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How do I 'downgrade' an Adobe Premiere Pro project file to open in older versions?
Since this is the top google result, I would like to give the actual solution to this problem
Option 1
Duplicate the .prproj file you want to downgrade and name it temp_downgrade.prproj or something....
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Select range of clips in Kdenlive
You can box-select clips by dragging the mouse while holding the shift key and and left mouse button.
kdenlive "Selection" manual
If the clips you want to select are all contiguous, you can ...
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Extract person from video
If you have a frame where the person does not exist, you can use a tool called a difference matte. (You'll need to scroll down to the section titled "Difference Matte Effect" for a description.) It ...
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Corrupt MP4 [recording interrupted]
I recently encountered this exact problem and I was able to repair the file using Untrunc, a program created specifically to solve this problem, as suggested by sparrowt on SuperUser:
For this ...
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Select range of clips in Kdenlive
I didn't find a way of selecting a range of clips but the main problem is solved by the spacer tool which can be invoked by pressing M. One then grabs the left end of the clip to the right of a gap ...
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Extract person from video
Final Cut Pro X has a plugin called Pro Removal that can remove moving things from the scene on fixed camera shots.
Also there is a tutorial for After Effects that shows how remove objects from scene ...
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Corrupt MP4 [recording interrupted]
Updated: this tool can now recover files from more sources.
Try with recover_mp4_to_h264. It's a command line program, and will require a good reference file.
Usage as indicated:
recover_mp4 ...
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What free video editing software is capable of moving/rotating a sprite atop video?
A great tool for this is Davinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve. It is very capable, has an excellent free version and can easily accomplish the desired tasks.
A ...
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Easiest way to stitch GoPro videos that have been split due to length?
Used to merge them with GoPro Studio, but it took too much effort and had too many steps.
Made a PowerShell script to quickly merge and convert videos using open source tools MKVTools and Handbrake.
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VLC Alternative for fine review media with possibly frames control and detailed codec informations
I haven't used VLC as my primary player since 2007. I switched over initially to KMPlayer and then Potplayer. Potplayer allows fairly flexible splitter and codec assignment for decoding. It also ...
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Software that captures and compresses simultaneously
Most consumer video recording software I know compresses on capture. Mpeg and others can be configured for lower quality if you want greater compression, but unless you are recording a plain black ...
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Is it illegal for me to download DaVinci Resolve 17 just because I don't work for a company?
Yes, it’s ok*, as long as you’re downloading the free version (not the one that says “Studio”) of Resolve and not trying to circumvent their copyright protection. When you download the software, they ...
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How do I 'downgrade' an Adobe Premiere Pro project file to open in older versions?
I made a tool which instantly downgrades Premiere projects so they can be opened in a previous version. Try it here.
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Professional text animation software
I would personally use After Effects, but that's because it's what I have/know. If you don't want to take the purple pill (it's a questionable life decision, let's face it) there's heaps of other ...
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Advertisement Video For App
In my opinion, you're asking the wrong question. Which software they used is fairly irrelevant. What's more important is the skills and techniques they used. Do you have a background in graphic design ...
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Can I create a "hyperlapse" video without using After Effects?
Not professional level at all, but the app "Hyperlapse" creates hyperlapeses. Instagram brain-child.
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YouTube message suggesting wrong compression settings (Wondershare Filmora)
What that message likely indicates is that the MP4 produced by Filmora does not have its MOOV box at the beginning of the file. The MOOV box has metadata about the audio and video streams contained in ...
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Advanced Low Cost Editing Software
Hitfilm has a free express version and a paid version.
It's a video editor and a compositor.
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Audio gain for subclip in Premiere Pro
I'm not sure why you would want to use normalize at all. You should use audio tracks and place the audio you need to adjust on it's own track.
Then, using the audio mixer, apply dynamics to the ...
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How can I play a file created in OBS?
OBS is a video streaming and recording software, not a video player. You will need either find a video player that will play an .flv file, or switch your settings in OBS to record to a different ...
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How h265 settings / presets affects the target device cpu while decoding and how can I tweak them?
Try Encoding using "--tune fastdecode" and also check if "Average Bitrate" with "2 Pass" is better than "Constant Quality" with your particular Decoder; trying to maintain Quality over Bitrate can ...
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Is there any way to find the video editing software or camera that created a video?
Different NLEs each seem to live in their own metadata world. One common metadata element they all seem to preserve fairly well is timecode. Almost all support a few common elements, such as REEL, ...
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Embedding another video to "blend" with the environment
If you can use a tool like Apple's Motion or FCPX, or Adobe's After Effects, they all have the ability to put the 4 corners of a layer anywhere you want. With Motion or After Effects, you can even ...
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Switching from Adobe to Resolve
The customization options for window arrangement are limited in Resolve, compared to some applications. The customization options are flexible enough to have your timeline on a second monitor, though....
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Simple video editing software that can handlethis
You can use ffmpeg, a free command-line tool, to do this
If your images are sequentially numbered i.e. img0001.png, img0002.png...
then
ffmpeg -framerate 10 -i img%04d.png -crf 20 -pix_fmt yuv420p ...
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By which software/website this animated video was created?
As for video editing, this is pretty straightforward. The frame and the flowers are simply an image that has an alpha channel applied to it to make the contents of the frame opaque. The images in the ...
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Corrupt MP4 [recording interrupted]
You may also, to save yourself trouble, check to see the data is even there first. The file size being 1.21 GB, does that sound correct for the time until you lost power?
I bring this up because some ...
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Advanced Low Cost Editing Software
Lightworks (as mentioned previous) but also newcomer to the game is BlackMagic Davinci Resolve 12 which can be both Free and Paid (if you want all the PRO Pro Features)
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Advanced Low Cost Editing Software
Since you said you use Blender for animation, why not just use that? Feature-wise, it's video editor can stand on it's own. It's a nightmare in usability (in my opinion, I believe that's also the ...
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Wirecast to wirecast
I would use skype from the remote location into the local computer running wirecast then use their screen capturing option to capture the skype video.
The pro version of wirecast allows and input to ...
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