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audiotrack “overwritten” – still no possibility to get it back?
this happened so often to me that I lost count…. I’m in a hurry… move some snippets from one track to another… move them on the timeline… and a few minutes later I realize that the audioportion of the snippet somehow was placed on top of some other existing audio.
Is it possible to get the lost audio back? I found already an answer to this question here on the board that says no… but it’s more than tow years old and a lot has happened since then.
Since Premiere never alters the original file I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible to just “turn it back on”.
In case the answer is still “no”…. is there a way to turn on a warning? or even disable the possibility to delete audio be placing another part on top of it?
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Match frame to the video portion that the audio clip came from and put the audio back.
Go back to a previous cut of the project and put the audio back.
Undo your project until the audio gets back in place.
When you move clips around and change tracks, the audio will change tracks too and can overwrite what you already have in place. One way to stop this would be to lock certain tracks that you don’t want to overwrite. Then audio can’t go into that track. Such as a voice over track, lock it once all the VO is in there so nothing can accidentally get up into there.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
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Thank you for these suggestions Walter.
In the meantime I found another one…
>opening a previous save > select and copy what I need from the sequence. open the save with the overwritten audio > make sure the focus is on the sequence and paste (ctrl+v)It would be a lot easier if it would be possible to run multiple instances of PP (just like with AE when using the -m option when starting it from the command line or by altering the shortcut)
but I haven’t found any info how to do this in PP – any ideas?about locking the audio tracks… It’s a way to do it, but I think it will fire back in a way that is even worse. while it makes sure I don’t overwrite the audio it also prevents any audio from being moved at all… this means if I do a cut and move the snippet, it will move just as usual, but the audio will stay in place. in 99% of the cases this is not what I would want to ; )
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[Marc Nibor] “It would be a lot easier if it would be possible to run multiple instances of PP”
You can import a project into another project. So you can essentially have two projects open at the same time. We use this feature all the time to import Sequences from one project to another.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaCraft and Career Advice & Training from real Working Creative Professionals
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