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July 14, 2026
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Use In and Out points to drop multiple instances of the same audio clip on the timeline

  • July 14, 2026
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Im unsure if this is more of a bug report or feature request.

For years I have been using in and out points within my audio files to drag specific clips onto the timeline. This workflow is no longer a viable option as it seems that I can only manipulate the in and out point for 1 instance of an audio clip on my timeline? 

 

I apologize if that doesn’t make much sense - let me try to explain:

Typically I will shorten or lengthen my audio track/song manually by first marking an in and out point for the “intro” section of the audio track/song then using the audio “drag audio only” tool to put that specific section on my timeline. Then I’ll go back to my audio clip in the source monitor (while not having the clip I just put on the timeline actively selected) and mark another in and out for the next section of the audio track/song. Then once again I will use the “drag audio only” tool to place that next section on the timeline. And then repeat until done.

 

I’ve not been able to mark multiple in and out points on an audio clip in the new version of premiere which renders this workflow impossible. For some reason premiere is only letting me modify my in and out points when I have the instance of the audio track selected on the timeline and then when I do modify the in and out, it messes up my clip position (which is how premiere has been operating)

 

So I guess my feature request is to bring back the ability to continuously be able to set new in and out points on one audio clip in the source monitor while not affecting the related audio clip on the timeline. 

 

I hope I made sense. 

    1 reply

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 16, 2026

    @Emerrow,

     

    A clip in the timeline is always an “instance” of the clip.

     

    Try this: open the clip from the project panel. Do what you usually do: set in/out, drag to timeline. Set new in/out, drag. I get clips each set with individual in/out. 

     

    Stan

     

    Inspiring
    July 20, 2026

    Yea this is how I’ve been doing it for years. Never even knew you could double click the clip in the timeline to open that section in the source monitor and then in/out it to shorten it while seeing essentially an expanded view of the waveform (or video clip) displayed in the source monitor.

    But yea just do what Stan said