Is it possible to import a sequence/EDL into a new project?

[Jeaster]

I solved this problem by importing the original project and opening the sequences.

[Craig Howard]

Thats what we would have told you to do.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Premiere Pro 2.0

[David Cherniack]

This JUST may be an important discovery. Then again it may be old news that I’m not aware of but I just discovered this tonight with my editor.

It appears on our preliminary testing that you can copy and paste sequences and bins from one project to another. If the source material already exists in the receiving project, and is in the same place as in the donor project, it will be accessed by the sequence. If it doesn’t exist it will be imported.

This works well with DV material. With HDV material on my Axio the sound wasn’t present in the pasted sequence until I did a match frame in each track.

It would appear that Adobe has put the hooks in PPro2 for importing timelines and bins in PPro3. There may be some gotchas in the process but it sure can be useful.

[Tim Kolb]

So…since you can’t open multiple projects at once, I am assuming you simply copy to clipboard and open another project and paste?

Thanks for the post.

TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,

Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net

[David Cherniack]

[Tim Kolb] “since you can’t open multiple projects at once, I am assuming you simply copy to clipboard and open another project and paste?”

That’s correct.

I haven’t tried it with a timeline that includes subtimelines yet. If it works it’s also a way to consolodate a project from a timeline by pasting into a new project.

Remember to copy from the project window.

David

[David Cherniack]

I just ran a test with a timeline that was made up from a subtimeline. It worked.

In my last project I didn’t do an HDV recap because all the double system sound subtimelines made it too time consuming. I’m guessing I could have consolidated it from the master timeline had Adobe documented this feature – even as a “use at your own risk”….

Grrrrr.

Why do they keep giving me reasons to think that the company (not the engineers) is indifferent to the pain caused to its users by gaping holes in its software. Just another head shaker…

D.

[Dave Friend]

David,

Maybe it is actually an unknown (as opposed to undocumented) feature. Could it be you found something that even Adobe didn’t know about?

Dave

[David Cherniack]

[Dave Friend] “Could it be you found something that even Adobe didn’t know about?”

Adobe? Not know about something? Don’t they know about everything?

Seriously. I just watched it paste an hour timeline with 4 levels of subtimelines, stills, graphics and titles into a new project. It really pushed the limits of my ram to do it, but do it it did. Adobe not know that it could do that? I think not. But hey, why tell us something that could be incredibly useful.

David

[Giles Baker]

Hi all,

You’ve discovered an undocumented feature that we were experimenting with during the 2.0 development cycle. There wasn’t time to finish it completely in time for 2.0 but we didn’t disable it because it worked well enough in some situations. Judging from the reaction, it sounds like it’s something we should test and document for the next version.

Best regards,
Giles

Product Manager, Adobe Premiere Pro

[Tim Kolb]

Huh…new feature, but didn’t get a thorough enough test to put in the docs…

Dave…if Adobe had documented it as a “use at your own risk” would you have been complaining about them doing shoddy engineering?

They’ve taken the high road on this and not mentioned a feature they think was not adequately tested to protect the customer…

TimK,
Director,
Kolb Productions,

Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net