Relinking / Saving Merged Clips from being orphaned

I made the mistake of using Merged Clips to handle the merging of my dual system sound.
During my edit it seems like almost all the clips have become "orphaned" and no longer are connected back to the project clip. REVEAL CLIP IN PROJECT doesn't work, and I'm no longer able to access SOURCE SETTINGS on the video portion of the clips.
Is there anyway to relink these or make it so I can easily access SOURCE SETTINGS again?? I've certainly learned my lesson about merged clips. Definitely not going to be using them again.

You probably don't have any audio tracks targeted.

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Hi, I've got a lot of clips to sync but unfortunately no obvious sync points so I kind of have to find my own. The problem I'm facing is that some of these sync points I'm using are halfway through a clip and if I merge them via In point Premiere automatically cuts everything before it (likewise merging via Out point cuts everything after). Is there some way of merging clips but keeping the duration of the sources? Sorry if this has been answered before. I've tried to find information on this but couldn't.
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EDIT: In case I haven't worded this properly, my problem is when I create a merged clip from sound and video (or a multicamera sequence), the resulting clip begins from the In point. Nothing before the In point remains.

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I am syncing HDV video captured with guide audio, with four track audio recorded onto a Hard Disk Recorder. I need to sync in the timeline as there is not always a clap, but there is plenty of guide sound with the picture. I want to make a merged clip that I can then work with.
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I think I can answer my own question. It seems that several separate files were made in the audio but only one take made in the video, and FCP will not allow the clips to be linked if I'm trying to link one take of video with three files of audio (pasted onto the timeline one after the other under the video). But If I cut the video and link the segments one at a time then I can merge the clips independently. It's not ideal but it makes sense.

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How can I stop sound track from being divided when adding clips to other tracks in PrE12?

The situation:
I have a project with several minutes of video clips on the timeline (expert view) in "Video 1/Audio 1." There is also music on the sound track (below the empty "Narration" track).
Any time I make an edit to the Video 1 track, PRE cuts the Sound Track. (Note that this is not the Audio 1 track, it's the sound track which is two tracks away.) If I insert a clip, the Sound Track is cut and left with a gap. Same if I do a FreezeFrame insert. This is bad enough (make ten insertions, have the Sound Track chopped into ten separate pieces), but it gets worse: when I try to slide the Sound Track pieces back together, the Video 1 clips will be moved around.
This appears to be a major bug but I'm hoping there is a simple way to deal with it.
Here's what the Manual (p.71) has to say about it (not much).
"When you insert a clip into the Expert view timeline, adjacent clips on all tracks shift to accommodate the new clip. By shifting all clips together, the audio and video of the existing clips remain in sync."
* The question here is, adjacent to what? The Sound Track is a continuous music clip of many minutes; it is alone on the Track, and there is nothing on the track above it (Narration track). So it's not adjacent to anything, and yet it is being chopped up.
The Manual continues:
"Sometimes, you don’t want all clips to shift with each insertion. For example, when you add background music that superimposes the entire movie, you don’t want clips to shift."
*They got that right, but they don't say anything about how to prevent it.
This next makes no sense at all:
"To shift specific clips togather, press the Alt key as you insert. At a time, you can shift specific clips simultaneously on a maximum of two tracks. These include the track receiving the insertion and the track containing the linked audio or video (if any). The affected tracks shift together, remaining aligned. The clips on other tracks are unaffected."
*There is no mention of how to specify what clips would be shifted, or not.
I'm not dealing with linked clips. And they tell me how to shift clips (sort of) but nothing about how to stop clips from being cut up and shifted. This all makes it very hard to create a coordinated product.
Any suggestions or solutions will be much appreciated.

Thanks, ATR,
I wll try this--but I still am unclear on how to do what the Manual says is possible: select clips on another track that WILL be moved, if I so desire, so as to remain synched to the main Video track.
UPDATE:
In the case of inserting Freeze Frame, I just tried both Ctrl method and Alt method, and neither worked.
1. Put Video on Vid1 track
2. Put Music on Sound Track
3. Ran a few seconds of Vid
4. Stopped Vid, selected Freeze Frame
5. Held down Ctrl key while clicking "Insert in Movie" also tried with holding down Alt key.
Result: a 3 second still was inserted int the Vid1 track. A corresponding gap was created in the Sound Track.
6. Slid the final part of the Sound Track to the left along the timeline to re-connect it to the next segment created by the above process.
Result: the video following the final Freeze Frame was pushed to the right end of Video1 track.
7. Slid the Sound Track all the way to the left.
Result: the entire Video 1 Track contents were pushed to the right and divided in pieces.
I documented each step with screen shots which I can send if you want them and if I can figure out how to do it.
UPDATE #2
In the case of inserting a video clip to the Timeline, I just tried both Ctrl method and Alt method, and neither worked.
1. Locate video in Project Assets
2a. R click video in Project Assets (pull-down menu appears), hold down Ctrl, click Insert to Timeline.
Result: Vid clip is inserted on Video 1 track, Sound Track is separated with a corresponding gap.
2b. R click video in Project Assets (pull-down menu appears), push Alt
Result: pull-down menu disappears as soon as Alt is pushed down.
I can stil drag the Vid clip but it's one more manual step...I love shortcuts!!

CC 7.2: out of sync indicator on merged clips - possible to hide / set?

With the CC 7.2 update, existing projects have turned into a mess of out-of-sync indicators on merged clips (DSLR video with separate audio sources, synced using PluralEyes). In previous versions, Premiere apparently accepted, or ignored, merged clips for sync indicator purposes, but now it seems to have decided to assume that the "synced" state is when audio and video start at the exact same time. Since the audio source is external, clicking the indicator to bring "into sync" obviously has the opposite effect.
For now, we've been reduced to the workaround of using the Ctrl-F12 command console and setting debug option TL.Don'tDrawSyncIndicators to True, which gets rid of the visual clutter. Of course, that means that sync indicators everywhere are gone, including where they would have been useful.
I'm sure all of this works fine with newly synchronized merged clips, or maybe even clips previously merged by Premiere, but that's not going to work for 27 hours of synced footage and a 90-minute rough edit...
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Strike those last comments of mine, I think I've figured out the fundamental issue and it seems to be a clear bug. It's actually completely unrelated to PluralEyes, but here's how I figured it out:
PluralEyes creates linked, but not merged, synced clips on a timeline. To add those synced clips to a bin, you will need create merged clips. Problem is, Premiere will always consider a merged clip from such a clip to be "out of sync" if there was any trimmed audio preceding the start of the video. And trimming audio preceding video is precisely what PluralEyes does by default.
It turns out the sync indicator problem does not occur:
- If video started rolling before audio (PluralEyes never automatically trims video); or
- If the trimmed audio is manually restored using the selection tool on the timeline prior to creating the merged clip.
Basically, trimming an audio clip prior to using it as part of a merged clip, causes Premiere to interpret the merged clip as having been "created out of sync". It's as if it's interpreting the trimming of the audio as a shift in the start of the audio. This is obviously not right, and it didn't happen prior to CC 7.2
The issue can be reproduced at will by taking any random video and audio clip, regardless of sync, shortening the audio clip at the beginning and then creating a merged clip. Adding the new merged clip to a timeline will lead to it appearing to be "out of sync".
There's a relatively simple workaround on new projects: undo (or disable, not sure if this is possible) the automatic trimming of audio clips in PluralEyes and don't trim audio prior to creating merged clips. Unfortunately, this is no solution for the current project, especially given the many limitations Premiere still has when dealing with merged clips.

Strange behavior of merged clips on import

After much troubleshooting I've noticed more strange behavior in the reimport of merged clips from XML...
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Merged clips and modified audio channels bug/issue

My problem is that if I create a merged clip and modify it's audio channels Premiere (both CC and CC2014) does not respect the modification under specific circumstances. These circumstances are: if I use keyboard shortcuts or the source window buttons for overwrite/insert to cut the merged clip into a timeline. However, if I drag & drop the clip from the source window or from a bin into the timeline Premiere will respect the audio channels set through modify audio channels.
Here are steps needed to create my problem. You will need a video clip and an audio clip with at least two channels to reproduce this.
1. Create a merged clip from the video and audio. Does not matter if you have "Remove audio from AV clip" enabled or not.
2. Right click on the merged clip in the bin and select Modify -> Audio Channels.
3. Set the merged clip's audio channels to Number of Audio Tracks: 1, Channel Format: Mono. Set the source channel for Audio 1 to anything except Channel 1. Click OK.
4. Make sure you have the merged clip open in the source monitor. Use keyboard shortcuts (. or ,) or the insert/overwrite buttons in the source monitor to cut the clip into a sequence.
5. The merged clip in the sequence will use channel 1 for audio, even though it has been set to use another channel.
6. Now try drag & dropping the merged clip from either the source monitor or from a bin into the sequence. It will now use the audio channel that has been set through modify audio channels.
My workaround is to use drag & drop for now for affected clips, but in the long run this is a pain in the backside.
My question is if this is something that affects other users as well. And while I'm waiting for a fix, if anyone has any suggestions on how to get modified audio channels to work properly, I will gladly listen.
I have filed a bug report for this. I have reproduced this on multiple Windows 7 machines with Premiere Pro CC and on two Macs with both CC and CC 2014.
EDIT to add: I have been in discussion with Rameez from Adobe about this through the support chat and have been told that this is working as intended. He suggested I post a thread about it to see how other editors feel about the functionality. I personally feel that the way it works now makes no sense at all. If others feel the same way, maybe this issue can be fixed in a future update. So please make your voice heard.
EDIT to add: In most usage this might not be an issue at all. But if for example you have external audio on multiple channels and to make sure you have a clean timeline, you wish to remove extra tracks from your merged clips and those extra tracks happen to be any track before the last one(s), you will find that editing the merged clip in in any other way than drag & dropping it in the sequence will result in you losing those last tracks instead of any tracks in the middle that you have disable through modify audio channels. I would think that the audio channel modifications should work no matter what way you cut the merged clip in.
Message was edited by: Jaakko Rinne

Going to try, but here is my workflow and have not encountered any problems until this last P/U days footage. I've been doing things this way because I found having all files in the project was causing it to crash constantly when I was working. I have a new I7' processor IMac with 24 gigs of RAM. And since Premiere does not allow you to have multiple projects open at the same time (Wish this would change. Avid and FCP both allowed multiple projects) I have to do things this way.
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Label all Video and Audio files to match Scene #'/Takes
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Now I've done this workflow from just about the very beginning. Deleting all of the original source video and all audio clips from my working project so only my bins containing my merged clips remain. Have had no problems and edit has been smooth. Did a pickup day last week, followed same steps as I've done in the past, imported the merged clips into my working project and the clips have the audio set to none by default. Now once I go into the sequence I can manually set it and it's there but I cannot play audio in the source monitor which is how I edit, there's no reason I should have to go back to the crappy FCP way of editing doing the copy and paste from a sequence.

After relinking MTS/AVCHD Clips have no audio

Hi,
I have a problem with avcdh-clips. They had been imported porperly, so that I allready have worked with them.
Today I opended the project, and all the MTS-Files were offline. I tried to relink them - and was warned, that they´ll come with no audio. Which they actually don´t have anymore. I tried to relink the same clips from the backup-disk. Same result. I tested the avchd-clips with prelude and QT-Player - they do have audio.
Also if I import them fresh in PrP, they are just fine with audio.
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I opened my file up after a 3 day break only to find that all of the linked audio from the interview was gone from my sequence. Now that wouldn't be that bad of a thing except the fact that it was like 8 hours worth of work... I checked the file browser and everything was still there. BUt on my main sequence all of the interview materal was simply gone as if it had been deleted off the timeline.... there were even two empty audio tracks left with nothing on them???
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Problem
When I import an XML Interchange Format V5 file from FCP7 and then import into Premiere Pro CC, my merged clips now have 4 audio channels. 2 from the original file and 2 from the merged audio.
Versions
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How do I relink clips from a AAF import to original camera media?

Our current workflow is to import our camera master QTs into Media Composer. And to then import our production audio WAV files. These Master Clips, both video and audio, are left as is and not renamed. We then Autosync them into subclips. The synced subclips are renamed to the slate name. We then offline edit. Then we export a video only AAF that we import into FCP7 with Automatic Duck. This make a Sequence and Clips. The clips we can easily do a relink with search and it find the original MOV files and all our clips are back online.
With FCP7 being DOA we are exploring how we are going to eventually replace it in our workflow and I'm giving Premier Pro a try since we already have the Production bundle for other software in the package.
When I import the AAF into PP it makes a sequence and 3 clips in the project window for each clip in the in the sequence. One of the clips appears to refer only to audio so it's confusing as to why it exist since I have a video only AAF.
Then there are a set of clips that appear to match the Master Clips from the Avid in that they have the original MOV file name as their name and the TC on them matches too. But when I select them to relink them the window that comes up is looking for the Avid MXF media. So I have to relink each one at a time. And once I have them online they are of no use as they don't have anything to do with clips cut into the sequence.
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I have an old project with AVCHD clips and I want to import the clips again with surround sound. How can I relink the project clips to the re-imported ones without doing the project from the begining?
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Subclips from Merged clips sync problem

Hi all,
I'm hoping someone has some insight into a problem I'm having. When I sync audio to my TK dailies, I usually go through the following steps:
1. Sync video clip and audio clip in the timeline.
2. Trim the ends so that I get rid of all the audio and video at the beginning and end I don't need.
3. Link audio and video.
4. Drag linked clips to browser, thus creating a merged clip. This clip will have the in and out I set in the timeline, but the media start and stop will be the original clips' lengths. Because this means I usually have a big long useless bunch of audio at the beginning with no picture, I like to get rid of this, so I:
5. Create a subclip from the merged clip in the browser. This creates a new clip with the media start and end at the point of the former merged clip's in and out. No extra media to clutter things up.
HOWEVER, for some reason this isn't working for me now. When I create the subclip, Final Cut does make the in and out points the new media start and stop times for each individual audio and video clip, but it syncs the clips randomly, so I have sound with no image, then a little random overlap, then image with no sound. If I drag this new subclip made from the merged clip to the timeline, I can unlink and relink to restore the proper sync, but obviously this is a huge pain.
This has never happened to me before, and I've used this method for a while, I THINK from before FCP 6. But right now I'm working on an FCP 5.1.4 again so perhaps it's just something that works in 6? Though I'm almost sure I did it before version 6 successfully.
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One of my original source tapes of an interview had distorted audio. So I imported the separate audio recordings for that tape into my project manager. I then created a new Sequence on my Timeline. I then dropped the original source tape with the distorted synched audio into that sequence. I then dragged the matching double-system audio into the sequence and proceeded to line up that double-system audio against the original distorted audio tracks of the source tape.
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