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jrwing
Inspiring
June 14, 2025
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Bring the "Composition Mini-Flowchart" from AE into Premiere for Nested Sequences

  • June 14, 2025
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For my commercial and video editing work, I rely on nested sequences quite a lot, for everything from split screen comps to advanced layering and more. Just as I would in After Effects with Precomps.

However inside of After Effects, there exists a beautiful feature known as the Composition Mini-Flowchart, where you press tab and it displays a flowchart of where the current precomp exists. You can then use arrow keys to move in and out of the flow, which is handy for comps inside of comps. What I find most helpful in this context is when you open a precomp to make a small change, you can very quickly return to the previous view by hitting tab + left arrow, to go back out to the main composition it resides in.

I would love to see something like this in Premiere with nested sequences, whereupon stepping into nested sequences to make some changes, you could quickly step back out, and also see a flowchart illuminating where else the nest exists within your project, or if you want to step further into nests within nests. Many helpful reasons to do this, where AE makes it a breeze, but unfortunately in Premiere the workflow of stepping in and out is a bit clunky.

Thank you!

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
June 14, 2025

Absolutely gorgeous request! Happy to upvote it.

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