Unable to edit sequence settings in CS6

[Chris Borjis]

unfortunately they can’t be altered.

you have to create a new sequence with settings you want
then copy the contents of the other sequence and paste
them into the new one.

[Kevin Monahan]

There is no way to change certain settings for certain sequence presets.

Solution: Make a new sequence in the same project with the correct settings and copy all the contents from the original sequence and paste into the correct one.

Kevin Monahan
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[Graham Hutchins]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the response.

Wow, well that’s pretty lame. What you suggested is what I’ve been doing, I just thought there was something awry.

Off to the Adobe feature request website! (again)

Thanks again!

-Graham

OSX 10.7.4, Windows 7
Adobe CS6
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 32 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the response.

I’ll be visiting the Adobe feature request website to log this. Seems like kind of a weird thing to leave out. Every single timeline based app I’ve ever used, FCP, AVID After Effects, has the ability to do this.

Re: your solution, yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing. Even custom sequence setups are uneditable once the sequence is made, though.

Would you mind expanding on why this is the way it is? Is it simply a functionality that wasn’t addressed and could be easily added, or is there a more “if we don’t do this this way, it will break something” reason for doing things this way, something at a deeper, media player/code level. I’d like to have as much control as possible with apps I use and I hope that Adobe isn’t trying to protect users from themselves with this implementation. As it stands now, what should be a one step process currently takes 7 steps. This is bad UI design.

Any thoughts?

Thank you for your time.

-Graham

OSX 10.7.4, Windows 7
Adobe CS6
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 32 GB RAM

[Nevin Styre]

Even in FCP7 you can’t change the sequence framerate or field dominance after you start editing, though frame size/pixel aspect ratio & codec can still be changed, these options at least would be nice to make there way to PP as editable after editing though.

[Graham Hutchins]

Hi Nevin,

You can change the frame rate and field dominance, you just have to select everything in the timeline, cut, make changes to sequence settings, and then paste everything back. Not as elegant as it could be, but it works.

-Graham

OSX 10.7.4, Windows 7
Adobe CS6
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 32 GB RAM

[Nevin Styre]

Might as well be pasting into a new timeline at that point

[Kris Merkel]

Sorry, I have to ask? Why would you want to change your sequence setting mid edit? Might be able to help with an alternate workflow solution if we knew why this was a necessity.

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[Kevin Monahan]

Graham,
I’m not an engineer, so I really can’t answer why a certain feature is not implemented the way you expect it to work. All I can suggest is to make a feature request. We actually read them and implement ones that matter most to our users.

Sorry I can’t give you a clearer rundown.

Kevin Monahan
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Adobe After Effects
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[Graham Hutchins]

Yeah, except that you have to cut the media from the timeline, create a new sequence, either use a preset or define the sequence parameters, rename the sequence, open the sequence, and then finally paste in the timeline.

Cut, command+0, edit parameters, return, paste. Fewer steps, but still pretty lame that have to do it in the first place.

-Graham

OSX 10.7.4, Windows 7
Adobe CS6
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 32 GB RAM