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March 27, 2018
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Animated GIFs with a transparent background is imported into Premiere Elements with a solid white background

  • March 27, 2018
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Hello, community. I recently purchased Premiere Elements as I recently purchased an iMac. I am very frustrated because of how the animated GIFs are imported in Premiere Elements with a solid white background despite being originally transparent. I tested a transparent image of a non-moving logo and it was fine, but for some reason, the animated GIFs aren't imported as its original form and automatically has a solid white background every time and is asked to videomerge for whatever reason. Can anyone help me and tell me why this is happening? I had the Windows version of Premiere Elements before and it was fine with importing transparent GIFs as transparent GIFs.

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Legend
March 27, 2018

Premiere Elements is not designed to use animated GIFs as source video.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 27, 2018

Elements works fine with animated gif.

If the background is white it means the transparancy is saved incorrect in the file.

You need Photoshop to set this straight.