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Premiere thinks timeline is longer than it is
I’m having a weird glitch. If I hit the back slash key to show the whole timeline, it has a lot of extra space at the end. Like when you accidentally left a rogue piece of media at the end of your timeline. BUT, I tried ripple delete, I tried selecting everything after the actual end of the sequence, I tried zooming all the way in and looking at every track, and nothing is there. Ripple delete doesn’t come up when I right click, just like you’d expect when there’s nothing else in the timeline. If I hit play it will keep rolling after the video is over, and if I export it will add a few minutes of black.
The project has 26 videos that are all copies of a template sequence I made that has all the settings and redundant assets. These videos are various lengths, all around 2-3 minutes, but none of them are the same length. BUT, if I hit the end key they all go to the same exact spot on the timeline that it thinks is the end, so it’s not like this mystery material is moving around based on my other edits.
It’s very odd and doesn’t make sense so it just seems like I should assume it’s a weird glitch in the project and move on with my life, but I hate unsolved mysteries.
If I make a brand new sequence, do a select all and copy/paste everything into that sequence it behaves properly. So I know the solution is to do that 26 times and that sucks, but I could have finished it in the time I spent googling this and typing this post, BUT I just wanted to see if anyone had seen this before. I hate just doing a long-way-round fix but never figuring out the answer. Because it’s annoying on this project with 26 sequences, but if it happens again and I’ve got 126 I’ll put my head through a wall.
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You could have a phantom track. You can’t see it but it’s there.
I have had that happen to me and i did what you did. Paste to new sequence.
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Well what does one do after discovering their Premiere Pro is haunted with phantom tracks?? I guess I’ll just copy/paste to new sequences and act like nothing happened…just like families in horror movies that don’t leave haunted houses.
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If you do have a phantom track, possibly go in to Sequence > Settings > Delete Tracks > Delete Empty Tracks (for both audio and video)
I’d presume a phantom track has no audio or video or it would not be phantom?
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