Disk Defrag During a Project

[videolady]

I am getting weird control things happening while keyframing, like the image magnifies at a ridiculous rate while I'm only asking for a small zoom. It will suddenly jump to a very large enlargment. And it's inconsistent as to if and when it happens.

I thought I might run a defrag and CCleaner before continueing but will this have any bad affects to my current project? Should these things only be done between projects? (Using PE3, if it matters)

Karen

[Chuck Engels]

You can defrag anytime and running ccleaner will not hurt anything either. I don't know if either of those will effect your current problem though. You might want to try clearing the preferences and cache, hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift keys while you start Premiere Elements

[Steve Grisetti]

Also, Karen, if you're keyframing a motion path on a photo, make sure of two things:

1) The original photo should be no larger than 1000x750 pixels in size.

2) You do not have the photo set to Scale to Frame Size. You can turn this off in Edit/Preferences, but you may need to do it for your photos individually if you imported the photo into your project when the preferece was set to Scale. Right-click on the photo on the timeline and uncheck Scale to Frame Size.

Those two things will very likely eliminate any funkiness you're experiencing while keyframing.