Images ‘Lock Up’

[Tim Kurkoski]

This may be a side effect of what order you’re doing things in.

When you apply a transition on still images, Premiere needs to generate extra frames beyond what you see on the timeline to fill out the transition duration. The problem with this is that if you have created keyframes to animate one or more properties and effects, those keyframes don’t get moved to compensate.

On the other hand, if you place your transitions first, then animate, you’ll be able to work the keyframes into the transition.

Of course, you can always change the keyframes after placing the transition. Select the clip, go to the Effect Controls window. (I’m assuming you’re using a version Premiere Pro. If not, please specify which version of Premiere you are using.) In the pop-out menu, the triangle in the upper-right, deselect Pin To Clip. Now, in the little mini-timeline to the right of the effect properties (there’s an option that shows/hides that, too) you can see your clip and the keyframes, and you can scroll back and forth to see the ends of the clip and you can move the keyframes to adjust for the transition.

[Flevine]

Thanks.

I managed a work around. When burning the DVD, I initially chose “best quality” (one would think that you would want the ‘best’ quality) which only made matter worse. I think there was still too much data at 5k per file. I then opted for the quality slider somewhere around 1/2 way and the problem went away!

The next video I am going to make the files even smaller and see if that rectifies the problem on its own.

BTW, I am using Premier Elements, not pro. I am placing each image on the same timeline and dragging the transition to the frame break.

Thanks

-Fred

[Flevine]

Correction….The image size is 500k, not 5k…Sorry