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July 26, 2024
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Nesting Sequences Only Partially Includes Audio

  • July 26, 2024
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When I nest sequences in Premiere Pro, the video nests correctly, but the audio remains as individual clips. How can I ensure that both audio and video are fully nested as a single clip?

 

This has worked before on the project. I go and nest a new section of the chapters I make and it doesn't follow like the correct nests I have previously done, so it works but then doesn't?

 

Also, when I try and drag nested sequences onto the timeline, it doesn't copy the project over and only one cut had been copied despite creating in and out markers.

Correct answer PaulMurphy

If your sequence has more than one track of audio, it will only nest the video tracks.

The way around this is to create a subsequence instead:

  1. Select all the clips you want to nest.
  2. Go to Sequence > Make Subsequence.


After this, you will still need to delete the clips off your main timeline and drag the nested sequence in its place.

If you want to add a sequence to another sequence as a nested sequence, enable the Nest button in the timeline (Insert or Overwrite Sequences As Nests - under the Timeline timecode).

If you want to add a sequence to another sequence as clips, disable the Nest button.

Cheers,
Paul

7 replies

christopherm88473166
Participant
August 6, 2026

This is not a good solution as now we have to deal with submixes. Neither is the ‘make an adjustment layer’ work around. Why make us do 15 clicks, where 1 would do? Why not just allow a nest of selected audio? This has been a pain point for decades at this point. What’s the problem?

R Neil Haugen
Legend
August 6, 2026

The problem is the vast majority of heavy users do not want the audio tracks to disappear into a nest. As they have carefully layered tracks for specific things, that they will tweak before finishing … and of course, cannot, if the tracks are disappeared into a nest.

 

It’s a pain for those doing different workflows where you don’t care about the separate audio tracks, true. But that’s why it hasn’t changed.

 

I’ll add that submixes are, to most audio people, the most necessary part of doing decent audio … the first question they’ll ask typically for someone with an audio problem in a sequence is how your submixes are setup. But then, they typically will have at minimal five if not thirty audio tracks.

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Inspiring
July 26, 2024
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PaulMurphyCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
July 26, 2024

If your sequence has more than one track of audio, it will only nest the video tracks.

The way around this is to create a subsequence instead:

  1. Select all the clips you want to nest.
  2. Go to Sequence > Make Subsequence.


After this, you will still need to delete the clips off your main timeline and drag the nested sequence in its place.

If you want to add a sequence to another sequence as a nested sequence, enable the Nest button in the timeline (Insert or Overwrite Sequences As Nests - under the Timeline timecode).

If you want to add a sequence to another sequence as clips, disable the Nest button.

Cheers,
Paul

Inspiring
July 30, 2024

Thank you for your input Paul, that's very helpful, I will have a go soon.

 

Thanks,

 

Theo.