Importing a Primiere Pro Project to Premier Pro

[Alan Lloyd]

Are there assets in the project you are trying to import?

[Corinne Friesen]

Yes. And I’m using the same asset pool for both projects.

The folders import fine. But when I drag and drop the sequence that goes with them, I just get blank video and audio.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Corinne,

When you Import a project, you get a single folder in the bin – open it and find your Sequence, typically named “Sequence 1” unless you had changed it. Simply double-click the icon to the left of the “Sequence 1” name and that should open the sequence with all the clips in it. If you click the name, it just offers the chance to rename, so click to left side of it.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Corinne Friesen]

Hi, Jeff,

I’m doing that, but I end up with that ribbon of blank audio and video, even though the sequence and the assets in the imported folder seem to import fine.

*scratching head*

[Jeff Pulera]

Corinne,

Can you please explain what you mean by “ribbon”? You may be referring to a “nested sequence” which is what results when you drop one sequence into another – it looks like just one big clip, but if you scrub or play it, you should see and hear the content, you just don’t see all the original separate pieces in the sequence.

We should back up to the beginning and make sure we’re on the same page. What is the workflow, i.e. WHY are you importing one project into another, and exactly what are the steps you are using?

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor

[Corinne Friesen]

Hi, Jeff. Thanks for staying with me on this one.

“You may be referring to a “nested sequence” which is what results when you drop one sequence into another.”

I’m a little fuzzy on my terminology, but I think “Nested sequence” is what I’m talking about. Here’s what’s been happening:

“What is the workflow, i.e. WHY are you importing one project into another, and exactly what are the steps you are using?”

I’ve been building a project that got a little long, so I broke it down into parts and worked on them as separate projects. Let’s call them P1 & P2.

Now, to put them all together, I went back to P1 and decided I now wanted to put P2 on the end of it, and then resave them together as P1.

So, I imported P2 into P1 as a Premiere Pro project. The folders came over just fine. The sequence came over with them.

Then I dragged and dropped the P2 sequence into my existing P1 time line. It appeared to do this OK

Hitting my space bar to play – the new sequence plays back nothing, even though the “cursor” seems to run over the P2 sequence and pretends to play it.

Bringing my P2 sequence into my viewing window and scrubbing it produces the same result. The software acts as though it’s working with a clip of the right length for that sequence, but there is no audio or video actually playing back.

(Please excuse my lack of correct terminology. That’s part of my learning curve. The worst part is that I used to be a professional video editor in the days of 3/4″ beta tape. So it’s frustrating having a brain the size of the universe and still trying to figure out how to park cars.)

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Corinne,

About Nested Sequences – say you have “Sequence 1” in your project with all your edits in it, and you then add a blank “Sequence 2”. You next go to the project bin and drag Sequence 1 into the Sequence 2 timeline, it will appear as one long clip. This is handy if maybe you want to make everything black and white, or you want to add a timecode window – you add the effect once to the nested sequence as a whole, rather than trying to apply a color correction to every single clip in the sequence.

Or you may have several sequences, different parts of the whole program, that you can string those together when you are done to create the finished project, which it sounds like you were trying to do from two different Premiere projects.

Try this – OPEN the imported sequence how I suggested, by double-clicking it in the project bin (rather than drag and drop). This SHOULD open the Sequence will all the clips and edits intact. Now hit CTRL-A to “Select ALL” (all clips in the timeline should highlight). Now switch to the sequence that you want to append this to. Place the playhead at the end of the existing clips in the sequence, and do CTRL-V to PASTE everything in. You should then see all the parts, as originally edited, added to the existing timeline sequence.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Corinne Friesen]

Lo and Behold. Your tip worked.
Thank you, Jeff!