No title superimpose?!

Hi, when I drag a title on a moviesequence, it does NOT position itself over the sequence, as a superimpose, but with a black background. Although I do exactly what is said in the helpfiles for this, I only get black background, no titles over the sequence. Anything wrong here, or what am I missing? Anybody experiencing this as well?

No real help here either, sorry. It appears that the Title you are adding is converting to a 'cutaway' when applied. You say this only applies to the 'centered' title option?
Could there exist some user defined default for a title that automatically adds a specific Title as a cutaway rather than superimposing it? I'm not aware of a way to do this, but maybe? - JamesJM

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Since this is a USER TO USER forum, any answer is going to depend on some other user having the same software and the experience to provide an answer
Premiere 6.0
P 6.5
P-Pro 1
P-Pro 2
P-Pro 3
P-Pro 4 <-- current version
P-Pro 5 coming this month
You are 5 versions back, and this section of the forum is just not very active these days
Sorry, but it simply looks as though nobody who may still be using P6 has an answer
You might also use Google to see if there is an archived article with an answer, somewhere on the 'net

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Hello Pan,
So if I understand the results you had:
1.) New library with desktop pictures in your original user -- failed
2.) New library with desktop pictures in your new user -- works
3.) New library with your pictures from your camera in new user -- failed
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Bad news: The issue is 2 fold.
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2.) The images on your camera are causing iPhoto to behave in a strange fashion. (You may have 1 or more corrupted images on your camera).
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~/Library/Caches -- whole folder (it will regenerate after restart)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphoto* -- pull anything with com.apple.iphoto, there may be up to 3 of them. (they will regenerate after restart)
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-- If the issue persists then my next target would be the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder
--- NOTE: Pulling this folder resets all your settings to default (your desktop, dock, mail, ichat, etc)
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--- When you go back to ~/Library/ you will find a NEW Preferences folder has been generated. Dump it in the trash and restore your original.
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I use Premiere CS
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Welcome to the forum.
For the first question:
Make white title in the Titler, superimpose on background mov/
Drop the Track Matte Effect on mov and set it to title.
For question nr2 i have no idea what you mean.

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When you finally export media to some sort of media format via the encoder does the projects preview Bit Depth and Render Quality settings affect the output file?
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Jeff's response is my perspective, as well, which is both backed up by my own tests and the official Adobe word.
Exhibit A: My Tests
That is DV footage with a title superimposed over it in a DV sequence, with a Gaussian blur effect (the Premiere accelerated one) applied to the title; all samples are from that sequence exported back to DV. This was to show the relative differences of processing between software and hardware MPE, Premiere export and AME queueing, and the effect of the Maximum Bit Depth and Maximum Render Quality options on export (not the sequence settings; those have no bearing on export).
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Exhibit B: The Adobe Word
This is extracted from Karl Soule's blog post, Understanding Color Processing: 8-bit, 10-bit, 32-bit, and more. This section comes from Adobe engineer Steve Hoeg:
1. A DV file with a blur and a color corrector exported to DV without the max bit depth flag. We
will import the 8-bit DV file, apply the blur to get an 8-bit frame,
apply the color corrector to the 8-bit frame to get another 8-bit frame,
then write DV at 8-bit.
2. A DV file with a blur and a color corrector exported to DV with the max bit depth flag. We
will import the 8-bit DV file, apply the blur to get an 32-bit frame,
apply the color corrector to the 32-bit frame to get another 32-bit
frame, then write DV at 8-bit. The color corrector working on the 32-bit
blurred frame will be higher quality then the previous example.
3. A DV file with a blur and a color corrector exported to DPX with the max bit depth flag. We
will import the 8-bit DV file, apply the blur to get an 32-bit frame,
apply the color corrector to the 32-bit frame to get another 32-bit
frame, then write DPX at 10-bit. This will be still higher quality
because the final output format supports greater precision.
4. A DPX file with a blur and a color corrector exported to DPX without the max bit depth flag.
We will clamp 10-bit DPX file to 8-bits, apply the blur to get an 8-bit
frame, apply the color corrector to the 8-bit frame to get another
8-bit frame, then write 10-bit DPX from 8-bit data.
5. A DPX file with a blur and a color corrector exported to DPX with the max bit depth flag.
We will import the 10-bit DPX file, apply the blur to get an 32-bit
frame, apply the color corrector to the 32-bit frame to get another
32-bit frame, then write DPX at 10-bit. This will retain full precision through the whole pipeline.
6. A title with a gradient and a blur on a 8-bit monitor. This will display in 8-bit, may show banding.
7. A title with a gradient and a blur on a 10-bit monitor
(with hardware acceleration enabled.) This will render the blur in
32-bit, then display at 10-bit. The gradient should be smooth.
Bullet #2 is pretty much what my tests reveal.
I think the Premiere Pro Help Docs get this wrong, however:
High-bit-depth effects
Premiere Pro includes some video effects and transitions
that support high-bit-depth processing. When applied to high-bit-depth
assets, such as v210-format video and 16-bit-per-channel (bpc) Photoshop
files, these effects can be rendered with 32bpc pixels. The result
is better color resolution and smoother color gradients with these
assets than would be possible with the earlier standard 8 bit per
channel pixels. A 32-bpc badge appears
to the right of the effect name in the Effects panel for each high-bit-depth
effect.
I added the emphasis; it should be obvious after my tests and the quote from Steve Hoeg that this is clearly not the case. These 32-bit effects can be added to 8-bit assets, and if the Maximum Bit Depth flag is checked on export, those 32-bit effects are processed as 32-bit, regardless of the destination format of the export. Rendering and export/compression are two different processes altogether, and that's why using the Maximum Bit Depth option has far more impact than "padding with zeroes." You've made this claim repeatedly, and I believe it to be false.
Your witness...

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3) clicked on the "A" in lower right.
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I am sure this has been covered however I am too frustrated to search..
I have created a project in FCE. Using hundreds of quick two second video pieces all thrown together into a song. Meaning, my timeline has a cluster of crap. I say this so you understand why I am not placing my video into LT and creating the titles over it. It would be a headache as the title length would cover about 20 video pieces.
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Bubbalouie123754 wrote:
.... the title needs to be superimposed on the actual video, so adding in a clip created in photoshop or something won't work. ....
It does.
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https://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/imovie09tricks
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… and Welcome, Bubbalouie, to the ASC ...

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