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adobme
Participant
September 4, 2023
Question

Adjust In-point of Replaced Footage (Without Touching Edit)

  • September 4, 2023
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I have a project file where all the edits to an old piece of footage have already been completed. The original raw footage was replaced, with just a clip of the required footage (to save disk space).

Pointing Premiere to the clip and replacing the footage is easy enough, but the entire timeline/edit is off now (because the clip is shorter and no longer the full file).

I need an easy way to tell Premiere where the new in-point of the video is of the clip, so it will shift everything back into sync, and the cuts all line up again. This should be doable, I have a screenshot of what the first frame was (and can match it by eye to the cut myself).

I just need it to do it from a sync/in-point process (as I can't touch the timeline itself). Had the original raw file been dropped into a separate comp first, this wouldn't have been a problem (but too late for that unfortunately).

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SwindlerCave
Inspiring
September 4, 2023

A couple of thoughts depending on who decided to trim the clip...

 

If a clip provider gave you a new, higher-quality version that you now want to use, you can re-render the new clip to DnX or ProRes with a leader of black video to get things lined up for a Replace Footage.

 

If you are trying to save your own disk space, I can't think of a better solution than Ann's for this project.  If you plan on doing this again in the future, nest the source video in its own sequence before editing; then if you decide to trim the video later, you can simply slip the video within the sequence and everything will line up again.

adobme
adobmeAuthor
Participant
September 11, 2023

Thanks all! Will just resync them and do it the hard way this time.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 4, 2023

You cannot set a frame with Replace Footage in the project window

Need to import the new files first.

Make backup first.

Right click on clip > Replace with clip > from source monitor match frame. Alas, one by one.