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Editing Ninja
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May 23, 2024
Question

How to Quickly Find Matching Video for an Audio Clip on the Timeline in Premiere Pro?

  • May 23, 2024
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Hello, I have a 10-second audio clip on my timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro, but it's missing its corresponding video. This 10-second audio segment is part of a one-hour long video. How can I quickly find and sync the matching video to this audio part that's already on the timeline? Any tools, features, or workflows within Premiere Pro or with third-party software that can help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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Community Expert
May 23, 2024

I will add to @Ann Bens  reply that you can do it even faster if you patch only your video source you can Match Frame and then just hit the Overwrite key to edit only the source video back into the timeline. Since you already have the audio there that may be all you need and you might not even need to relink the audio back to the video. 

Bonus points for speed if you set your Preferences > Timelinbe > Set focus on the Timeline .... preference to checked. That way once you make the edit, panel focus is back on the timeline and you don't need to click back to it. 

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 23, 2024

select clip in timeline and hit F.

Original clip will open in Source Monitor with matching in and outpoint.

Drag video segment to timeline and link.

if there are no effects on the audio clip drag entire clip van SM and overwrite.

Kuhndog76
Participant
November 6, 2024

THANK YOU!  How have I not discovered this yet?!?!

Averdahl
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 23, 2024
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How can I quickly find and sync the matching video to this audio part that's already on the timeline? 


By @Editing Ninja

 

In the Project panel, make sure that Preview Area is enabled. Then, right click on the audio and choose Reveal in Project. Now you can see "video used 1 time" and "video used 1 time". If you now click on the down arrow for the video the CTI will move to the correct spot in your timeline.