CS^: An issue with dropped frames in an image sequence.

Report · Oct 12, 2021

I started using Adobe Premiere Pro twenty years ago so don't belittle me as a novice or a dummy. I've been a Lightwave3D animator for thirty years and I've made many Lightwave animations using it, though I haven't made any animations using Premiere in the past ten years since Windows XP went out the window. The only issue I had with Premiere Pro 6.0 was that it choked up on any frame sequence that numbered more than around five hundred frames. E.g., if I loaded a sequence of six hundred frames, only the first five hundred would show up in the time line and would export exactly the same way. I worked around that problem by dividing each sequence into a five hundred-frame AVI or MPEG video clip; if I had a thousand frames I would make two video clips of five hundred frames each and then string the two clips together resulting in the full timeline that would represent a thousand frames. I have the same situation with CS6 except that the dropping of still frames still seemes to occur but now it happens after around two thousand frames or so. So my question is: Is there a setting in CS6 that would mitigate this issue. If you don't know the answer to this, be polite and don't browbeat.

Report · Oct 14, 2021

Longtime editor and Lightwave user. Where are the frame sequences coming from? I remember back in the 90's when the first 2Gig hard drives came out, rendering out frame sequences from my Amiga 4000, but it's been a very long time since I've had to put together a frame sequence as a seperate step, except when creating transitions in my Tricaster.
My advice would be to upgrade Premiere or if you're using Lightwave you could try this from Lightwave documentation:

A file sequence is easily made into an animation using LightWave. Simply use the sequence as a background image sequence in an empty scene. If you set the resolution the same as the original frame size and save an animation, you will rapidly convert your still frames into an animation.

I hope that you didn't find my attempt to help as belittling or impolite.

Thanks