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cbn3
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January 26, 2019
Question

Video Clips Disappeared From Sequence, but Audio Remains

  • January 26, 2019
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I am editing a long form documentary (2 hours).

 

This morning I opened the program as usual to begin work. In my sequence I find that the video portion of some clips are missing. The audio is there and plays fine, but the video is missing, as if I made an audio only edit.

 

Other clips in the timeline are fine before and after some of the clips where the video has just disappeared and the audio remains. It seems random. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

 

I have tried:

deleting media cache

changing rendering/playback settings under project settings

disconnecting my second monitor

rendering the clip

 

As you can see in the screenshot where there is audio, the video is gone, but appears before and after. Where the playhead is was a thumbnail of an interview, now only the audio is there and plays.  This is happening as several points in my sequence and appears random. Has anyone else encountered this problem? I am on a deadline to complete a PBS program and it is unfortunate to lose half a days work trying to sort this out.

 

I am working on a mac laptop, but this doesn't seem to be a hardware problem as I use Premiere to edit other long-form programs as well.

 

With thanks,

Charles

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    Niel Mars
    Participant
    November 10, 2023

    Hello @cbn3 

    I recently encountered this exact problem just yesterday. I think I might have found a way to fix it.
    I think you must have enabled the adjustment layer options on the clips that aren't showing but hae their audios still very much intact. The screenshots attached should give a detailed explanation. 

    I mistakenly had it enabled during my edit and so a portion of my video wasn't showing on my timeline.
    But I decided to try my luck and explore some options by just clicking and unclicking stuff and I found out that the adjustment layer option that was enabled, was what led to the issue. 
    I really hope this solves your problems.

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      cbn3Author
      Participant
      January 26, 2019

      Thank you Jim,

      I can't image what I may have done to effect only the video  of 10 non-contiguous interview clips of 5 different people in my timeline that occur over the span of 18 timeline minutes with all sorts of edits in-between.

      They are all on the same track, but other clips (again, non-contiguous) have not been effected. I never selected those 10 clips together for anything (to apply the same attribute to a series of clips for example).

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      Bethany0101
      Participant
      November 23, 2020

      Hi cbn3, 

       

      I'm having the exact same problem as you have desrcibed. Did you find a solution?

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        Michael Grenadier
        Legend
        November 23, 2020

        did you check autosave versions? 

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        excited_Genie16B8
        Legend
        January 26, 2019

        This isn't a common occurrence.  Most likely it was operator error.  Sometimes clips off screen are unintentionally selected for an operation.

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        cbn3Author
        Participant
        January 26, 2019

        Thank you Meg for your response. The screen shot is attached.

        The video of the clip is neither in the timeline nor appears in the program monitor, only audio, which plays fine, but the original edit was both audio and video.

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        Meg The Dog
        Inspiring
        January 26, 2019

        OK, I have never experienced this behavior as you describe, maybe someone else has and can give input.

        You say this occurs randomly throughout your timeline, is there nothing in common about the missing video clips?

        If you open an autosave from a date/time where you were not having this problem, do the clips appear as expected?

        If you place the playhead over an audio clip with missing video and press the "f" key, does the video appear in the source monitor?

        MtD

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        Meg The Dog
        Inspiring
        January 26, 2019

        At the points in the timeline where you don't see the clip video you expect, do you still see the video in the Program Monitor, just not on the timeline - or are both the timeline video track empty and there is black in the Program Monitor?

        Can you post a screen shot of the timeline that includes the track headers, like this example below:

        MtD

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