Welcome to Tool Tip Tuesday for Adobe Premiere Pro on ProVideo Coalition. Every week, we will share a new tooltip to save time when working in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Your timeline has blue lights on the left and right sides (V1, A1, etc.). The ones on the left side represent the tracks of a source clip. That would be any clip you touch in the Project or the clip in the Source Monitor.

To understand this, load a clip with audio on your source monitor and examine the lights on your timeline.

There should be video and audio patches on the left.  

These dictate where clips go to the timeline, whether you drag and drop or use common editing styles like insert and overwrite.

If you turn off the audio tracks, video clips come in as you drag them without audio. If they’re patched to different timeline tracks (e.g., V1 and A3), as you drag a clip into the V1 track, the audio will go to A3.

The simplest solution here is to reset them to the default source assignment. Right-click on the Left side of the timeline and choose Default Source Assignment.

A quick fix when clips don’t go to the tracks you want!

This series is courtesy of Adobe.