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caldarwish
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March 1, 2020
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Not all layers exporting in Premiere Pro

  • March 1, 2020
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I'm new to Premiere Pro and I'm trying to export a video but not all layers are exporting.

I'm using 3 video layers (1 with the footage, one with an animation and one with text overlays) and then 2 audio layers.

If I turn a layer off, the layers underneath that will export properly. I now end up with either text and audio or video and audio. I've tried a number of different settings but none of those actually change this. Perhaps it's some setting somewhere but for the life of me can't figure it out.

Help would be VERY much appreciated.

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
March 1, 2020

The layer stack in the Effects Control Panel is very much like the layer stack in Photoshop. But video tracks on a timeline panel are very different, and yea, that's a puzzler coming from Photoshop.

 

I came from a 36-year career as a stills pro portrait photographer 7 years back. Yea, much of video post-production was a shock.Sigh.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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caldarwishAuthor
Participant
March 1, 2020

That's good to hear there is hope for me yet! It's really these basic things in learning a new program that trip me up. 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
March 1, 2020

I think there's a basic operational knowledge lacking in your operation. Upper Video tracks replace the visibility of lower video tracks, unless the opacity of the higher track is turned down, where some of the lower track will 'ghost' through ... or you use masking to show the upper track in those masked sections of the image.

 

The text should probably be created with the Graphics panel, using the EGP edit tab. You can set the text's color/fill/shadow/stroke and opacity within the EGP and the Effects Control Panel.

 

Getting the animation to appear ... probably just that animation replacing the sections below it that are "under" the animation? ... would best be done using an alpha channel for the background of the animation layer. I think you'll need to learn how to use alpha channels, or at least, masking.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    caldarwishAuthor
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    March 1, 2020

    Ah ok, I'm a designer and use Photoshop and Illustrator and was thinking the layers work in the way that those work. Thanks so much for your feedback, that helps a great deal in knowing where to learn.

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