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Help! Stills disappear/turn green after rendering in Premiere Pro
Hello,
Any suggestions on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I am doing a short 7 minute segment of stills. Some have motion and I’ve adjusted the scale and postions on some. I’ve applied a “Cross Dissolve” inbetween every still. After I render about 5 stills into the movie there is one still that turned entirely green then the rest is completely black. Only at the end of the video are a couple stills visable. Before I rendered i could view all stills fine.I deleted all previous render files and tried to re-render but that made it worse. Parts of the video that were fine before now contain the greenscreen and blacked out clips.
Thank you for any help,
~jd
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8 Replies
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This is a long standing issue with Premiere. You might want to search the forum and the archives to find other responses.
Basically, Premiere is running out of memory. Resize your stills with Photoshop so they’re no bigger than they have to be- 720×480(NTSC) or 720×576(PAL). Bigger if you’re doing pans or zooms with them in Premiere, so do the math if necessary. Ex.: 200% zoom on NTSC = 1440×960.
This will cut down on the amount of memory Premiere needs to use. This is something that should really only be occurring if you’re trying to cram a lot of high-resolution images into a single timeline, but could also happen if you’re applying a lot of FX.
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Export portions of your timeline as AVI files and replace your photoshop images with the avi exports. Imaginate by Canopus is a good program to look at if you are doing a lot of stills
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Thank you all for the help. I will try your suggestions. I am staying with Premiere for editing though. Will increasing my system memory help as well?
Thanks again!
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It might help somewhat. This is really a problem with how Premiere manages memory than how much memory you have available.
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Ok, Thanks again Tim! I’m going to adjust all of my photoshop files to a smaller size. I tried exporting small portions of the timeline as avi’s but they rendered the same results: black and green.
All the best,
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Ok, Thanks again Tim! I’m going to adjust all of my photoshop files to a smaller size. I tried exporting small portions of the timeline as avi’s but they rendered the same results: black and green.
All the best,
~jd -
Imaginate is not an editing program. It is a program designed to work with still images only. Take a high res image into Imaginate, and with a key framable time line you make move in or across the image. When you like what you have you export it to an AVI file and bring it into PPro, with no memory problems. It is a real timesaver if you are working with still a lot.
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Ok thank you for your help!
~jd
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