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codyh26838561
Participant
January 31, 2024

All clips on timeline start at beginning of timecode when opening old Premiere project

  • January 31, 2024
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For my line of work, I need to open an old Premiere project on occasion to edit something that was originally completed anywhere from six months to three years ago. Most of the time, I save it as a new version to be compatible with the current version of Premiere and go about my merry way with no issues.

 

However, occasionally I will open a sequence from an old project and every clip on the timeline will start at the beginning of the timecode. In other words, all the in/out points are messed up with audio and video both starting from 0:00:00 in the media file. In the most recent case of this happening, only one of four sequences in the project was affected.

 

On my team, we store all of our projects on a network server and keep everything very well organized. Edits to any given project may be done from multiple machines but all are connected to the same server and accessing the project file from the same location.

 

I've tried many things to try and solve/revert this issue in the affected projects: installing the older version of Premiere the original edit was made in, copying the whole project to a local drive (taking it off the network), sending files offline and relinking (saw someone else had success with this), and exporting the XML, then imported that XML into a new Premiere project. None of these were successful. I'm tired of opening old projects only to find they're completely lost unless I want to spend hours and hours repositioning the in/out points of every single clip. 

 

Has anyone else experienced this? 

 

 

8 replies

Participant
April 11, 2024

Also, I'm not sure why my username shows different now (presumably due to single sign-on updates with my employer), but I'm the same Cody as above with the blue car icon.

Participant
April 11, 2024

Sorry to hear you're having the same issue. I never figured out a solution for it. I had to take the exported video and make changes to that as best I could to satisfy the requested edit.

rolandm2000
Participating Frequently
April 11, 2024

Having the same issue with Premiere 2024 and it happened in the middle of working on a project. Certain clips that were edited together all start at the first frame of the clip. Is there any resolution to this problem. It's a major one. The only way I got around it is opening a previously saved sequence and copy and pasting the clips with the proper timecodes back into the newer sequence.

codyh26838561
Participant
January 31, 2024

Also, I never had to relink any media because we store all of our media in the same project folder as the .prproj file. So this bug does not seem to be related to linking/relinking media.

codyh26838561
Participant
January 31, 2024

I was on the latest Premiere version (24.1.0) when I encountered the most recent issue. I've experienced this probably 4-5 times over the last three years across multiple versions of Premiere. I hadn't seen it in a while so I was hoping it had been fixed, but clearly not.

mattchristensen
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 31, 2024

@codyh26838561 This sounds like a bug that existed circa Premiere Pro 23.4-23.6 in a couple different forms. Are you on one of those versions? If so, please update to the latest 23.6.2 and it should avoid this. The issue happens when you open a project and have to relink the media, and the media has a transcript with a non-0 media start time. Once you update, go back and open a project from before you started to see this and you should be good to go.

codyh26838561
Participant
January 31, 2024

My Timecode setting is currently set to "Use Media Source." 

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2024