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Ozzkat
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February 20, 2019
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"Import Frames to Layers" shows frozen clip

  • February 20, 2019
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Good afternoon. I've been having an issue with Photoshop CC in terms of creating .gifs: As the title says, I cannot properly import clips without them freezing; the preview where you choose to cut shows only a static image or other times only a few frames of the clip before freezing. This persists if I proceed with importing it; it will show up on the timeline just as it was portrayed while importing.

This has proven to be one serious nuisance, so any and all help would be very appreciated. To possibly eliminate some fixes you may already be considering, this is a brand new Acer laptop, and I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

Thanks for your time.

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emmierose
emmierose
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March 30, 2019

I have had the same issue several times. Sometimes the frame animation starts repeating the same static image near the end of the animation, and sometimes the entire video to layers conversion produces the same static image for every single layer. Did downgrading fix it for you?

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wwhatevver
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March 26, 2019

I just downloaded PS CC 2019 and I instantly got the same issue importing a mere 5 sec clip, which froze 2 sec into movement. I have used CS6 up until now and that one can easily import 500 layers or videos longer than that so it's really odd to see this happen already. I only got PS for gif making, thus removing the key reason for me to use the program. Hopefully there's a fix for this somewhere!

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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March 26, 2019

What is the Clip's Frame size and Frame Rate. For example an iPhone slow motion video is something like 240FPS 500 frames in under 3 seconds. 2 Seconds would be 480layers.

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wwhatevver
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March 26, 2019

it's the standard 1280/720 HD quality, 144 frames once i picked out the section that i wanted! ive literally never had any issues importing a video file before, and i feel like no matter what i should be able to play the full clip during the beginning before i move it over to layers -- which i couldn't? it froze, as mentioned. i've made gifs for years, so i know the ways around it. i have, however, downloaded the CC 2015 version instead and it seemed to work just fine, so i think it's a bug within 2019 that might need fixing. it's kind of you to try and help, i might just keep using an older version and then try 2019 again a little further down the road!

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 27, 2019

Can you post a link to that clip.  Let me test it on my machine. What is the frame size? The largest frame size I have imported are 4K size 3840x2160 and Import did limit it to 500 frames

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OzzkatAuthor
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February 27, 2019

Here you go. It's not cut yet due to the issue in Photoshop, but it's close enough. Each is 1280x720 pixels.

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 27, 2019

That clip is a 720p clip seems to have 122 frames and imported without a problem in CC 2019

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OzzkatAuthor
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February 27, 2019

Does anybody have any other ideas regarding the issue? It's persisting to the point it's become a serious annoyance.

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 27, 2019

How many frame are you trying to import?  I have no problem importing a few hundred.   I would not expect to be able to import more the 500.     I believe a Frame animation frame limit is around 500.

I can open a video into Photoshop and then in the video timeline flatten to many more layers than 500.   It takes a very long time.   If the clip exec 4minites  you would blow Photoshop layer stack limit and Photoshop is likely going to allocate all your machine  resources and may hang. 

How long is the video clip you are trying to import frames from.   Is what you are trying to do reasonable,

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OzzkatAuthor
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February 27, 2019

The clip is merely 61 frames.

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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February 20, 2019

Frame animations are limited to 500 frames. A short video can have more frame then Photoshop can have layers. A 1 minute 30fps video has 1800 frames 5 minuets would have 9000 frame Photoshop layer limit is 8000.  Normally you should see warning message if you try to import many frames.  Even a small section where to import ever fifth frame like a 6fps video you get many leyers. Here I show some attempts. The small range where I took fifth frame imported 195 layers.  Ate you sure you were not exceenfiv Photoshop's layer limit.

Try opening the video in Pfotoshop and ine the video timeline fly-out menu flatten to clips to create layers.

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    OzzkatAuthor
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    February 20, 2019

    Thank you for the advice, but it doesn't seem to do anything for my issue. It's a pretty short clip with little going on, and from editing gifs before on my previous laptop, I'm rather sure the frame number is irrelevant in this scenario. I also do not get the warning for excessive length. I attempted your tactic, but the clip still freezes a couple seconds in as it did before.

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    February 20, 2019

    What version of Photoshop I tried the whole clip in cc2010 after a very long timesI had about 5,000 layers Photoshop was using 30gb of ram and using much scratch space and was not  I trashed it.

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