• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Add videos to timeline including realtime gaps

  Posted by Tomek Dyszkiewicz on February 10, 2013 at 5:51 pm

  Hi guys, I would like to add multiple video clips taken with dslr into a timeline BUT including time gaps between shots (based on “taken on [date] tag of the file).

  Example:
  video1 taken at 10:01:30
  video2 taken at 10:03:30
  time gap between begining of first and second shot is exactly two minutes. How do I insert them with that gap?

  Tomek Dyszkiewicz replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Angelo Lorenzo

  February 10, 2013 at 11:26 pm

  Not really. this is a workaround:

  1. Set start time of your sequence to the start time of the first clip

  2. Place two of the same clip on the timeline: one in video/audio lane 1, the other in audio/video lane 2. Select them and right click, select synchronize

  3. In the window that pops up, select timecode. You should notice that the timecode starts at the same spot as the clips; no need to alter it. Hit ok.

  4. Delete the contents of the timeline for now.

  5. Place each clip in a different audio/video layer of the timeline (sucks, I know), select all, right click and select synchronize.

  6. Timecode will be grayed out but, thanks to steps 1-3, will still be selected. Hit OK

  That should do the trick. Nest the sequence and it should act like one continuous video file.

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  Tomek Dyszkiewicz

  February 11, 2013 at 4:02 pm

  Angelo thanks for the tip. Though I did everything as you said it doesn’t work. In step 6 all clips go to the same timecode.
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  Angelo Lorenzo

  February 11, 2013 at 6:38 pm

  What dSLR are you using? Is there proper timecode embedded into the file?

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  Angelo Lorenzo

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  Tomek Dyszkiewicz

  February 12, 2013 at 11:24 am

  I use Canon60d with Magic Lantern. Should I embeed some example file details?
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  Tomek Dyszkiewicz

  February 12, 2013 at 11:35 am

  I can’t see any timecode information in the files. These are properties for one of the original footages taken from premiere bin:

  File Path: L:MVI_1163.MOV
  Type: MPEG Movie
  File Size: 13,4 MB
  Image Size: 1920 x 1080
  Pixel Depth: 32
  Frame Rate: 29,97
  Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – compressed – Stereo
  Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
  Total Duration: 00;00;02;14
  Average Data Rate: 5,4 MB / second
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0

  In the bin, when I click PPM on the file and select modify, the timecode option is unavailable (not clickable). Does it mean that my files are out of timecode information? If so, is there any way to change that? I suppose for this project I am out of options but for future…

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