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Disappearing Tracks
I’m learning Premiere Pro and Production Suite CS4 from scratch, using Lynda, and making good progress! (An old Photoshop and Audacity user, so the intuitiveness and similarity helps a lot). But while “experimenting” something strange happened. I had video (with audio) clips on tracks 1 and 2. I did something to track one that I don’t know–clicked somewhere near it, or double clicked, or something? And Video/Audio track 1’s clip disappeared. The video on track two was intact. History showed nothing, and going back in history did not restore the clip. This has now happened twice. Nothing critical, as I”m in the playing/experimenting state. I’m fairly sure it happened due something I clicked around the tracks themselves. Obviously, this is very scary, had I been working for some time. Retrieving an auto-save also did not re-establish the missing Track 1 clip. Suggestions?
Thanks
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Deleting audio linked to video is pretty hard to do accidentally. You could have accidentally dragged the audio to track 3 or below and cant see those tracks without scrolling down using the scroll bar at the right end of the timeline.
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That’s possible: I’ve eliminated that experiment now so I can’t check for sure. But recovering my files from the recycle bin, I can’t confirm that as being the case. It’s clear that both audio and video clips were gone from track 1. They disappeared in a single moment, at which time nothing showed up on history, and they were not restored by backing up in history. And they were not present when the last auto-save was opened. They did show up a couple of auto-saves down the line. If it happens again I’ll double check that possibility. Can you think of any other possibility?
keith
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