Source Monitor > Open in Timeline is broken in 23.5/23.6 on Windows 10

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August 15, 2023
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A regular part of my workflow is to create one timeline with all my video in it, drag it into the source monitor, then click the source monitor wrench menu and select "Open Sequence in Timeline."

This gives me a source view timeline that I can stack and easily toggle between it and my edit timeline. If I open another clip in the source monitor, I can quickly get back to my source timeline by clicking on the stacked timeline because it's ganged to my source monitor.

Since updating Premiere, I can no longer use this workflow effectively because the timeline does not stay ganged to the source monitor. In fact, mos of the time when I select "Open Sequence in Timeline," the timeline closes out and the source monitor goes blank. Sometimes it successfully opens, but the timeline doesn't stay ganged to the source, which results in me needing to redo the process entirely if I have to temporarily load something else in the source monitor.

As I edit for TV news under very tight deadlines, the speed of this workflow is crucial to me, and unfortunately these newer versions of Premiere are serverally hampering me (such as the recent keyboard shortcut bug that thankfully was resolved) and forcing me to go to try to go to older versions, which in turn sometimes causes issues with being able to open newer video files.

Please make stability a bigger priority for Premiere development. That is so much more important than fancy new features. Don't get me wrong, I like fancy new features... but I like (and NEED) stability more.

Thank you.

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Correct answer gormadge

@Kevin-Monahan I was writing the bug report and it has worked for the first time in a year! Steps I seem to be able to follow for it to work now:

Right click on the desired sequence in the project panel
Select 'Open in Source Monitor'
In the Source Monitor, click the spanner (wrench) icon at the bottom right
Choose 'Open Sequence in Timeline'

This then provides the desired result - the source monitor has its own sequence with a red playhead ganged to it, allowing the Program timeline and program moitor to operate independently of the sour other.

Hopefully that helps others? Happy to have this working again - I'll update if this has issues again.

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Photojournalist MatAuthor

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This is still BROKEN as of the 24.0 release.

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gormadge

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Following this, I'm getting the same issue, specs below:

Apple M1 Max, 64GB RAM, Ventura 13.4.1
Premiere 23.6

My ability to 'Open Sequence in Timeline' from the source monitor is totally gone. Selected sequence just disappears from my open timelines and the source monitor clears when that option is selected. This has been happening since PP 23.4 for me, and has never successfully worked in these two versions of Premiere Pro.