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Single frame artifact on Paste Insert

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April 3, 2026
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In Premiere 2026 whenever I insert paste, even though I position the playhead on the last frame of the outgoing clip, a single frame of that clip (the one I am positioned on) gets moved the end of the clip I am inserting. Then I have to go to the end of the newly pasted clip and remove the single frame at the end of the edit.

Weirder issue - If I advance the playback head one more frame to the right, so that it is now on the first frame of the clip which is about to be moved right after the paste insert command, then there is STILL a single frame artifact….and this is the weird part, the single frame is pulled from the B side clip of the clip that follows the pasted clip in previous location (wherever I copied it from).

I have double, triple, and quadruple checked my in/out points on the clip I am copying. I am definitely not setting my in/out points one frame too far on the either the A side or the B side of the clip that I am copying. But the bottom line is that I cannot copy, then insert without SOMEHOW getting a single frame on artifact.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Just a note ... the playhead never floats! It is always connected to the next frame.

So if you go to say the end of a sequence, and export, there will always ... correctly! ... be one ‘extra’ black frame.

You need to go to the last frame of a clip, not past it, with the CTI. That surprises a lot of people.

There is a keyboard shortcut available to go to the last frame, rather than the end, of the clip or seequence, btw.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Stan Jones

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@michaelb32826648,

I am inclined to agree with @Peru Bob’s suggestion. But I wonder what you are actually doing. You refer to in/out points and A side/B side. What steps are you taking?

For example, I tested (in 26.0.1 on Win 11) a simple copy/paste insert. I cut (using Ctrl+K) a section of a clip from one sequence, selected it, and copied. I switched to a different sequence (could have been the same one), positioned the playhead in the middle of a clip, and did Edit → Paste Insert. To get a reference for frames, I set a clip marker on that position and one frame ahead and behind. After the paste, I see no extra frames.

I wondered if perhaps you were inserting from the Source monitor, but I get the same results using an insert from there.

Stan

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Have you tried resetting the workspace or the preferences?

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