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Rey277572270z9g
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February 27, 2025
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Alt + Shift + Drag to batch replace is broken.

  • February 27, 2025
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Alt + Shift + Drag works perfectly if you do it one clip at a time. 

If you do it for a batch of clips, Premiere decides it's time for a timecode rodeo and you're the one riding the bull. Only the first syncs properly, then for the rest of the clips all bets are off.  Hours of work wasted, grey hairs multiplied.

For the love of all that I love, why? Why would it work one way for one clip, then a way NO ONE NEEDS for a batch? Why have this work for batches at all if the only result is betrayal and heartache?

Please, have it just repeat the EXACT SAME process as for one clip when you ALT + SHIFT + DRAG to replace a batch. We don't need this kind of unpredictability in our lives.

    3 replies

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 21, 2025

    HI @Rey277572270z9g - Was there a version of Premiere where this did work how you wanted?

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 27, 2025

    Should this not be alt+click+drag to replace clip

    There is no batch replace.

    Ideas board?

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    Rey277572270z9gAuthor
    Participant
    March 7, 2025

    The trouble isn't that the feature exists or doesn't exist. It's that it SEEMS to work, but produces a result that no working editor would ever desire (only the first in-point lines up, but every subsequent clip on the timeline doesn't). 

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    Rey277572270z9gAuthor
    Participant
    March 7, 2025

    Better it doesn't work at all, then it works wrong, if you know what I mean. It's like having a fourth pedal in your car that is supposed to make it fly, but instead makes it explode. Like, just don't include that feature if it doesn't work.

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 27, 2025

    Hi @Rey277572270z9g -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
    Please see, How do I write a bug report?

     

    Please let us know steps in your workflow.


    Sorry for the frustration.

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    Rey277572270z9gAuthor
    Participant
    March 7, 2025

    1. Make a nested sequence of raw interview footage and, within the nested sequence, an after effects composition for the colorist (all synced exactly to the raw footage).

    2. Edit uncolored raw video online via Descript and download Premiere XML file.

    3. Open Premiere XML. Select all shots in the sequence.
    4. Attempt to reconnect ALL colored footage from the after effects composition nested sequence to the edited raw via ALT + SHIFT + DRAG.

    5. Chaos! Only the first clip in the sequence is synced to the edit. All clips after drift out of sync.

    6. Pain! The only workaround is to ALT + SHIFT + DRAG to one clip at a time from the nested, colored sequence to the edited sequence.
    Expected behaviour: Each selected clip on the edited timeline would connect as if I had ALT + SHIFT + DRAG'ed them individually.
    Actual behaviour: Only the first clip (leftmost) syncs correctly. The remaining clips reconnect, but don't sync to their individual in-points. I don't know by what logic they connect, but the resulting edit is a garbled mess of random in-points, not the carefully constructed interview I assembled.

    4. 

    4. Attempt to ALT + SHIFT

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