Editing Please Help!

[Digital shoe collector]

I am editing a video project and have dropped the main portion of my video project into the project window. When I try to add another video layer on top of my main video, it only brings in the sound without the video. How do I fix this, is there a setting to prevent premiere from doing this?

[hernánmoreno · Accepted solution]

Hi, is the video track patch enabled? (The "V" blue square on the left in the image below).

[Digital shoe collector]

Thank you for the help.  Deleting old files and reinstalling PP with the updated version seemed to do the trick. So I'm not sure if this was the problem but I will keep this solution in mind for future troubleshooting. 

[R Neil Haugen]

You need to understand Source and Track targeting ... the tools that tell Premiere where you want changes made. For adding to a sequence, you need to have the Source targes set ... at least one each for both video and audio.

I would bet your sequence has an audio track Source target set (blue block to the far left on an audio channel) but no corresponding Source target for a video track.

Neil

 

[Digital shoe collector]

Thank you for your visual help. When my program updated to the newer version 2 days ago, everything went sideways. I'm not sure if that was the problem because once I deleted old files and reinstalled PP it started working just as it should. Again thank you for the help!