Hello! In today's lesson, we will examine how to set up a sequence of clips in Premiere Pro. Launch, Premiere Pro, and we'll create a New Project. We'll call this project, "Sequence." We'll click, OK. Make sure you're in the Assembly Workspace, Window, Workspace, Assembly, or click on it in the, Workspace panel. First, we'll import a number of clips, and then use them to establish a sequence. You can begin with a new sequence created from a preset, or use the video clips themselves to create it. If you begin by using a New Preset, create a New Sequence. Bear in mind that you will have to decide, whether the clips in the Sequence, conform to the new settings or keep the current settings. If I were to go, New, Sequence, and choose a particular Sequence Type. ACVHD 1080p24. Sequence there. If I now import some video clips? Here we go. I have a whole bunch of video clips I have imported. There are several ways that you could place them into a Sequence. The first, is simply a drag and drop operation. I can drag in, clips, one at a time. In this case, 'cause I created a New Sequence, with specific settings. And dragged in a clip that had slightly different settings. Do I want the clip to match the Sequences' settings, or change the Sequence to match the Clip Settings? I could go either way. If I had just created this Sequence by dragging a clip into a blank Sequence? Then ,it would use, exactly the same settings as the original clip. So, if I take one of these clips, and I drag and it into the Sequence, if this conforms to the existing settings, it'll be fine. If it's different, then the settings, Sequence Settings that are in there, originally, then it will give me an error message. So, you can drag clips in one at a time, to try and assemble something resembling a sequence. Or, you could drag a whole bunch in, all at once. Like so. And then, you would end up, attempting to rearrange them, to complete your sequence, and trim them. So, as you could see, you could create a sequence with these clips, but it's totally random order. You could select a clip and drag it to another part of the Sequence, in other place of the Sequence, so I could take this clip, and drag it down here, say. Take the individual, layers here, the audio and the video layer. Bred them apart, so that I could drag and drop it, in position as an overlaid clip, wherever I want. But you see, when I do that, it leaves a gap in between. I could also, cut the clip and copy and paste. So, I click on the clip. Edit. Cut. Removes the clip. Move my playhead to where I want to insert the clip. And then say, Edit, Paste. And the clip is pasted in in that spot, I still end up leaving a gap here. Now, if you right click on the gap, you can click, Ripple Delete to remove the gap. But all of this would be, rather time consuming way to edit. So instead, another more organized option would we just, would be, to establish an initial order. By sorting them in the icon view, or arranging the clips in the free form view. Both of these options are found at the bottom of the panel. Here's the icon view. We could see all the clips, and they come in there. You can actually scrub in the clip to see, what the content of the clip is? You can sort them, various ways. I could sort them say, by Media Duration. So now, it's gonna go from the shortest clips to the longest clips. I would still need to go and trim some of these clips in the Source Monitor, by double clicking on it. But, I could at least, start to get some sense of order with all this. And another method here, if I go to the free form view. The free form view allows you to move clips around, and actually start building the order, clip by clip. So, I could say, Okay. This may be is my opening shot, so I'll take this shot and move it over here. And then, what do I wanna follow that with? So, maybe I go, from here, to another clip. Maybe a tight shot? Let's see what we have here. Maybe, I'll go with this one next, drag that over here. You can see, I move other things out of the way, so I can start to build my order here, this way. Maybe, I go from here to here. And then, another shot, in a different angle. We can drag that there. And so on. So, I'm gonna, I'll just put a quickie rearrangement here, together. Last clip. I can also, make these a little smaller to see everything, with the slider. Grab them and move them all over here to make it easier just to put it together. Okay, so I have this arrangement, I'll select them all like this. I'll delete these from the Sequence. So, I'd click and delete those. So now, I have all these arranged in the order that I think I want. I will click the, Automate To Sequence button. In the Selection Order, I will take off Transitions. I don't wanna put any transitions on this here. And I'll just call it an, Insert Edit and say, OK. And so, there, I'd put the clips in. Now, of course, I put them in wherever the playhead is, so. I want it at the beginning, as the playhead should be at the beginning. But there it's, I've already established a Sequence. (metal rattles) And I could play through this. Let me just mute the sound for the moment. Let's see what happens here. So, I'll play that through, (keyboard clanks) and see what we get. And so, now, I have everything in my timeline, in a basic order. And I could, next, go and begin to trim those clips to adjust their length. And if necessary, rearrange them as well. So, in this lesson, you've seen how you could set up an initial Sequence in your Premiere Project. In the next lesson, we'll examine methods for trimming your clips in the Project. Let's go check it out.
