Scene Edit Detection subclips bug

Question

Hi all,

I do media analysis on YouTube, which requires me to use footage from movies & television to complement the narration. Scene edit detection has been great for this, as I can just import the files into my workspace, and premiere will automatically chop them up into subclips before depositing them into a folder for later use. It's honestly been a game changer for me.

That being said, there has been a bug that has been bothering me for quite some time, and to date, I am yet to find a solution.

For some reason, whenever I drag a SED subclip into the timeline, it always adds on the final frame from the previous shot during the import process, meaning I have to cut that first frame every single time or the viewer will be bombarded with flash frames. Sometimes this isn't a problem if I'm intending on shortening the clip even further anyway, but there are points where I do just want to drag & drop clips into my timeline, and it's a giant pain to have to chop it down every time.

This first frame doesn't appear in the subclip preview & this problem is also not present when I go back to the original chopped up file. This is a problem exclusive to the import process.

I've been searching for years at this point for a solution, but no one else has either noticed this issue or has been bothered to bring it up, and my patience is wearing a bit thin. I waited a little bit to reach out to see if any future updates would fix the problem, but it's become clear that this is not on Adobe's radar, so I figured it was about time I draw some attention to it & see if a solution already exists.

I've also attached a video demonstrating the problem, in case my description wasn't clear.

The Kilners · Accepted Answer

To correct your current project, if you simply change the frame rate of the subclips from 23,980 to 23,976 in Modify/Interprete Footage your problem will be solved in the sequence with a frame rate of 23,976. (See the video 01 of my screen record attached).

To avoid this problem in your future works, just set the correct frame rate of the video in Modify/Interpret Footage before using Scene Edit Detection. (See the video 02 of my screen record attached).

Okay, I think I'm happy to call this an overall victory.

I tried the first method to change the sub clips, but that ended up embedding the issue into the clips themselves (so even in the folder, that first frame problem was occurring) & the only way to fix that was to manually adjust the exact timing of every single subclip, so I ended up just creating a new sequence from a subclip & moved all my work over there.

Maybe an idea for a future update would be to use the same AI that allowed for the edit detection in the first place to also auto-adjust the subclips to compensate for frame rate changes, but otherwise, I'm happy to have gotten to the bottom of this.

Feel free to pass this idea up the pipeline @Kevin-Monahan, if you are in a position to do such things. Otherwise, just ignore this tag, haha.

Kevin-Monahan · Answer

I can't reproduce this issue, The Kilners. Can anyone else reproduce it? Let me know. Thanks,Kevin

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