Export to DVD and my Still Pictures Disapear!

[Brad Allen]

Sounds like a bug.

What format are the pictures?

Also, have you tried exporting out to an .avi file and then transcoding this to a DVD compatible MPEG?

Cheers,
Brad

[Ann Bens]

Make your stills the same size as your project settings. When doing panning and zooming make them twice the project size.

[Mike Riez]

The pictures are in jpg format.

[Richard Cavanagh]

I had the same problem. I imported jpegs from a cd and then burned a DVD, only to find that the pictures were not there. Apparently, they became “offline” when I removed the cd in order to burn the DVD. When the imported photos came from a hard drive folder, voila! I hope this might help.

[Allen Strand]

Your problem may be different from the original post. Import only makes a pointer to the file not a copy so if you remove the media they will disappear. Premier should complain when you start it up that the files are missing.

Re: the original post: I just did a video with 160 stills and it worked flawlessly. I did get caught one time when the track wasn’t selected when I rendered the track. I would check the opacity and position of the stills. I accidentally got a few stills set to opacity of 0% which made them disappear.

I would convert the high-res images that aren’t working to a size compatible with the video as an aid to get your project working.

Good luck.

[Mike Riez]

I have rendered all video frames, and I’d like to try and convert some of the high res photos so that they fit my project, but how do I do that?
Can anyone point me to a guide or exaplain the process to me?

Also all of the photos are on my hard drive and they have not been moved, so there is no missing media.

[Allen Strand]

Premier Pro has an excellent page that explains what I am talking about: Setting up, and bringing in assets -> Importing files -> Preparing still images.

Adobe says: Before you import a still image into Adobe Premiere Pro, prepare it as completely as possible to reduce rendering time. It’s usually easier and faster to prepare a file in its original application. Consider doing the following: ….

A note: Manufacturers like Adobe never like to put negative comments in their documents because their competition will use it against them. As such when I see a statement like the above, I take the suggestion seriously.

In my case I merged 160 pictures into a DVD that were all bigger than the 720×480 DVD. Most weren’t modified by Photoshop but some were.

I am suggesting you take one that isn’t working and use Photoshop to reduce the pixel size to be consistent with your video. Example — if you are using a 1280/720 720P video then there is no reason for an image bigger than 1280/720 unless you are zooming and panning the image.

Don’t go crazy though 🙂 Try one and if it works try re-importing the original. You may find something else is broken, like a zero opacity setting, but this extra work is better than not getting your project done.

Good luck.

[Nancy L. sutton smith]

I am a teacher with a cs3 lab and our pictures disappear in the timeline if they are too big. Even then, if students keyframe two pictures side by side and they have already been resized, one of them disappears. We randomly put crop on that one and even without adjusting anything, the picture came back. So resizing doesn’t solve this problem completely. I didn’t realize we should be resizing to the exact size of the project, so we will try that next time.

We have also had our MPEG 2 (we shoot with HDD cameras) video files disappear and after much frustration, moving the files to another drive, changing projects, we discovered that if we just move the entire project up a layer, everything showed back up. Even a project with 7 layers fixed itself by roping everything and moving up or down. Weird.

Nancy L. Smith
President
Sutton Bay Media Company