9 Replies Latest reply: Sep 29, 2014 4:55 PM by R Neil Haugen RSS

    Finding my sequences?

    ruez30 Community Member

      Working on a project with quite a number of different sequences. I was trying to find one of them and ended up closing my sequences so I could see it. (because I couldn't figure out how to move them to retrieve the one I was looking for) now I can't find my sequences. Please don't tell me that I would have to re do all of those.

      I am using pro cs5

       

      Can anyone help with this issue?

       

      Thanks

      ruez

        • 1. Re: Finding my sequences?
          R Neil Haugen Community Member

          Sequence.JPGCheck your Project Panel. All sequences will be shown there, and you can tell them as they've a little (blue?) squiglly icon sort of like a compressed timeline on their 'bottom' edge.

           

          Neil

          • 2. Re: Finding my sequences?
            Mark Mapes Employee Hosts

            You can also quickly find all the sequences in your project by typing "seq" in the Filter Bin Content box (aka, Rapid Find) in the upper right corner of the Project panel. To open a sequence in a timeline, simply double-click it in the Project panel.

             

            ProjPanelFilter_Seq.jpg

            • 3. Re: Finding my sequences?
              R Neil Haugen Community Member

              Almost everything you can do ... you can do three (3) different ways, of course ...  

               

               

              Neil

              • 4. Re: Finding my sequences?
                shooternz Community Member

                FWIW - I create all Sequences in a Bin in the Project Panel called  'SEQUENCES'.

                 

                As regards the rest of the Project management... I have named bins for Rushes, Audio, Graphics, D/Intermediates,  etc...

                • 5. Re: Finding my sequences?
                  ruez30 Community Member

                  Thank you so much. Now to expand on my issue a little further , in hopes that you might know the answer to this too. I was "painstakingly)
                  copying and pasting these sequences from the timeline in a project that I deemed corrupted to another project, one at a time. (trying to save myself from having to redo hours of work.) Now that they are not in the timeline they will not copy and paste to the new project.

                   

                  My question is, is there a way to get these sequences into the new timeline, without having to open them in the corrupted timeline? And is there a way to move more than one at a time?

                   

                  Thank you so much for your help!!

                   

                  ruez

                  • 6. Re: Finding my sequences?
                    shooternz Community Member

                    You could try IMPORTING the Sequences into a NEW PROJECT

                    • 7. Re: Finding my sequences?
                      R Neil Haugen Community Member

                      As almost always, your comments are correct. Again. One thing that might bear repeating, as something that was NOT at all clear to me at first ... "bins" are an INTERNAL software-based collection of data, and not a physical "site" on a disc. So ... creating a bin does not create a folder on disc. Simply a surreal one in the Project Panel so one can group things for use within PrPro.

                       

                      You of course were the person that pointed this out to me some time back ...

                       

                      Neil

                      • 8. Re: Finding my sequences?
                        shooternz Community Member

                        It may or may not be of interest to anyone  but my career in film started with 35mm / 16mm motion picture "film" (B&W actually and then color).

                         

                        The editing systems were upright moviolas, flat beds and pic synch machines.

                         

                        We would edit to and  from a bin and a "selects reel". 

                         

                        The bin was  a rectangular frame work  of fabric with an up right and across  bar that had clips mounted,  to which the film ends were attached and hung down into the bin.

                         

                        The bin was important because it held the head and tail so that a negative match could be done upon edit lockdown.

                         

                        I still relate to the Bin in the NLE in the same sense.

                         

                        Its funny because I also relate (head-wise) to the NLE in a mechanical sense of "feed from left to right" or "top to bottom"...as per those old edit machines. and projectors.

                         

                        Out of curiosity...I just checked the Premiere Reference file to see if "bins" are a term used in PPRO>  They are.

                         

                        Bin structure preserved on folder import

                        When you import folders containing subfolders into your project, Premiere Pro creates bins and organizes the files in the same hierarchy as on your hard disk.

                        • 9. Re: Finding my sequences?
                          R Neil Haugen Community Member

                          Interesting the way these things work, isn't it? And it's why it is SO useful to us human-things to use the illusions of "folders" to organize data on computers. We can "see" it so we "understand" it.

                           

                          Neil