Adobe Premiere Pro Create New Sequence

[Jonathon Burnside]

Beforeyou get started with hardcore editing in Premiere Pro, there are two very important topics you should know about: organizing your content and creating sequences. Both of these will be critical to you as you start to work on creating your video in Premiere Pro.

By definition, metadata is data that gives information about other data. If you have a JPEG image, for example, the metadata would provide information about that image. This information may include the type of camera, the size, etc.

In addition to the type of metadata that you enter into the Metadata panel, there is also metadata that Premiere Pro can find by analyzing source clips. Premiere Pro has the ability to find faces in your clips, as well as convert audible speech to text.

When you click OK, the Adobe Media Encoder starts to work in the background. You will not notice anything at all. In fact, you are think it didn't work because nothing happens right away. However, you can do some other editing while you wait. When Media Encoder is finished, it will play a sound to let you know.

The world revolves around sequences. At least, it does in Premiere Pro. It is where you are do your editing. It is where you put together your video. That said, we are going to talk about sequences in this section.

What you cannot do is change a sequence's preset once it is created. For that reason, you are want to set it up right the first time. Otherwise, you are have to copy and paste edited clips into a correct sequence. Although it is not hard to do, it takes up time that you could spend doing other editing tasks.

That said, you want to remember these three "rules" when you apply a preset to your sequence. Generally, in order to get things "just right," you should choose one of these rules to follow when choosing a preset.

If the clip does not match the sequence's settings, you are see a warning box appear. You can either change the sequence settings. You can keep them if the discrepancies between the clip and the sequence was intentional.

I have a broadcast file that has been correctly formatted so all I want to do is import it into Premiere and create a new sequence using this clip. The problem is when I do this Premiere creates a clip that doesn't have the same settings.

Thanks for the reply Ann, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree with what the definition of 'working perfectly' is. The fact you have to set all the things manually makes the 'New Sequence From Clip' feature far from perfect. And regardless of that:

The Use Media Source preference changes how Premiere treats the timecode on a clip being ingested/imported - either by using the native timecode of the clip or (second choice) creating a new timecode that begins at 00:00:00:00 at the start of the clip.

On my system, I can import Sony XDCam clips which have 4 tracks of mono audio, if I select one of those clips and use Make New Sequence from Clip, I get a sequence that matches the video properties and with 4 tracks of mono audio that sum to a stereo output.

1) Turning on the 'Set by first clip' check box sets the timecode for the sequence correctly although this doesn't save it as the default. So when I make the next clip it goes back to 00:00:00:00 and I have to change that setting again which is almost just as slow as setting the start timecode manually which is what I'm trying to avoid. I ticked the 'Set as default for future sequences' as well but that just keeps my first clips timecode (eg 09:58:00:00) and just keeps using that timecode instead of defaulting the setting to use first clip. Also now I ticked that once I can't turn it off. I untick it and click ok but when I go back into it it's back on and all my new sequences are now getting the 09:58:00:00 timecode even when they don't start there.

2) Is there a way to default the audio mapping to match the source? Eg. If 4 channels of mono come in can I default the output to match and not default to stereo? I also can't just default to always be 4 channels because I am always getting different deliverables.

1) Regarding being unable to uncheck the default box, you may need to trash (reset) your preferences, which is the usual first step when Premiere acts unexpectedly. This will reset all prefs back to the factory default:

2) As R Neil Haugen suggests, the easiest way to to handle appropriate audio channel mapping is to create the appropriate sequence once, then save it as a Sequence Preset. You can assemble a library of sequence presets:

Yes, as Jim mentions, there are other ways to create a sequence. For example, just import your footage, and then with one clip selected, choose File > New > Sequence from Clip. Or in the Project panel, drag a clip to the New Item icon. Many find it easier to create the sequence that way, rather than reading through all the settings in the New Sequence dialog and trying to figure out which attributes fit the media they are working with.

50% of the time I could go straight to the preset I wanted. For the remaining 50% I would just let Premiere create a sequence from whatever the currently selected preset in the dialog box was, and then I'd drag a clip onto the timeline, hit 'Change sequence settings', and let Premiere select a matching preset for me.

Zac Lam, where is the New Item icon in premiere pro CC? In cs6, it used to be at the bottom right corner of the project panel, but now I don't seem to find it. I know there are other ways to select the New Item option (for instance, in the File menu), but I'm curious about the icon...

Also, you can create a sequence manually, IE: without dragging any clips, start a new project and just right-click inside the project panel select NEW/Sequence, and pick a common / 1080p sequence. You might want to create the project in a folder other than that one you have been using.

I have a long video source file. I have to take 5 second excerpts (in and out points) from it throughout the file. After setting each in and out point is there a way to automatically have a new sequence created with that source clip and then I can move on to the next one?

Hi All. Although I switch live many many projects, I haven't yet used the Multi-Cam proccess in Premiere pro cc as of yet. All my footage was all over the place with 3 cameras sometimes running sometimes not etc...etc... so I spent hours aligning all three cameras (x 6 hours) onto a timeline (there's absolutely no way Premiere could do this on it's own with this footage(s). Now, can I take all my six tracks (3-videos & 3-audios) and make a Multicam sequence from these? I can't seem to find a way to do so.

should be able to... one way is to select all of the footage and nest, then right click and choose multi-camera>enable. another way is to create a new sequence with the same settings (or settings needed for project) and place the sequence with all the footage on the timeline. then just like before, enable multi-camera from right click.

Holy Guacamole. That worked really well. I accidentally had a TRRS cable in one of my mics. So a tip for those syncing audio wanting to get to this point. I found a hand motion that I wanted to sync audio, right to the point where his had left his pants and then laid down a marker (m). Then I found the exact same point on the other video, to the frame, and laid down another marker, dragged the video without audio and then snap it was perfectly synced.

Thank you Thank you Thankyou so much... Although as I haven't yet ever used multi-cam & Nesting and Flattening, I'm at a loss of exactly the proccess. I'm trying to follow the video(s) on Lynda.com, but they take me to some other way to sync first, and/but I already synced all the footage. Also, RonEdits, when you say select "All The Footage" do you mean all 6 tracks? or each audio/video track individually? Also where's the "Nest" option? I tried selecting all the footage and right clicked and thought there should automatically be a "send to mulicam" button, but there's not. I'm so confused. Is there a video somewhere where it acctually shows how to prepare my already synced timeline of three cameras, the steps to perform a multi-cam timeline? Thanks in advance for your continuing patience... I'm new to this part of Premiere.

the nest command should be on the list when right clicking, its also in the menu, clip>nest. the problem with doing the nest command (at least for me) is that it only nests the video and not the audio. so nesting the sequence from the bin, like in the video, might work better.

problem with CS6 multicam tutorials is that the multicam monitor was available as a separate window and with CC multicam monitor was moved into the Project panel, so after a CS6 tutorial, you might be lost in finding the multicamera monitor

when Ronin says 'create a new sequence with the same settings' ,,, and then take your multicam source sequence from your project bin - your 3 video, 3 audio layers - select and drag to your new, empty, just created sequence

Ok, Thank You All for your input(s). I finally figured it all out by taking bits and pieces of your comments and the available video (albeit it was made for older version of Premiere and obviously obsolete)

6a. Before you start cutting (mixing your program), It's important to create a new, separate "Unnested" sequence in order to make any final color corrections etc.. on each separate 'Complete' timeline. (this is in case there are noticeable differences between cameras etc...) If you wait until After you perform Multi-Cam cutting, you'll have to make any color corrections separate for each occurrence of any 'same' clip(s) on your fully cut timeline that could take lots of wasted time.

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