Premiere Pro Randomly Deleting Portions Of My Project

[ibnome]

I was editing a project where I was frequently saving and making changes. I keep my timeline zoomed in to help with cropping, when I accidently hit the arrow button that sends me to the start of my project. I saw that 2 different clips at the beginning had been deleted, audio and video, and about half of my project had all the audio removed. I put about 5 hours into this project and to have 2.5 hours of work deleted by something I didn't even do is so frustrating. I tried undoing, which had no effect because I had done too much without noticing the issue had occurred. I am seething with anger and looking for any help to get my audio and video files back in place. Thanks for reading this at least.

(Note : I checked my video file folder to see if any had been deleted mid-editing and , lo and behold, they're still in their folder.)

[R Neil Haugen]

Pr doesn't delete media from folders, or even over-write them. So that part should be very safe.

Do you do routine iterative saves? Save-as Project 001, project 002 ... etc? Because in doing that one always has a way back.

And I don't know of any way that Pr could remove the clips from the timeline by itself. Understand that it is very easy to miss that you have multiple things selected with a tightly zoomed in view.

One thing to check in Preferences is whether "Selection follows Playhead" is on or off. Depending how that is set you can move to a section of your timeline and not even realize something else is still selected as far as Pr is concerned.

That is the likely issue here.

Neil

[excited_Genie16B8]

Chances are this is operator error.  It does sometimes occur that a clip off screen is selected for an operation without being noticed.

That's actually good news.  It means you can prevent it from happening again, it's not a random bug that will bite you in the behind every now and then.

[caroline_edits]

Hi ibnome,

I'm SO sorry this happened, I've done the same exact thing before and I was absolutely furious. I'm still not sure what makes it happen but it seems to me to have a correlation between the in and out points. I'm still pretty vague on it because it always happens the way you described, like I didn't even realize it had happened and then it was too late to go back. My advice is to be careful! Check in with your project and back it up when you get to a good stopping point. Utilize auto-save as well.

Best of luck,

Caroline

[ibnome]

Thanks for all the help everyone,

It does suck losing all this but I've taken some time and I'll be more careful next time.

Thank you.

[serykorn]

I had a simmilar issue. I was iditing, zooming in or out using option+mouse wheel, after that suddenly lots of clips on my timeline was deleted. I figured out, that shame is on app "Punto Swincher" which used "option" as an instruction to change a keabord layout. So check other apps on your computer, if you has a similar problem.