Personally I've never been a fan of using nesting if I know I will be constantly jumping in/out of the nest to make adjustments. I find it much less accurate without immediate feedback (in relation to other layers) and cumbersome to open/close multiple sequences. This is especially true when the look or style of the graphics/elements I'm building are in flux. And in general, I prefer to see my complete edit without having to look inside other sequences. There are of course cases where nesting is ideal, even needed; when you animate/keyframe multiple layers or your graphic builds become too cluttered, for example. As you can probably already tell, I say this in the context of creating and developing simple graphic elements or lower thirds in your NLE. As an FCP user, the limitation of only being able to select a single layer in the Program was a big surprise to me. I've built some pretty complicated looks in FCP with multiple video layers, text, simple solids, masks, filters and travel mattes. All of which was possible because I could move/adjust multiple layers simultaneously. It appears I won't be doing this in Premiere. I suppose that's what After Effects is for. Sigh.
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