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I spent a day prepping pictures for a video. After loading them into Premiere Elements I'm about to conclude all that effort was for naught. Either this is a user unfriendly program or I simply don't know how to use it. After loading my ~30 still images I've encountered the following issues. Struggling with these issues when essentially all of the pictures have to be reorganized/moved at least once and maybe multiple times makes this job impractical.
All of your issues are resolvable. Premiere Elements makes great slide shows with lots of options.
1. Enlarge the timeline. Grab the upper line imediately to the left and drag it up. You can make it quite large.
2. It is not that hard to delete and close a gap. Click it and press Delete.
3. In video editing the time line can show the beginning image and the ending image of a clip. If it is a still image, they will match.
4. Not sure what you are doing. I've never seen PrE change f
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All of your issues are resolvable. Premiere Elements makes great slide shows with lots of options.
1. Enlarge the timeline. Grab the upper line imediately to the left and drag it up. You can make it quite large.
2. It is not that hard to delete and close a gap. Click it and press Delete.
3. In video editing the time line can show the beginning image and the ending image of a clip. If it is a still image, they will match.
4. Not sure what you are doing. I've never seen PrE change file names. Can you provide a screen shot?
5. PrE has multiple video tracks. (99) They view from the top down like layers. You've probably put one of your picture on line above what you are seeing. Scroll up.
6. See 5. Get them all on the same video track.
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Thanks for your reply.
> 1. Enlarge the timeline. Grab the upper line imediately to the left and drag it up. You can make it quite large.
MUCH better! I had tried to enlarge it, but I was in the wrong place on the line.
> 2. It is not that hard to delete and close a gap. Click it and press Delete.
I am doing that, but with the number of moves it I have to do it a lot. The image is gone, why is it leaving these blanks?
> 3. In video editing the time line can show the beginning image and the ending image of a clip. If it is a still image, they will match.
I knew what was happening and now that I can see the images I don't think this will be a problem.
> 5.& 6. PrE has multiple video tracks. (99) They view from the top down like layers. You've probably put one of your picture on line above what you are seeing. Scroll up.
After this suggestion I looked at all the vidio tracks and see no images.
Ignore this reply. You were right. The images were only showing as a thin blue bar and I didn't realize they were images. Because the images were so tiny and I have tremor I must have moved them to the upper video.
In my next post I will show some screen shots of problems.
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I didn't return because once I could see the pictures I was able to understand and fix all the problems.
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"I was able to understand and fix all the problems."
Thank you for responding. The fun here is knowing when something works!