Animated GIFs with a transparent background is imported into Premiere Elements with a solid white background

[anthonyn31299481]

Hello, community. I recently purchased Premiere Elements as I recently purchased an iMac. I am very frustrated because of how the animated GIFs are imported in Premiere Elements with a solid white background despite being originally transparent. I tested a transparent image of a non-moving logo and it was fine, but for some reason, the animated GIFs aren't imported as its original form and automatically has a solid white background every time and is asked to videomerge for whatever reason. Can anyone help me and tell me why this is happening? I had the Windows version of Premiere Elements before and it was fine with importing transparent GIFs as transparent GIFs.

[Steve Grisetti]

Premiere Elements is not designed to use animated GIFs as source video.

[Ann Bens]

Elements works fine with animated gif.

If the background is white it means the transparancy is saved incorrect in the file.

You need Photoshop to set this straight.