Diagonal Gray Stripes on my clips (not offline)

[Peter Garaway]

Those are called “danger stripes” indicating that the track item is linked to a piece of media that doesn’t actually have audio or video that long.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Steven Sproul]

Is there a way to get rid of them so that I can see my media in the timeline again?

[Walter Soyka]

[Steven Sproul] “When I reopened my Premiere Project file, and I relinked all of my footage. Some of my clips in my timeline sequence had diagonal gray stripes over them and I could view them in the source monitor but not in the timeline monitor.”

It sounds like when you relinked, you relinked at least one clip to the wrong media file. Now the edit is not pointing to the right media, and at least some of them have insufficient media.

You need to identify everything that was incorrectly relinked (possibly more than just the ones with the danger stripes), find the correct media files, and re-link correctly.

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[Chris Gunningham]

Cut your clip before the point where it runs out of media. You may have relinked to a shorter clip or retimed the clip. Difficult to say without more information.

Chris Gunningham
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[Steven Sproul]

Thank you for everyone’s help. I just found out the problem. When I had originally edited my footage, I modified the clips that I wanted to be in slow motion and when I relinked everything later, the footage was in slow motion so I had re-modify all of the clips and that fixed it

[Tad Newberry]

same problem here. short of going to back to reloading the project again and doing all the relinking that way (the thing it asks you to do upon launch when clips have moved), isn’t there a way from within the sequence to right clip on the diagonally striped clip and re-link? if so, i do not see that option…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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[Jean-louis]

Same problem for me.
Re-opening a project done last month, i got some ‘danger stripes’ in some part of my timeline.
I haven’t move or change the source clips (MXF files coming from a Canon C300. I have tried the replace command, relinking to the same clips without succes.
I have also tried to delete the rendered files to force the refresh without any result.
I am working with a PC, Premiere PRO CC and a collegue has exacly the same problem today with his MAC on another project making us think this is maybe related to a recent Adobe update ?

[Andreas Yannakopoulos]

Had you interpreted any of your clips to another frame rate than they one they were shot?

I had the same issue on some clips that were shot at 50fps.
I found the clips in my bin and I right clicked + Modify/ Interpret Footage/ Assume this frame rate (in my case was 25fps). The stripes were gone and my edit got back to normal.

Hope this helps,
Andreas

[Paul Carder]

That’s sadly not the case in this instance.

I’ve just opened a trimmed project that I archived a month ago to re-version. All of the video clips have the diagonal lines across them and there’s no way the clips are too short as I didn’t archive with handles.

I’ve found two solutions, or should I say ‘work-arounds’….

1) What I’m doing is right-clicking on each of the ‘supposedly offline’ clips on my timeline, and ‘revealing in project’. Then I copy that clip (to clipboard), and then return to the clip on the timeline, and ‘replace with clip>from bin’ and that relinks it, so you can see it in your source monitor.

Luckily I’m only re-linking a promo, and not long-form.

2) Failing that, I’ve just done a test where I’ve archived my trimmed project to my local HD, rather than remotely to external storage. I don’t get the diagonal lines! Hooray

Looks like a big that needs to be fixed. I hope someone out there benefits from this!

[Paul Carder]

I’ve found two solutions, or should I say ‘work-arounds’….

I’ve just opened a trimmed project that I archived a month ago to re-version. All of the video clips have the diagonal lines across them and there’s no way the clips are too short as I didn’t archive with handles.

I’ve found a very tedious and painful work-around, but I do suggest that Adobe look at this, as the Project Manager isn’t reliable at all.

What I’m doing is right-clicking on each of the clips on my timeline, and ‘revealing in project’. Then I copy that clip, and then return to the clip on the timeline, and ‘replace with clip>from bin’ and that relinks it, so you can see it in your source monitor.

Luckily I’m only re-linking a promo, and not long-form.

Failing that, I’ve just done a test where I’ve archived my trimmed project to my local HD, rather than remotely to external storage. I don’t get the diagonal lines! Hooray

Looks like a big that needs to be fixed.