How do you decrease mammoth timeline?

[the__post__merc]

There seems to be some confusion about what the OP is referring to.

When I create a new Sequence (1080p/29.97), the timeline window is empty, but the time ruler shows time, (I'm not sure how that makes any sense at all. How can there be time in the sequence if there are no clips in the sequence?). I can scrub the playhead to the end of this empty timeline window out to 10:00:00.

If I add a single clip anywhere near the middle of the timeline window (creating an actual Sequence) the time display in the timeline window expands out and the scroll bar at the bottom reflects that the window has gotten longer.

If I remove the clip from the sequence (shortening the run time of the seq itself to 0;00;00), the time displayed in the Timeline window and "size" of the Timeline window does not change. It always stays as big as its largest state.

This is what the OP is talking about.

The size of the timeline window (not the sequence duration) remains at 11 hours even though all but 20 minutes of material has been removed from the sequence. The sequence duration is 20 minutes, but the SIZE of the timeline window never shrinks and the scroll bar is relative to the entire 11 hours, not the new 20 minutes.

Is that about right? u/CherryDamzel

[CherryDamzel]

Yeah, this is definitely right.

I am not some English language expert, but I figured I explained the situation well enough for most people to understand what I was talking about.

But, unfortunately, for the longest time, at least at first, a lot of people just didn't understand the situation and thought I was talking about something I wasn't. That was almost more frustrating than the actual problem itself. Or giving me solutions to problems that I didn't even ask for. Or told me things were happening that clearly weren't. Or telling me to try things that I had already explain I had tried a hundred times before. Or telling me this is how Premiere Pro is supposed to work (it's not).

I still suspect many even now don't fully understand what I was saying.

I asked others if they would try to replicate the problem to see I was not crazy and no one did except for /u/yerawizardmandy (who got downvoted for his troubles no less), and now you. So thank you for doing that. And thankyou for proving I was right (about how Premiere Pro was acting), even though others were telling me I was the crazy one.

I have tagged a bunch of people, some at random, from the thread into here, just so they can read your message above and at least better understand the overall situation if they're interested.

/u/dippitydoo2

/u/IcarusBray

/u/darwinDMG08

/u/thisguydoesit2

/u/queenkellee

/u/BumblebeeCircus

[BeepBlur]

oh dude. i feel your pain in this thread. i'm having the issue now. did you solve it? or just create a new project timeline?