Premiere Pro Down Arrow with bars on either side

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December 5, 2016
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I am editing in Premiere Pro and I activated something that is causing me problems. When I try to more a piece of video I get a blue down arrow with bars on either side.The video will move but everything shifts. I must be in some type of mode becasue I cannot add efects into the timeline. How do I get out of it?

Thanks,

Mark

Correct answer tschelle668

I was having the same issue, and unplugging the monitor, and plugging it back in seemed to fix the problem.

By the time I had an Adobe representative screen sharing, the problem was "fixed".

thomast38615495

Participant

I found that the clip I was moving was only 1 frame in duration. After Effects had a setting that only rendered the work area which was 1 frame. When I rendered outr the full after effects comp it transfered into the Premiere edit as usual.

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JGodri

Participant

I've been struggling with this for awhile and finally found a solution when nothing else was working. Its kind of annoying but I believe it has to do with nested audio files. I just removed my nested clips and put them back into the main timeline and that fixed it. I belive you could also fix it be rendering out nested audio files, deleting them from the nest, and putting them back into the timeline. This is a super annoying work around but its better than working with premiere with no live preview while moving clips around.

TheLightOne

Participant

I just experienced the same thing on my iMac. It seemed to happen when I was in the middle of sliding footage along the timeline. I apparently made a wrong gesture that triggered this. Nothing suggested here was working, so I just saved the file and restarted the app. Luckily it was that simple for me.

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Anonymous

I also have the issue and have not been able to fix it. Here is an image of what it looks like. When you drag a video with this cursor setting it doesn't move the video with you in real time. So you have to guess where its going to land which is the most useless thing ever. I've tried every key and navigated settings but can't seem to find a solution. Help!

julied87647397

Participant

I have the same problem. In certain sequences, I see the little blue arrow but I can still see where the clip is moving to, and in other sequences it does what is described above. It is driving me nuts and I can't figure it out. I ended up duplicating a sequence where the issue was NOT happening, and copying and pasting my clips into that one. Seemed to solve it. Weird.

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DJSIPSUM

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KeenOrange

Participant

I know this is SUPER old, but did anyone actual find out what this is how to fix it rather than unplugging an external monitor? I'm running on my iMac, and am having the same issue as the poster. It's really causing me issues, I've restarted my iMac and nothing seems to help.

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marenm137

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Did you find anything to help you solve this issue? I have tried everything I can think of and everything I have read, but nothing is helping and I cannot even select or grab clips to move them around the timeline on Premiere Pro.