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April 28, 2026
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Fastest Native Premiere Workflow for Pulling Selects from a Stringout to Another Sequence?

  • April 28, 2026
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I’ve been developing a workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro for pulling selects from a dailies stringout sequence into a separate selects timeline, and I’m curious whether anyone has found a cleaner, fully native Premiere solution.

 

My workflow:

  • I work directly inside a long stringout sequence of dailies
  • I scrub, set In/Out on the timeline over a portion I like
  • I want to quickly send that marked range into a separate “Selects” sequence
  • I do not want to constantly Match Frame / Source Monitor / overwrite from source
  • I also don’t want to manually copy, click another sequence tab, paste, click back, repeat hundreds of times

 

I discovered that timeline In/Out + copy/paste works pretty well if nothing is selected, but the repetitive sequence switching became a bottleneck.

 

So I built a Keyboard Maestro macro that now does:

  1. Copy selected In/Out range from stringout timeline
  2. Pause briefly
  3. Toggle to second open sequence tab
  4. Paste at playhead
  5. Pause briefly
  6. Toggle back to stringout sequence
  7. Continue working

 

It works extremely well and is honestly very fast. But I’m just thinking that if possible, I’d like to be able to do this without needing to rely on an outside program such as Keyboard Maestro. I’m wondering if I can achieve this within Premiere totally.

 

I’ve attached a screenshot of the Keyboard Maestro macro so you can see exactly what it’s doing.

 

Has anyone found a way to achieve something similar entirely inside Premiere?

 

Thanks folks!

    3 replies

    Inspiring
    April 28, 2026

    You can also load the stringout timeline to the source monitor (and you can open this source sequence into the timeline) and use the good ol’ insert and overwrite buttons/shortcuts.
    I myself use KM to automate where the current selection goes: dialogues on the first half of the timeline, b-roll on the second half. KM lets me go back to the source sequence and restart playback after the edit in one go.

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    April 28, 2026

    I’m with Scott ... pancake editing for the win. Cut/click-drag and move on down the line. No wasted time or steps.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    Community Expert
    April 28, 2026

    Have you ever tried the pancake editing technique with Adobe Premiere? It's a bit legendary and is truly my favorite option for working from sequence to sequence. It’s not completely perfect because Adobe has never really optimized Premiere for pancake editing. My theory is that it’s just an accidental method of working due to Premiere’s customizable interface, but it works pretty well and it’s pretty fast. I recorded a tutorial on this technique years ago, and in my opinion it’s the best and most detailed one out there. There’s a lot you can do, including using keyboard shortcuts to make it very fast. 

    Adobe Premiere Pro And The Pancake Timeline