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Image sections black & white

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
April 29, 2025
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After about 15 minutes of video footage on the timeline of Adobe Premiere Elements 2025 , most of the new clips that I drag onto the timeline appear distorted in colour: Foreground objects in correct colours, background objects black and white, even finely contoured, therefore I suspect AI behind it. Or some capacity overload? (see attachment). I am stuck!

I have deleted the media cache files, restarted the editor several times, even restarted the whole system. Nothing has helped so far. Does anyone else have similar problems? Thanks!

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Peru Bob

Community Expert

After about 15 minutes of video footage on the timeline of Adobe Premiere Elements 2025

By @Walter296382640jlj

When you are having the problem in Premiere Elements, check if the problem exists in other apps.

You may have a hardware issue with the graphics or cooling.

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Walter296382640jljAuthor

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Thank you for your continued support and suggestions! I have no reason to believe that there are any hardware, graphics or fan problems. My device works perfectly in all areas and with other, even very graphics-intensive apps. Exporting of the two trial renderings took less time than the running time of the video! I still suspect AI, and I have not yet heard any comments on this. How could graphics or cooling problems lead to such high-precision contouring of individual image contents (colored foreground against B/W background)?

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Walter296382640jljAuthor

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Almost accidentally, I came across the video merge setting "Use colour", which seems to be somehow related to the problem. None of my previous clips in the timeline have this videomerge option. When I tried to delete the Videomerge effect using the recycle bin icon - blue screen, crash, restart of the entire system. Unfortunately I have to think about an alternative for Adobe and possibly start the whole project all over again.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Please use the free MediaInfo and post a screenshot of the properties of your problem media in tree view:
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

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Walter296382640jljAuthor

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I have already included a screenshot in my first post. I can absolutely rule out file corruption or special settings in APREL 2025. Viewed in any other viewer it looks fine. All clips come from the same camera with practically always the same settings and MP4 format. If I insert the clip into a separate test project file in APREL 2025 with much less content, it is displayed correctly in full colour. However, if I drag the virgin clip onto the timeline of my main project (with 15 minutes of video/audio inserted so far), I see it in full colour for a fraction of a second, then the display changes to partly black and white. That's why I still suspect some kind of resource overload or AI influence. I wonder if this is purely a display problem that might not affect the final exporting/rendering?

Peru Bob

Community Expert

I wonder if this is purely a display problem that might not affect the final exporting/rendering?

By @Walter296382640jlj

Do a test export.

John T Smith

Community Expert

Video problems are usually related to the video card software

Do not count on Windows to be fully up to date when it comes to device drivers
Go to the vendor site to be sure you have an updated driver for your graphic adapter
Also check (copied link) https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
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nVidia Driver Downloads https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
-for all Adobe programs use the STUDIO driver, not the GAMING driver
-To achieve the highest level of reliability, Studio Drivers undergo extensive
-testing against multi-app creator workflows and multiple revisions of the top
-creative applications from Adobe to Autodesk and beyond
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If you have a laptop you MAY also need to check for a laptop specific nVidia driver
-SOME laptops require an approved driver from the laptop company, not nVidia
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AMD/ATI Driver https://www.amd.com/en/support
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Intel https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/211969/Intel-HD-Graphics-Family
https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/free-edition-working-with-the-intel-driver-support-assistant/

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Walter296382640jljAuthor

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Thank you so much! I have an ASUS laptop with onboard graphic adapter. Windows 11 is up to date, and I just had the latest intel graphic driver from the ASUS support site installed and restartet the system, but to no avail. Still the same partially black & white image sections in APREL 2025.

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