WEBVTT 00:01.550 --> 00:07.880 Hey Phil Ebner here with video school online this is a very informal response to a question that I frequently 00:07.880 --> 00:11.600 get in my Adobe Premier Pro courses. 00:11.600 --> 00:18.020 People often are confused about what a sequence is and when do you use a sequence should you use multiple 00:18.020 --> 00:18.650 sequences. 00:18.650 --> 00:20.930 What do you use a sequence for. 00:20.930 --> 00:23.450 So that's what I'm going to be talking about in this video. 00:23.450 --> 00:28.820 So basically you think of a sequence as your video within your project. 00:28.820 --> 00:36.080 This is the video that you're working on your entire project can consist of multiple sequences and there's 00:36.080 --> 00:38.430 different ways people use sequences. 00:38.540 --> 00:45.230 I personally use a sequence as an individual video that I'm going to edit together and then I'm going 00:45.230 --> 00:46.260 to export. 00:46.370 --> 00:51.140 But you can imagine that a project might have multiple videos within it. 00:51.140 --> 00:57.680 For example this is just a test project that I've set up but I've imported screen records or video that 00:57.680 --> 01:03.900 I'm going to edit down from another course that we're working on for the maverick drone. 01:03.920 --> 01:11.750 So here you can see which kind of helps you understand what we're doing that I had multiple videotapes 01:11.840 --> 01:13.820 for specific lessons. 01:13.850 --> 01:18.970 So for lesson 2.1 we have three videos that we're going to put together. 01:19.280 --> 01:21.970 So the first question is how do you create a sequence. 01:22.160 --> 01:27.590 Well the easiest is just to drag your video clip into this new item button down here. 01:27.590 --> 01:32.810 And we've learned that if you've watched the premier or pro course this matches the sequence settings 01:32.930 --> 01:35.870 with the video content itself. 01:35.870 --> 01:39.200 So you can see actually this video content is vertical. 01:39.200 --> 01:41.480 IPhone footage from the app. 01:41.540 --> 01:46.850 So if we want to edit it that way that's perfectly fine that matches the sequences. 01:46.850 --> 01:52.280 So someone asked me in a class do you create a new sequence for every piece of media. 01:52.280 --> 01:59.720 No you would not create a separate sequence for this second video because this is the same lesson or 01:59.720 --> 02:02.660 the same video we're going to be putting together. 02:02.660 --> 02:04.250 It's just another piece of media. 02:04.310 --> 02:08.150 We're going to add it to this sequence. 02:08.390 --> 02:11.810 So now I have two video clips on this sequence. 02:12.170 --> 02:20.120 And we have one more which is this video right here 2.1 for and I'm going to add this to this sequence 02:20.150 --> 02:21.530 as well. 02:21.530 --> 02:27.240 So now I have this one sequence and it has multiple clips on it. 02:27.410 --> 02:29.810 And now this is what I think of as one video. 02:29.810 --> 02:35.540 I'm going to work through all of these video clips that we've added edit it down and that's going to 02:35.540 --> 02:38.720 be one lesson or one video. 02:38.720 --> 02:43.100 The next lesson that we're going to be working on which is going to be a completely separate video that 02:43.100 --> 02:48.670 we export is the second one 2.2 video photo video settings. 02:48.740 --> 02:54.860 So I would create a new sequence with this again by just driving this into the new item button. 02:54.950 --> 02:58.540 You can see this is a different type of sequence or the settings are a little different. 02:58.550 --> 02:59.830 Now I'm not going over the settings. 02:59.840 --> 03:04.090 I probably wouldn't actually added it with the settings right here. 03:04.100 --> 03:09.940 This is a vertical video I would edit it with horizontal settings but I'll go over that and head to 03:10.040 --> 03:13.240 the last and I kind of talk about that in another lesson. 03:13.520 --> 03:19.040 But now you kind of understand that we have two sequences and let me move them outside of this main 03:19.040 --> 03:21.070 folder because it's kind of confusing. 03:21.130 --> 03:26.070 So when me closed down this bin and here are our two sequences that we've created. 03:26.090 --> 03:30.770 One is for Lesson number one in this section of the course. 03:30.770 --> 03:33.020 Then the second video is for this. 03:33.050 --> 03:34.510 Lesson number two. 03:34.970 --> 03:41.600 OK so I hope that makes sense if we have other media that we want to add to this lesson or this video 03:42.200 --> 03:48.430 we can add that so we can add photos we can create graphics we can add music that's all stuff that we'll 03:48.430 --> 03:53.890 have to import into our project and then put into our sequence. 03:54.250 --> 03:59.170 But again for the person who asked do we create a new sequence for every piece of media. 03:59.170 --> 04:04.630 No that wouldn't make sense because you would have that video you would have photos you would have music 04:04.630 --> 04:09.370 that you brought in and you want to add those to the one sequence. 04:09.370 --> 04:15.990 So that's one way to use sequences by basically having a sequence for every piece of content. 04:18.220 --> 04:19.690 So that. 04:20.110 --> 04:22.600 So that's one way to have sequences. 04:22.600 --> 04:29.350 Basically creating a sequence for every individual video that you're going to work on within this project. 04:29.350 --> 04:38.980 Another way that people use sequences especially for longer term projects is for versions of your video. 04:38.980 --> 04:44.760 So for example a lot of people are just using Premiere Pro to edit one video for one project. 04:44.770 --> 04:48.460 You don't have multiple videos in in in a single project. 04:48.490 --> 04:53.790 So in that case for example let me just delete this second sequence that we created. 04:53.800 --> 05:05.300 So now all we have is this first sequence and I'll call this let's call this documentary rough cut. 05:05.340 --> 05:08.890 Now the way that you actually work through your project might be different. 05:09.030 --> 05:15.030 But one simple way you would do it is you would create a rough cut so I would add all my video you know 05:15.030 --> 05:21.780 make some changes make some cuts maybe delete this clip if it was bad or whatever put our entire video 05:21.780 --> 05:22.900 together here. 05:23.190 --> 05:29.670 And then before actually moving on to the fine cut or the final cut where we're making more changes 05:30.060 --> 05:33.470 what I might do is actually copy this and paste it. 05:33.480 --> 05:34.310 I'm just on a Mac. 05:34.320 --> 05:41.730 I'm just doing command C and then command V then rename it to document or a fine cut usually for your 05:41.790 --> 05:44.060 cuts you go rough fine. 05:44.090 --> 05:47.670 And then final or there might even be some in between. 05:48.090 --> 05:50.240 But the Franka is the next step. 05:50.460 --> 05:58.560 And the reason why we do that is because say we make some changes to this sequence so we make some changes 05:58.560 --> 05:59.940 to the sequence. 06:00.140 --> 06:06.270 You edit out this clip we do a bunch of stuff we add music we adjust sound we just you know add effects 06:06.300 --> 06:12.630 transitions but we want to go back and see what the rough cut looks like. 06:12.630 --> 06:14.700 Now we have this rough cut saved. 06:14.700 --> 06:17.160 So this is the original version. 06:17.160 --> 06:21.100 You don't have to undo things or anything like that you can just go back. 06:21.420 --> 06:27.510 And so we would make changes and then say we want to do another round of editing we would copy and paste 06:27.510 --> 06:30.710 this sequence copy and paste it. 06:31.080 --> 06:32.190 Copy paste. 06:32.190 --> 06:33.060 There you go. 06:33.360 --> 06:36.860 You name final cut or however many versions you want to do. 06:36.860 --> 06:43.530 Sometimes I don't do rough find final what I'll do is just documentary version 1 version 2 3 4 and then 06:43.530 --> 06:46.570 just go as many times as I could the new version. 06:46.590 --> 06:51.680 Some people create a new version every time they open up Premiere Pro to add it. 06:51.720 --> 06:57.480 Some people create a new version every time every new day that they work on their project. 06:57.480 --> 07:06.270 Some people create new sequences and new versions every time they make some major changes and they know 07:06.270 --> 07:08.930 that they want to be able to go back to the previous version. 07:09.030 --> 07:15.480 Or sometimes it's just if you have to actually show your cut to a client for example and so you have 07:15.480 --> 07:21.240 version 1 that you show and then they give you notes and then you make a version 2 so that if they say 07:21.240 --> 07:23.680 oh let's go back to how it was in version 1. 07:23.700 --> 07:25.550 You have that available. 07:25.560 --> 07:30.490 So those are the two ways that most people use sequences with in a project. 07:30.510 --> 07:38.840 The first is remember that within a project you can create multiple videos so you can actually add you 07:38.840 --> 07:42.460 know create multiple videos within this one project. 07:42.480 --> 07:47.430 For example if you're creating a YouTube series you might only have one Premiere Pro project you don't 07:47.430 --> 07:53.230 necessarily have to create a brand new Premier Pro project for every single new video. 07:53.310 --> 07:58.830 You might just add all of those tutorials and things or series you're creating to this one project but 07:58.830 --> 08:03.390 you export out and you edit different videos from this one project. 08:03.420 --> 08:07.680 The second way to use sequences is for versioning. 08:07.680 --> 08:12.930 So if you start with a rough cut and then you work your way through the versions and then all just mentioned 08:12.930 --> 08:20.880 one last way that people use sequences and that's if you're creating a really long project a narrative 08:20.880 --> 08:27.060 film or even a documentary that is longer than 10 15 minutes that has multiple scenes. 08:27.090 --> 08:30.930 Some people like using different sequences for different scenes. 08:30.930 --> 08:36.770 So you know you take any movie and the opening scene is inside an office building. 08:36.840 --> 08:39.960 So you would edit that scene as one sequence. 08:39.960 --> 08:46.680 But then if you cut to the next scene which is outside at someone's home or whatever it is that next 08:46.680 --> 08:52.560 scene you would add it in a different sequence so that you have it all sort of split up it's more organized 08:52.560 --> 08:53.230 that way. 08:53.280 --> 08:56.410 And then at the end you can put it all together in one sequence. 08:56.460 --> 09:02.550 But when you're building out each scene you work on them separately and that can also help with the 09:03.060 --> 09:08.640 it's not as much of a problem anymore but with Premiere Pro when you have these big long sequences that 09:08.640 --> 09:15.120 are hours long with lots and lots of clips lots of edits sometimes the Premiere Pro can get a little 09:15.120 --> 09:15.840 buggy. 09:15.960 --> 09:20.740 And so it's good to actually separate those into smaller sequences. 09:20.740 --> 09:25.170 It's not as much of a problem as it was a few years ago with the new versions of Premiere Pro. 09:25.180 --> 09:31.440 But anyways I just want to mention that and I just wanted to kind of walk through this process my thoughts 09:31.440 --> 09:33.610 for using different sequences. 09:33.660 --> 09:38.580 I hope this was helpful for people who were confused if this was the video you were looking for please 09:38.580 --> 09:43.150 let me know in the comments of this video so I know that you know the right people are getting to the 09:43.200 --> 09:43.690 video. 09:43.770 --> 09:49.530 If this was not the video you were expecting let me know and let me know what you were searching for 09:49.830 --> 09:55.140 or how you would better find this video because I want to make sure that the title of this video and 09:55.380 --> 09:58.010 the description match what people's expectations are. 09:58.010 --> 10:01.180 So you're finding it on YouTube or wherever you are watching it. 10:01.200 --> 10:02.880 Anyways thanks so much for watching. 10:02.940 --> 10:04.570 If you have any other questions let me know. 10:04.740 --> 10:08.290 Otherwise we'll see you in another lesson or video or over at video school. 10:08.310 --> 10:10.430 Online.com have a great day.