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Insert and Overwrite Not Working in Premier
Hi All,
Having a strange problem. If I try to insert edit from the source window the fit clip window appears and tells me “the source is longer than the destination” and even when I’ve tried to use one of the fit clip choices it puts the clip in the wrong spot, but always in the same place in the timeline.
I have done an exhaustive search and can find nothing on it expect making sure that the source patching buttons are on and they are.
What is unclear is why this is happening on this session as I have opened up another project and it seems to work, but that doesn’t help me as I have gotten as far as I can without this important function.
Could it have something to do with what I am inserting? Or is there a bug on the timeline? Could it be the overall size of the file, because I am taking clips from feature length sources.
I need to move on so this is kind of important as I’ve already done an assembly and the only work around that I can see is that I would have to constantly move the whole sequence when I want to insert something.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated…
Thanks in advance…
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4 Replies
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As usual, I wound up figuring out what went wrong after I’d made a post for help. But for those few who may have followed in my ignorant footsteps this is what happened.
I finally realized that I had an in and out point on the time line and the clips I was trying to place in it were too large for the selection that I had already made.
Sorry to those who clicked on this post in order to help, and thanks…
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Hey Sean,
No worries, we have all been there, and sometimes the language of the editing package, most of them included, does not make sense.
Track selection, track lock, etc, are other “good” ways of preventing a clip going in the time-line.
Sometimes a Drag’nDrop of the clip straight onto a new track on the Time-Line can resolve those kind of problems. If that doesn’t solve it, picking up a random book and browse, or walk around the block, can do wonders to Premiere pro 😉Have fun and enjoy your edit + Thank you for flagging up that you found the solution.
Atb
Mads -
Actually, in v22 I had issues with that error being generated by the presumed sequence out point (the end of sequence) when I did not explicitly set an out. That is, I’ve set a sequence in point, but not an out, along with source in and out. Premiere tells me the source is too short. There is no explicit out set in the sequence, just the presumed end of sequence. I’ve even tried explicity removing the out point, but nothing happens of course, because I haven’t set an outpoint.
In other words, it might not have been your mistake after all.
I have not tested to see if this persists in v23 and I don’t think it happened consistently in any case, so time will tell.
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Thank you Mads and Todd for responding and you’re well thought out responses. Appreciate it…
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