Create a montage from several sequences contained in a single Premiere Pro project

[jamestcallahan]

How do I create a montage from several sequences contained in a single Premiere Pro project? I looked at using Productions, but that seems to be mainly for collaboration and way more complicated than I need. What's the best way to do this? Thanks.

[R Neil Haugen]

First, Productions is an awesome mode even for one person shops like mine.

Everything is in one Production, organized by subfolders for type of job/client, then individual job/client, then job.

My b-roll, sound Libraries, graphics, templated sequences and similar assets are available for every individual project in the production. I would never go back to stand-alone projects. What a horrible way to work.

But you can easily combine as many sequences as you want even in stand-alone mode. Simply drag/drop from the bin onto another timeline.

Depending on how you have the "nest or not" toggle set, you're either adding the sequence as a nested "clip" or as individual clips added to that sequence.

[jamestcallahan]

Thank you! My problem is I’m used to much more stripped down video editing
software like RUSH. I’ve long wanted to get into Premiere and so it will
take me a little time to learn how to use it fully.

The concept of Productions makes a lot of sense…I just have to follow the
vudeo tutorial to learn how to do it.

So, I can simply open or create another timeline within the same project?
I’m not sure how to do that, even…but I’ll take a look.

Thank you for your help.

*James T Callahan*

[Peru Bob]

So, I can simply open or create another timeline within the same project?
By @jamestcallahan

Yes.

See here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/creating-changing-sequences.html

[jamestcallahan]

Problem is, when I double-click a multicam sequence in the Project panel, it opens in a new timeline but WITHOUT all the edits I made and effects I applied previously. I had all my sequences as tabs in the TImeline panel with edits and effects...now when I open the project I only see one. Last night I went back into my Autosave history folder and opened one with all the sequences, and resaved that as my current project file. Now, today, I open that project file and it's back to square one! Only one sequence in the Timeline panel and how do I get all the others back?

Here's what I want to do: Take each one of six edited sequences I made and cut them into a montage...making them shorter clips in the process...just editing them into, say, a 30-second video. It's proving to be very difficult to do. Honestly, if I had just used Premiere RUSH, I'd have probably been done with this simple project a long time ago!

I appreciate you guys all helping me here...but my head hurts from trying to use this program.

[R Neil Haugen]

As Peru Bob's link shows, yes. You can have many sequences in a Premiere project. Including several in the timeline panel as tabs you can switch between.

Have two completely separate timeline panels with sequences in them, even.

[jamestcallahan]

Problem is, when I double-click a multicam sequence in the Project panel, it opens in a new timeline but WITHOUT all the edits I made and effects I applied previously. I had all my sequences as tabs in the TImeline panel with edits and effects...now when I open the project I only see one. Last night I went back into my Autosave history folder and opened one with all the sequences, and resaved that as my current project file. Now, today, I open that project file and it's back to square one! Only one sequence in the Timeline panel and how do I get all the others back?

Here's what I want to do: Take each one of six edited sequences I made and cut them into a montage...making them shorter clips in the process...just editing them into, say, a 30-second video. It's proving to be very difficult to do. Honestly, if I had just used Premiere RUSH, I'd have probably been done with this simple project a long time ago!

[jamestcallahan]

OK...I double-clicked my edited multicam sequences and they do open in a new Timeline – with all the edits. For some reason, it didn't do that before. Now it does. Thank you!