Hey Phil Ebner here with video school online this is a very informal response to a question that I frequently
get in my Adobe Premier Pro courses.
People often are confused about what a sequence is and when do you use a sequence should you use multiple
sequences.
What do you use a sequence for.
So that's what I'm going to be talking about in this video.
So basically you think of a sequence as your video within your project.
This is the video that you're working on your entire project can consist of multiple sequences and there's
different ways people use sequences.
I personally use a sequence as an individual video that I'm going to edit together and then I'm going
to export.
But you can imagine that a project might have multiple videos within it.
For example this is just a test project that I've set up but I've imported screen records or video that
I'm going to edit down from another course that we're working on for the maverick drone.
So here you can see which kind of helps you understand what we're doing that I had multiple videotapes
for specific lessons.
So for lesson 2.1 we have three videos that we're going to put together.
So the first question is how do you create a sequence.
Well the easiest is just to drag your video clip into this new item button down here.
And we've learned that if you've watched the premier or pro course this matches the sequence settings
with the video content itself.
So you can see actually this video content is vertical.
IPhone footage from the app.
So if we want to edit it that way that's perfectly fine that matches the sequences.
So someone asked me in a class do you create a new sequence for every piece of media.
No you would not create a separate sequence for this second video because this is the same lesson or
the same video we're going to be putting together.
It's just another piece of media.
We're going to add it to this sequence.
So now I have two video clips on this sequence.
And we have one more which is this video right here 2.1 for and I'm going to add this to this sequence
as well.
So now I have this one sequence and it has multiple clips on it.
And now this is what I think of as one video.
I'm going to work through all of these video clips that we've added edit it down and that's going to
be one lesson or one video.
The next lesson that we're going to be working on which is going to be a completely separate video that
we export is the second one 2.2 video photo video settings.
So I would create a new sequence with this again by just driving this into the new item button.
You can see this is a different type of sequence or the settings are a little different.
Now I'm not going over the settings.
I probably wouldn't actually added it with the settings right here.
This is a vertical video I would edit it with horizontal settings but I'll go over that and head to
the last and I kind of talk about that in another lesson.
But now you kind of understand that we have two sequences and let me move them outside of this main
folder because it's kind of confusing.
So when me closed down this bin and here are our two sequences that we've created.
One is for Lesson number one in this section of the course.
Then the second video is for this.
Lesson number two.
OK so I hope that makes sense if we have other media that we want to add to this lesson or this video
we can add that so we can add photos we can create graphics we can add music that's all stuff that we'll
have to import into our project and then put into our sequence.
But again for the person who asked do we create a new sequence for every piece of media.
No that wouldn't make sense because you would have that video you would have photos you would have music
that you brought in and you want to add those to the one sequence.
So that's one way to use sequences by basically having a sequence for every piece of content.
So that.
So that's one way to have sequences.
Basically creating a sequence for every individual video that you're going to work on within this project.
Another way that people use sequences especially for longer term projects is for versions of your video.
So for example a lot of people are just using Premiere Pro to edit one video for one project.
You don't have multiple videos in in in a single project.
So in that case for example let me just delete this second sequence that we created.
So now all we have is this first sequence and I'll call this let's call this documentary rough cut.
Now the way that you actually work through your project might be different.
But one simple way you would do it is you would create a rough cut so I would add all my video you know
make some changes make some cuts maybe delete this clip if it was bad or whatever put our entire video
together here.
And then before actually moving on to the fine cut or the final cut where we're making more changes
what I might do is actually copy this and paste it.
I'm just on a Mac.
I'm just doing command C and then command V then rename it to document or a fine cut usually for your
cuts you go rough fine.
And then final or there might even be some in between.
But the Franka is the next step.
And the reason why we do that is because say we make some changes to this sequence so we make some changes
to the sequence.
You edit out this clip we do a bunch of stuff we add music we adjust sound we just you know add effects
transitions but we want to go back and see what the rough cut looks like.
Now we have this rough cut saved.
So this is the original version.
You don't have to undo things or anything like that you can just go back.
And so we would make changes and then say we want to do another round of editing we would copy and paste
this sequence copy and paste it.
Copy paste.
There you go.
You name final cut or however many versions you want to do.
Sometimes I don't do rough find final what I'll do is just documentary version 1 version 2 3 4 and then
just go as many times as I could the new version.
Some people create a new version every time they open up Premiere Pro to add it.
Some people create a new version every time every new day that they work on their project.
Some people create new sequences and new versions every time they make some major changes and they know
that they want to be able to go back to the previous version.
Or sometimes it's just if you have to actually show your cut to a client for example and so you have
version 1 that you show and then they give you notes and then you make a version 2 so that if they say
oh let's go back to how it was in version 1.
You have that available.
So those are the two ways that most people use sequences with in a project.
The first is remember that within a project you can create multiple videos so you can actually add you
know create multiple videos within this one project.
For example if you're creating a YouTube series you might only have one Premiere Pro project you don't
necessarily have to create a brand new Premier Pro project for every single new video.
You might just add all of those tutorials and things or series you're creating to this one project but
you export out and you edit different videos from this one project.
The second way to use sequences is for versioning.
So if you start with a rough cut and then you work your way through the versions and then all just mentioned
one last way that people use sequences and that's if you're creating a really long project a narrative
film or even a documentary that is longer than 10 15 minutes that has multiple scenes.
Some people like using different sequences for different scenes.
So you know you take any movie and the opening scene is inside an office building.
So you would edit that scene as one sequence.
But then if you cut to the next scene which is outside at someone's home or whatever it is that next
scene you would add it in a different sequence so that you have it all sort of split up it's more organized
that way.
And then at the end you can put it all together in one sequence.
But when you're building out each scene you work on them separately and that can also help with the
it's not as much of a problem anymore but with Premiere Pro when you have these big long sequences that
are hours long with lots and lots of clips lots of edits sometimes the Premiere Pro can get a little
buggy.
And so it's good to actually separate those into smaller sequences.
It's not as much of a problem as it was a few years ago with the new versions of Premiere Pro.
But anyways I just want to mention that and I just wanted to kind of walk through this process my thoughts
for using different sequences.
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