Text File (.png) Problem

[don bergland]

I am having a serious problem with Premiere. I have a long section of video footage over which I am installing transparent .png files with text, so that the text will appear over the video footage. Here is the technique I am using.

1. I create the text image in Photoshop, save as a transparent .png file

2. I import the file into Premiere

3. On the Timeline, I drag the text image over the video footage. The text item appears with the video beneath it. Simple.

For the last number of years, this technique has worked well for me. I recently updated - Premiere Pro 2018.

Now, the difficulty occurs. I go through the 3 steps above, but when I drag the text image to the Timeline, it doesn't just contain the simple text I created in the file. It contains ALL the text items from all the .png files I've created for the project.

Example:

I create 3 individual text images and save them as 4 individual .png files.

Image 1 - "An Opportunity"

Image 2 - "Rebuild your Mind"

Image 3 - "Performance Enhanced"

I import these to Premiere as individual .png files. I drag Image 1 (An Opportunity) to the Timeline, over the video footage, expecting to see just the text, "An Opportunity." but what I see are ALL the text items from all the individual .png files (Rebuild Your Mind, Performance Enhanced), all piled on top of each other. The other two files have the same arrangement. Instead of individual discrete text items, ALL the text items I've imported appear on every file.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Don

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Yes known issue, Adobe is working on a fix.

Revert back to previous version or try one of these workarounds:

PNG with Alpha Workarounds

[don bergland]

I appreciate the reply. How do I revert back to Premier Pro 2017?

Thanks

Don

[R Neil Haugen]

The workarounds might be easier in some ways, but if you've a lot of the files, a pain also.

The project files from 2018.1 will not be usable in an earlier version, such as 2018.0.1 But ... to revert ... go to your CC desktop app, and on the line of Premiere Pro, click the very far right end of the rounded-end object that is the down-arrow, then Previous Versions.

Select one.

Neil

[don bergland]

I appreciate the wonderful assistance provided by folks on this forum. The replies have been very helpful.

Thanks

Don

[R Neil Haugen]

Another user unjust posted that nesting the clip with the png fixed his problems without any other step needed.

Neil

[mdr525]

Thanks everyone for posting these.  Thought I just had some buggy files when I opened something from 2 years ago and ended up with pea green videos.  I think I'm going to roll back and wait for this issue to be fixed so I don't have a whole bunch of extra nested sequences.