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Bruce306x0
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April 16, 2025
Question

Slip Tool inconsistency

  • April 16, 2025
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Premiere 25.2.1 (build 2)

Mac Studio: 32GB, Sequoia 15.3.1

3 monitors

 

I recently had a video source file from a zoom type recording. One of the three presenters had audio that was 8 frames out of sync. I discovered this after I had use the Premiere transcript feature to delete filler words and pauses. As a result I had a couple of hundred clips that I had to move the audio 8 frames to the right.

 

If I selected a single clip, using the slip tool, I could grab the audio and drag it 8 frames--perfetc! BUT when I selected the entire range and tried the same maneuver, I MOVED all clip 8 frames, making audio clip ends out of sync with the video clip ends. I ended up having to go back in and move each clip individually OR individually drag clip ends back into alignment. A royal pain.

 

I know if I had caught it before I deleted all the pauses, the problem would be gone, but shouldn't the slip tool,  applied to a group, have the same function as it does when applied to a single clip?

 

Thanks.

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Bruce306x0Author
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April 17, 2025

Thanks! I'll put that into my bag of tricks.

 

 

(a community newbie, but editing for decades.)
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Dani_V.Community Manager
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April 16, 2025

Hi @Bruce306x0,

I think I know what you are referring to and I believe the Slip Tool has always worked that way. Do you mean that when you are shifting multiple clips at the same time with the Slip Tool, the actual edit points are shifting as well, but you would like the edit points themselves to remain the same?

 

As a workaround, if you do 'batch' slip many clips, you can then use the 'N' keyboard shortcut, or the Rolling Edit Tool, to first select and highlight all the edit points that moved (you can use the Shift key with it if your selections are apart from each other or separated out) and then click and drag the edit points (now highlighted red) to shift them back to where they were. (So if you Slip by 8 frames, use the Rolling Edit Tool to shift by 8 frames back). I recommend trying it in a duplicated sequence first to see the effects of doing this.

Hope this can be helpful and sorry for the frustration,
Dani

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