Import Slide Show

I created a slide show in iPhoto 9.1.5 and exported it to QuickTime. The .mov is 8.2 meg residing on my desktop. I imported it to FCE. I created a new sequence, in an existing project, and double clicked the sequence. The sequence appeared in the timeline. All appeared well. When I drag and drop the mov to the timeline it tells me there is insuffient data to edit. When I drag it to the Viewer window, it tells me General Error. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

stosek
Your original thread question should have been taken care of according the Announcement at the top of this forum...that involves the removal of the Windows Update kb causing the 1/2 wmv display. Have you been there and done that? If that is out of the way, then...
Lots of details on your project to sort out, but I will ask the question "Have you put a stop marker at the end of the last item on the Premiere Elements Timeline?" If so, remove it. It is not needed and is one of the major causes for type of problem that you described in your latest post. Have you expanded your Timeline looking for left over slivers? Typically they present as very thin vertical black lines scattered about the track content.
What are the pixel dimensions of the photos that went into the slideshow, now that you are trying the Photoshop Elements Slideshow Editor Output option of Edit With Premiere Elements Editor?
What is your end product...NTSC or PAL DVD-VIDEO standard or widescreen on DVD disc? In the burn dialog for burn to DVD, what does the Quality Area show for Space Required and Bitrate? And, another classical question...if you burn to folder instead of disc for your DVD-VIDEO, does the burn to folder go to success whereas the burn to disc does not?
Let us start here and then decide further troubleshooting.
Thanks.
ATR

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Welcome to the forum.
They work on several levels:
A subscriber comes with a problem/question, and then, hopefully, someone will have an answer
A subscriber comes with a problem/question in mind, and then finds other threads, very similar, and hopefully gets the answer
A subscriber comes to read, to pick up ideas, etc.
In your case, it appears that # 2 worked, just as it should.
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Now, there are some other considerations, such as the limited Color Gamut (and Gamma) of DVD-Video vs display on a calibrated computer monitor, or a calibrated Broadcast monitor. One needs to study that limited and different Color Gamut, and perhaps adjust the colors first, in Photoshop. PrE is not designed for Broadcast output, so lacks many of the Tools, that PrPro has. Also, very few PrE users have a calibrated Broadcast monitor hooked up for Color Grading. Last, even if one has produced the ultimate output, with full understanding of the Color Gamut, and used a perfectly calibrated Broadcast monitor, there is no telling what the calibration of the client's monitor (computer, or TV) will be. What is perfect on a calibrated Broadcast monitor might look great on the client's setup, or perhaps not. A Broadcast Engineer can only adjust to standards, and hope for the best, when the disc hits the public. Same for Audio. Who knows what "Aunt Marge" has to play back the DVD-Video?
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I do not no how things are handled when using HDV and technical documentation is hard to find on this topic of how photo are handled using HDV but in iMovie and most non HDV video editing software the picture is always 72ppi regardless of what is was/is on the outside and the images that appear the worst are the ones with less.
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If you scroll through the media browser dose it appear that the library you are working with duplicates itself somewhere along the line or do you see double images side by side?
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Most Simple Back Up
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex:
Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically. Examples of such apps: Chronosync or DejaVu . But are many others. Search on MacUpdate
Also, please don't type in block capitals. They are hard to read and on the forum it looks like you'e shouting at everybody.
Regards
TD

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