Merged clips limitations – Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 User Manual
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Set the File popup menu to the component clip you wish, and then enter metadata for the clip.
Set the File popup menu to All Files, and then enter metadata for the merged clip. Any data entered into a property will be entered into the
XMP for each of the component files that make up the merged clip.
Note: The All Files display acts like a multiple clip selection, where
across the selection. Similarly to ta multiple selection, when the display mode is set to All Files, any data entered into a property will be
entered into the XMP of each componenet file that make up the merged clip.
Use timecode from an audio master clip to create a merged clip (CS6)
In Premiere Pro CS6, you can use the timecode from an audio master clip to be used when you create a merged clip. You can also choose to omit
the source camera audio when creating a merged clip.
Do the following:
1. Select the video clip, and the audio clip that contains timecode.
2. Choose Clip > Merge Clips
3. In the Merge Clips dialog box, do one of the following:
To use timecode from an audio master clip to create a merged clip, click the “Use Audio Timecode from Clip” checkbox. Once it is
checked, choose the audio track you want to synchronize video with from the pop-up menu.
To delete source camera audio from a clip, click the “Remove Audio from AV Clip” checkbox.
4. Click OK
Merged Clips limitations
The Replace Footage command does not work.
Attaching Adobe Story scripts, and then analyzing speech to text is not supported.
Note: If you attach an Adobe Story script to an audio clip prior to merging, then you can analyze speech to text after merging them. Select
either “All Files,” or the audio clip containing the script from the File pop-up menu in the Metadata panel, and then click the Analyze button.
Full audio channel mapping control in the merged clip is not supported.
Merged clip audio results in mono track audio only.
Final Cut Pro XML and AAF interchange formats are not supported.
Auto-sync using audio waveforms, free-run timecode, time-of-day timecode, AUX timecode, or separate audio timecode is not supported.
Reveal in Adobe Bridge is not supported.
Once created, the merged clip cannot be re-synchronized, or adjusted. You must make a new merged clip.
Adjusting contents of a merged clip is not supported. However, if a particular component clip is deleted, the merged clip may be relinked.
Merged clips or parts of previously merged clips cannt be used to remerge or make a new merged clip. Only component clips may be used
to create a merged clip.
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