Resizing Digital Images

[Jeff Schaap]

Heya,

Anyone encountered this?

I am a video editor and long time Premiere Pro user. Where I currently work we do a lot of funeral photo montages. We really needed to have a second station to do these projects on and decided to try Elements 3 rather than spring for another full copy of Premiere Pro.

The big problem: resizing the scanned images on the timeline. Generally, we are working with images that are 2000-2500 wide by whatever. Pro can resize these without issue. Elements 3 does it fine as well UNTIL I scale it below 50%. Then all of a sudden it starts to "lag" as I scale it and its extremely difficult to make any fine (or coarse reallly!) adjustments because the response time is so slow.

I've read some other posts and tried moving my images off track 1 and some other tips but to no avail. My system is more than capable of handling this tasks... its a Pentium 4 3.4 (HT) 2 gigs of RAM.

If anyone knows what gives I'd be grateful.

Many thanks,
Jeff Schaap

[ATR]

Jeff Schaap,

I hope that I have not misunderstood your question, but here goes my take on what I think you described:

I have Premiere Elements 2.0...should be similar for other versions as well....
Given: Edit Menu/Preferences/General/checked off "Scale to Frame Size"
If I have a photo 2000 x 2500 pixels and bring it into the Media Panel of Premiere Elements 2.0, and from there to the Timeline, no problem. If I double click the image in the monitor or highlight Motion in Properties, there are handles around the image in the monitor that I can use to resize and reposition the image. When I decrease the size, I see no lag time as I move the handle inward from 100 to 1% or outside 1 to 100%.

Are there any other problems besides the resizing issue? Have you defragmented your system and otherwise optimized its operation? Could you be dealing with too many photos at the same time? Do you see this lag time, if you just have one of these 2000 x 2500 pixels sized images in the Media Panel and subsequently on the Timeline? If you introduce one at a time, does the lag time become progressively longer with each inclusion?

Do you have access to Photoshop Elements for image resizing if worse comes to worst.

ATR