from nested to one sequence?

[Peter25837956gbne]

Deep in a Premiere project and I have been using nested sequences quite a bit.

But I’m told that in order to mix it with Audition as well as export to Davinci (for color work), I need everything to be on one timeline.

I don’t want to picture lock to achieve this.

Wow, I’ve made really wise and good use of nesting.  Now I need to undo it?  It’s daunting as I look at my work.

Am I missing something?  Thank you.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

I work for/with/teach pro colorists, and that includes a lot of time in Resolve, and Premiere/Resolve worklow discussions. For going to Resolve you might need to make some changes, but ... you can't re-jigger the work in Resolve after bringing it back to Premiere.

So ... "picture lock" isn't as normal a thing as it used to be, but it sorta is in any practical sense. As if you make a change in your timeline, after getting color back, you quite often do have to send those changes to Resolve anyway.

But the most practical advice is simply to test every step you might think of using.

So ... duplicate the sequence, or maybe just a short segment of it. 

Then export as you were expecting. 

Then maybe try "flattening" the sequence, and export.

[Peter25837956gbne]

Thank you.

I thought I was following best practices when nesting helped me keep things quite tidy, but I would have never used the feature if I knew I was digging such a deep hole - particularly that I've nested sequences in other sequences.

You're right.  Do little tests and learn step by step.  

[R Neil Haugen]

Nesting is heavily used across nearly all professional workflows.

Many episodic and long form projets are totally built around nesting, where every bit of the final sequence is a nest, added from another, short sequence segment.

So it shouldn't have any deleterious effect on your final output, but can have affects on the final steps. Not "worse", just at times, different options are used.

But again, nesting itself is a massive pro helper.

[Peter25837956gbne]

Yes, I've been coding over recent years and the principle of nesting is what coders do all day but times [a big number].  I brought that practice to my film and...I now have a lot of unpacking to do.

Thank you.

[R Neil Haugen]

I think the majority of majority films and episodic workflows are built with nests. The ones I've seen often are.

They have sequences per scene or "act", that can easily be moved around to try telling the story in a different sequence of scenes for one use.

[Peter25837956gbne]

That's it exactly!  I experimented with the order of scenes.  I think my mistake was then doing cuts on the sequences themselves. 

[Peter25837956gbne]

This plugin did all un-nesting in a few seconds. 

https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/grave-robber 

I'm stunned. 

$25 saved me...40 hours? 50?

I ended up with 27(!) video tracks, but so what. I'll spend an entire 17 minutes shifting stuff down to the same 4-6 tracks and remove the rest. Wow.

It was even able to handle nests within nests with nests. Wow.  Only $25!!!!