[Carson Gale]

Mac OS Yosemite
Premiere Pro CC

Make sure V1 is your active video track (by default V1 and A1 are highlighted, they are in the timeline, at the very left, where your track number and key frame buttons are located). Ensure it is the only track highlighted.

After it’s highlighted, press down and you will move the playhead to the next edit point.
Press D to select clip that the playhead is located at.

Press Shift 5 to highlight the effects panel.

The rest must be completed by mouse clicks as far as I can tell for turning off / on effects. You can install programs that execute macro’s to select and delete things, I recommend keyboard maestro. You can automate all of the above.

[Carson Gale]

Anyone have an idea?

[Carson Gale]

Alright (this is an edited post)

1. I see what you’re doing, and have explored the function. I didn’t even know that existed in premiere pro! So that was interesting.
2. The way you’re working through your project, maybe this won’t work for you. But the way I would approach this is one of two ways.

a) Bring in two layers. Identical copies of the continuous audio. Bring in your media, and sync it with the ‘sync’ track (one of the full length audio clips). Then group those files (The new clip you brought in, plus the audio) and manually align the two full length audio clips. Now un group, and your new clip is synced with BOTH the sync and stationary audio track, regardless if it pulled the audio forward, or pulled the video forward.
b) It seems to work that it always brings clips forward in time to sync them, and never pushes clips backwards, this is probably because you could run into problems trying to push media into negative space. Imagine if you have a clip that syncs at 1 minute in, and you bring both clips in and start them at 0, now premiere wants to move the audio you have into negative one minute on the timeline. This obviously isn’t plausible.
So, just bring your clip in on a new layer, at the beginning of the timeline, where it will definitely be the clip to be moved forward, select it and the audio layer, and let it bring your new clip forward in time until it’s synced. Next clip the ends of the media as needed and drop it into the layer you need it in.

[Carson Gale]

I’m not sure if this applies to your workflow or not, but if someone comes looking hopefully this helps them.

The folder structure that premiere pro searches I believe is sequential. Once it finds a file that is correct it stops looking.

Where I think your problem might be is that more than one file is acceptable. So it searches. Finds an appropriate file, and when it searches for the second file, it finds the first file. So it stops completely.

How I structure my workflow to make this work for me is to first set up my folders as such.

Notice how my proxy files are listed above my HQ files. This is so when premiere pro starts searching for folders, it will look through the proxy folder first. I have it set up this way, because I am taking this photo at a point in my project where I wanted to link the proxy files to my work instead of the 1920×1080 files that I will use later in the render.

Lastly make sure your files are named the exact same.

on the top is the proxy file list, and on the bottom is the HD files. You have to make sure they are identical (except for the extension).

Lastly make sure your settings when you’re searching for clips is set up properly.

Ensure you are not searching for the clip name, ensure that the automatically linking files is checked. Your project might differ if you have set it up differently though.

Lastly, there is a “show exact matches” on the screen AFTER you press locate. If you have this checked, you will only find the file that was last linked to that clip. This may or may not be what you want.

Hope this helps someone!