Could not complete the Paste Frames command because of a program error.

[laurend89962093]

I'm in Photoshop Film & Video.  I'm trying to copy and paste frames from one file to another.  When I try pasting them, I get this error:

"Could not complete the Paste Frames command because of a program error."

Does anyone know how to fix this?  Thank you!

[JJMack]

laurend89962093  wrote

I'm in Photoshop Film & Video.

What do you mean by that?   It sounds like you may be creating a Frame animation.  Do you have a frame animation timeline is both documents so you can copy and paste frames between the two Photoshop documents?

A screen capture showing Photoshop window and the error massahe may help I know what you are doing. Photoshop is not a file editor Photoshop is a document editor that can save many file types some of which are video file types.

[laurend89962093]

Hi JJMack, thank you for your response.  Yes, I'm trying to create a frame animation.  I'm trying to copy and paste frames between two different Photoshop documents, but I keep getting an error message.  Here are some screenshots.

[JJMack]

From you screen capture it looks like you are doing it correctly.  However it look like you are trying to copy and paste a single frame that looks empty. If that is the case that may be the problem for there are no pixels to copy the frames composite contains nothing

[laurend89962093]

The original frames originally started out as ai files, which I converted to psd files.  Could that be the problem?

[JJMack]

laurend89962093  wrote

The original frames originally started out as ai files, which I converted to psd files.  Could that be the problem?

From what you wrote it is hard to know what you actually did.    Frames content are a composite of visible layer in the frames and their positions relative to each other when the frame was created.     Photoshop also is not a file editor it a document editor.  The only files I know of in a Photoshop document are the files  placed in they are in embedded in smart object layer's object.   Place in an Ai file or psd file there will be file the layer's object.   If you open an AI file in Photoshop it will be rasterized  using  Photoshop Rasterize PDF dialog it will just be a raster pixel layer not a file.     When  you copy frames then Paste frames there are options in paste like link layers.  During the paste operation the layer involved  in the copied frames are duplicated into the document being pasted and the frames are added to the Frame animation timeline.  If the layers in the Frames composite are smart object image  layers made using File>Place layers the may have an embedded file or a link to a file in the layer object. That file may be required for Photoshop to render pixels for the smart object.  It may not be need for the pixels have been rendered been for the smart object layer being duplicate. Without Photoshop source code one can only speculate how Adobe implemented a function.  Photoshop is also not bug free and could well have a program error.