That enabled the team to work “with such speed that we almost didn’t need to budget time for graphics.” It also shifted Leopold’s career path from creative to technologist.įast forward six years, and Leopold is now Senior Director of Creative Experience Technologies at ViacomCBS. Developing a few expressions in Adobe After Effects, he automated the process of adding lower thirds to music videos. It was enough of a problem that Leopold decided to do something he had never done before - coding. “I realized we were getting bogged down by repetitive tasks, such as creating the lower third over and over again for each new clip.” “There were about five of us in a trailer, cutting video nonstop for three days straight,” says Leopold. Leopold was part of a team of video editors and producers covering the events for MTV. In the summer of 2014, David Leopold attended a string of music festivals, getting up early and staying up late into the night so he didn’t miss a minute of the action. That kind of thing.The journey from creative to technologist Something I didn't include in the OP (which I meant to), was that the timestamps I was putting on the captions were correct (i.e, exactly the timestamp that corresponds with the video), but the caption wouldn't show up at the showed up a half second later. If there are specifics about the project that you need to know, I'll be monitoring this post and can reply shortly to any questions.

I could make a title card and fabricate the look of the captions, but I'd rather the captions just work as they should.

I hadn't anticipated this problem to come up with the captions panel. Before, I could type at least five words on a line and then use a line break to continue the statement. Now, I'm typing maybe two words and seeing the captions disappearing from the video completely. I'd have to make a line break every now and then to display all the text in the captions properly, but no big deal. I could add caption cards and text no problem. My captions in this 2:30ish project were working fine. This is a specific ailment that isn't covered in any of the tutorials I've found online. I'm a relative amateur to Premiere (compared to my other Adobe product skills).

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