I'm not sure I can begin to explain last night's problem, so I'm not hopeful of any illuminating answers - but I know that if there's an illuminating answer to be had, I'll get it here. So...

Took about five minutes of footage yesterday (my daughter went up to Oxford - brag, brag... :lol: ) and sat down yesterday evening to rearrange it. For some reason, every time I inserted any kind of dissolve transition (I didn't try any others) it would pick up - after the dissolve - a couple of frames from somewhere else in the footage before going to the 'correct' sequence. The only fix I could find that would work was to insert black video between each sequence and then 'dip to black' either side of it.

I'd guess - I'm not in front of the system right now - that the incorrect frames were those that originally preceded (before I cut everything up and resequenced it) the sequence - yet my original edit/cut was frame perfect.

What I didn't have time to do was to render the piece, see if the unwanted frames went away - whether they were just a function of working on the timeline.

That said, I've never had this problem before. I'm also wondering whether it's anything to do with the fact that I had to reinstall Premiere Pro after reinstalling WXP - whether there's some setting that I've forgotten about.

Any clues, guys?

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