Diagonal Gray Stripes on my clips (not offline)

[Chris Walsh]

This is a problem that has been plaguing me off and on for the last six months, all on projects consolidated via Project Manager.

It has something to do with clip spanning and how the clips were originally imported (or how PPro names the imports).

All my footage is C500 MXF interview footage, usually spanning a couple of separate, sequentially named files (e.g. TP04501, 4502, 4503) which may appear in the timeline only as the first file number.

When project manager consolidates and copies, it only copies the first of the spanned files, so when I reopen the project I get danger stripes in many sections (because the media isn’t there). My low-fi solution is to consolidate, then manually copy the full MXF folder, delete the consolidated mxf files, open and re-link. It is far from elegant, but achieves what I need, a stripped down archive of only the necessary elements for archive. It is a huge pain in the neck though.

Chris Walsh

http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Premiere Pro CC, FC7 & AVID
Former Windows diehard and edit*or

[Curtis Taitt]

Happenned to me. Opened my project and 2/3 of the clips and audio had the stripes over them. What I did to fix is to make any clip with the stripes offline and then relink to the right clip (with some selecting the folder isn’t enough you have to actually go right to the exact file to choose). It turns out for some reason the clips were linking to an xml file which was telling premiere the clips were in a folder that didn’t exist so then premiere was linking to a different folder I had with single clips i had exported to colour grade.
For example my project folder > another folder > project folder >file.xml whereas the actual path was my project folder > another folder > videoclip.mov

Hope this helps someone as I thought I was going to have to re cut my files.

[Alexandra Barlow]

I had a similar issue and none of the responses worked for me. I tried something new that worked for my short Instagram sequence, but did not work for my full length multicam sequence.

This is how I fixed the short Instagram sequence: Without any in’s and outs, I highlighted all of the assets in the sequence and I exported as an xml.
I imported the new xml and it worked, the clips were restored!

I still haven’t found a way to fix my multicam sequence, so I am just making a new sequence and resyncing it all. Luckily I hadn’t started working on that one yet. I feel like it is a separate issue because in my multicam sequence all of the clips have the lines at the end of them. The short one minute Instagram sequence only had three clips with the issue. However, I did notice a difference in the clips. In the Instagram sequence, the diagonal lines went through the full clip it was on. In the long multicam sequence it only went through the ends or part of the clips.

Hope this helps! If anyone knows of another way, please share.

[Tiffany Moore]

I had the problem of diagonal grey bars too and discovered it was because of relinking media with duplicate filenames. I have several folders with the file GoPro013 and when I relinked the clips in my timeline, PP found GoPro013 from folder X when it should have been in folder Y.

To fix, from the project bin, right click > Replace Footage and navigate to the correct file location.

[Malcolm Wright]

“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.”

This saved me. THANK YOU!

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

Yes, well 4 years later, it doesn’t seem to have been resolved. Arrg…

[Tom Laughlin]

I have found an very easy solution that worked for me – to get rid of your danger stripes, and do this without all sorts of linking and relinking by copying files or moving files over.

1. When you open the edit like this example, often times, this window pops up, and notice all of the default boxes below are “checked”:

2. You click “Locate”, and you navigate to whre your media is located, then hit connect media, and this is what you see now:

CRAP! Now what?! You see all these danger lines huh? Well, it is because Premiere is trying to use default settings to interpret your media’s TIME-CODES, not your actual MEDIA FILES or FRAME-RATES. This is easy to fix. Let’s fix it.

3. Go back and re-open your project, liek we did before, see here. But this time, UNCHECK these boxes: “align time-code”, “Preserve interpret footage settings”, and “file extension”. Click “locate”, navigate to your media, and simply relink the media.

4. Once you open your project, the project will ignore what it wants to default your time-codes to, which can be incorrectly interpreted. Rather, you tell Premiere to revert to the time-code that you had originally established. This fixes the clip’s time-code placement, where the clip’s time-code is on the timeline and the in and out points.

Hope this helps you all, as it worked for me.

Thanks,

Tom Laughlin
Adobe Certified Expert
Premiere Pro CC
Salt Lake City, Utah
tlaughlin@digitalchophouse.com

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, Utah
digitalchophouse.com