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Fit to Fill Doesn't Work -- narrowing down the issue?

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There are several threads about the 4 point edit Fit to Fill option being greyed out. I too have experienced that. Solutions offered (of which none worked) centered around "resetting"/cleaning out caches etc.

Within the last month the television station I work for issued me a brand new laptop. Knowing it was an issue I moved nothing across from the old one and built my workflow from scratch. The problem still persists.

I have noticed it randomly will appear as an option. But I really couldn't find a reason or thread why. It wasn't until version 24.5 started crashing a lot and one thread emerged of Premiere not handling MXF media correctly as a possible reason of the crash that the light bulb went off in my head.

I think the common thread I have in Fit to Fill not working is when MXF media is my source. Which for me is about 90% of the time as I shoot news on a Sony XDCAM series camera and edit that material. When I had mp4 file video from our archive system it seemed to allow the Fit to Fill function. So there could be several things within the MXF ecosystem that have been "broken" in some recent updates.

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Hi all,
Thanks for taking the time to report this, and apologies for the long silence on the thread. Good news - the issue you reported here has been fixed, and the fix is available in the latest release of Premiere.

If you update and still see the problem, please reply here with your exact version (Help > About Premiere Pro) and your OS, and we will take another look.

Thanks again for flagging it - reports like yours are what get these fixed.
Katie

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KatieToo

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Hi all,
Thanks for taking the time to report this, and apologies for the long silence on the thread. Good news - the issue you reported here has been fixed, and the fix is available in the latest release of Premiere.

If you update and still see the problem, please reply here with your exact version (Help > About Premiere Pro) and your OS, and we will take another look.

Thanks again for flagging it - reports like yours are what get these fixed.
Katie

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mattchristensen1

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A fix for this issue went into Premiere (beta) 26.3 build 66, which went out last week. You should now be able to insert/overwrite using Fit to Fill on a clip that has been transcribed.

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MobyGamer

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Is there an update to this? Using 25.5 and fit-to-fill is still grayed out when doing a 4-point edit.

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jamieclarke

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updating status

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jamieclarke

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Hi @Television Photog - This is still being worked on, thanks for your patience.

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Television PhotogAuthor

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Hello,

While getting a few minutes to test out the new 25.0 I have discovered the Fit to Fill option when you are trying to perform an intentional 4 point edit is still greyed out. This is happening with Sony XDCam MXF footage. Previously I think it was narrowed down to an issue related to the transcribe feature. I checked to see if somehow the transcribe was already selected, and it was not, there was a button I could click to transcribe the clip, but it has not been transcribed yet. On the bright side, at least so far the MXF media isn't crashing Premiere like it was in version 24, so I'll take that bigger win for now, but man I'd love to have Fit to Fill back.

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Stan Jones

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@Television Photog,

My compliments on your excellent intitial report, building your workflow fresh on the new laptop, and responding to requests.

Who would have guessed it was a transcript issue? There is an option to "ignore transcript," but it only stops the sequence from showing the transcript from the source file, it does not remove it. But I'd give it a try to see if it makes a difference.

Upvote this Idea to have an option to delete the transcript. It has the most upvotes, but still no staff response.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/provide-a-way-to-delete-a-transcription/idi-p/13617843

The only promising workaround was exporting/importing an XML:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/provide-a-way-to-delete-a-transcription/idi-p/13617843

A bit scarey.... But it worked in my test.

Stan

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jamieclarke

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Hi @Television Photog - There is no way to turn it off once it has been activated on a media clip.

"if something gets transcribed is the fit to fill hosed at that point". Yes.

Thank you for your patience as we work toward a solution.

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Television PhotogAuthor

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That's an interesting cause... so if something gets transcribed is the fit to fill hosed at that point? I have used it a lot recently to bail me out of reporters not giving me good scripts. Or can I just turn it off after it transcribes and the fit to fill will be happy?

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jamieclarke

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Since this involves the transcription feature a workaround would be to go into Settings > Transcription and uncheck both boxes. As long as your transcription status is "Not Transcribed" you should be able to see your fit to fill.

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