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elise82828
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Mar 3, 2019 5:59 PM UTC
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Jpeg not showing up in premiere pro sequence?

I'm working on a project that requires video and still images, and the video clips are all working fine. However, when I place any .jpeg photos into the sequence, they only show up as black rectangles. I've tried restarting the program and nothing changed. Is there any way to fix this?

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elise82828
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Mar 3, 2019 6:33 PM UTC

I solved my problem by converting all my jpeg files to png files.

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Participant
Apr 6, 2022 6:42 PM UTC

I can confirm as of April 2022. Converting from JPEG to PNG will fix it. Sucks we have to this. 

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Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Legend
Apr 6, 2022 11:14 PM UTC

Hi Ryan,

Are you meeting system requirements? Can you tell us more about your computer and the image size of these images? Let me know so I can help.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

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Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
rejdmast1
Participating Frequently
Apr 24, 2022 2:11 AM UTC

All of a sudden I am having the same problem.  jpg thumbnails show up as grayed out in the bin in Premiere Pro.

Turning off the GPU fixes the problem but that is not ideal.

If I right click on the grayed out thumbnail and select  Modify > Interpret footage and select color override and select color space override and set it to sRGB the thumbnail appears. Unfortunately, I can only convert one photo at a time.

The initial color space of the grayed out imported jpg was sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (this was generated from an export from Photoshop 23.3.0). 

If I do a save as for a jpg from Photoshop and do not specify a color profile the thumbnail appears in Premiere Pro.

I am using Premiere Pro version 22.2.0 build 128 on Windows 11 with an Nvidia 2080 GPU version 512-15.

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radovanr21611075
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Jul 1, 2021 8:05 AM UTC

project settings> software only

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Aug 3, 2021 10:45 PM UTC

This fixed it for me. Thank you!

 

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Participant
Mar 18, 2021 11:31 AM UTC

After 20 solid minutes of converting the image to every possible format, color mode and size, even tried taking a screenshot, just noticed I had the layer hidden, so please guys check on those little things! Oh god! 🙂 Have a nice day everyone!

 

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Participant
Feb 13, 2024 7:18 PM UTC

HOW IN THE WORLD. Me too. What the heck?? Haha. Thank you! Saved me about 18 minutes haha. 

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Participant
Jan 31, 2021 5:35 PM UTC

I tried converting my .jpg files to .png and i still had no luck. I found that my renderer was set to "OpenCL" instead of "Metal". When I changed it to "metal" my picture was visible again. To change the setting go to File>Project Settings>General and there are drop down options for the renderer. Don't know if this helps anyone else, but it worked for me

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Participant
Mar 4, 2023 10:23 PM UTC

I had to change it away from metal to "software only" but essentially this worked!

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Participant
Feb 23, 2020 7:48 PM UTC

I converted my JPEGS to .png and made sure it was RBG, but my PNG files are still not showing up.

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Participant
Apr 18, 2020 7:41 PM UTC

I did the same and it's not showing up. If Adobe has changed Premiere so that users can't upload images into their timelines, then we have a big problem.

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Participant
Apr 18, 2020 8:22 PM UTC

Nevermind. I opened up a new sequence and that fixed it. It was an older project so I'm guessing something got corrupted.

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Known Participant
Jun 18, 2019 11:30 AM UTC

yep, same here, jpegs no longer show up on my external monitor viewed through blackmagic mini studio, have to convert to PNG which is annoying

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elise82828
elise82828AuthorCorrect answer
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Mar 3, 2019 6:33 PM UTC

I solved my problem by converting all my jpeg files to png files.

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johnd70490346
Participant
Oct 25, 2022 10:30 PM UTC

This worked for me as well...even though the png size was larger then jpg!

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John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
Mar 3, 2019 6:32 PM UTC

Pictures must be RGB not CMYK http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1081681

If that doesn't help, try these links

-Troubleshooting https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2261475

-Premiere Pro Video Editing Information FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/message/4200840

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