• Adobe Premiere Pro

  duplicate and relink sequence without affecting the original sequence?

  Posted by Geert Van asbrouck on March 5, 2021 at 2:52 pm

  Hello,

  I use Premiere Pro (CC 2017) for editing an animation film that conists mainly of one (or more) layers with lots of still drawings (transparent png’s) at 2 frames (or sometimes more), in a specific order (cycles etc) on fix (or moving) backgrounds .

  SITUATION: So now I have one sequence with a layer of clips/drawings (clean up outlines), and I want to duplicate that layer and to reconnect it completely with other clips/drawings with color, but without the outlines) – (I have these numbered in exactly the same way as the outlines, but in a separate folder), and to do this without affecting the original layer with the outline drawings. I would like to end up with 2 layers that are identical, one with the outlines and one with the colors. This way, I wouldn’t have to recompose the complete sequence with the hundreds of clips/drawings.

  WHAT I DID: When I duplicate the layer (outlines) and disconnect it, to be able to reconnect it again with the other series of drawings (colors) – which is easy because of the same numbering-, the original layer (outlines) is also affected, and that’s not what I wanted…

  QUESTION: Is there a way to duplicate a complete layer with clips, and to reconnect it with similar clips, without affecting the original layer?

  I hope this question is clear this way?

  Thanks in advance,

  Geert

  Geert Van asbrouck replied 5 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tim Kolb

  March 5, 2021 at 2:59 pm

  If I am understanding your situation correctly, my first recommendation would be to duplicate the sequence (in the project panel right-click the sequence, etc…rename the new sequence appropriately…) and then you can take the new sequence and delete the material you don’t want, leaving only the clips in the positions you want, allowing you to now work with those clips, either as a nested sequence added to another sequence, or you could select-copy them and paste them into another sequence.

  Is that useful?
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  Geert Van asbrouck

  March 5, 2021 at 5:24 pm

  Hello,

  I also got some help elsewhere, and I managed to do it as follows:

  I just opened a copy of my ppproject and relinked there the existing sequence in the timeline to the color files, after I renamed them (so they had not the same name as the outlines)
  then I copied this sequence into the original ppproject, after I had imported the folder with the renamed color-files in it,
  and now I have the 2 identical sequences, referring to 2 different image-folders in my ppproject,
  that is what I needed.

  Thanks anyway,

  Geert

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