If you create a color matte while timeline window is active, where does it go?

[avpromedia]

If the timeline window is selected, and the you create a color matte, where does it go?

I can't find it in the project files and it's not inside the current sequence in the timeline.

[R Neil Haugen]

Have you opened all bins?

[Ann Bens]

Color Matte is placed in the Project window.
from there you drag it into the timeline.

[avpromedia]

If anyone has bothered to try, you would find that the color matte is nowhere to be found, unless the project window is selected when the color matte is created. So let me repeat my question, if the project window is NOT selected when the matte is created, where does the color matte go?

Here's how to do this experiment:

create a new project

create a new sequence

select the window with the sequence, or the effects control window, or the monitor window

file>new>color matte and finish the dialog sequences

nothing new appears in the project window, nor the timeline window

[R Neil Haugen]

"Into nothingness, which is to say, everything  ..."

A paraphrase out of Harry Potter.

That unfortunately may be applicable. I have nearly always used the Project panel "new item" process. But you're right, without the Project panel in focus, it seems that color mattes simply ... evaporate into nothingness.

[Karthik balaji]

Hi 

If the timeline window is selected in Adobe Premiere Pro, and you create a color matte, it should be added to the current sequence in the timeline as a new clip.

You can check if the color matte was added to the current sequence by scrolling through the timeline and looking for a solid color clip. By default, the color matte will have a duration of 5 seconds and will be the same size as the sequence.

If you still can't find the color matte in the project files or in the timeline, try creating another one and double-checking your project settings to make sure everything is set up correctly. Also, try resetting your workspace layout to its default settings, which may help to reveal any missing elements in your project.

Hope you find this helpfull .

KARTHIK

[Peru Bob]

 if the project window is NOT selected when the matte is created, where does the color matte go?

By @avpromedia

I'm not at my editing computer now, but can choose Reveal in project if you right click on it in the timeline?

[avpromedia]

Thanks for acknowledging this oddity exists.

[avpromedia]

It is not on the timeline so I cannot right click on it.

[Peru Bob]

Sorry, I missed that.