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July 23, 2025

[Productions] Moving "Children" of template sequences can overwrite in destination

  • July 23, 2025
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Premiere Pro v25.3.0, working in a Productions environment. MacOS Ventura 13.7.x for all parties affected.

 

My editorial team loves their templates. Can't live without them.

Here's our standard workflow, which used to work as desired in Premiere 24.6.x (latest LTS release, as of July 23, 2025):

  1. Create Template Project containing the desired folder structures and template sequences for edit preparation.
    - Let's call our example "parent" sequence: "Template-Sequence".
  2. Save Template Project, and begin "Make a Copy" ops in the production to build out clones of this template for each necessary prep, avoiding Duplicate IDs. As is tradition.
  3. While prepping, rename sequences in the new "Copy-of-Template" projects for team sanity and morale.
    - My renamed sequences will be called "Sequence_A", "Sequence_B", etc.
    - Note that I'm not copying the origin sequence, just renaming the sequence in my copied Project.
    - It's quite possible that the child-Sequences now have the same Unique IDs in their respective Project files, but the Project files now have different Unique IDs to avoid "Duplicate IDs" in the production.
  4. When preps are complete, Move sequences into a blank/new "Assembly" Project, combining several preps with different names, but identical lineage.
    - They all originated from a copy of the original template, and were renames of the original templatized sequences.

 

Expected Behavior (and behavior in Pr24.6.x):

Sequences play nicely in the sandbox, and can all be moved out of their template clones and into the new "Assembly" project. No sequences are lost or overwritten, and I can Move "Sequence_A" thru "ZZ" all into the same project.

 

Actual Behavior (in Pr25.3.0):

Sequences of identical lineage overwrite each other.

If "Sequence_A" is already present in my "Assembly" project, and I try to move in "Sequence_B", Sequence_A disappears. If it is open in the timeline panel, the timeline closes. The same is true in reverse order: Sequence_A will overwrite B in a similar operation.

This can be rolled back with undos, but I must undo in both the source and destination project.
"Which one did I just move from? Crap!"

 

Is this intended behavior? If so, what feature under the hood does this enable that I'm missing? Is there an option in Premiere's client-side or Production settings to always generate new UIDs when moving sequences between projects?

 

HELP!

7 replies

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 22, 2025

Hi @Spencer @ Evolve - This bug is still logged in our system, so for now please continue using the workaround. Another option you might try is creating a project template that already includes the sequence you need.

Participant
September 20, 2025

@jamieclarke any new guidance for this bug? Would like to know if we should have an expectation of it getting fixed as Pr24 rolls out of enterprise support soon.

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 29, 2025

Hi @Spencer @ Evolve -  Thanks for the video I was able to reproduce the issue and will file a bug report. As a workaround, instead of duplicating the entire template project, try copying just the bin and sequence from your template, and then pasting them into your new project.

Participant
July 29, 2025

Hey there, hoping to get some clarity on this issue. Any movement since I submitted the screen recording? Do you need me to supply it in a different way?

Participant
July 24, 2025

And here is that screen recording:
https://f.io/Fv_k3MOM

(Note for future travelers: this file will be deleted when support is concluded. This is a recording of the issue as described in the original post.)

Participant
July 24, 2025

Thanks Jamie,

This is happening on all of our Mac Studio systems in the office. Myself and our senior editor are on M1 Ultra models, the assistant editor is on an M3 Max.
I'll follow up with a screen recording when I can.

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 24, 2025

Hi @Spencer @ Evolve -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.

 

What are your computer specs?  Is this happening on all systems or just one?

 

Can you post a screen recording of the issue?

Sorry for the frustration.