Trouble will Still Images, changing length

[Blast1]

I suggest you recreate the plug-in cache file, before starting Ppro hold down the shift key and start Ppro and don’t releash the shift till the project window is loaded, you will have to redo stuff like the scratch disks, etc, custome settings.

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Todd,

All right, well the import was fine here. I have an AJA card, yet I wonder if there is a setting on your side that could be causing this. All right here’s a silly idea, what if you went to your folder options in (XP?) and changed the TGA extension to be opened by Photoshop and possibly do a restart. Then reimport. The reason I think that might work, is that Premiere is seeing the file as an AJA sequence, when it really isn’t.

Good luck,

Vince

[Todd Terry]

Heya…

I just tried that… restarted Premiere while holding down the shift key… didn’t release it until I had loaded a project.

I certainly didn’t notice any difference in the way PP2 loaded or anything… should I have? None of the settings or scratch discs had changed. Could it be that this effort didn’t “take”? I tried it several times.

In any event, it had no effect on my ability to import/use stills correctly.

When looking at the “Properties” of one of the affected stills, it does indeed show that it is a “sequence” with a duration of 1 frame… so that explains that. But WHY was it imported as a sequence becomes the big question. I didn’t TELL it to (I couldn’t have if I had wanted to, as the “numbered stills” box was greyed out, unavailable) and it wasn’t a numbered file as if it were part of sequential files.

Grrrrrr again and again

Todd

[Vince Becquiot]

You have to hold Ctrl + Shift, you will see a popup right after that.

Vince

[Todd Terry]

Thanks Vince…

I don’t wana screw this up…..

Which folder do I choose in “Choose an additional Plug-Ins folder…?

Under Plug-Ins, there’s the root folder, and under that is “Common” and “en_US.”

Under “Common” the subfolders under that are “aaf” and “AEFilters”

Under “en_US” there are AEFilters, AJA, AJA(2), Editing Modes, Effect Presents, hlseffects (with subfolders), PSFilters, and VSTPlugins.

Sorry for the stupid question… I’m not much of a computer guy, I’m an old film guy.

Thanks,
Todd

[Vince Becquiot]

If you don’t have any additional plugin folders other than the default Premiere, you should be able to cancel out of that.

Then, to change the registered file type for Targa, go to any folder under XP, choose, Tools > folder options > File Types. Find TGA, then next to “open With” click change and choose Photoshop, or you default image viewer.

Vince

[Todd Terry]

Hi yet again Vince, et al…

Yeah, I was able to change the viewing preferences for Targa files (well actually, they were already set to open with Photoshop… I changed them to something else and then back to Photoshop). Unfortunately that had no effect on their usablity in Premiere.

My previous qustion was actually asking WHICH Plug-Ins folder do I select when restarting Premiere while pressing control+shift. I get the pop-up box asking me for it… but there is the root PlugIns folder and then bunches and bunches of folders inside it to choose from. I just didn’t know what to select.

I appreciate all the efforts of those in the group trying to help me with this problem, I really do.

For now, must go home before I am even further in the doghouse on Valentine’s Day than I already am. I will take this up again tomorrow.

Thanks again,
Todd

[Blast1]

[Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.] “My previous qustion was actually asking WHICH Plug-Ins folder do I select when restarting Premiere while pressing control+shift. I get the pop-up box asking me for it… but there is the root PlugIns folder and then bunches and bunches of folders inside it to choose from. I just didn’t know what to select.”

You’re supposed to down the “shift” key(control-shift is for older versions of Prem) and it should automatically recreate the file, you shouldn’t have a popup box unless there is something fubared