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updating imported premiere sequences?
Hello everyone,
I think I’ve done due diligence, but searching google and the forums haven’t turned up an answer that I could find.
I’m working with cs5 production premium on a Mac.
I’ve imported five sequences from five separate premiere projects into a new project to make a compilation. I had to make some changes in the original individual projects, but how can I get these changes updated to the compilation project? I thought the changes would update to the imported sequence, because after all it has to load up that same file, no? But the sequence in the project pane hasn’t changed.
Does dynamic link work from pproj to pproj like this? If not, is there a way where I can update the changes I made in a sequence to another project that references that sequence?
cheers,
Aira -
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Hello Aira,
Not sure about Dynamic Link, but considering the relatively modest number of nested sequences (you said there are 5 of them), why not just import the updated ones and substitute the old sequences with the new ones by Alt-Drag&Drop? This shouldn’t take long in your case, while preseriving all the alterations you’ve made so far to nested sequences in the compilation project.
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Hi Gleb,
You’re right, it came to me after I already posted (face-palm moment) 🙂
But out of curiosity I’d still be interested to know if there were some way to do it on a more complicated compilation project. There doesn’t seem to be a reason why sequences couldn’t update themselves in other pproj like they do if you import the seq to another adobe program.
just curious, because it could be really useful.
cheers
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Aira, my guess would be that the reason is that there’s no Dynamic Link in your case (remember, only Dynamic link is capable of tracing changes…well, dynamically). When you import sequences from another PPro project, though, there is no such link and the so imported items most probably lose their link with the original project becoming just a part of the new project.
With that said, next time you may want to use defferent sequences of the same project instead for a more complex job and nest them as you please within the same project with all changes still ‘dynamically linked’ 🙂
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as an interesting aside, I just noticed that when you import a pproj into another pproj, the pop-up window does say “connecting to dynamic link server”. I wonder.
Thanks for all your help, Gleb. I would indeed have done all the bits and pieces as different sequences of the same project if it had been possible. ah well, i’ll just stop being lazy and re-load the sequences.
thanks!
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You are welcome, Aira.
As regards your note, I believe nesting projects is quite different thing as compared to sharing sequences between projects. It’s like when you steal some meal from your spouse’s plate, it becomes yours. And when you take the whole plate, you can only have what’s in it (kinda dynamically linked).
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Hi Aria,
Premiere Pro Projects don’t work with the Dynamic Link like with After Effects.
When you import a project with either entire or sequence only you are basically running it as a separate edit.
I couldn’t imagine the nightmare of this being designed as dynamic link projects, if someone was to make a change on the original project it would update across and edits lost on the other end.
With Feature work being broken down and then the master edits of the breakdown being imported to compile would be a nightmare in that the system would be sharing and looking into another full project, the RAM use would be staggering and grind everything to a halt.
Could you clarify the benefits of a DL system? I wonder if there is an option to set import project as DL for minor work.. but I really don’t see the benefits of simply reimporting a fresh edit and replacing it manually?
Cheers JB
Jon Barrie
Adobe Video Solutions Consultant ANZ
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Hi Jon,
Point taken. I’ll find a workflow that works for the situations I have.
I can hear you scratching your head as to why on earth I would want an option to push changes out to imported sequences, so at the risk of beating a dead horse here I’ll fill you in:
I have separate projects that sometimes get combined into various combinations for clients. Let’s say they want 5 packages each built out of a diff combination of videos. Then the client decides that they want a specific change to one of the videos, which is in several packages. That’s the situation I’m in right now.
But I’m satisfied with re-importing and alt-draging to all of them, like Gleb said. I was just feeling lazy and wanted a button to do all the work for me. 🙂 Luckily this sort of thing doesn’t come up very often.
cheers,
Aira
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