Resize media moves all other files in project... how do I stop that?

Report · Jun 26, 2017

I'm using Adobe Premier, a recent version, bought it in December (although I'm regretting that decision now)... I don't know what version exactly though because when I go to "About" instead of popping up an About window with version information like every sane piece of software on the planet, it tries to open a webpage.

I'm making a very simple movie. It's a bunch of images put to music. My problem is that sometimes I get my timing wrong and I want to change the length of display time for just one or two of the image files. But, for some godly unknown reason, Adobe decides that when I resize the length of time an image displays... every single other piece of media in my project moves with it. I don't want those to move... those are all timed up correctly, I just want to resize this one image and this one image only.

It's a massive pain... I'm wasting hours because Adobe keeps doing things I never told it to do. There has to be a setting or something right? I checked preferences but I couldn't find anything like this. Can somebody please, please help me. This is so very, very annoying.

Report · Jun 26, 2017

Hi,

did import your images as single images or image sequence? The latter will make your images behave like a movie, the single image frames are not independent (which is expected behaviour). If you want to edit (the duration of) each still image independently, you need to import each image as a single clip. Before you do that, go to the Preferences settings. The second to last entry (which might be called "Edit window" (I'm making this up because I'm not on the english version here)) has an option called like "still image default duration", which should be set to 5 seconds. If you modify this, your images (which in terms of film have a duration of 1 frame) are being assigned the duration entered here, on import.

However, if you modify the duration of an image in the timeline by trimming, this should not affect the images before the one being modified. Depending on your trim mode, it might affect images after the one being modified.

Keep trying.

Nevertheless I have a couple of questions.

- Are you and have you been aware of the opportunity to test Premiere (as any other Creative Cloud app) for 30 days for free?

- My impression is you're new to editing, did you watch or read any tutorials on the subject? I'm pretty certain this could have saved you many hours of dissatisfaction.

- Are you aware that this is not the right place for the specific question you have asked (the Premiere Pro SDK forum is for third-party developers to discuss programming issues with each other and the Adobe staff; actual Premiere Pro usage question are supposed to be asked in the Premiere Pro CC forum -- can an admin move this discussion there, please?) ?

Kind regards,

e.d.

Report · Jul 06, 2017

Hi Nathan:

It sounds like you are doing a ripple edit when you want to be doing a rolling edit.

With the Sequence selected, you can press "N" to choose the Rolling Edit Tool. When done, pess "V" to go back to the Selection Tool.

-Warren