GIFs keep getting messed up when I try to put them in Premiere Pro

[Roman35785743ddcx]

There's a video that I'm wanting to make that utilizes GIFs, but every time I import a GIF into the video sequence, it keeps screwing up somehow. The GIFs I'm using have just 3 frames to them, so they're consequentially only about 1 second in duration, and they also have a small resolution. However, when I try to play them in the sequence, it keeps only showing the first 2 frames, the 1st frame dragging for longer than it should, and the framerate of the GIF seems to just be slower in general. There are other GIFs in this sequence that have 5 or 6 frames, and I can tell that they get a little messed up as well, but it's still relatively manageable. The GIFs with the 3 frames, however, turn out much worse, and I don't know how to fix it.

I originally tried this in Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 with no success, and then I tried using Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 and the issue still persisted. The GIF files on my computer play completely normally when I open them in a photo-viewer, but when I import them into Premiere Pro, the framerate just gets really terrible and it doesn't show all the frames, always lagging for much longer than it should on the 1st frame. It's weird because it didn't always used to do this; Premiere Pro used to play GIFs completely fine, at their proper framerate and without lingering on the first frame. But now, I'm having this issue, and I don't know why.

Does anybody know what I can do to fix this? I tried looking online for answers and nobody was having this same problem, so I had to ask it myself here. If you know what I can do to make GIFs play normally in Adobe Premiere Pro, then please do inform me on what I need to do. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Roman

[Ann Bens]

Make a freeze-frame (export frame) of each GIF frame and use that instead.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

As I said, the GIF is 3 frames long and keeps being shortened down to 2 frames. I can't export each GIF frame if Premiere Pro is refusing to show all of them.

[Ann Bens]

Try Photoshop.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

I don't own Photoshop.

[Ann Bens]

You can try the trial version.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

That'll only be a temporary solution. I'm looking for a permanent solution - one that hopefully doesn't require me to use other softwares. This issue with GIFs in Premiere Pro didn't used to happen, and now, one day, they did. It's gotta be something that's fixable within Premiere Pro itself.

[Peru Bob]

Delete the Media Cache and Media Cache files:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-how-to-clear-your-media-cache-in-30-seconds-in-premi...

If that doesn't work, try resetting the preferences:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-how-to-reset-trash-preferences-in-premiere-pro/td-p/...

If that doesn't work, try resetting the Workspaces:
Reset a workspace
Reset the current workspace to return to its original, saved layout of panels.
1. Do one of the following:
• Click the Workspace menu icon and select Reset to Saved Layout.
• Choose Window > Workspace > Reset to Saved Layout.
from here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/workspaces.html

If that doesn't work, try Preferences > Audio Hardware and set Input to None.

If NVIDIA graphics, make sure to use a Studio Driver from NVIDIA (NOT the Game Driver), but not the latest version - it has issues with Premiere Pro

If that doesn't work, try creating a new project and import the old one into it.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

I tried each and every one of your suggestions here... clearing the media cache files, resetting my preferences, resetting the workspaces (though I had to shift everything back to how it was because I have a pertain preference for the layout), set my Default Input to be "No Input", created a new project and imported my problematic one into it... and nothing worked. The GIFs are still just as messed up as they were before, still only showing 2 out of 3 of the frames and lagging on the first frame.

[Ann Bens]

I am guessing the GIF is corrupt. What is its origin?

[Roman35785743ddcx]

I created the GIFs myself. I find it hard to believe that all of them are corrupt, because I can open them all in a photo-viewer on my computer and they play just fine. It's only if I put them in Premiere Pro that they end up getting messed up.

Can Premiere Pro not properly play GIFs that're too short or something? Because if so, then that could be what's going on here. Each of them are only 1 second in length, given that they all only have 3 frames to them.

[emilio_9630]

hey did you end up finding a solution for this? i'm also using a gif i made myself, but it's like 20 secs long with a bunch of frames. still, the last third or so of the gif freezes no matter what i do. i've just started adding random stuff on the end of my gifs so thats the part that doesnt play, but id like to fix this at the source somehow

[Roman35785743ddcx]

I haven't found a solution to this, no. I've just been taking each individual frame of the GIFs as separate images, playing the images one after the other with their durations being a couple milliseconds each, and then putting them all into a nested sequence so I can move the whole thing around my video timeline easier. That's what I've been doing, but if I try to put the raw GIF as it is into Premiere Pro, it still has the same issue: lagging a lot on the first frame, then showing the second frame, and refusing to show the third frame. No one's been able to offer me a solution that actually works for me when I try it.

[MyerPj]

If you can put the file here I can try it, or use Google Drive, etc and put a link or send me one in DM.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

I sent you a message with a Google Drive link to it. If you can put it in Premiere Pro with all 3 frames of the GIF loading in, no problem, then pleae tell me how you did it.

[MyerPj]

Yes, you're right, I had the same issues. I tried with PS also, and no success.

[MyerPj]

Using the PS file, I imported the layers into After Effects and was able to make that into a comp that played OK in PP.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

Do you know why that happens? GIFs with 2 frames are fine, as are GIFs with 5 or more frames, but GIFs with 3 or 4 frames just don't seem to work out, and I can't figure out the reason why.

[MyerPj]

No, I don't know, we're just other users like yourself.

I sent you a link for the files I used including the AE project you can import into your pp.

[Roman35785743ddcx]

I don't have After Effects, sadly, so I can't use the files you sent.

[MyerPj]

Maybe this one will work, it goes into PP OK!

 

[Roman35785743ddcx]

That one does work, yeah. Maybe because it's got 4 frames instead of 3 and the frames last longer, but still, it loads no problem into Premiere Pro. Not exactly the fix I was looking for, but I still appreciate it. 🙂

[MyerPj]

This one is 3 frames and it still seems to work in PP. Also, I shortened the frame length.

 

[Eillan39011083q1ug]

how do you shorten the frame length?

[MyerPj]

I made in Photoshop. When you have the little timeline, there's a small arrow you can click to set the frame length: