We’re excited to introduce a powerful new tool in Premiere Pro Beta: Sequence Index – a smarter, faster way to navigate complex edits. Built for professionals working with dense, multi-track sequences, Sequence Index provides a comprehensive, spreadsheet-style view of all assets and attributes in a sequence. Whether you're trying to locate specific clips, identify flash frames, or filter for clips with effects or speed changes, this new feature makes it dramatically easier to search, sort, and troubleshoot your timeline. Why this matters Today, searching for specific clips or effects in long timelines is a manual, time-consuming process. There’s no simple way to surface offline media, spot transitions, identify what effects are used where, or track down issues without scanning every edit. With Sequence Index, we’re removing that friction, giving you an interactive, sortable table of your entire sequence that updates in real time as you edit. What you can do with it View every clip in your sequence as a searchable table row Instantly jump the playhead to any item by clicking on it Search across all columns (or just one) using familiar “Find in Timeline” tools Filter by criteria like offline media, flash frames, transitions, effects, and more Reorder columns and resize the table to your needs Export filtered results to CSV for documentation or handoff And it won’t slow you down – Sequence Index is designed to stay fast and responsive, even with large, complex projects. Key use cases Troubleshooting: Easily find offline clips, missing effects, or incorrectly labeled media QC & review: Check for flash frames, verify codec consistency, or audit usage Prep for finishing: Export a filtered list of clips for VFX, color, mix, or media usage deliverables. Asset management: Track clip usage across longform timelines with ease How to try it This feature is available now in Premiere Pro Beta, in v25.6 Build 24 or higher. You’ll find Sequence Index in Window > Sequence Index. Give it a try and let us know how it fits into your workflow – we’re especially interested in feedback from users working on large, complex projects.

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Now in Beta: Sequence Index for Complex Timelines

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August 7, 2025
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We’re excited to introduce a powerful new tool in Premiere Pro Beta: Sequence Index – a smarter, faster way to navigate complex edits.

Built for professionals working with dense, multi-track sequences, Sequence Index provides a comprehensive, spreadsheet-style view of all assets and attributes in a sequence. Whether you're trying to locate specific clips, identify flash frames, or filter for clips with effects or speed changes, this new feature makes it dramatically easier to search, sort, and troubleshoot your timeline.

Why this matters

Today, searching for specific clips or effects in long timelines is a manual, time-consuming process. There’s no simple way to surface offline media, spot transitions, identify what effects are used where, or track down issues without scanning every edit. With Sequence Index, we’re removing that friction, giving you an interactive, sortable table of your entire sequence that updates in real time as you edit.

What you can do with it

View every clip in your sequence as a searchable table row
Instantly jump the playhead to any item by clicking on it
Search across all columns (or just one) using familiar “Find in Timeline” tools
Filter by criteria like offline media, flash frames, transitions, effects, and more
Reorder columns and resize the table to your needs
Export filtered results to CSV for documentation or handoff

And it won’t slow you down – Sequence Index is designed to stay fast and responsive, even with large, complex projects.

Key use cases

Troubleshooting: Easily find offline clips, missing effects, or incorrectly labeled media
QC & review: Check for flash frames, verify codec consistency, or audit usage
Prep for finishing: Export a filtered list of clips for VFX, color, mix, or media usage deliverables.
Asset management: Track clip usage across longform timelines with ease

How to try it

This feature is available now in Premiere Pro Beta, in v25.6 Build 24 or higher. You’ll find Sequence Index in Window > Sequence Index. Give it a try and let us know how it fits into your workflow – we’re especially interested in feedback from users working on large, complex projects.

Feedback

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BibbidiBobbidiBob

Known Participant

Looks super helpful for reports!

Is there a culumn for file path and original file name (additional to clip name)?

It would also be great to have an indicator for duplicated media there

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Piotr Gardecki

Known Participant

I checked the export and it does indeed work! Thank-you 🙂

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Piotr Gardecki

Known Participant

Very good, I see a great deal of potential.

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Mel Matsuoka

Known Participant

OMG I couldnt be happier to see this finally added to Premiere! It's one of the things I totally love about Resolve (its "Edit Index" panel), and this will save me a ton of time with my specific workflows.

One thing I would really like to see is the ability to combine the total duration of multiple usage instances of the same clip, so that you can easily create cue-sheets without a lot of manual labor. For example, situations like this:

It would be nice to have an option to collapse those duplicate events into a single event, with their combined durations displayed in the Duration column.

In my total-fantasy world, I'd love for it to be able to combine/collapse durations of overlapping or stacked clips, as well. Making cue sheets is one of the biggest pain points in post-production, so it would be amazing if this panel could be a more of step towards removing most of that pain!

Ability to save column presets would be great as well.

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Christine Steele

Participating Frequently

This is a fantastic suggestion and one that I would use as well, for music cue sheets and stock licensing, and it could even be helpful with VFX prep too.

Cheers!

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Luftar Von Rama

Known Participant

Amazing tool. Huge for Assistant editors and VFX editors to get accurate timeline details.

Thing's I'd like to see.

1. More metadata column options .Source TC In/Out. Frame In/Out And Duration. Source Resolution. If Posible, effect parameter values (Huge for VFX turnovers). Project - So when in a production we can see where the source clip is stored.

2. Track Name, could be seperate or maybe under track labeled as V1 - Dailies for instance.

3. Specific track selection to display or not display. V1 off, V2 On etc

4. Save presets.

5. Port the CSV export portion to work on bins so you can output bin data.

6. Show Head Frame/Tail Frame or poster frame for quick visual indicator.

7. Export PDF Option.

BrianDavison

Known Participant

Totally agreed on more metadata column options. I'd also love to be able to select custom metadata fields to include. I use metadata extensively in my process of keeping track of clip clearances and the more ability to round trip that the better.

Todd_Reeder

Community Manager

Are you in agreement with the suggested metadata column options requested above? or did you have something else specific in mind. There is a balance between offering too much and making it difficult to access a tool meant to speed things up, and not having the correct items included

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Ali Jaber

Community Expert

Very useful addition.

Regarding the Sequence Index Options, I wish that there is a way to toggle all options off and keep only one active, to understand what I mean, suppose the following: you have these options toggled on: Video, Audio and Graphics. Now you want to toggle all of these off and activate Effects. In this case you have to click each one of those, one by one.
I suggest the following: let us use a modifier key, Ctrl for example, in a way that, following the last example, if the user press ctrl while toggling "Effects" on, other options will be disabled automatically.

Todd_Reeder

Community Manager

Thank you for the suggestions. There is the abilty to hold down command on mac or control on windows and double click the filter icon on the main panel (not inside the filter window) and that will deselect all filters. Not quite what you are looking for, but a good way to start from scratch

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Ali Jaber

Community Expert

Thank you, good to know.

I still like the ability to use modifier keys to toggle filters on and off.

Shebbe

Community Expert

This is very welcome. Some feedback after a quick look.

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I'd like to see data columns being much more expanded. I'm missing important video media based data like Sequence Clip TC In/Out. Source Resolution. Source aspect ratio. Especially practical for handoffs to grade or vfx.

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It would be nice if column layouts could be saved as presets.

3.

Offline media can be viewed through a filter. But why not always display offline media as indication with a muted red background for example? And also a Status column seems missing.

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I hope more export features will become available, like a PDF format that can include stills of start, middle or end frame of each clip.

Also a question. What does it mean if a timecode is red? There is no tooltip or anything.

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JamezFilmz

Known Participant

The ability to find flash frames is an absolutely incredible feature. It's one I have wanted for a while. Flash frames are the most annoying and hard to spot frames when editing. I've had many times where I've only noticed flash frames after rendering a video, so I have to thank you for adding this.

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28439390g3mg

Known Participant

What do you mean by flash frames and how exactly are they shown in the index?

Todd_Reeder

Community Manager

Where you might have a few frames of unintentional black, where there is no video. That area will show up in red text on the Sequence Index panel. That way you can quickly navigate to any possible errors (by just clicking on the red text) and see if they need correcting.

BrianDavison

Known Participant

Love this, my only quibble with the flash frames is that if you're using various tracks it seems to detect flash frames on tracks even if that track is covered by another track. I.e. if you have your interviews on V1 and have a 3 frame gap in two interview clips because your b-roll is on V2, it's going to find and detect that gap as a flash frame. Multiply that times a long TRT and a lot of various video layers and you get a ton of false positives.

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J_A_Willi327

Participating Frequently

What version of the Beta is this in?

Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

In v25.6 Build 24 or higher. Thanks for asking! I've updated my post with that info.

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