Thursday, October 11, 2018

PE 2019: Instant Movie "Outdoor Adventure" Theme Issue Adobe Fix

INTRODUCTION

Over several years and Premiere Elements versions, there is an issue with use of the Instant Movie "Outdoor Adventure" theme. As late as the last version (version 2018), the issue presented with displays of a Media Off-Line message scattered throughout in the Instant Movie. See HERE for full details and suggested user solutions for the problem.

ISSUE

The appearance of these Media Off-Line messages is related to an "outdoor-adventure_s_texture.png" file that is associated with this theme.This is all explained in the blog post which is named PE: Instant Movie Theme "Outdoor Adventure" Glitch and which is referenced above.

For the latest version of Premiere Elements (2019) just released, Adobe appears to have addressed the issue and corrected it. My observations on this matter are described below in the ADOBE'S SOLUTION section.

ADOBE'S SOLUTION

Premiere Elements 2019 Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure Theme 

Result:  No "Media Off-Line" messages glitches at Timeline and export levels were found.
My Comments: Using the workspace's Export & Share/Custom, the finished Timeline Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure was exported as .wmv to demonstrate the absence of the "Media Off-Line messages in the 2019 Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure.


The Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure broken apart in the 2019 Timeline is shown in Figure 1 immediately below. The red dot points to the outdoor-adventure_texture.png file which Adobe renamed to replace the problematic outdoor-adventure_s_texture.png file.

Figure 1. No Media Off-Line Glitches In Premiere Elements 2019 Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure. Shown Is The Completed Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure Broken Apart In Timeline. Red Dot Points To Outdoor-Adventure_Texture.Png Which Adobe Named To Replace The Problematic Outdoor-Adventure_s_Texture.Png.
A key to all this...this outdoor-adventure_texture.png in the opened project now relates back to a file correspondingly named outdoor-adventure_texture.png found Local Disk (C)/Program Data/Adobe/Premiere Elements/17.0*/Online/Movie Themes/All_Lang/Event/Outdoor Adventure. 

by comparison with same theme, source media, Instant Movie default settings, and computer

Premiere Elements 2018 Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure Theme 

Result: Several "Media Off-Line" messages scattered throughout at the Timeline and export levels.
My Comments: Using the workspace's Export & Share/Custom, the finished Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure was exported as .wmv from the Timeline to demonstrate the presence of the "Media Off-Line messages in the 2018 Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure. See video immediately below:


The Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure broken apart in the 2018 Timeline is shown in Figure 2. The red X point to the outdoor-adventure_s_texture.png file, the target in this issue.

Figure 2. Media Off-Line Glitches In Premiere Elements 2018 Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure. Shown Is The Completed Instant Movie/Outdoor Adventure Broken Apart In Timeline. Red X Points To Outdoor-Adventure_s_Texture.Png Problem Files.
A key to all this here is that the outdoor-adventure_s_texture.png in the opened project does not have a correspondingly named file outdoor-adventure_s_texture.png in Local Disk (C)/Program Data/Adobe/Premiere Elements/16.0*/Online/Movie Themes/All_Lang/Event/Outdoor Adventure. It just has an outdoor-adventure_texture.png there.

COMMENTARY**

Again, as suggested in the INTRODUCTION of this blog post, see HERE for full details and suggested user solutions for the problem in Premiere Elements versions earlier than version 2019.




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*Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 master files are often seen on the hard drive under "2019" as well as "17" headers.
**Work done with Premiere Elements on Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit. All the Instant Movie settings were left at defaults, including selection of Instant Movie: Auto Edit and Auto-Analyzer with Apply to: Entire Movie.



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