Premiere Elements Misinterprets Clip Size on Import

I set up my Premiere project for DV/NTSC 16:9 48 then import clips that have those properties. Premiere interprets the clips as 540x480. The clips display correctly in the free MS program MoveMaker. Why are they displaying incorrectly in Premiere?

Flash Curious
I do not have Premiere Elements 13 installed at the present time, so I did the testing with Premiere Elements 12/12.1 on Windows 7 64 bit.
I could not confirm the appearance of 540 x 480 reading anywhere for the MOD03B.MOD file.
The file before it saw Premiere Elements
Media Info Properties Readout
720 x 480 16:9
29.97 interlaced frames per second
Field Order = Upper Field First
Premiere Elements Project Assets/Properties from Thumbnail
720 x 480
29.97 interlaced frames per second
Field Order = Upper Field First
But, the Pixel Aspect Ratio = 0.9001 which is characteristic of 4:3 and not 16:9.
All of this is consistent with the old story of the mod widescreen behavior in Premiere Elements.
And, the remedy was/is
1. Open Premiere Elements to the Expert workspace and set the project preset manually to
NTSC DV Widescreen.
2. Then import your .mod widescreen (in some cases, you may have to rename the file extension from .mod to .mpg and then do the import).
Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets.
3. In Project Assets, right click the thumbnail for the file, select Interpret Footage. In the Interpret Footage dialog, go to Pixel Aspect Ratio section, and dot the Conform to: which you then set to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121).
I did not have to rename the file extension from .mod to .mpg for this to work for me with your file.
When you tried this, did you manually set the project preset or did you let the project do it for you automatically? If you have not already, please
do this with the project preset set by you not the project. To do that, before import of the file into the project.. Expert workspace
File Menu/New/Project and Change Settings
In Change Settings, set for NTSC DV Widescreen and click OK to leave Change Settings.
You will next see the new project dialog. Make sure that you have a check mark next to Force Selected Project Setting on This Project and then OK out of there.
Then import your .mod widescreen file into the project with Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets.....and so on.
This should work for you. If it does, we can discuss the pros and cons of the NTSC DV Widescreen project preset versus NTSC Hard Disk Flash Memory Camcorder Widescreen one (relates to your Field Order if your destination is DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc).
This is what I am getting for Properties when I right click the Project Assets thumbnail for your .mod file
This is what your .mod file looks like after I did the Pixel Aspect Ratio/Conform to: change in Interpret Footage
As I said, this was all done with Premiere Elements 12/12.1. I will see if I can get Premiere Elements 13 installed
to try this with it. The 12/12.1 and 13 results should be the same.
Please consider.
Thank you.
ATR

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By the time I downloaded and looked at your sample video, I see that you and nealeh have worked out a workaround, that is, converting your Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM).avi (1920 x 1080 @ 10 frames per second) to H.264.mp4 (1920 x 1080 @ 30 frames per second.
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4. When I ran my own Premiere Elements 11 created Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM).avi (30 frames per second, 11 min duration) through gspot, the video codec was shown as Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM), but it listed Codec NOT installed - same as yours.
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6. I need to run a Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM).avi 10 frames per second, 11 min duration) to see if I get the same results as in 5.
When you record your video, do you have the option of changing the frame rate from 10 to 30 frames per second?
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b. Why is gspot telling me that the Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM) codec is not installed when I can use it in Premiere Elements 11 for the import and export of my own file?
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Adobe Premieres Elements 10, problème d'importation

Dans Adobe Premieres Elements 10, je ne parviens pas à importer le format 16-9 malgré le paramétrage à cet effet. L'image obtenue est toujours en 4-3 et le moniteur en 16-9. Au déplacement, du clip video vers le moniteur, celui-ci bascule en 4-3. Ma caméra video est une JVC Everio GZ-MG 630RU. Solution?

Merci pour la réponse. En effet, la méthode suggérée m'a permis de réaliser les ajustements nécessaires. Votre aide a été grandement appréciée.
Rmag
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rmag
I suspect that your JVC is recording .mod widescreen. And, this is the classical story of the file's 16:9 flag missing or not recognized by Premiere Elements (any version).
Set your Premiere Elements 10 project preset in the new project dialog to PAL DV Widescreen and import your .mod widescreen into the project using Premiere Elements 10 Get Media/Files and Folders. In Project Media, right click the thumbnail of the file, select Interpret Footage. In the Interpret Footage dialog, go to the Pixel Aspect Ratio section and dot the Conform to: Then change the Conform to field to
DV/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.4587).
If there are any black borders in the Edit area monitor image after that, click on the monitor to bring up the image's bounding box. Then drag on a bounding box handle to scale the video image to just fit the space in the monitor to no black edges.
The 16:9 flag issue is one part of the JVC .mod matters. If you have problems importing the file, rename the .mod file extension to .mpg before import into Premiere Elements.
Please review and consider and then let us know the outcome.
Thank you.
ATR
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Premiere Elements is cutting large video imports

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There are several problems here, two of which are frame size and frame rate.
Next in line is your report that your import duration is less than the pre-import duration of the original.
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hill0093
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Premiere Elements 11 stürzt bei Import von Dateien ab...

Hallo,
wenn ich mehre Filme in Premiere impotieren will, stürzt das Programm ab - reagiert nicht mehr und wird geschlossen - importiere ich nur einen einzigen Filmschnipsel, kann ich diesen bearbeiten und das Programm stürzt (noch) nicht ab. Ziehe ich jedoch einen weiteren Film in das Programm (drag&drop), dann stürzt es wieder ab...
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Eine Neuinstallation hat nichts gebracht und das Problem besteht auch bei Premiere Elements 10...
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Böses Programm! Mehr können wir mangels realer Informationen auch nicht sagen. Ohne Systeminformationen, Angaben über das Quellmaterial, Projekteinstelllungen usw. ist das "Frag mal die Oma!" Kram....
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Premiere Elements 7 doesn't support import of wmv files? True?

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Jenny,
The file extension, .AVI is only a wrapper. Imagine the foil "wrapper" on a stick of gum, if the paper outer wrapper is removed. We feel certain that there is a stick of gum inside, but we do not know what flavor it is - Juciy Fruit, Spearmint, Doublemint? It's the exact same thing with .AVI. The CODEC used to create the file is all important. First, I would recommend that you download and install G-Spot to check both the file(s), and also what CODEC's you have installed on your system. Next you will probably have two choices:
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Premiere Elements 9 - File Size

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Premiere Elements 13 Major .MOD Widescreen Concerns

Recently Premiere Elements 13 user Flash Curious posted a thread to inquire about some incorrect Interpret Footage and Properties readings that were seen for a .mod widescreen file imported into a Premiere Elements 13 project.
Premiere Elements Misinterprets Clip Size on Import
Initial focus was on the resolution 540 x 480 seen instead of the expected 720 x 480.
I finally got Premiere Elements 13 (purchased version) installed today and gave the situation a look with Flash Curious's file as well as with one that I found in storage. I found that
Interpret Footage/Properties readings for the same .mod widescreen file were different when comparing Premiere Elements 13 versus Premiere Elements 12 and earlier. There was no indication that Premiere Elements 13 was doing it "right" and more indication that there was a significant problem, beyond the usual, with the way that Premiere Elements 13 was interpreting this type of file. The reliability for Premiere Elements 13 to edit .mod widescreen files is being questioned.
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http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2014/12/pe-13-serious-problem-with-mod.html
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ATR

John T. Smith
Thanks for the contribution, but the link cited is not going to provide any insights into this matter of why Premiere Elements 13's Interpret Footage and Properties readings for mod widescreen are different for the same sample in other Premiere Elements versions on the same computer.
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b. System Restore (as well as a restore of an earlier version of the installed Premiere Elements 9.
c. Removal of possible interferring program, such as, Nero InCD.
d. Removal of recent Windows Updates
e. Uninstall/reinstall of Intel driver since at one point in the failure the Edit Mode Monitor was displaying part of the Disc Menu Section while the program was in the Organize Mode.
f. Have looked at permissions, running as Administrator, etc.
One of the things that I will try this morning is installing Premiere Elements 9 PC on the previous system Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit to see if there is any major importer failure there at this time.
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Neale
Thank you for your interest in this issue.
I still have not pin pointed why my Premiere Elements 9 works great EXCEPT it will not import media into the Organize with Get Media/Files and Folders and attempts to do that drive the program into unresponsiveness and extreme difficult closure, even with the Task Manager.
Yes, I have already looked at the workaround that you suggested for moving forward in my Premiere Elements 9 PC project, that is, entering all my source media into the Elements Organizer (can do from Photoshop Elements side) so that the source media thumbnail will be in the Premiere Elements Organize "ahead of time", and I will not have to depend upon Get Media/Files and Folders to get that job done.
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When Premiere Elements 9 PC was released, I was forced into much troubleshooting of the display issues which are very widely documented here. But then I was using "a real" Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit" with a NVIDIA card. In the trial version, the BadDrivers.txt and VideoRenderer.dll got me through that episode. For me, the purchased version "essentially" was not afflicted with these same problems, and it has been running great. Now when I go to a new computer system for better performance/greater computer resources (by the way, Intel HD Graphics card), Premiere Elements 9 runs great for two weeks and then this no Get Media/Files and Folders matter sets in accompanied by program going completely knocked out by the event. In all of this, old or new, I have Premiere Elements 7, 8, and 9 installed on the same computer. While Premiere Elements 9 is being hit with these issues, Premiere Elements 7 and 8 are not , same computer environment, same source media, same project preset, et al. For me, the Premiere Elements 9.0.1 has not hit the mark.
I have done extensive troubleshooting of the this current matter, too long and involved to go into now. I am preparing a full detailed description of the issue and the troubleshooting that went into the search for a fix. I will be posting it at the forum that I frequent. When I post it there, I will supply a link to it for whomever is interested. I have filed a bug report with Adobe on this matter in abridged format as per the space provided in its bug report online form.
Thanks again for posting.
ATR

Video clips from Canon camcorder have wrong aspect ratio in Premiere Elements 11

I recently purchased Adobe Premiere Elements 11 and I'm having trouble importing clips from my Canon FS300 camcorder.The camcorder records widescreen video at 720 x 480 pixels with a 16:9 aspect ratio (presumably using non-square pixels) The clips play correctly in Windows Media Player, VLC, Real Player and several other players. They do not display correctly in Quicktime or when imported into PE11, showing a 4:3 frame. I have tried just about every New Project setting in PE11, but the closest result I can achieve is a 4:3 picture in a 16:9 frame. If I run the clips through the VLC Convert utility and output them using the Video - MPEG-2 + MPGA (TS) codec, the resulting clips import and play correctly in PE11. Is there some obscure setting I need to implement when importing these clips, or is PE11 just incapable of recognising file formats which seem to be no problem for most video players. I assume I have the necessary codecs installed, as the clips play correctly in other players.

Axxel CA
Thank you for your findings and comments on this matter of the handling of .the mod widescreen by Premiere Elements. One continues to learn whether they be a beginning, intermediate, or advanced user of Premiere Elements. That is the rewarding part of this type of discussion.
I appreciated the manner in which you introduced the subject, stated the problem, gave your findings, and made your conclusions. I was particularly interested in the list of can do video editors. You need to go with what works for you.
After your previous post and that of SG, I went searching for a .mod widescreen online to experiment with in Premiere Elements 11. I could not find one at the moment. But then I remembered that someone had sent me a sample for troubleshooting a few years back. I found it finally. The results are presented for interest value and hopefully not to stir up controversy.
a. .mod to .mpg had no affect on the 16:9 issue in Premiere Elements 11...expected.
b. taking the .mod widescreen into Premiere Elements 11 via the Video Importer had no affect on the 16:9 issue in Premiere Elements 11...expected.
so far we seem to be in agreement in our findings.
The only video editor that I have of the 4 that you mentioned that worked in this regard was Windows Live Movie Maker. Windows Live Movie Maker came with my Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit computer so I took a look at the problem in that program. When I tried to import the .mod widescreen into that program via its Add Videos and Photos, it shutdown the program (.mod or .mpg file extenstion). Yet, when I imported that same file into Premiere Elements 11 on the same computer as Windows Live Movie Maker, it opened with no problem, but with the 16:9 issue that I could correct with the Interpret Footage feature.
True, that was a sampling of one .mod widescreen file. But the statement of the comparsion was unexpected. Based on that, if you had not planned to, please consider the tryout of your next video editor for use with the .mod widescreen to avoid unexpected results which will delay you moving forward with your video projects.
Success with your video editing projects whatever you decision,
ATR

?Difficulty with GET MEDIA in Premiere Elements 4; DVD import

In Premiere Elements 4, I attempted to import video footage off a DVD. I insert the DVD, click on GET MEDIA, then select DVD from the options list.
I get the message ADOBE PHOTO DOWNLOADER HAS STOPPED WORKING; a problem caused programme to stop working.
I have reinstalled Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and used the repair option with my Premiere Elemets 4 disc with no improvement.I would value help!
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I would address the OS problems first. When things start going wonky in the OS, there can be a ripple effect, where portions of programs stop functioning, at least as they should. Before you go after those "ripples," try to solve what might be causing them.
Now for your DVD (after the OS issues are addressed), PE can Import, i.e. rip from many DVD's. However, there CAN be problems with some. PE is working with the VOB's and these can contain more than just the MPEG-2 Video and Audio. They can also contain alternate Audio, Menus and Sub-Menus, Subtitles, etc. These can give even the most sophisticaed ripping software fits. PE's ripping capabilities are limited, though when they work, they work pretty well. Here is a LINK to an article by Jeff Bellune, in the Encore forum. While it's goal is to get DVD material into Encore for authoring another DVD, most applies to getting the material into an NLE, like PE. Here is a LINK to the PrPro-wiki with FAQ's on DVD.
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Good luck,
Hunt

Premiere Elements 8 Initial Impressions

Premiere Elements 8 First Look: Part 1.
Photoshop Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8 are now installed on my Windows XP SP3 with about available 1 GB RAM and 70 GB free hard drive space and the virtual memory controlled by the operating system…not great for a heavy duty project, but adequate to overview the programs.
1. Download & Installation. Both programs took about 3 ½ hours to download, using high speed DSL. Premiere Elements 8 downloaded and installed without problems. Installation went much quicker. But, Photoshop Elements 8 download did present challenges, first, it kept downloading Premiere Elements 8 instead of Photoshop Elements 8. Finally in the early hours of the morning, the download from the Adobe site was named Photoshop Elements 8. Great, except, once downloaded it would not launch. The launcher did not know what to do with the .7z file. Download and use of WinZip took care of that. My default browser Mozilla Firefox was worthless for the download of either Photoshop Elements 8 or Premiere Elements 8, but no problems with my Internet Explorer 6. I had this same problem with the Photoshop Elements 7/Premiere Elements 7 downloads last year.
2. Premiere Elements 8
a. Organizer. I would take exception to Steve Grisetti’s picture of the Organizer in “What’s new in Premiere Elements 8?”, but maybe I was overly optimistic by “The most visible change to version 8 is that the Organizer is no longer a sub-program of Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements. It now lives as its own, separate, pretty much independent program – behaving more than ever like its professional big brother, Adobe Bridge.” He went on to say “In version 8, both programs have equal access to a single, full-featured Organizer.”
Here is my dilemma for some who want a separate video and photo catalog. If you had Photoshop Elements 7/Premiere Elements 7, you could create additional catalogs in Photoshop Elements 7. Premiere Elements 7 could use one of these catalogs, but could not create new catalogs. So then, you could have a photo catalog displaying in the Photoshop Elements 7 Organizer and a video catalog displaying when you opened Premiere Elements 7. You cannot do that anymore, and File Menu/Catalog is gone in Premiere Elements 8. You still cannot create catalogs in Premiere Elements 8, so, if you just have Premiere Elements 8, you have ONE catalog. If you have Photoshop Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8, you can create additional catalogs in Photoshop Elements 8 that can be used in Premiere Elements 8, but these programs will display the same ONE catalog.
b. Project Presets. The “New Preset” button is gone. The categories of the presets for NTSC and PAL remain the same: AVCHD, DV, “Hard Disk, Flash Memory Camcorder”, HDV. However, two choices have been added to the “Hard Disk, Flash Memory Camcorder” categories. Now we have HD 1080i30, HD 1080i30 (60i), Standard, and Widescreen. Here I have a problem reconciling the names and the descriptions. It was my understanding, in Premiere Elements 7 for standard and widescreen in this category, this preset category reverses the Fields: from Upper Field First to Lower Field First in Premiere Elements edits. So, now with these new choices described as follows:
HD 1080i30: 1920 x 1080i; pixel aspect ratio = square pixels (1.0); camcorders like JVC GZ-HD7; 16:9 interlaced HD video at 29:97 frames per second.
HD 1080i30 (60i): HD video from 1440 x 1080i camcorders; 16:9 interlaced HD video at 29:97 frames per second HDV 1080i Anamorphic.
When thinking HD 1080i30 preset….the JVC camcorder captures to a progressive sensor, assumed at 30 frames per second, and can record to it’s built in hard drive as 1920 x 1080i with 30 frames per second each frame with 2 fields. So, what prevents us from calling this preset HD 1080i30 (30p) Square Pixel?
When thinking HD 1080i30 (60i))…the camcorder involved captures to an interlaced sensor at 60 fields per second, and can record to it media as 1440 x 1080 with 30 frames per second, using a HD Anamorphic. So, what prevents us from calling this preset HD 1080i30 (60i) Anamorphic?
When I start comparing preset choices, the only reason for using these “Hard Disk, Flash Memory Camcorder” new choices appears to be, like for standard and widescreen, to have the Fields reversed. Do you agree? Any comments on the nomenclature for these new preset choices?
3. Adobe Folder, folders and files
If you go to the default location of the Adobe Folder (My Documents\Premiere Elements\8.0), there are some differences there:
For Premiere Elements 7 and earlier versions there were:
Adobe Premiere Elements Previews Folder
Encoded Files Folder
Media Cache Folder that piled up with conformed audio files (.cfa and .pek)
Project Prel file
Styles Folder
And sometimes 2 .log files
Now in Premiere Elements 8, the Media Cache Folder is gone and we have the arrangement:
Adobe Premiere Elements Previews Folder
CA Object Track Results
Encoded Files
Layouts
Styles Folder
(You no longer see the endless conforming of DVD Menus (not even used) at the beginning of the project. But, I am still trying to figure out what they did with the conformed audio files (.cfa and .pek). More on that next time, along with Premiere Elements 8 Exports as well as Photoshop Elements 8/Premiere Elements 8 intergration.
ATR

I have not gotten to Part 3 yet. This is an add on to the last add on.
I tried to find the Premiere Elements 8 Read Me file since those Read Me files usually contain "Known Bug Messages". I could not find that Adobe had put it online, but I did dig it out of the try out download folder. Here is the excerpt on Premiere Elements 8 known bugs/issues:
Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 Known Issues
Importing Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 and 4.0 Projects
• Effect keyframes in Premiere elements 3.0 projects may not import correctly
Capturing and Importing Video
DV Device control will be disabled and capture will not proceed normally if sound card is not present or offline.
·         If capture is interrupted by a system event such as switching users, locking the system, or the screensaver, the duration of the captured file will be much shorter than expected. It is recommended to disable the screensaver before starting capture, and to avoid any actions that may interfere with the capture.
·         For live capture from DV camcorders, you must first disable scene detect.
·         When importing some Flash files a “Macromedia Flash Player security" message reading “Flash player has stopped potentially unsafe operation" may appear. Click “OK”, and the file will import normally.
·         When capturing form HDV camcorders you may see interlace lines in the preview window, The interlace lines do not appear in the captured video
·         Divx files may not be imported properly and sometimes import only audio or video part of it
·         After completing time-lapse capture, it may take some time for the organizer to update and display the thumbnails for the captured files. Still images captured using Stop Motion are not added to the organizer.
·         Importing media from some devices requires that the drivers provided with devices are installed
·         Stop Motion capture is not supported for HDV camcorders.
Organizer
•       When reconnecting missing media, each grouped scene must be reconnected individually
Edit
·         If issues are seen with color in preview, switch to CPU playback mode by un-checking “Enable GPU Playback” checkbox in Edit>preferences>General and restart application after saving your project.
·         Generation of thumbnails for DVD scene menus may take longer than expected when using HDV content.
·         Organizer may exhibit performance issues with large catalogs (5000-10,000 files )
·         With some GPU cards enabling “Accelerated GPU Effects” may cause the preview to be zoomed in.
·         Voice over narration may not be recorded using a mono USB microphone
·         When previewing audio mixes, pops may be heard as the CTI passes form one clip to the next. These pops will not appear in your exported movie
Audio mixer sliders may become “sticky” when mixing clips that have been time stretched
·         [Japanese & Chinese Simplified SPECIFIC] When application is installed to path that contains double byte characters path, GPU effects/transition will not function.
·         [Japanese SPECIFIC] Inputting ¥ symbol in Menu templates produces a backslash ( \ )
Photoshop Elements Integration
• In Photoshop Elements, choosing “Edit in Adobe Premiere Elements” may not bring the Adobe Premiere Elements window to the foreground.
• If a Photoshop Elements slideshow is sent to Adobe Premiere Elements, further edits in Photoshop Elements will not be reflected in Adobe Premiere Elements.
• Images saved in Photoshop Elements in BMP mode using the Advanced Settings cannot be imported into Adobe Premiere Elements. This includes images created using Adobe Premiere Elements Freeze Frame function and sent to Photoshop Elements for editing. If the image is saved using Photoshop Elements Advanced Settings, it cannot be returned to Adobe Premiere Elements, and as result, the original, unedited Freeze Frame image will be used.
• Send to Premiere Elements 8.0 will not work from older versions of Photoshop Elements
Exporting Movies
• Export of movies to the root directory of any drive (e.g. D:\) may fail.
• When exporting movies over one hour to MPEG2 format, the render dialog may continue to be displayed for a period of time after the render progress bar appears to have completed. Rendering is still occurring until the render dialog boxes closes. Clicking Cancel before the render dialog box closes will interrupt this process, and your export file will not be created
• For play back on a PSP, movies must include both audio and video. Movies exported with video only or audio only will not play back on the PSP.
• Archival of projects with Type 1 DV-AVI files is not supported.
• If standard definition menu templates are used when burning to Bluray, menu images s will appear of low quality
• When attempting to burn a Bluray disc to a previously burned disc, you will see an error message indicating that the disc is incompatible, instead of an error message indicating the disc is full.
• Movies exported in H.264 format may have a few white frames added to the end
• Movies exported in MPEG2 format may be a few frames shorter than the original movie
This seems to answer my question about Photoshop Elements 8/Premiere Element 8 integration regarding slideshows, but may be of more widespread interest to others for the other "known bugs" cited by Adobe.
ATR

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