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Adobe Premiere is placing a faint 'X' on video transition

The kind of X you are seeing usually appears when applying a demo-version of a transition of an effect. Are you sure you are not using some third-party transition pack that you simply haven't bought ...
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Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Crop a video and export at the exact cropped size

I think I've found the easiest way! Just crop the area you want. Go to the Export window without worrying about the black margins showing. Set the final resolution and export settings as you would ...
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How do I encode videos into h.264 at 8k resolution?

Are you sure the 8k videos on your computer are actually h.264, and not h.265? The max resolution of h.264 level 5.2 is still 4096x2305. To convert beyond that in Premiere, you need to chose HEVC (h....
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How to annotate specific parts of video in pre-production?

Disclaimer: You didn't specify what program you are working with, so I assume you are using the current version of Premiere Pro. Assembly Workflow Your workflow is a common one for beginners. Back ...
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How to precisely synchronise an audio and video track from separate devices?

First off, if you have audio with your video (that you want to replace with your high-quality audio recording), then step #1 is to nudge the Zoom audio track to line up the impulse of the clap with ...
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Why does editing a video by Adobe Premiere Pro more than once decreases its quality?

There is a big difference between saving your project, then returning to the project to do some additional changes, such as brightness adjustments, then exporting a media file, and exporting a media ...
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Is there a "starting place" in terms of colour correction before adding a stylistic LUT

Applications such as FCPX and Adobe Creative Cloud actually ship with a wide variety of stylized LUTs, so if you use either of those you can play around with them. Most LUTs will specify what they ...
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How to delete a gap in an After Effects timeline

There's a script that does it for you (I just wrote it). You can get it (free, open source, WTFPL license) here on my blog. With the playhead in a gap, run the script and it will pull the layers after ...
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How do I encode videos into h.264 at 8k resolution?

FFmpeg can use x264 to output to 8K. Basic template: ffmpeg -i 4KfromPremiere.mp4 -vf scale=7680x4320 -crf 20 out.mp4
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Premiere Pro: Possible to add several images on one video track?

If you want a hundred images at the same time, you need 100 layers. Often people will make a "pre-comp" which is a nested composition. You create a composition with only the images, then insert that ...
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How do I change FPS in a sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

When you set the number of frames per second of the sequence, you are describing the rate your rendered footage will playback, whatever that footage may be. If you have 600 frames and you set the ...
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Adobe premiere, how do i link two audio clips and one video clip for the purposes of the razor tool?

Even though Michael Tiemanns answer is technically correct, it seems overly complicated given the description of your problem, as nested sequences may cause other problems and inconveniences down the ...
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Sony Vegas Vs Adobe premiere Pro/CC

It depends on what you want to do with your YouTube account. What is your operating system? How good is your PC? Which camera do use? For example, for vlogs, a simple Magix/Premiere Pro Elements/...
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How do I remove night footage from 300 days of Time lapse video

Using ffmpeg, a command line tool, you can use ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf select='trunc(mod(t+2,3))',setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB -crf 23 out.mp4 The select filter is used on the video stream. This filter ...
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.SRT File Import Problem on Premiere Pro CC 2017 1.2

It's a Premiere bug. Try Subtitle Edit 3.5.5, which is free, insert the .srt, export as EBU STL file (25 fps works fine, it's time coded not frame coded). Import to Premiere, interpret as open ...
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Adobe Software: Make low quality videos out of folder with videos

This feature is supported through Adobe Media Encoder (AME) which is basically the background rendering engine for a number of the cloud apps including Premiere and AE. You need to set up watch ...
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Does Adobe media encoder work if you have the cracked version of Adobe After Effects?

Tell your friend that good software costs money. And is made by developers who need to put food on the table.
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RGB + alpha not working

Make sure to render partially transparent clips with a codec that supports alpha. Try using prores4444 and set the colors to rgb+alpha like you did. This filetype and codec should give you a file with ...
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Any way to create a dashed line in Premiere Pro?

A possible workaround would be to use the Venetian Blinds filter. Here with a bit of experimentation I've made a path with a stroke of 20 and for the blind effect I have doubled the width to 40. The ...
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AE Counter Switch (Mins > Hs)

Make three text layers with a slider on each. Call the layers value 1, value 2, and value 3. In the source text of each of the text layers put this expression, to display the slider value and round ...
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Do Premiere, After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder support huffyuv lossless codec?

They do on Windows, you need to use the AVI container as HuffyUV isn't available as a quicktime codec, afaik. I used huffyUV for a while, but have switched to magicYUV which has a better range of ...
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Can I use a Linux Render Farm with a MAC Workstation running Adobe Premiere?

There are two steps, broadly speaking, to rendering a project in a NLE such as Premiere. First step is for the NLE to generate the uncompressed final composite image for each output frame. This is ...
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Premiere Pro: Possible to add several images on one video track?

If that's a static image, you could: open up an image editing program (even a simple one like MS Paint) copy-paste it 99 times, positioning each new image below the previous one save that as a single ...
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put a logo on sportsfloor adobe software

If video was made without any preliminary preparation, you most probably shall use rotoscoping. You can see tutorial for After Effects here. However, if floor is monocolored and it will not blend ...
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Is it possible to see room noise?

Audition has specialized tools that allow you to isolate and remove noise. Have you looked at the official documentation? (Especially the capture noise print/remove noise combo) https://helpx.adobe....
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Adobe After Effects labels: Project vs Layer/Timeline

Try clicking on the "Layer Name"/"Source Name" column title in the timeline. It should toggle between the name in your Project bin, and the name you've given the layer in the comp.
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How would I silhouette someone's face?

A silhouette is often created by having a person with zero lighting on him/her, positioned in front of a brightly-lit background. However, you'd need to do camera tests to confirm that the contrast ...
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Adobe Media Encoder included in After Effects Licence?

Yes it is. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to encode things, and that would be just dumb. Even though it happens a bit under the hood, all encodings from Premiere Pro and After Effects are handled by ...
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Link audio to opacity effect of an image in After Effects

The easiest way to do this is to use an expression. First you convert audio to keyframes. Then set an expression on your opacity channel. If you drag the pick-whip for the expression to the audio ...
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Oprtical Flow artifacts on cuts in Premiere

Did you apply the Optical Flow to a nested sequence that contains a transition? This looks to me like Optical Flow trying to invent new frames to fill in the slow motion and getting confused by the ...
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