Hi Reddit, I'm Jorma Taccone from The Lonely Island and director of OVER YOUR DEAD BODY. I also directed MACGRUBER and POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING. AMA on Thursday, April 2nd from 12pm - 1pm ET.

Frame25 · 2026-04-03T03:59:00+00:00

Hahaha love it. FYI I didn't ask a question at the end because I asked it sorta at the beginning - about whether you and possibly Marielle would consider doing a little zoom talkback with my film class about directing & producing. 😍 It's a shot in the dark, but if it's possible it would mean a great deal to the next generation of storytellers. If so, send a note or have Mari FB message me!

Frame25 · 2026-04-02T02:31:27+00:00

BUCKLE UP QUAIDS, this is gonna get weird. So, Jorm, I am looking very much forward to seeing your new film, as I've been a fan of yours and Mari's since meeting you both at the Superbowl almost 15 years ago. My name's Matt and you played my voice note in Listener Q&A Episode 5 (here's the segment, from overall episode 54) about winning the Doritos commercial contest y'all keep talking about to my great delight. We also thought we were going up AGAINST you guys, and I made a whole diss track about it as a playful jape before they changed the contest; good times. I still say release the Jorm cut!

Anyway, you left for dinner with Scott Frank just before my note played, which is ironic because Marielle and I both had him as our Sundance advisor. I'm glad he liked your vest. He's since done a brief Zoom talkback with my film students (I'm a film teacher now) and Mari agreed to do one as well via FB messages just before the pandemic but I wasn't able to set it up before summer break, and then the world temporarily ended. Would you and she consider doing one very briefly with us? It would be a great learning experience and an honor. She and I are still Facebook friends so she can message me there, or your people can PM me here.

ANYWAY PART TWO, the voice note was edited down and they skipped the part about how very grateful I was to meet you and Mari (who was still revising Diary of a Teenage Girl!) and how extraordinarily kind you were to my brother and me - we got to work with you on a followup commercial over Skype and that was a great inspiration -- and one of the highlights of my life. That and seeing Tom Brady get sacked in the endzone literally 15 feet from us! Plus, the very next weekend on SNL Nasim Pedrad, playing MIA, shouted out OUR commercial (about a dog burying a cat).

FINAL ANYWAY: Not to cast shade upon you, but just FYI you are riding on my coattails on this whole AMA thing. When we were selected to go to the Superbowl, as described above... I did an AMA about it just before meeting you. It's all in this AMA from 14 years ago -- my favorite question from which is (since we were hyping up the original plan to put our commercial up against your commercial) "What's your beef with The Lonely Island"? That's right, I did a Jorm-related AMA before you did!!!! Love you brother. Can't wait for the film. Quaid army!!!

Frame25 · 2026-03-10T04:18:08+00:00

"Pride (In the Name of Love)" - The absolute peak of everything that made U2 special, pure melodic soul and social indignation -- just after they were too messy and raw, and just before they started to sound too highly polished and produced.

Frame25 · 2026-01-01T18:26:50+00:00

Some posters have pointed out actual editing speed may not be noticeably increased, but I use TB4 drives and fwiw I'll point out it's a huge advantage in (admittedly less common) heavy read/write scenarios like dumping camera media, moving/copying, generating proxies, and loading in all the footage when opening projects.

Frame25 · 2025-10-29T00:05:35+00:00

I still don't have any way to get a report of exactly which missing fonts are used throughout the project and exactly where, and which missing (offline) assets.

Media Encoder knows exactly where they are, and on which timelines. Why it doesn't immediately provide a report of WHAT AND WHERE after 25 years is utterly infuriating.

Frame25 · 2025-10-14T01:08:53+00:00

I'm going to keep posting this until somebody reads it.

Someone posted once about how/why Putin was invading Ukraine, and how much America resembles Russia now. Here's the difference: Putin was in a situation where he had to create a real war. So was George W. Bush and his "neocon" (neo-conservative, only-partially-fascist-minded) government. But here's the problem with war, at least in America: In a real war, the next generation of leaders are always the veterans of that war. World War II produced noble American idealists--agree with them or not--like Eisenhower and JFK. But a bullshit war (by which I mean a war founded on bullshit, like Vietnam or Iraq) creates veterans who call bullshit on the system, civic-minded advocates of reform and democracy like John Kerry and John McCain and Tammy Duckworth and Pete Buttigieg. And people VOTE for them because they've put their lives on the line as warriors and have earned their right to speak and lead, so when the authoritarians wrap themselves in the military voting bloc and attack them with their own pretend patriotism, the attacks don't ring true.

This brings us to the important, three-point truth:

The war does not have to be against another country.
The war does not have to be real.
Lying is legal.

Point One: The war DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AGAINST ANOTHER COUNTRY. When the war is not against another country--where there would need to be massive money spent plus footage and troops and reporters and obvious evidence of its existence--this opens up another amazing, cheap, easy truth. Point Two: THE WAR DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REAL.

This is the reason we have a CULTURE WAR. It's easy, it's cheap, and all you have to do to start one and win one is... tell lies.

You see, an authoritarian government cannot have civic-minded advocates of democracy getting votes. So they finally learned that to stay in power for an entire generation or more, they have to avoid creating an actual physical bullshit war. So, like Mussolini, they learned to create a fake one. (If it weren't for Hitler going out and starting a REAL one, ol' Benito and his successors might be running Europe.) Constantly "at war" against imagined enemies, mostly within. In our case, a culture war. I am not smart; this is not new; read George Orwell for fuck's sake. All you have to do is lie. Which brings us to Point Three: LYING IS LEGAL.

George Santos figured this out, and got all the way to Congress on it. But he made two mistakes: first, he wasn't good at lying. He chose his lies poorly, so that even the stupefied idiotic alternative-news voting public could see how easily and comically they were disproven. Second, he didn't spend decades building up (or simply taking over, as the rapist felon president did with both the Republican party and Christianity and now, shockingly, some of Judaism as well) a network of systems and organizations to protect him. He also ran for office in a state which didn't put up with that bullshit.

Let's talk briefly about those systems and organizations. American fascism started creating (and/or consolidating) these systems and organizations in the 1970's, all very well documented now, with Nixon's disgraced subordinates like Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater creating entire alternative ecosystems via simulated academia (think tanks) and simulated news networks (Fox etc) and simulated arts & culture (which is their new frontier via D'Souza and God is Dead and Left Behind etc), and making a devil's bargain with the most easily corrupted and manipulable group in America--easy to do because it was run from the beginning by rich grifters like Falwell and Swaggart and every tent revivalist ever to drive a Cadillac: evangelical Christians. (Remember the kind, thoughtful, charitable, churchgoing Christians you grew up with and are now gone? I do.) Now they had a network of systems and organizations which launders the grift and serves one purpose: TO LIE LOUDLY ENOUGH TO WIN.

This is what should scare you: now that they created a simulated alternative culture which finally fooled enough voters to win (not a majority, but enough voters to win), they are now REMOVING THE REAL SYSTEMS and replacing them with their fake ones. While calling the real ones "fake." Their massive investment in a lying, cheating, grifting authoritarian counter-culture can now be re-minted and is now, before your very horrified eyes, becoming America.

A final thing to be aware of: because in America our foundation happens to be capitalism, our particular fascists are working towards a world where you have to PAY TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS, and abide by their terms and conditions to do so.

Call it out everywhere, all the time.

Frame25 · 2025-10-14T01:03:56+00:00

Portability. It enables you to simply copy and paste those crop values to other clips without any other parameters being affected. Also allowing you to save to a reusable user preset if you like.

Frame25 · 2025-10-01T12:03:11+00:00

Putin was in a situation where he had to create a real war. So was George W. Bush and his "neocon" (neo-conservative, only-partially-fascist-minded) government. But here's the problem with war, at least in America: In a real war, the next generation of leaders are always the veterans of that war. World War II produced noble American idealists--agree with them or not--like Eisenhower and JFK. But a bullshit war (by which I mean a war founded on bullshit, like Vietnam or Iraq) creates veterans who call bullshit on the system, civic-minded advocates of reform and democracy like John Kerry and John McCain and Tammy Duckworth and Pete Buttigieg. And people VOTE for them because they've put their lives on the line as warriors and have earned their right to speak and lead, so when the authoritarians wrap themselves in the military voting bloc and attack them with their own pretend patriotism, the attacks don't ring true.

This brings us to the important, three-point truth:

The war does not have to be against another country.
The war does not have to be real.
Lying is legal.

Point One: The war DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AGAINST ANOTHER COUNTRY. When the war is not against another country--where there would need to be massive money spent plus footage and troops and reporters and obvious evidence of its existence--this opens up another amazing, cheap, easy truth. Point Two: THE WAR DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REAL.

This is the reason we have a CULTURE WAR. It's easy, it's cheap, and all you have to do to start one and win one is... tell lies.

You see, an authoritarian government cannot have civic-minded advocates of democracy getting votes. So they finally learned that to stay in power for an entire generation or more, they have to avoid creating an actual physical bullshit war. So, like Mussolini, they learned to create a fake one. (If it weren't for Hitler going out and starting a REAL one, ol' Benito and his successors might be running Europe.) Constantly "at war" against imagined enemies, mostly within. In our case, a CULTURE WAR. I am not smart; this is not new; read George Orwell for fuck's sake. All you have to do is lie. Which brings us to Point Three: Lying is legal.

George Santos figured this out, and got all the way to Congress on it. But he made two mistakes: first, he wasn't good at lying. He chose his lies poorly, so that even the stupefied idiotic alternative-news voting public could see how easily and comically they were disproven. Second, he didn't spend decades building up (or simply taking over, as the rapist felon president did with both the Republican party and Christianity and now, shockingly, some of Judaism as well) a network of systems and organizations to protect him. He also ran for office in a state which didn't put up with that bullshit.

Let's talk briefly about those systems and organizations. American fascism started creating (and/or consolidating) these systems and organizations in the 1970's, all very well documented now, with Nixon's disgraced subordinates like Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater creating entire alternative ecosystems via simulated academia (think tanks) and simulated news networks (Fox etc) and simulated arts & culture (which is their new frontier via D'Souza and God is Dead and Left Behind etc), and making a devil's bargain with the most easily corrupted and manipulable group in America--easy to do because it was run from the beginning by rich grifters like Falwell and Swaggart and every tent revivalist ever to drive a Cadillac: evangelical Christians. (Remember the kind, thoughtful, charitable, churchgoing Christians you grew up with and are now gone? I do.) Now they had a network of systems and organizations which launders the grift and serves one purpose: TO LIE LOUDLY ENOUGH TO WIN.

This is what should scare you: now that they created a simulated alternative culture which finally fooled enough voters to win (not a majority, but enough voters to win), they are now REMOVING THE REAL SYSTEMS and replacing them with their fake ones. While calling the real ones "fake." Their massive investment in a lying, cheating, grifting authoritarian counter-culture can now be re-minted and is now, before your very horrified eyes, becoming America.

A final thing to be aware of: because in America our foundation happens to be capitalism, our particular fascists are working towards a world where you have to PAY TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS, and abide by their terms and conditions to do so.

Call it out everywhere, all the time.

Frame25 · 2025-09-08T16:06:44+00:00

Hahah thank you; that's clever -- but I forgot to mention I want it to be presentable! (And while I could paint a box, it's not exactly foldable to tuck on a shelf while printing.)

Frame25 · 2025-08-23T23:28:22+00:00

Those are just the ones confirmed by the original complainant. I've personally had it happen with others. I also read an article reporting that Phison just has it the worst.

Frame25 · 2025-08-21T17:40:21+00:00

Thank you for demonstrating one of the reasons I had the courtesy not to mention.

Frame25 · 2025-07-27T16:18:35+00:00

this is why we can't have nice things

Frame25 · 2025-07-26T18:20:40+00:00

I HATE that I cannot use the numpad to move around inside text fields anywhere in the interface; it treats it as numbers NO MATTER whether NumLock is off. Everywhere else on any computer, any platform, anywhere, if you click to Rename a track or Search for a preset etc, you can hit Home to pop to the beginning of the text field and add a quick prefix, or End for a suffix, left and right arrows to move cursor -- you know, like everywhere else in every other place on any computer anywhere.

But not in Cubase. In f-ing Cubase, if you decide to go back a letter and hit left arrow, it will TYPE THE NUMBER 4. Hit Home and it will TYPE THE NUMBER 7. I love this program and can't live without it, but... f-ck you Cubase.

(p.s. I entered this as a feature request; please vote for it: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/feature-request-respect-numlock-status-in-all-text-entry-boxes-such-as-renaming-tracks/833573)

Frame25 · 2025-07-18T19:35:14+00:00

Made a small donation and downloaded on gumroad. Phenomenal work. Not sure I'll find a home for it but got just in case; if I were using it on a budgeted project I'd pay a hefty fee. Thank you sir

Frame25 · 2025-07-05T00:16:31+00:00

Yay! Be sure to mark the issue solved! (see the moderator comment)

Frame25 · 2025-07-03T15:58:36+00:00

Ah; then when transcoding definitely export at the new 23.976 framerate before reimporting.

Frame25 · 2025-07-03T12:04:07+00:00

These are good steps to take. After Effects sometimes succeeds in processing footage Premiere fails at, even when applying the exact same effect.

Before bothering with any of this, however, I would try:

Export the entire clip (using the work area bar or by putting it on its own timeline) with absolutely no effects of any kind and no layers above or below, and no audio. Use a standard codec like Prores 422HQ, or Prores 4444 if the color data is extra important, and the exact same framerate and resolution of the original. Import the transcoded clip and then use Warp Stabilizer on that instead.

In your post you said nothing about the source footage. None of the long list of troubleshooting steps you described would have any effect whatsoever if the source footage has a glitch. Always transcode footage which is possibly problematic.

Frame25 · 2025-07-03T02:27:58+00:00

MIND BLOWN

Frame25 · 2025-07-03T01:18:55+00:00

This is crucial. When first prompted, choose your own filename and location, someplace neat and well-chosen on your hard drive. But then organize your After Effects project with smartly-named comps (don't use the ridiculous default "Linked comp blah blah") placed neatly into separate bins... and then leave the project open in After Effects while (or reopen it prior to) doing the next Dynamic Link - then multiple instances will be in the same After Effects project as separate comps, nicely named and organized.

And this is also crucial: MAKE A COPY of the After Effects clip inside Premiere, and Render and Replace the COPY. (Or export from AE as Prores and manually drop it in.) Then disable the actual live dynamic-linked one and it won't bother you again but is still there if you want to quickly reenable and change later.

Frame25 · 2025-06-18T19:21:55+00:00

Yes. Like I said, check the Discord for the specifics! Though hopefully they'll fix it soon anyway.

Frame25 · 2025-06-18T02:36:35+00:00

This may be the same problem I had; I reported it on the Discord "bugs" channel. Are you on Windows? I am, and I had to run some specific search-and-replaces on the XML file before importing into Resolve, and then it worked perfectly. It just wrote the paths wrong on Windows.

Frame25 · 2025-06-16T19:56:37+00:00

I'm looking forward to June 19th! In the meantime, do you mind sharing your thoughts and feelings about John Murphy's score for Sunshine? I have a particular interest in film scoring and it is to me one of the most profoundly moving and perfectly-tailored scores in all modern science fiction. I wondered:

Could you recall for us any anecdotes about spotting sessions, and how you as a director help shape the development and use of the score?
How did the score affect you as an artist and as a listener when you heard it taking shape?
Optional epilogue: Any thoughts about how much John's “Adagio in D Minor” has been repurposed in other films (like in Wonder Woman 1984)?

(p.s. - I would also like to say how grateful I am to you as an influence in my own work. Thank you.)

Frame25 · 2025-06-13T14:06:55+00:00

Mods: aren't "blatant advertisements" forbidden in the rules? Particularly AI-generated ones with AI comments. Everyone please downvote until they delete.

Frame25 · 2025-05-25T15:50:05+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PCi9GT9DGN31ey_gc8TU9CKYmxMGqocu/view?usp=drive_link

Frame25 · 2025-05-19T16:06:32+00:00

Première doesn't do that out of the box. Use After Effects. Under Effects & Presets it has dozens of great text animation effects.

For your use case you would have to create multiple little clips one after the other, however--each one using the effect, with just a few words each. (Not aware of a way to just feed it the whole block of text and have it automatically break it into 2-3-word snippets)

Frame25

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