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Scale to Frame – causing Still Images to go Black
On occasion, still images in the timeline fail to display (they show as Black). When I remove Scale To Image, I “get” the image back.
What’s up with that?
Should I avoid using Scale to Image?
For ref: these are jpeg images (under 2000 pixels on the longest dimension…avg size ~ 1.3 Mb). This is an HDV project.
Should I avoid using jpg’s? Does the system have to work harder to render them (similar to the problem with using mp3 audio files instead of WAV)? I figure I was doing PP3 a favor by keeping files sizes smaller by using compression.
Thanks for your advice. My sense of humor is waning on this project with all of these performance issues.
– Mike –
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When using scale to fit Premiere sets the image to 100 %. When images go black it means the are too large/many for Premiere to handle.
Reduce them in PS to 1440×1080 when no zooming or panning on the image. -
Ann,
Thanks for your advice and for your response to my earlier post/question regarding psd vs jpg files. I agree with your caution about too many images and/or images that are too large.
The puzzler is why Premiere would blacks out an image one time and not another…it probably has to do with total load on the system at that particular point in time.
Have you come across any book or website or ??? that speaks to the issue of how to efficiently handle still images in Premiere? The Adobe User Manual and the Premiere Pro CS3 Bible both give the subject very light treatment.
An earlier DV project of mine…nearly 90 minutes in length…gave me no such problems. My current HDV project (25 minutes) is very fragile…rendering errors, blacked-out stills, etc. I suspect that it’s a load issue. If I’m at the top-end of what my current config can do, I need to make some adjustments.
Any thought you have on that topic is welcome.
– Mike –
HP m8187c-b Desktop Computer
E6750 Intel Core 2 Duo 2 Gb RAM
2 – 500 Gb internal SATA drives 7200 rpm
DVD reader/burner w. Lightscribe
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
LP3065c 30 inch LCD monitor Dual-DVI (2560×16000)
Vista Home Premium, SP2Premiere Pro CS3 v.3.2.0
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