Time Stretch of Premiere Elements 15 Changing My Input

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Hello. I am using Premiere Elements 15 on Win10-64 and when I try to time stretch a png file to match the length of an mp3 file, the input keeps changing to some ridiculous other time. For instance, I put in 00:00:14:00 and the time will change by itself to 00:00:15:26. If I put in something like 00:00:14:1, it changes to something like 00:27:13:45 (going off memory and I have literally been up all night). This behavior is consistent no matter if I do it in the Assets box or the Timeline.

This is ridiculous. I just upgraded from 11 and am really considering asking for a refund. Does anybody have any idea what's up here?

Thanks in advance.

ENV2005 · Accepted Answer

ENV2005 wrote....... OK, to business: What I do to get an audio file and a still image to match duration is go to Time Stretch in the audio clip, click on the time stamp number to select it (gets highlighted), right-click, and select Copy. Then I to Time Stretch in the still image, click on the time stamp number to select it, right-click, and select Paste to paste the number from the audio. Everything is groovy up through this point. The correct number pastes in. But when I hit OK, the number changes to some preposterous other value. The preposterous value is always the same depending on what number I put in. 14:41088 always becomes 27:37:13, 14:4100 always becomes 15:16, 27:11520 becomes 08:07:20, etc. It's like some algorithm is deliberately distorting the values, although I cannot spot the pattern. This is very confusing and intensely frustrating behavior. ......A few posts back, I said I got it to work. I did it by reading the time code by hovering the mouse over the work area bar, memorizing the displayed time code and typing it into the Time Stretch for the image. I tried it your way with the cut and paste. On my computer it worked fine. I do see a difference though. On my computer the time codes look like this: " 00;01;43;22 ". If I remember from the first training videos I watched (produced by Steve!) I think it stands for "Hours;Minutes;Seconds;Frames". I don't see formats like "14:41088" or "14:4100". If you go to Edit > Preferences > Media, what is the status of the "Display Media Timecode....." box? Mine is checked. Hosanna in the Highest!!!"... and Sir Robin slew the beast, and there was much rejoicing."Thanks, Bill - your response here was the clue I needed. Not noticing that Time Stretch was now buried in the Clip menu option instead of top-level as it is in Prel 11 (when working with clips in the Timeline), I was trying to do it in the asset view box. That was where I noticed colons (:) instead of the more-familiar semi-colons (;). I also was puzzled by the mysterious use of 5 digit precision rather than the usual 2. So 14.41 seconds (00;00;14;41) looked like 14.41088 (00:00:14:41088). So who knows what was going on with that behavior. Time Stretch in the Timeline - what I should have been doing - still works fine. Profound apologies for the Chicken Little exercise and profound thanks to all for your advice. But, it's a lesson I shan't forget.

Steve Grisetti · Answer

I completely disagree with the User Guide on this point. If you want to extend the duration of a still photo, you just drag one end. There is NO reason to use Time Stretch on a still ever.

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