[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.)

[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*

[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.

[Corinne Friesen]

That makes sense. Thnx.

[Corinne Friesen]

I’m assuming, then that you might also sometimes want to build sequences separately and then import them into one project, and that when imported, they can be dropped in, assembled as they were when you put the sequences together. If so, how can this be done? (I was playing with this this afternoon and end up baffled over it.)

[Corinne Friesen]

Thanks, Vincent. And I appreciate that you take time to answer, and so quickly!