borders on jpg in title slides

[blainegray]

:) Hello
I am trying to import jpgs as images in Premiere titles. Sometime they appear with huge borders around them. How do I get rid of those borders?
Thanks

[ATR]

Hi,

How exactly are you doing what you say your are doing?

Do you go to Title Module, bring up template, then right click to bring out drop down list, select Add Image, etc.? Or, are you going another route?

What is the orientation of the image that you are adding, landscape or portrait?

ATR

[ATR]

Hi,

I was just working with Premiere Elements 2.0 trying to get the results that you described, no luck. It does not really matter if your jpegs are landscape or portrait for this purpose. You can always resize them once you add them to the title page.

Am looking forward to more details.

ATR

[blainegray]

ATR
Thanks for the questions. The jpgs are just photos in a folder or a pdf page coverted to a jpg. The images are browsed to and inserted. Sometimes the full page jpg come in fine. Most of the time after they get to the title page they have borders. The title pages are the pre-supplied templates. Most of the photos are portrait. The image resize bars appear on the original graphic and the fat borders move with the image.
Blaine:)

[ATR]

Blaine

Sadly, I am still at the pondering stage with these black borders that you are trying to get rid of.

Because of the nature of PE2 resizing of portrait oriented jpegs, you would expect your final DVD-Video to show black borders on the right and left side of such photos. But, with what you are describing, this matter of the black border in the title slide is another matter.

Excuse this silly question, but, what happens to these unwanted black borders when you go from Title Panel back to Edit Panel? Still there? And, in your project, are you working with one Video 1 and one Audio 1?

I have tried several variations on this theme and still have not been able to obtain what you describe. Which specific template is in the Monitor Panel when you do the Add Image?

There has got to be something that I am missing here.

ATR

[blainegray]

ATR
It is a mystery to me. The borders are actually a white rectangle with curved corners that surrounds the whole imported graphic.

The template is the soccer action one.

I have been trying to place the image in a new PSE4 file using a 720x480 pixel frame, but as soon as I flatten the image, the background becomes white. Any idea how to get the background to stay transparent?

Blaine:)

[ATR]

At this point, the only thing I can suggest is going back to "Contents/Titles in Help" and the "How To" (topic titles) to see if there is anything that was missed. Also, give a double check to make sure what you are doing is not being influenced by how a given program/step/layer, etc. handles transparency...what looks black or white in one facet of a program may turn out to be a transparent area in certain circumstances.

If you are having Photoshop Elements 4 problems when flattening, try to rule out possible transparency issues with regard to the Background Layer.

ATR