Working with stills from Blender in Premiere Pro CC 2020

[Mark Holley]

I'm a Premiere Pro newbie, please excuse the basic question. The main reason I'm going to be using Premiere Pro is to work with footage from Blender, a 3D art and animation program. So, in Blender, I have a test file with a sphere flying across the screen. I exported 120 frames of it. At 30 frames a second, which is what I want, it's 4 seconds.

Now, in Premiere, I've imported all 120 PNG frames of it into a bin. Then I'm making a clip out of them. The clip winds up at 8 seconds, (2 frames per still image), no matter how much I beg and plead with the program to do otherwise.

In Preferences, I have "Still Image Default Duration" set to 1 frame. I also have "Indeterminate Media Timebase" set to 30fps. I don't know what other options I can play with to get this to work out correctly. Help?

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Best is to import as an image sequence which will show as a clip in Premiere.

Images need to be sequentual.

Select first image

Set Image Sequence

Open.

[Mark Holley]

I don't know why that worked when the other method didn't, but it did. Thank you. 🙂

[Ann Bens]

Default duration stills need to be set before import or change the duration in the Project window or on the timeline.

But an image sequence is less taxing on the system.