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April 4, 2018
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Markers missing after last update!

  • April 4, 2018
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After updating Premiere CC to the latest (Version 12.1.0 | Build 186) all the markers on the timeline are missing.
Marking them in again, I switched between sequences and upon returning they had disappeared again. !

Any help appreciated.

Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

I am in 12.1.1 and it's mostly been working fine. I had been making markers on clips in the Source window on a project which I last worked on just 10 days ago. This morning I opened the project and ALL of my markers are gone on those clips. Markers made back in August are still there, just the ones made in October are gone. I don't want to upgrade to whatever new version there is since I have multiple projects I am working on and I don't want whatever new version to cause different bugs on other projects. Are they totally lost? Or is there any fix? Thanks.


Juli,

Please update Premiere Pro. This was fixed in 12.1.2, I believe.

Thanks,
Kevin

16 replies

Participating Frequently
May 21, 2018

What a complete disaster.  Hours and hours and hours of markers are gone. 

Kevin-Monahan
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 12, 2018

Hi Visio,

It is not recommended to update a major project from one version to the next while it is in progress. Is it possible to remain on the version your Premiere Pro project was created on until it is complete? That would be ideal.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
VisioAuthor
Participant
May 14, 2018

Hi Kevin-Monahan,

Unfortunately, it was a mistake while updating other apps.
Sadly rolling back is not possible as it refuses to load other elements that were part of the project. 

For the moment everything seems to be working but I haven't had a chance to use markers to the same extent in recent projects, but I will keep an eye out for another update to see it has been fixed.

One of the recent updates upset of lot of CC apps Stability, but they seen to becoming more stable as each update comes out.   

Kevin-Monahan
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 14, 2018

Sorry for the inconvenience, Visio. Please be sure to file any issues here: Premiere Pro: Hot (883 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps Hope all goes smoothly on the project moving forward.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Participant
April 26, 2018

I can confirm this is still happening in Version 12.1.1 (Build 10).

This bug has managed to undo a lot of prep work I've done and has me scrambling through Auto-Saves to get it back. It is absolutely destructive.

I'm using moviejulie's workaround in the meantime ( didn't know about copy+paste markers until today) but this is just painful and it confirms every fear I have when I'm forced to update Premiere to its latest and greatest version.

Please, please fix this!

PBMarc
Known Participant
April 26, 2018

Ugh! I was hoping 12.1.1 would fix this... Sticking with 12.0.  This is a devastating issue as most of us use markers to keep control of what gets used or not and where... I manually save every project in an A / B routine every 5 or ten minutes.  For Example:

File_Name_Project_Name_Whatever CC2018A then after a bit save as ...CC2018B then after a bit CC2018A.

VisioAuthor
Participant
April 26, 2018

A real shame that Adobe hasn't fixed this yet, It's been a real headache.

moviejulie
That's an interesting workaround I was unaware you could copy markers between sequences. 
I will have to look into that.

moviejulie
Participant
April 21, 2018

Here's another workaround that seemed to work.

One caveat - I don't know if this works if you close and re-open the project again.

We ended up just rolling back to the previous version so I didn't test all the different possibilities.

The markers seem to be erased from the sequence only the first time it gets opened in the source monitor.

After it's been opened once in the source monitor, the markers seem to stick.

12.1 has a new feature added where you can copy/paste sequence markers.

Workaround -

If you have a sequence with existing markers, duplicate the sequence.

Open the sequence in the source monitor, erasing all the markers.

Copy/paste the markers from the duplicate sequence back onto the original sequence that just had all it's markers erased.

If you're adding new markers to a new sequence, just make sure to open that sequence in the source monitor one time, before you start adding in markers.

ubik77
Participant
April 18, 2018

Hey, I might have found to work around this. I did 2 things; not sure which one helped but things seem to be working better now.

1) I moved my preference folder. You can delete or move the folder from Documents --> Adobe --> Premiere Pro --> 12.0 if you're on a Mac. I moved it to my desktop but you can also delete it.

2) Instead of building my markers on my sequence timeline and then dragging my sequence to my source monitor, I started creating my markers ON my source monitor. So I drag my sequence to my source monitor first and THEN create the markers. This way when I open my sequence again on my timeline, the markers stick. And the next time I drag my sequence onto my source monitor, the markers are still there...

Adobe still needs to fix the issue but in the meantime, hope this helps...

ubik77
Participant
April 12, 2018

I have the same issue. I spent hours creating markers for my project, and now my markers are gone. When I drag my sequence to my source monitor, the markers disappeared. And then I opened my sequence on the timeline to make sure it wasn't a source monitor issue and my markers were gone from there too. No titles, no descriptions, nothing. This is extremely frustrating as I do sequence editing based off of my markers. Can Adobe please fix this bug asap?

PBMarc
Known Participant
April 17, 2018

SAME PROBLEM! WOW it is a major issue as most editing is done with markers to keep track of in and outs and notes and etc etc...

I "save as" A and B every 10 min or so so I was able to get back my markers but lost some editing. I removed latest version and went back 1 BUT had to convert it back... come on Adobe... 12.1 to 12.0 should not be an issue!!!