• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Diagonal lines at end of clips after moving source footage even though I re-loaded all the clips to new location.

  Posted by Charlie Reader on November 23, 2011 at 11:32 pm

  Hi there,

  I have recently finished a project and wanted to organise the source files as they were scattered over my external hard drive.

  I did this, and told Premiere Pro CS5.5 exactly where the footage had been moved to. It looks like Premiere found the footage fine.

  However, on most of the clips there is a block at the end of the clip on the timeline full of diagonal lines.

  I played the files in the timeline and the files are there and re-loaded but its as if the out points are incorrect.

  So originally the shot cut at a certain point, but now it cuts later on. For example, the clips are compositions exported as video from AE and at the end of some of the video clips some of the layers disappear after the point I knew I was going to cut from that shot.

  So in the edit, I cut away from the shot at the right point. But now, after relocating the files, the cut seems to be later on. In fact, it looks like the clips all cut at the very end of each video file even though I have re-linked all the clips.

  For now, I have put the files back to their original location and the files are back to normal in the timeline.

  But if I move the footage and tell Premiere where it is, shouldnt the in and out points stay the same? Can anyone make sense of what I’m saying and offer some help?

  Roberto Serrini replied 12 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tanel Toomsalu

  November 24, 2011 at 11:19 am

  Hello,

  If I have to relink an image sequence that was previously interpreted as 25fps, then after relink it goes to 29.97 (even though my preferences setting for image sequence fps is 25, so a bug) and then I get this diagonal line thing on timeline also. After I interpret everything with correct framerate, everything is ok.
  I have no idea if Your problem is the same, but maybe it helps.
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  Charlie Reader

  November 27, 2011 at 2:10 pm

  I haven’t tried it yet but this sounds like it good be the same issue. Thanks very much! I’ll give it a go soon.
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  Roberto Serrini

  November 14, 2013 at 10:45 pm

  I had the same issue, here was the fix:

  I had the same project on two different computers (so I could work at home, or the office, and just bring the new project file with me instead of all the media). I put the new project file in the designated folder. All the media came on line no problem because the project and all the folders with media are mirrored on both drives. HOWEVER some of the files had these diagonal stripes. Weird.

  The footage in question was shot at 60fps. I had modify>interpret it to playback at 25fps at home, but not at work yet, so premiere was obviously confused. What I realized was that although you interpret footage within the project, it must modify the source files, so my source footage at home was 25fps, but here, was still at 60fps.

  Matching back to the file in the project off of the timeline showed them all at 60fps. I changed them all to 25fps and ipso facto the stripes be gone.

  For me it was a frame rate issue, but I imagine that those diagonals would happen any time some attribute of the source is different then what the project expects.

  Hope that helps.

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