My videos in my timeline are progressing at 2x speed, with zero changes to time remapping or stretch

[Medrus]

Hello. I have had Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 for about a month and a half now, and everything has been great. Zero issues that werent user error. But this morning when I woke up to continue editing a YouTube video, I found that my playback speed was unusually fast. And not just for one clip, its like the video was playing in 2x speed. I havent tried exporting it yet, but I will after this is posted. Also, the music that I have playing in the background is very choppy and is also sped up, I've searched Google, Reddit, here, etc and I haven't found anything on how to fix this issue within Elements. I found one for Premiere Pro, but the layouts are so different I couldnt use that answer. Anything helps, thank you in advance.

[Bill Sprague]

To be more sure of my guess, would you please post screen shots of a text view of your footage from the (free) MediaInfo program.  And, a screen shot showing your project settings.   My guess is that you've set up a project with a frame rate different than the frame rate of your footage.   You could also try setting up a new project an let Premiere Elements pick the project settings.  Do that by not picking a setting and place a primary clip on the timeline before anything else.

[Medrus]

If your guess is correct, then why would it have been working fine yesterday? I didn't touch any settings since then. I never messed with any settings, but Ill get you the screenshots. My internet is super slow so I cant get the mediainfo app atm, but I know for a fact I record at 60fps. 

[Medrus]

I just launched the program again to get you those screenshots, and when I clicked play, the video progressed at the normal rate...I haven't done anything since this morning I have no clue why its doing this.If you could still please help me troubleshoot it so that if it happens again I can do it without help, that would be great.

[Bill Sprague]

"when I clicked play, the video progressed at the normal rate.."

There is little that can be done when it works right!   

There is a technique sometimes called "J-K-L" editing.  The shortcut J key shuttles left, the L, right and K stops it.  Repeated pressing of the J and L keys speed up the play.   Maybe, somehow the L key was stuck?  

[FredericaMG71]

I've been using Photoshop since Photoshop 2! And began using Premiere Elements maybe a decade ago. When I bought a new desktop Dell a year ago, I bought P & P Elements 2020 along with it. Running Windows 10. 

Yesterday I recorded video with a Logi 920 webcam and a Zoom H2 for audio, and it was fine in playback. But when I went to edit it today in Premiere, it was out of sync. I looked up what to do, and used Handbrake. Looks fine when I click in File Explorer. When I opened Premiere, though, it's in sync all right, but going too fast.

Suggestions? I already rebooted the computer. 

[Bill Sprague]

I've not seen this topic for a couple years!

Premiere Elements is optimized for common camera video.  Webcams, screen recorders and other non-camera devices can be a challenge.   

Knowing nothing about your workflow, my first guess is that there is a mismatch between your footage and project settings.  What are the project settings and how did you make them?  What are the video specifications?  Do they match?

[FredericaMG71]

Sorry, what is "common camera video"? If I understand right, this is a
common camera. It's not a laptop camera or a screen recorder. I'm working
on a Dell desktop, with a plug-in Logitech camera. If I understand what you
mean, it's not a non-camera device, it is a real camera.

I used Microsoft Camera to record it. I probably should have used the Logi
software.

Which settings do you mean? There are so many--but I didn't change
anything. It's the same as I've been using for a year. I just don't change
the settings, since till now it's worked.

Earlier today it was sort-of working, showing me the video at normal speed,
but audio and video were out of sync. So I read the Community pages and saw
that this was because I had used a separate sound recorder. It said to
re-encode it in HandBrake. I did, and it looked good when I clicked it.

Then I opened Premier. I didn't change any settings. But when I tried to
play it in Premier, it's at double speed. I didn't change any settings at
all.

Thank yuou for your help!


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