I was experimenting and found that when you put a garbage matte on the clip on the lower track, Video 1, and keyframe that clip's motion, and just change the blending mode to Multiply for the clip on track above,Video 2, there aren't any border lines when played. How that helps, I don't know. ... View more

I've had that happen when the anchor point was moved by me inadvertently on the clip with the garbage matte. A misalignment of just 5/100ths of a pixel caused the artifacts. So, if you accidentally move the anchor point (read the values in the Motion effect), those border artifacts could appear. If you inspect the anchor properties in the Motion effect, they may read the correct values (perfectly centered), but if you click on the reset icon on the Motion effect, the border artifacts will go away. The anchor values may still read the same as before the reset. If you have keyframmed motion and click the reset button, you will add a keyframe with the default values. RJJ ... View more

I thought I would see what would happen on my Windows 10 PC with a ProRes file created with Prodad Mercalli V4 SAL. With Quicktime installed, I can successfully import a ProRes file into Premiere Elements 15. In Premiere Elements 2018, the file imports without error message, but the video is just green. If Quicktime isn't installed, there is a "codec missing" error message when importing a ProRes file. This isn't the only codec that seems to be broken in Premiere Elements 2018 (v.16) that worked okay in Premiere Elements 15. ... View more

Bill wrote: "For the fun of trying, would you put the offending clip on DropBox (or similar) for me to test on my computer.   There is a long shot that we might somehow figure out what is missing in the new version." Here is the link to the MAGIX file on DropBox. Hope you have fun trying to solve the problem. Dropbox - MAGIX AVC-AAC MP4.mp4 ... View more

I installed the The Magic Bullet LUT Buddy from Red Giant today for use with Premiere Elements, using the After Effects option.  When Premiere Elements starts up, it scans the directory in which LUT Buddy is installed, such as C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore. There's a log file that shows this. Lut Buddy shows up in my Premiere Elements 11, 15, and 2018. With the new versions of Premiere Elements, you can use an adjustment layer for the LUT Buddy plug-in and set the opacity of the Adjustment Layer to modify the strength. I found that .3DL lut files from Adobe Photoshop work okay, but .cube files don't. If you have Adobe Photoshop, you can convert from .cube to .3DL. The plug-in is not completely compatible with Premiere Elements, such as if you Render a Preview, then changing the lut file in the Buddy settings does not delete the rendered preview -- there is still a green line. Also, you won't necessarily see the results of applying the plug-in until you scrub or render a preview. You can try creating a LUT file with the LUT Buddy, but after reading the instructions -- which are for After Effects -- I wasn't sure how to do the same in Premiere Elements. I just stuck with the basic loading of an existing lut file in the Buddy settings  (cog wheel icon). ... View more

"It is not intended for Premiere Elements to be backward comparable." I agree with that, I think, but just for clarification... What is your definition of "earlier" and "later" ? "Opening projects from an earlier version in a later version can have unpredictable results including possibly corrupting the project file itself. " This is my way of thinking: "Earlier" version means older version. "Later" version means newer version. For example, the first version is the earliest version known to man. ... View more

I,  too, am blocked from exporting projects with Shake Reduction effects applied to clips, but so far it has only been for previously saved projects with Shake Reduction that I open again. But some times I don't need to remove the effect and reboot, etc. to unblock the export. If I open a project that was saved with Shake Reduction applied to one or more clips, and the project was created with Pre2018, I can preserve the Shake Reduction data as follows without the need to reboot and re-stabilize it again: 1. Open the project. 2. Open the Applied Effects panel. The Applied Effects panel is the one with the icon with "fx" and a pencil. 3. Then for each clip on the timeline that has the Shake Reduction applied to it, click on it to select it. Don't select more than one at a time. The Shake Reduction effect for that clip will then show up in the Applied Effects panel. If the "Shake Reduction" button is disabled, then you won't need to stabilize it again.  The "Shake Reduction" button is the topmost button of the effect in the Applied Effects panel. So, now select the next clip on the timeline, and so on for each clip. If all the "Shake Reduction" buttons are disabled, then you should be able to proceed to export your project. If the project was created with an earlier version of Premiere Elements, you will probably need to re-stabilize each clip that has the Shake Reduction effect applied to it. Something has changed since Premiere Elements 15, as I don't have this Shake Reduction problem in that version when I reopen projects. I'm have Windows 10 and Intel processor. ... View more

I found that disabling internet access fixed the problem for me. Go to the Network and Sharing Center in the Control Panel, select Change Adapter Settings, click on the icons for your Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection, and then select "Disable this network device." Later on, I didn't have to disable the internet access once I installed Microsoft Message Analyzer for 64-bit. See my post on Muvipix: muvipix Community • View topic - Premiere Elements Playback Stops on Own ... View more

Thanks, Vijay. That fixed the display problem on my machine, too. ... View more

Here's the FAQ: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbdfeb0 ... View more

Keep trying. I just did it in Premiere Elements 7. There's even a FAQ or tip on it somewhere on this forum. ... View more

You don't have to do each one individually. You must have missed my previous post about how to copy and paste to all photos. The paste attributes works on all selected photos as well, but all effects applied to the source clip are pasted to the other photos. ... View more

See my previous post in this thread for the settings to use. I wrote the instructions for Pre 4, but still should work the same for pre 7. What you do is copy the fast blur effect in the properties panel for the first photo. After selecting the Fast Blur effect in the properties panel, go to the main menu and select Edit > Copy. Then select all the other photos on the timeline, and then do an Edit > Paste. That's about the only way it will work. And it works that way for all effects. ... View more

I take it your not going to try using the fast blur effect? It gives the exact same results as the flicker removal and can be applied to all photos at the same time. ... View more

You can only select one photo at a time. If you have more than photo selected, then the flicker removal option will be greyed out. Here are some excerpts from some of my posts long gone about flicker removal: I don't know if you remember, but in version 1.0 flicker removal was on by default, but Adobe removed it because everyone complained that their still images weren't as crisp as other video editing applications. This worked for me. Add the Fast Blur effect and set the direction to Vertical. In PrEl 4.0 try a value of 1.0 or 1.2. I tried values from 0.4 to 1.2 and tested the samples on my TV and found that 1.0 or 1.2 got rid of terrible flickering. You could do something similar using the Gaussian Blur effect, but with different values. After applying the Fast Blur effect to one Photo, you can easily copy that particular effect in the properties panel for one photo and then Edit > Paste to the others Photos -- unlike the "flicker removal" option that you can only set on photos one at a time. You could try the anti-flicker option in the Motion effect, except that all your panning would have to be the same for each photo if you wanted to copy that effect to the other photos. ... View more

Another easy way to create a WAV file in Premiere Elements for any type of video clip is to use Clip > Audio Options > Render and Replace. That will create a WAV file and replace the audio clip on the timeline with the new WAV file (with any effects applied), which will be conformed to the project. You can even do this batch style by selecting multiple clips on the timeline and then going Clips > Audio Options > Render and Replace. A separate WAV file will be created for each clip you've selected on the timeline. The wav files will also be available in the media bin, where you can select properties from the pop-up menu to find out where they were saved. ... View more

Comparing Premiere Elements 2.0 to Premiere Elements 7.0 in regards to MOD files, something has gone wrong in the editing workspace in 7.0. Even after doing a workaround of renaming ImporterFastMPEG.prm to ImporterFastMPEG.prm.tt and deleting all the index files that are created when you add MOD files for the first time to Premiere Elements, there are considerable artifacts when playing unrendered previews. Although, if you render a preview they are gone. However the artifacts are not the same as the distortions I was talking about earlier. The distortions are big blocks of video that shift out of place. Those distortions are gone when you rename .mod to .avi, or if you do the workaround of renaming that ImporterFastMPEG.prm and deleting the index files. But neither of those two tricks get rid of the artifacts during playback of unrendered previews. When you rename .mod to .avi, Premiere Elements uses the Directshow merit system to pick the mpeg and ac3 codecs. For example, if you have FFDShow installed with MPEG2 enabled, Premiere Elements will use that to decode the video. If you don't have a separate ac3 codec installed on your system, then you won't have any audio when you import the file into Premiere Elements. You could enable AC3 in FFDShow Audio and Premiere Elements will use that. Still, even with a 70 minute video clip on the timeline, I don't seen any errant green pixels. And all I have is a Pentium 4, 3GHz, 1 GB RAM with 96MB shared RAM for video. By the way, are we all talking about standard definition or high definition MOD files? I'm only talking about standard definition. ... View more

The .mod files that people have sent to me with problems all play back without distortion if I change the file extension from .mod to .avi. Actually, I just tack on .avi after .mod. I believe that doing this circumvents the indexing phase of MPEG-2 files that Premiere Elements does, which is known to cause distortions in .mod files, however, I have not seen green pixels showing up or other clips appearing where they shouldn't. That sounds more like a memory issue. ... View more