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Friendly_adventures3603
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May 9, 2025
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Auto Sequence Function (Sequencing Clips by Timecode)

  • May 9, 2025
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If Premiere Pro had an Auto Sequence feature  like Avid Media Composer, it would save me hours and hours of syncing video and audio.  

 

What I need is a function that lays all the video from each individual camera on a timeline by the timecode and have that sequence match the timecode of the clips so I can "Auto Sequence" each camera's clip by the timecode.

 

When trying to perform a similar function in Premiere (multicam multiple clips by timecode), it trys to put each individual clip on a seperate layer, and that costs me even more time to move the clips on one layer.

 

This should be a basic function and I'm surprised it doesn't exist.  I am working with 10+ cameras that are multicamed with over 12 layers of audio, so I need a way of quickly placing the clips on the timeline by timecode to sync them all which should be a simple thing to do.

 

Something that takes me just a few minutes in Media Composer winds up taking me a whole day in Premiere Pro.

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    Bergle25592250p7qx
    Participant
    August 4, 2025

    I'm not entirely sure I'm interpreting your requirements properly, so apologies if this is not the solution you seek.

     

    Try this:  For each camera select all the clips and right click. Choose "Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence". Choose Timecode and tick "create single multicam source sequence".

    Part 1 finished.

    Part 2: Right Click the created multicam sequence and choose "Simplify Sequence". Tick only "Flatten Multi-Camera clips".

    The new sequence should be just like Avid's Auto Sequence for that camera.

    If you do that for each camera you can fairly easily work all camera's into a sequence that has all angles in sync but isn't a multicam sequence.

    This is what I want to be able to do for say a 3 camera shoot and it's taken me an age to find a way to do it in Premiere.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 9, 2025

    As a quick suggestion for practical reasons ... at times, if you use the Metadata panel to add Camera Number to a camera's clips, then make multicams, Premiere will actually put Cam 1 all on V1, Cam 2 on V2, and so on.

     

    Sometimes mostly ... but well worth a try.

     

    And yes, I upvoted this as there's much work to be done on the multicam/syncing clips process in Premiere.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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