Adobe - Premiere - need to add 140 titles! How!!

I work with Premiere for projects on my evangelism website, and it did a bunch of footage, but I need to add titles.   I did not want to have to open, cut, past each set of title in each video. 

I heard that you could use Adobe InDesign (video: How to update multiple titles in Premiere Pro using InDesign), but I didn't have the latest version and didn't feel like learning a new adobe product like InDesign.  Maybe later.

So, I decided to use Powerpoint with no background, create my title label in the lower-thirds, save each file out as a *.jpg.  But that creates a file with a white back ground;  it needs to be transparent *.png format.  After a little digging, I found a utility called ImageMagick that would remove a white background and make it a transparent png.

command used was:
convert -transparent white whatever.jpg whatever.png

I used a command shell FOR loop to do the conversion.  Now, I can at least import the png files and change them with PPT and ImageMagick.

Removing Hyper-V from Dell XPS 720

I installed Windows server 2012 and wanted to run Hyper-v on my *old* Dell XPS 720. I quickly found out that Hyper-V requires SLAT and VMX enabled in the processor. The XPS 720 does not have SLAT functionality. Therefore, when I rebooted, the Windows 2012 would not boot and kept recycling.

I was able to enter the recovery mode and to a command prompt. It appears that the recovery mode is booting from the recovery partition, which is a Windows PE. Regardless, the command that saved me from reinstalling was to uninstall the Hyper-v feature.

The command is"

DISM /Image:C:\ /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V

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Windows client versions compared to server versions & Hyper-v

Interesting comparison:

Vista ~ Windows Server 2008
Windows 7 ~ Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 8 ~ Windows Server 2012
Windows 8.1 ~ Windows Server 2012 R2

This appears to be true, because I have installed Server 2012 R2 on an old Dell XPS 720 that has (hardware-assisted virtualization - VMX) but does not have SLAT (second layer address translation - EPT) and Hyper-V will not run.  But I think that Hyper-V would run in Windows Server 2008 R2.

Used a MS utility called coreinfo.exe   to determine if the processor can handle Hyper-V.

Will keep chugging at it. .


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More info on coreinfo.exe see article