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vojislav323329846t8t
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July 25, 2025
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Clip duration indicator on object in timeline

  • July 25, 2025
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Hi all,

I've been editing mostly multi-cam footage in Premiere Pro and I'm always finding ways to optimize my workflow. When I want to see the lenght of a clip that was edited by multi-cam or just any clip, I need to hover over the timeline object (clip). This is not a hard or tedious thing to do, but the latency of waiting for the info to show if I want to check all the clips in the timeline makes up to considerable time.

My proposal or question (if there's a plugin that could do this):

Having a dynamic indicator after recording multi-cam position/value in the corner of the clip on the timeline. Similar to the indicator when a clip is out of sync, but maybe using a different corner of the clip and/or colour.

 

Hopefully I explained the idea well. This would be very useful for other edit scenarios like music videos or any kind of geometrical or mathematical approach to editing where seeing the lenght of the clip is important either to match frames with other clips, match audio of certain lenght with clips or just editing by time for any kind of geometrical layout. Maybe it's a far fetched comparison, but similar to the way some composers composed their music.

 

In a specific case, when a studio implements rules for editing like "no single shot should be shorter than 3 seconds" this would be an useful way to be able to glance across the timeline clips and see if any is not too short.

 

Additional improvements on this system would be something like an ability to set scenarios in which the clip duration indicator would show in different colors depending on parameters, or so it would show up JUST if the clip matches/does not match given parameters in the settings. Last behaviour is similar to the out of sync indicator which shows only when synced clips have been moved.

 

I attached a mockup how I imagine this would look on a single clip where in 15:19 it indicates 15s19f, so if a clip is longer than one minute it would show for example 1:15:19 as 1m15s19f

 

Thanks in advance for your support and any community feedback on this idea.

Matija

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    Ben InslerCommunity Manager
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    July 25, 2025

    HI @vojislav323329846t8t ,

     

    Thanks for your feedback!

     

    Since you mentioned waiting for the tool tip to appear before you can see the duration, I want to make sure that you're aware of the Mark Clip function in the timeline.  This is available in the Markers menu, and can also be assigned to a keyboard shortcut (which I would highly recommend - it's set to the "x" key by default).

     

    To use Mark Clip in the timeline, place your playhead over a clip, and then press the Mark Clip keyboard shortcut.  In and Out points are placed in the Sequence around the clip, and the Program Monitor's duration field now shows the duration of this In to Out range, and thus, the duration of the clip you just markerd.  You see this instantly - no waiting for a tool tip.

    Note: Mark Clip not only uses the position of the playhead, but also utilized track targeting (the blue patches on the left side of the Timeline).  This way, you can control exctly what Premiere Pro marks with In/Out points when you press the keyboard shortcut.  Experiment with the track targets and you'll quickly see how to set up your sequence to measure any clip you need instantly.

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