When I say embedded, I mean dragging the sequence into a new sequence. I haven’t actually been making self-contained files, just copying the graphics into a new sequence and then dragging that at the appropriate place in the new sequence. Why this seems to work, is because I’m rendering the timecode first. Then rendering the graphics. (I hope that makes sense.)
Another work around that I tried last night that worked, is simply copying the original sequence into a new sequence and dragging that onto track two, and then deleteing it, thus “unrendering” the sequence, but not the timecode. When I do this, I get the light green preview render bar. Once this is rendered, all my graphics seem to be in tact.
There are problems with this as well, as then I have to rerender the original sequence after my output. I know this is all very confusing, but the basic question I have is, why are my graphics render files getting confused when timecode is added? Could it be a drive issue? Or could it be the way the files are named?
I’ll try the alternate timecode options too! Thanks for your input!