Slide Show Audio Problem

[toothjockey]

I am using Photoshop Elements 7 / Premiere Elements 7 with Vista 64 Ultimate.

Making a slide show in photoshop I have a video clip inside 2 slides. I have one audio clip that ends before the video clip and another audio clip that starts with the first slide after the video. When I preview this in photoshop it is perfect, and when I make a wmv file it is perfect. But when I export to Premiere elements 7, the second audio clip starts right after the first and is playing over the video clips audio.

Is there a way to preserve this blank space in the audio track?

Thanks for any help.
Don Maxwell

[ATR]

There are several possible fixes:

1. In the Photoshop Elements 7 Slideshow Editor, place any music in the Sound Bar under the Video thumbnail in the Filmstrip. Then click on that music, go over to its Properties to the right of the interface and move the volume slider all the way to the left to mute the sound.

2. In the Photoshop Elements 7 Slideshow Editor, do what you have been doing, that is
Filmstrip spot 1….photo 1 with its music underneath
Filmstrip spot 2….your video with audio, but you do not see its audio
Filmstrip spot 3….photo 2 with its music underneath
If you look at the sound bar its looks like there is a space in the bar between photo 1 and 2

Send that slideshow over to Premiere Elements 7, using the Output “Send to Premiere Elements”. When the slideshow arrives it will give the appearance of one whole video with video on video track 1 and audio on audio track 1. When you play that in the Monitor in the Edit Mode, you will hear the problem that you described. Now do this:
a. right click the video on the Timeline
b. select Break Apart Slideshow (when you do, it becomes apparent what is happening)
c. You will find that the video clip (between photos 1 and 2 has its audio directly below it on Audio Track). The mess up is that somewhere along the line, your music 1 and 2 got placed on the Premiere Elements Soundtrack and placed side by side. So, with your cursor, move music 2 to the right on the Soundtrack so that it falls directly below photo 2 on Video Track 1.


3. Create your slideshow as you described initially, output it, using Save As File, Movie (.wmv) with the DVD NTSC wmv profile (file size), then take the saved .wmv and import that into Premiere Elements either:
a. Get Media/Files & Folders from its hard drive location
or
b. if the .wmv is saved to the Organizer, highlight the .wmv, go to the File Menu, select Send to Premiere Elements. What arrives on the Premiere Elements Timeline will be whole .wmv video with limited editing possibilities. But, your audio issue will not be present. (The Break Apart Slideshow option is not available this way.)


4. Finally choice….start off as in 1 above, but leave out the music underneath photo 1 and photo 2. Put that music in after the slideshow gets to Premiere Elements. With this Send to Premiere Elements route, you will have the Break Apart Slideshow option which allows for further significant edits.


I will stop now for you to evaluate the possible fixes that I have detailed. Further comments will follow if necessary.

ATR

[toothjockey]

ATR,
Thank you so much for your very thorough and complete answer. You understood my problem exactly.
Before your reply, I stumbled on to a solution. I made an audio file with audacity with no sound for the number of seconds I needed, added this to my slideshow, then exported and everything worked!
You provided an even easier solution with your first suggestion. :)
At any rate, everything worked out great and I learned a great deal about premiere (which is new to me) from your post.
Thanks again,
Don

[ATR]

Don,

Thanks for letting us know the outcome.

Glad you found the suggested workarounds helpful.

I had not come across that Photoshop Elements/Premiere Elements integration glitch before. I am guessing that the Photoshop Elements product manager attributes it to Premiere Elements, and the Premiere Elements product manager attributes it to Photoshop Elements.

Good troubleshooting finding your own workaround as well.

ATR