Selecting multiple layers in Program (Premiere)

All these apps are flawed, all have things that other's don't, all don't have things others do.

And as there are several million daily users of Premiere, and heavily in production facilities, it seems a lot of people do get graphics done in Premiere effectively.

One example of not knowing how it properly works in Premiere, is I've seen many people create several graphics in separate instances in multiple layers. Then complain how hard it is to animate them together.

Why on earthe would you DO that? Make them in one layer.

Simple workflow ... create your text, shapes, and masks in one graphic, group them and animate sections of them in one action, the whole thing in another. Easy peasy.

Personally I've never been a fan of using nesting if I know I will be constantly jumping in/out of the nest to make adjustments. I find it much less accurate without immediate feedback (in relation to other layers) and cumbersome to open/close multiple sequences.

This is especially true when the look or style of the graphics/elements I'm building are in flux. And in general, I prefer to see my complete edit without having to look inside other sequences. There are of course cases where nesting is ideal, even needed; when you animate/keyframe multiple layers or your graphic builds become too cluttered, for example.

As you can probably already tell, I say this in the context of creating and developing simple graphic elements or lower thirds in your NLE. As an FCP user, the limitation of only being able to select a single layer in the Program was a big surprise to me. I've built some pretty complicated looks in FCP with multiple video layers, text, simple solids, masks, filters and travel mattes. All of which was possible because I could move/adjust multiple layers simultaneously. It appears I won't be doing this in Premiere.

I suppose that's what After Effects is for. Sigh.