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Different icons for media

  • March 3, 2025
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What's the difference between all these icons? There are two takes (H005 and H006). But why are they all different icons? The footage looks the same. And Media Properties also the same. I'm working with RED footage. Also if it makes a difference, this is for a project someone else originally made in FCP. Thank you! 

    Correct answer mattchristensen

    The purple "film strip" icon means the clip has video. The green square is a little waveform, indicating there is also audio in the clip. The items with { } braces represent a subclip. In Premiere Pro a subclip is its own entity that doesn't rely on the original clip, but it came from an original clip. For example you might have an original clip with three takes in it, and make three subclips that behave like their own single clips for easier editing.

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    March 3, 2025

    The purple "film strip" icon means the clip has video. The green square is a little waveform, indicating there is also audio in the clip. The items with { } braces represent a subclip. In Premiere Pro a subclip is its own entity that doesn't rely on the original clip, but it came from an original clip. For example you might have an original clip with three takes in it, and make three subclips that behave like their own single clips for easier editing.

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    Thank you. But why are they subclips? I didn't make them into subclips. And it's the length of the original clip. They were all imports done at the same time.

    Also, related but kind of not... I noticed with the non-subclips, the source monitor shows this blue bar. What is that? Other media I've imported doesn't have that.

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    March 3, 2025

    Assuming you used an XML to import to Premiere Pro, those subclips were defined in the XML. Either Final Cut or whatever intermediate translator you used described the clips as subclips, so that's how Premiere Pro imported them.

     

    Those blue ranges are clip markers. If you also open the Markers panel you'll see them listed there when the clip is in Source Monitor.

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