Accidentally overdrawn, timeline?

I had a large payment going through to a friend via bank transfer. That same day it sent, I had an unexpected bill and realized I'll be drawn up a little short ($100 or so) in my bank account. If I make a deposit the same day to cover the gap, will the payment still go through? I'm not so worried about an overdraft fee, I just don't want the payment to my friend being declined. What's the typical window for processing, and should I be worried about the payment being cancelled?

Double-click on the icon for your sequence in the FCE browser to open your sequence. This will open the timeline and canvas.
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Accidentally deleted timeline sequence, audio and video tracks from my project!

I accidentally pushed Command+W and my timeline disappeared. When I brought it back under window it looked like this... It opens like this only under this project and not my other ones. Can someone help me out?
Thank you for any advice!

Open one of the auto save projects.
And of course you did Save A Copy to another drive for back up?

"Timeline" is grayed out

I accidentally closed Timeline, which closed the Canvas box as well. They're grayed out under the window menu. How do I see them again?

That opened that clip in the Viewer. No go on the timeline. Any other suggestions?

Accidentally hit the 'trim comp to work area'. Now I can't get my files back into comp timeline.

I'm using After Effects CC on my macpro. When going to add a shot to the render queue, I accidentally hit the 'trim comp to work area' and didn't notice what had happened until I went to go back to work on other shots. I tried to hit Control Z but it was too late it seemed and it wouldn't go back to how it was. i tried resetting the length of the comp and putting the files back, but no use. Tried making a new comp and copy and pasting all the files in the side panel of my orig comp, but nothing. Tried re-adding the same file from the project window and copying and pasting the effects keyframes from the orig shot to the new one but they didn't line up properly.
I still have all the files in the comp side panel but can't seem to get them back into the now extended timeline. I still have all the effects I've been doing for the past 3 weeks, but can't do anything to get them into a position where I can continue to manipulate them.
I've searched a bunch of forums and can't find this problem anywhere.
Have I lost all my work? Please help.

It appears that you've pushed those layers into negative time, which you can't view in the Timeline. To get the layers back into the Timeline view, you'll need to move the layers in time with keyboard shortcuts. I assume that you've got your layers arranged in an edit, and you want to preserve their relationships, so do the following:
Select all of the layers.
Hold down Alt/Option+Shift and press Page Down until the layers are visible. This shortcut moves layers 10 frames later in time. Removing Shift moves them 1 frame at a time. Using Page Up instead of Page Down will move them earlier in time.
Another useful pair of shortcuts is [ and ], which set the in or out points of the select layer(s) to the current time. But you probably don't want to use those shortcuts in this case because you'll lose the time relationships of your edit.

I accidentally eliminated my "Linked Selection" button over the timeline. How do I get it back?

I accidentally eliminated my "Linked Selection" button over the timeline. How do I get it back?

I'm finding it difficult to understand what you eliminated. Are you saying you no longer see your clips at the upper left of the screen ... the ones you placed in the timeline? Or are you saying you see the clips from the events but not the event names on the left most border of the upper left of the screen? There is a little arrow that points to the left with a bar to the left of it midway down the left border of the screen. Clicking on this little arrow hides or reveals the event names you have. (see below). Can you give us a little more info? Best wishes.
stephen

Can the timeline be locked to prevent accidental edit slips ?

Just wondering what the procedure in Speedgrade is to lock the timeline to prevent accidental frame and edit slips while selecting footage and grading?

To the left of the timeloine with the eye and sound icon, you'll find a lock icon. This appears to lock position/sync while still allowing you to select clips to grade.

I've accidentally imported and edited my hd footage onto an ntsc timeline.

I've accidentally imported and edited my hd footage onto an ntsc timeline. I'd like to export it now, but it is not preserving the hd ratio without being letterboxed. I've changed the settings on the sequence to hd 960x720, but the footage now looks stretched and squeezed in the viewer. How can I get my footage looking the way it should and on a sequence with the right settings? Thanks.

While I have you though...what is the difference between the two HD export options when exporting with quicktime converter? One option has a 16x9 next to it, one doesn't. I'm assuming since my footage was captured natively 16x9 that I do not need to choose the HD with 16x9 option? Or should I choose this if I plan on posting to the web, so that it is embedded as and knows to play as a 16x9 HD video online? Sorry if that is horribly worded and difficult to understand. Thanks.

I accidentally hit some button that made the audio waveforms in the timeline dissappear.

Even though I've selected "Show Audio Waveforms" in the toolbox, the waveforms do not appear.
Is there some other setting to make them re-appear?
Thank you,
Patrice

Hi Patrice,
Did you accidentally minimize the audio tracks?
Thanks,
Kevin

Accidentally sliced up the timeline

I'm new to FCE 4, and I was importing still images into the timeline when I suddenly noticed that all the audio and visual tracks had been sliced from top to bottom into four different sections and moved apart from each other.
I must have inadvertently hit some key but I have absolutely no idea what I might have done to cause this. It was as if I had cut it so that all the video and audio tracks were split from the same point and then dragged away from each other. Image stills and audio were cut, with one sliver on one side and then the remaining image / audio on the other, a few seconds later along the timeline.
At first I thought it was just because my screen needed to be refreshed, but when I opened up the document again, it was still there.
Can anyone tell me what might have caused this? I would really like to avoid that happening again.

Sounds like you may have performed an INSERT edit when you needed to perform an OVERWRITE edit.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2616735&tstart=15
-DH

HT201250 How do I restore from Timeline external backup to a different drive?

Good day! Here's my current architecture
1 MacBook Pro OSX 10.8.2
1 Lacie Rugged External Drive (1T)
1 G Drive 2T RAID
1 MyPassport External Drive (2T)
I have been backing up weekly both the MacBook Pro AND the Lacie to the RAID Device.
Lacie Rugged: My Lacie has my iTunes. Recently there have been issues with communicating with the Lacie. Genius bar says there is an issue with the drive itself. I purchased a new Firewire to troubleshoot. Still shows that the drive accidentally disconnects (e.g. not available) after about a couple of minutes.
So I bought a new drive.
Restore: When I plug in my new MyPassport and access my Timeline backups, I cannot see the Lacie backups to restore. It seems that Timeline requires the original drive (Lacie) to be plugged in (which is the one I am having issues with).
Question: How do I restore from a backup(Lacie) to my new external drive(MyPassport)?

I imagine you mean Time Machine, not TimeLine. If you do mean Timeline, I have no idea what that is.
Try Pondini's FAQ#16: http://pondini.org/TM/16.html
And, #18: http://pondini.org/TM/18.html

Something happened, now I can't select clips in the timeline of my current project(in Elements 4)

I've been working on a project for a few days now, everything's been fine. Last night while editing, something happened when I was trying to add a transition between two clips. Now I can't select or edit any clips in the timeline anymore, and can't add new ones. When I click on the clips in the timeline, nothing happens. When I try to drag the select box around several of them, same thing. It acts like there's nothing to select. Same thing with right clicks, soundtrack mp3s, etc. The clips ARE still THERE though, and they all play fine in the preview screen in real time, and when I drag the slider back and forth along them.
All the clips are already rendered except the one transition I was adding when this started. When I hit 'Enter' to render, though, it says "Rendering 1 of 6 Audio Previews" instead of the usual x-number of video previews. I've not seen that before so it probably has something to do with all this.
It's ONLY with this one project. I can still edit and select clips in all my other projects as before.
I've already tried loading other projects and then coming back to this one, as well as closing the program and re-opening it. My current project is still stuck like this but the others are fine.
Please keep all this info in mind. This can't have anything to do with codecs or the clips being in the wrong format for the program. They're all regular AVI files and MP3s, I've been selecting and editing every single clip on this timeline dozens of times over the past few days with no problems. I'm just suddenly not able to select or edit them anymore or add anything new to the timeline, but they still play normally as previews.
I'm really hoping this is a simple thing where I've just tripped some setting and accidentally saved it that way and it can be easily changed back.

OK, then all that I suggested here:
Now, Exit from PrE, and Shutdown the computer completely. Wait a few moments, and then do a cold boot, launching PrE and Opening that Save_As Project. Do you now have the ability to edit the Clips on the Timeline?
If not, go to the location where you Copied the AutoSave folder, and view the files with Detail View ON. Then, look at the Date/Time of the files (probably will be 5 of them). Choose the last one written, Open that, and test. If no change, work backwards to the oldest.
If nothing is working, the only thing that comes to my mind would be an issue with the display driver, BUT that should affect all Projects, and not just this one. However, updating the video driver is always a good step, and should not hurt anything.
Note: many MP3's can cause all sorts of problems. I recommend always converting them to PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit, and replacing MP3's with those WAV files. One can use the great, free audio-editor, Audacity, to convert the MP3's.
If all of the above tests fail, let us know, and if you get any error, or warning messages, copy those down completely, and post those
all failed too?
If so, there is nothing that I can suggest. It seems that your Project is hosed, and is very likely not recoverable.
Sorry,
Hunt

Video clip images have disappeared in the timeline

Hi - I was working away on an event in FCPX when I noticed that the timeline no longer showed any of the clip images - just the sound waveforms. The video is visible on the canvas, and can be edited, but there is just a segmented blue nothing where the clip images used to be. This is a new one - anyone experienced this before, or have an idea what's causing it?
Thanks!

Thank you very much, Tom, for your very clear reply! It worked using the Option-Command reset of preferences. Interestingly, when I clicked on Close to shut down FCPX, this is what popped up. I have no idea what "background tasks" were being undertaken. Although the app disappeared from the screen, it remained live in the dock and had to be force quit. Do you think it's possible that some not-deliberately-invoked process removed the clip images, and if so, what it might be? I can trip on a bare floor, but don't usually send an app off accidentally!

Weird Automatic Scrolling of Timeline

I am running Premiere Elements 11 on Windows 7, 64 bit, with all the latest updates.
I'm getting some weird automatic scrolling of the timeline happening.
When I hover the mouse pointer anywhere on the left side of the screen, (including over the "File" menu bar portion) the timeline automatically starts scrolling left.
When I hover the mouse pointer anywhere on the right side of the screen (like over the vertical scroll bar), the timeline automatically scrolls right.
The only way to stop the scrolling is to move the mouse pointer away from the sides of the screen.
This seems like an error -- but did I accidentally turn on some feature?
Any suggestions how to get proper control back?
Thanks,
Nick

Thanks for looking into this o promptly. It's in the middle of the clip I'm marking. It just happened again to me, and I'm paying a bit more attention to what happens when it occurs.
All is well as I'm working on a video track, using the "go to next/previous keymark" arrows, which moves the CTI. I want to fade to black so I right click and hold to drop the marker, but when I release the right mouse button, the diamond marker is "stuck" and moves left/right/up/down as I move the mouse. (unexpected behavior) I have to right click the mouse a couple of times to get it to release the key frame marker.
Now when I move the mouse to the far left to select the "next keymark" arrow, the CTI stays put on the timeline and scrolls off the screen on the right as I move the mouse to the left, dragging the whole timeline back to the beginning. The keyframe that I just dropped is somehow corrupt. The CTI won't land there if I click next/previous and if I put the CTI on top of it and try to delete it, it stays on the screen. Deleting the clip from the timeline and inserting it again (loosing my markers) returns me to a stable state.
I'm guessing it's a mouse driver. My PC is a Dell laptop and I'm using a USB connected mouse and keyboard, rather than the touchpad.

Need to disable the insert edit in Timeline.

I'm piecing together a video to music right now and am finding that, when I drop and drag clips from the viewer to the timeline, I accidentally use the insert edit, only to find later on that some of my clips have been unknowingly moved around. Is there any way to disable the insert edit arrow in the timeline and only have the overwrite edit arrow active?
Thanks!

If you prefer dragging directly to the timeline, then you'll need to pay attention to where your mouse pointer is located in the appropriate video track before you release the mouse button. If you look at an empty video track, you'll notice a line that runs just above the center of the track. If you drag a clip and your mouse is above that divider line, you'll perform an Insert Edit, if your mouse is below that divider, then you'll perform an Overwrite Edit. You'll see the mouse pointer change indicating the edit that you're about to perform.
From the FCP Users Manual:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/19589/Timeline%20Edit%20Zones.png
I will second the advice that was already given, performing edits with the keyboard or the Canvas overlays is MUCH more accurate than dragging directly to the timeline.

NO AUDIO DURING PLAYBACK ON TIMELINE

Ever since I tried using the Narration tool in Premiere Elements 12, I have had nothing but problems with audio. The narration tool itself cause Premiere to crash. I decided not to use it again, but I continue to have problems. I can hear audio in the clips when i play them through the source monitor, but if I drop it on the timeline, then there is no audio during playback. I've already checked my audio output settings and I've already tried restarting Elements and my Macbook. I've even tried to change the audio output devices just to make sure I didn't screw it up when trying to activate the microphone for narration. Please help!
*NOTE - this is only a problem in the current project. When I made a new project, it played back fine. The problem is that I have hundreds of assets that I've renamed with descriptive file names, as opposed to the formatted file name the camera gave them.

Good morning Steve.
Yes, there is a waveform on the clips. However, when I open Audio Mixer, I do not see any audio registering.
Also, I do not have a USB microphone plugged into my computer.
Finally, I have done the Audio Hardware check. I have tried using both "Built in Output" and "System Default Input/Output" but neither works.
Not sure if it helps to know this, but I have also tried to add music files to both Audio 1 track and also Soundtrack track. Neither one will play back audio on the timeline, even though I can clearly see the waveform on the file. It also does not register on the audio mixer. This tells me that it;s definitely an issue with this specific timeline. Is there any setting or mute button I may have accidentally changed? None of the mute buttons are checked off in the audio mixer.

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