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May 29, 2022
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Why out marker is placed one frame after the playhead?

  • May 29, 2022
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When you click the mark in icon, an in marker is created at the playhead as expected.

If you click the mark out icon, however, the out marker is created one frame after the playhead.

 

This could lead to accidentally deleting an extra frame and seems like a bug.

 

Is it?

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Gui Costa
Participating Frequently
October 7, 2023

I have the same issue, its was working fine after update. Its a bug or some settings?

 

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Peru BobCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 8, 2023

That is the way it works.

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
October 8, 2023

In adobe audition multitrack view you can also mark in (i) and out (o) points. The out point is mark exactly where the playhead is, not one audio sample away from it. Shouldn't premiere and audition have a consistent behavior?


They do, actually  ... if you understand the difference between audio and video files.

 

Video files are set due to the number of frames per second. There is no subdivision of video frames ... ever. Not in any NLE.

 

As you can't have half a frame.

 

Audio files are "timed" in milliseconds. And actually, you can't subdivide audio files past their natural division either. It's just a vastly smaller natural division.

 

Video, including both video frames and audio files, is a bit complicated because their natural divisions are different.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
May 29, 2022

Not at all. The current time indicator ... CTI/playhead ... is not a dividing line. There is no real in-between frames thing in an NLE. There is always an 'active' frame. There are no spaces between frames.

 

So the CTI is always connected with a frame ... the frame after the line. The line doesn't divide your sequence, it illustrates which frame it is connected to. For better example, use the + key to zoom way in. After a certain point, you will see a blue line appear at the top of the sequence ... which is the horizontal display of the length on the seqeunce of the current frame.

 

To set an out point, it's better to use the keyboard shortcut "Go to selected clip end" ... search for that in the keyboard shortcuts screen. Set a custom key-short for it. That way you can simply hit that short instead of the say down arrow and get to the right frame to set your outpoint.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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