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␡- Customizing the Timeline
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This chapter is from the book
Although you can perform some editing functions in the Project panel and Source Monitor, you’ll do the vast majority of your editing—and spend the vast majority of your editing time—in the Timeline. Briefly, the Timeline is made up of multiple audio and video tracks onto which you insert content.
The Timeline and the Program Monitor are integrally linked. The Timeline shows the temporal progression of your project, and the Program Monitor shows what’s happening at the current frame, or playhead. If you watch the timecodes on the Timeline and Program Monitor as you drag the playhead around in either panel, you’ll notice that they are always in lockstep.
Timelines and sequences are also integrally linked, since a sequence is essentially a representation of content within the Timeline. Double-click a sequence in the Project panel, and it opens in the Timeline.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to configure and navigate the Timeline and how to configure the Program Monitor. You’ll also learn basic ways to get content from the Project panel to the Timeline.
Customizing the Timeline
Let’s spend some time customizing the Timeline and learning its features . We’ll be working with the sequence we created at the end of the last chapter, renamed Moscow Tour.
The Premiere Pro Timeline panel.
We’ll discuss many of the individual features of the Timeline over the course of this and subsequent chapters, but let’s briefly discuss its key features .
- Snap (S). Controls whether items in the Timeline snap to each other when moved. Enabled by default.
- Add Marker (M). Click to add a marker to the Timeline.
- Playhead. Marks the current frame of the video shown in the Program Monitor.
- Timecode. Displays the location of the playhead.
- Timeline Display Settings. Opens the Settings menu.
- Time ruler. The time display within the Timeline. Runs from left to right, usually starting at zero.
- Track header. The area to the left of the Timeline track, where many track configuration adjustments are made.
- Toggle Track Output. Turns the track on and off. When a track is off, its content is no longer displayed in the Program Monitor.
- Toggle Track Lock. This button toggles locking on and off. Locking a track makes the content uneditable.
- Toggle Sync Lock. This button toggles Sync Lock on and off. Sync Lock keeps tracks in sync when certain edits are performed.
- Mute track. Mutes that track’s audio during playback.
- Solo track. Plays only that track’s audio during playback.
- Timeline panel menu. Contains multiple configuration options for the Timeline.
Customizing track height
At various times during the typical project workflow, you’ll want to change the appearance of your audio and video tracks. By default, the tracks are small and devoid of any indication of the content they contain. I like my audio and video files to reflect their contents, since it helps me edit faster, particularly during the early phases of production. Let’s explore some options for displaying more information on the video tracks.
To expand or minimize all tracks
- To expand all tracks, click the Timeline Display Settings button to open the Settings menu, and choose Expand All Tracks .
Using the Settings menu to expand or minimize all tracks.
Premiere Pro expands all tracks . Already we can see a lot more information.
Expanding all tracks to see more information.
- To minimize all tracks, click the Timeline Display Settings button to open the Settings menu, and choose Minimize All Tracks .
Premiere Pro minimizes all tracks.
To expand or minimize all video or audio tracks
- On the right edge of the Timeline, grab one of the edges of the vertical zoom bar for either the audio or video tracks .
- Drag inward to expand track size, outward to minimize track size .
Drag inward to expand the tracks; drag outward to minimize the tracks.
To adjust the height of individual tracks
Do one of the following:
- In the track header area of the Timeline, position the pointer at the top of the track that you want to expand, until the height adjustment pointer appears . Drag upward to expand the track and downward to minimize the track.
Hover your mouse at the top of the track until the height adjustment pointer appears.
- Click the track header area of the track that you want to adjust . Push the scroll wheel on your mouse away from you to increase video track size, and toward you to decrease it.
Click the track’s track header area, and use your scroll wheel to adjust its size
- Click to select the track in the Timeline area (not the track header area). Then press Control+ + (Windows) or Command+ + (Mac OS) to expand the track. Press Control+ – (Windows) or Command+ – (Mac OS) to minimize the track.
Customizing video tracks
Video thumbnails are representations of the clip content . You can see them because they were enabled by default, and they became visible when you expanded the track.
You can turn thumbnails on and off even when the video track is expanded, and you can control the appearance of the thumbnails using the procedures described in the following tasks.
To enable and disable video thumbnails
- To enable thumbnails, click the Timeline Display Settings button to open the Settings menu, and choose Show Video Thumbnails . When the menu item shows a check mark, the thumbnails are enabled.
Showing video thumbnails in the Settings menu.
- To disable thumbnails, click the Timeline Display Settings button to open the Settings menu, and choose Show Video Thumbnails . When the menu item does not show a check mark, the thumbnails are disabled.
To control thumbnail appearance
Click the panel menu in the upper-right corner of the Timeline . Select one of the following:
Choose one of these three options for thumbnail display.
- Video Head and Tail Thumbnails. Shows thumbnails of the first frame and the last frame, with blank space in between .
Head and tail thumbnails.
- Video Head Thumbnails. Shows a thumbnail of the initial frame and then blank space through the end of the file .
- Continuous Video Thumbnails. Shows thumbnails throughout the clip .
Continuous video thumbnails.
Customizing audio tracks
Audio waveforms reflect the volume of the audio file, so a quick glance at a waveform can tell a lot about the actual contents of the file. In Premiere Pro CS7, Adobe has changed the appearance of the waveform on the Timeline from a traditional view to a “rectified” view , where positive and negative values of the waveform are combined to create a single positive value presented from the bottom of the audio track. You can return to the traditional appearance via a control available in the panel menu, as you’ll learn in the following task.
Premiere Pro’s new, rectified waveform.
To switch to the traditional waveform display
From the panel menu in the upper-right corner of the Timeline panel, choose Rectified Audio Waveforms so that the check mark disappears .
Disabling rectified audio waveforms in the panel menu.
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Premiere Pro returns to the traditional waveform view .
The traditional waveform style.
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'Q1: Importing MP4 Into Premiere pro CC - I was just wondering, I have footage in a strange format; .mp4, and it wont import into Premiere. Someone asked me if I had all the updates, etc, I do, and still no luck with it.. Before I try the reinstall, I was just wondering if anything else can be done about the format.'
'Q2: Is there a way I can get MP4's into premiere? It doesn't seem to like them and won't import'
As a quite hot file extension, MP4 is widely used for saving media data and can be found in lots of places online or off line, which means, you may download MP4 videos from video sharing sites such as YouTube and Fox, shared some MP4 videos from others, or captured MP4 videos from a GoPro camera. The point here, sometimes you will find it a painful experience to import MP4 files to Adobe Premiere (the lastest Premiere Pro CC 2020 included) for movie editing. Your Premiere Pro will reject to import some MP4 files or You can only add the MP4 video to the timeline of Premiere Pro as an audio track, instead of a video track. Just sound, no video.
MP4 File Import Failure in Premiere Pro - Possible Reasons
※ Mainly Caused by Incompatible Codec
These are the common problems encountered by many Adobe Premiere users. Why can't your MP4 video files be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro (as a normal video file)? Broadly speaking, the major cause is that some required codec is missing so that the file format is not supported. Adobe Premiere Pro support MP4 files, but MP4 is a multimedia container format which contains various types of data encoded using one of several different codecs. A MP4 file can use MPEG-4, MJPEG, H.264, HEVC, GoPro CineForm, or other video codec for compression. To import MP4 files successfully, Adobe Premiere Pro or Premiere Elements needs to be compatible with the specific codecs used in the MP4 files. If not, you'll experience MP4 importing error. Therefore, transocding MOV file is the the most effective yet easiest solution to fix Premiere Pro MP4 file import failure.
※ Caused By Premiere Pro or Your Computer
Besides the MP4 codec incompatibility issue, there are two other possible reasons that cause file import error: your Premiere Pro software got problem, or your computer got problem. If all files with .mp4 extension can't be imported into Premiere Pro, while all others in MOV, MKV, AVI, etc load correctly, there might be setting mistakes in your Premiere Pro. Use another computer to import MP4 file to Premiere Pro CC (Premiere Pro CC allows two activations), if you have no import failure issue. something related to hardware like GPU needs to be checked. On these occassions, try Solution 2 - Restart Premiere Pro, Computer or Renderer or Solution 3 - Update Premiere Pro or Graphics Drive, etc to fix Premiere Pro fail to import MP4 file.
Solution 1: Transcode MP4 File to a Fully Premiere Compatible Format
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- 100% Working Solution to Fix 'Can't Import MP4 to Premiere' Error
Can any other video player play your MP4 file? If it could, then your file is not broken. If your MP4 file is not corrupt and the Premiere Pro can import any other MP4 files except for the very one, your MP4 file codec may not compatible with Adobe Premiere. Transcoding MP4 file should be a very helpful method.
If you have Adobe Media Encoder, you can use it to conduct video conversion. If you don't have that tool or can't manage to convert problematic MP4 files to desired format with Media Encoder, you might as well try an easier-to-use yet powerful video converter and decoder - EaseFab Video Converter. This program can cope with MP4 files with different encoded video/audio streams from any source. It can help you transcode MP4 file to MOV H.264, MPEG-2, ProRes formats that natively work within Premiere Pro.
As for the video quality, don't worry too much. With the constantly updated conversion algorithm and the advanced high quality engine, it guarantees you the output videos with up to 98% quality reserved, wrinkles or freckles in image still clear enough to count. Codec correction (or conversion) is just the tip of the iceberg that it can handle. In terms of the compute-intensive 4K MP4 files, it's also a decent performer, letting you downscale 4K to 1080p, lower 60FPS to 30FPS, adjust bit rate, etc. to better suit your computer hardware configurations and to ensure a smooth MP4 importing and latter editing.
Tutorial: How to Decode MP4 to Premiere Supported Codec/Format?
PS: The step-by-step guide is almost the same on PC and Mac. Here we will take EaseFab Video Converter for Windows as the example.
Step 1. Download and launch EaseFab Video Converter on Windows PC or Mac. Click Add Video button to import your MP4 video. Dragging and droppping works too. (Note: batch conversion is supported, so you can several mov videos to the program to convert at a time.)
Step 2. Click Profile pull down list, move mouse cursor to Editing Software and then select MOV (encoded by H.264 codec) or Final Cut Pro X (encoded by ProRes codec) for Adobe Premiere Pro. MPEG-2, WMV are good choices as well.
Note: The H.264 MOV can preserve image quality with the smallest file size. The ProRes can preserve the best image quality and provide better performance when editing in Premiere but ProRes files typically need ten times as much storage of H.264-based files.
Important Tips: H.264 is really optimized to be a delivery codec while ProRes is optimized to be an editing codec. That said, if you just need to do a simple edit and your PC or Mac has the power to edit H.264 you can get away with it no problem, but if you plan to do a heavy edit with lots of transitions and effects and color grading you will be best served by ProRes.
Step3. Hit Convert and it will begin fast video decoding, conversion and processing your MP4 video at one go.
After the conversion is complete, get the resulted files via clicking the Open button and then you can import the result files to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2020 or lower version without any trouble.
Solution 2: Restart Premiere Pro, Computer or Renderer
Whatever the error is or you will encounter, take 'Restart' always as your first troubleshooting step. It solves the vast majority of the problems of electronic devices.
1. Shut down and reopen Premiere Pro. Then create new project and try to import MP4 to Premiere Pro.
2. Save your other projects that are open currently, and restart the computer.
3. Turn off and turn on hardware acceleration. Or switch the renderer to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only. Or just uncheck 'Enable accelerated Intel h264 decoding'.
How to turn off the hardware acceleration support of Premiere Pro?
1. Open Adobe Premiere Pro and move to Edit.
2. Choose Media under Preferences.
3. Uncheck 'Enable accelerated Intel h264 decoding (requires restart)' here and then get back to import your MP4 file to Premiere Pro. The computer we use for test here doesn't support Nvidia GPU acceleration. Just Intel QSV.
How to switch to software renderer only?
1. Go to File > Project Settings > General.
2. Then move to the Video Rendering and Playback section.
3. Switch Renderer to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only and see if it can fix your MP4 file import failure in Premiere Pro.
Solution 3: Update Premiere Pro or Graphics Drive
Both updates to software and hardware may render potential errors. Follow the below 5 simple tricks to fix Premiere not importing MP4 file issue.
1. If you are using Adobe Premiere Pro CS series or old Premiere Pro CC, like say 2018, update to its latest version - Premiere Pro CC 2019 to have a try. Besides, trial version may have effect on it sometimes.Besides, are you using a trial version? If yes, you are more suggested to cost USD239.88/year to purchase the paid version, or you will meet lots of errors when adding MP4, MOV, AVI and other video files to Premiere Pro.
2. If Premiere Pro can't load your MP4 file even you are using the latest version, roll back to the old version and try again.
3. Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 requires the newest version of graphics drivers. So updating your GPU driver might solve file import failure problem.
4. Too much media cache may render you fail to import MP4 file to Premiere Pro. Go to Edit > Preferences > Meida Cache, and click Delete Unused to clean those unused media cache files. Numark idj3 drivers. Then get back to test whether you can load the MP4 to Premiere Pro or not.
5. According to the feedback from some users, installing QuickTime could fix the MP4 importing issue temporarily. But 32-bit QuickTime support has been discontinued. Download QuickTime 7.7.9 for Windows >
Conclusion:
The major cause that Adobe Premiere Pro CC fails to import MP4 files is that some required codec is missing and the file format is not supported. Therefore, transocding MOV file using EaseFab Video Converter is the the most effective yet easiest solution recommended by us. Besides converting videos, VideoProc is also able to perform some video editing tasks, including cutting, trimming, merging, adding special effects/subtitles, and more. The operation is really beginner-friendly.
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