboards tend to have slightly higher bandwidth capabilites for M.2. Personally I don’ t think the bandwidth sharing shouldn’t be an issue, I think you’ll rarely be in a situation where you’ll see any noticeable difference.

[Tom Morton]

I have 10 years experience in Premiere Pro…

I have 10 hours experience in Davinci Resolve…

Recently I struggled to color grade a shot in Premiere Pro… after 40 minutes of tweaking, it looked ok but definitely not perfect… I thought I would try it in Davinci Resolve, and after 10 minutes, I had the shot looking exactly how I wanted it.

I imagine with experience and better setup I could have done it in 5 minutes or less, so it’s a huge time saving. Premier Pro color tools are not intuitive and often the controls don’t translate well to the image.

[Tom Morton]

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/sharepoint-cloud-storage/

Just thought I’d also post a link where I previously discussed my setup if you’re interested…

creativecow.net

Sharepoint cloud storage - Storage & Archiving - Creative COW

Sharepoint cloud storage - Storage & Archiving - Creative COW

[Tom Morton]

Using any RAID system will increase r/w speeds because you’re basically adding an extra software layer between your program and the drive. For instance, if you have several hard drives of any type, you can either mount them natively in the system and access them individually which is always the fastest way, or you can add a RAID layer in which is like an extra algorithm on top of what you already have, and will only increase i/o speeds.

Having said that, RAID has come a long way and it’s so quick that personally I don’t think the difference is noticeable on most of today’s platforms.

M.2 drives are very fast but quality matters and you get what you pay for. Buy a proper brand like Samsung, Seagate or Sandisk. Remember that although there’s no moving partys, having a good cooling system will still increase their lifespan.

I’m not a big fan of RAID 0 myself, disk striping has it’s own problems with file fragmentation and you can get increased read/write times if the location cache gets distro’d. My editing machine runs on a fast 500GB SSD for system files, but for project files I have a 2x drives set up in RAID 1 so I’ve got local redundancy and backup, and then that whole drive gets backed up to the cloud. That way the OS can run fast, and project files don’t clog it up.

I edit 4K and I have 32GB DDR4 ram – less buffer, faster speed, so 64GB DDR3 should be fine, at least to start with.

Just some various thoughts, hope that helps!

[Tom Morton]

Because they don’t need them… The best videos are the ones that tell a story and use great content to make it interesting…

I use transitions so I’m not putting them down, but IMHO I know that often it’s just a way to make footage look more dynamic and captivating then it really is. For something like a music video where you have an amazing sound track, a captivating story that flows, well thought out shots, a personality / character (s) that is widely recognised, you don’t need transitions to spice it up unless it particularly links for a certain shot.

[Tom Morton]

Can’t see an obvious problem with your script. Personally I would rename the text layers to something short and simple to help keep your code clean.

If the sourceRectattime() functions aren’t returning the right answer, you’re probably using a text box, don’t think it works on these, it has to be free form text – open the text type tool, and don’t click and drag to make a box, just click anywhere instead.