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AndrewTheGreat
AndrewTheGreat
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October 13, 2023
Question

Is there a way to enable ALL the disabled clips on the timeline?

  • October 13, 2023
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I have a huge project consisting of more than 250 clips. During editing I selectively switched off some of the clips on the video tracks in different parts of it and some - on the audio tracks. Now I need to switch them all back on, but if I select all the clips and hit Enable, those disabled switch on, but those enabled on the contrary go off. Is there a way to cope with that or fix it? Otherwise I'll have to peep into the timeline picking every single clip manually...

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    Warren Heaton
    Community Expert
    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 21, 2023

    Edit > Sellect All Disabled Clips would be a great feature request.  

     

    You can get through enabling the disalbed clips somewhat quickly if you switch to keyboard shortcuts.  Use the Down Arrow to advance to the next edit or Page Down to advance to the next page, select some disabled clips, then use Control + Shift + E.  Repeat until all of the diabled clips are enabled.

     

    One approach to disabling clips is to use an entire Video Track and Audio Track for it.  Then the Track Selection Tools can be used to quickly select all the clips in the Track with one click.  However, depending on the complexity of how the clips are stacked, this might not help.

      AndrewTheGreat
      AndrewTheGreatAuthor
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      October 21, 2023

      Hi, Warren. Sweeping through the clips with arrow\page keys is for those who's worked in Premiere Pro for their first week or month and do nothing more serious than tik-tok videos. My production involves tens of tracks with the clips scattered all over the timeline. It'd take me hours of work enabling or desabling all the clips back (esecially consifdering the different length of each clip which demands constant timeline scale change). Disabling the entire track is also of no use as on a single track I may have hundreds of audio clips I put there during the sound-design stage and not all of them I need to be enabled\disabled at a particular moment. I understand that you wanna help, but believe me, I've been working in Premiere Pro for 12 years and I know every possible way to do certain things there. In my case the only possible solution will be the really working Enable function that just enables everything in the timeline and not switches through enable or disable states for the clips. Or at least what you speak of - the Edit > Sellect All Disabled Clips 

      Stop trying to edit and EDIT!
      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 21, 2023

      I’m thinking keyboard shortcuts is the way to get through what you want to do as quickly as possible.  I mentioned it because your sample video shows right-clicking.  

       

      Yes, definitely do not disable an entire Track as that affects Previews across the entire Timeline.  To be clear, I was talking about Clip level disable/enable, not Track level.

       

      Another approach would be to pick a Label for clips you need to select quickly later and set custom keyboard shortcuts for setting Label and for Select Label Group.  I use control + y to set a selected clip to Yellow and control + shift + L to Select Label Group.  Disabling them would be pressing D while the Playhead is over a Yellow clip (if Selection Follows Playhead is disabled), control + shift + L, then command + shift + E.  Repeat to enable them again.  

       

      It's good to hear you are a longtime user.  I started when it was Premiere (not Premiere Pro).  My typical use for enable/disable is in a spot that is more or less locked but one or two shots have alternates due to  a variety of reasons (one shot may work better in the cut over another, a preferred shot does not have talent approval yet, product placement needs clearance, a preferred shot may not have high res delivered in time).

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