How can I slide my entire set of video clips over?

[JazFuentes]

I almost completed editing my one-hour video and suddenly I discover that all my video clips from one source are now slid over about 20 seconds! Did I do this to myself inadvertently, or is this some strange error? Better yet, how can I get all these clips to slide back over 20 seconds earlier without having to manually slide every clip from this source? Please tell me there's a way! The clips start and stop at all the correct spots on the timeline; these points have not slid. It's just that the video I see when I look at them is all 20ish seconds too late; it's not how I originally edited/chose the clips.

Thanks for any help solving this mystery!

[Ann Bens]

Premiere does not do things on its own.

Post screenshot of timeline to see what is exactly going on.

[Dean_Utian]

As mentioned, a screenshot would help us understand the issue. Otherwise we're making assumption.

Are all the clips in one track? Simply selection all and dragging may work.

If there is a gap of 20 seconds in all the tracks, you could ripple delete.

Post the screenshot and then more specific advice can be given.

[eikonoklastes]

Edit > Select All Matching will select all clips from the same source.

[Warren Heaton]

In the Timeline, select the clips that are 20 seconds ahead of or behind where you would like them to be.

If they're ahead (too close to the tail of the edit), use your numeric keypad to enter "- 20:00" and then press Return (Enter if you're on a Mac).  Assuming there are no media collisions in the Timeline, your selected clips will move twenty seconds earlier.

If they're behind (to close the head of the edit), use your numeric keypad to enter "+ 20:00" and then press Return (Enter if you're on a Mac).  Assuming there are no media collisions in the Timeline, your selected clips will move twenty seconds later.

-Warren

[Richard M Knight]

I would have had 'ahead' and 'behind' the other way around.

[JazFuentes]

I am excited to try this but I don't have a numeric keypad on my Surface Book. The plus and minus for me enlarge or shrink the timeline. What is the name of this function, or how else can I access it? Thank you!

[Peru Bob]

JazFuentes  wrote

. What is the name of this function, or how else can I access it? Thank you!

Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts:

Preset and customizable keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro CC

[Warren Heaton]

This is called "Timeline Panel Nudge Clip Selection".  As a user, you can customize the which keys nudge left or right by one frame increments or five frame increments.  You cannot; however, customize how which keys allow a numeric nudge.

[JazFuentes]

It seems that I have given the wrong impression by my title. I don't need to move my clips, but rather the content within the clips has somehow slid over for my one source video called "Looking North." All the other source videos are behaving as they should.

If I were to show a screen shot of what I have now and what I would like to have, they would be identical. The clips are all the right length and placed correctly. It's just that somehow the media inside those clips got slid over about 20 seconds, no matter what track they're on.

So how do I get the footage within those clips to be the footage I originally chose, which appears about 20 sec earlier? I can take each clip, move it elsewhere, extend the inpoint to 20 sec earlier, cut 20 sec off the end, and then move it back into place, but this would take hours.

I hope this makes more sense. Thank you Warren & Bob!!!!

[Warren Heaton]

Sounds like you want to use the Slip Tool.  Select it in the Tools Panel and then click and drag your clip.

[Peru Bob]

Open the video from the Media Panel in the Source Monitor and adjust the in and out points.

[JazFuentes]

So even tho this change/error happened to all of my clips from this source

at once, nobody know a way to change them all back at once? I have to do

dozens of them one by one?

[JazFuentes]

This happened on another project last year, but it was the audio that all slid over 3 seconds, EVERY CLIP. Is this a known issue? Someone suggested it was a PC issue for Premiere?

[Ann Bens]

No its not a knows issue: you must be doing something during edit that shift everything. E.g. ripple delete.

[Peru Bob]

I have done that accidentally by inadvertently dragging while clicking.

[Warren Heaton]

To clarify:  An affected clip is still at the expected time in the Timeline, but the portion of the clip being used has shifted (a "slip" in video editing terms) to a different segment of the clip.  Correct?

When not intentional, I've only had this happen when relinking source footage and the newly linked file is different temporally from the prior linked file or when doing a "Replace with Clip" and the replacement was not an exact temporal match with the clip being replaced.

-Warren

[JazFuentes]

Yes you've described it beautifully except it's SUDDENLY ALL the clips from

one source. And no I never replaced or relinked the footage.

I wish i knew how to move them all back at once. So weird this has happened

twice now.

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, Warren Heaton <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Warren Heaton]

Yes, the minus key and equals key on the standard keyboard zoom out or zoom in. 

You'd need a numeric keypad to nudge a clip selection by timecode entry.   I don't think the PR Keyboard Layout options allow you to customize this one, either.  You could use Alt +Shift + Left Arrow to nudge the selection five frames at time, but its probably easier to just click and drag the selection 20 seconds to get it back into place.

There's an On-Screen Keyboard, but I think it's just the standard keys as well.  It would be awkward to use, anyway.

[Warren Heaton]

Did someone already recommend the Track Select Forward Tool?  Depending on what else is in your Timeline other than the clips that are off by 20 seconds, this might be a quick way to make the adjustment.