How / can you make subclips from sequences in Adobe Premiere CC?

[CTOverton]

Subclips are great for organizing. This makes a lot of sense when you either do it in prelude ahead of time etc. But what about when you want to make clips from say an interview.

I have a sequence for each interview, each sequence has a video clip, audio track, and adjustment layer for effects. I want to now be able to create subclips of this as if it were a single video clip. (Yes I know I could export it as a video clip and then make clips but the point is I want to have a bunch of clips that are linked to the sequence so that way if I go back and make changes to the audio or the adjustment layer it will effect all the clips.)

I know you can right click on the sequence and "Open in Source Monitor" and create clips that way, however I noticed when you then make changes to the original sequence they do not update the clips. I.E. the clips are separate pieces and not linked.

Is there a way to create linked subclips from sequences in premiere pro CC?

[Meg The Dog]

Save yourself a step, use the Pancake timeline method - there are lots of tutorials that will show up if you Google Search it, here is one:

Using the Pancake Timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro - YouTube

MtD

[Trevor_Asq · Accepted solution]

Subsequence is the command you are looking for

[jasontcox]

Trevor is right in terms of answering your question, but as Meg alluded to, there are probably better workflows than what you are doing. I'd also look into learning how to add Master Clip effects: Apply Master Clip effects in Premiere Pro

This will let you add effects to a clip in the Project Panel and is retroactive even if you change the effect late in the workflow. And you can use gain changes on a clip in the project panel to change the master clip's levels as well.

[HarleyTDavis]

Yes and then no.

I tried this too and came up with greyed out options.

Sequences are not clips, they are just xml lists that tell the program how to play back information contained in clips.  They don't actually exist as their own source video even after you render them.

Try a tripple nest.

Dupelicate your source sequence 2x.  Call the first LCN<Your sequence name> and the Second SC<your sequence name>.  Delete all the video and audio from both of these sequences.  They will retain the settings of the original sequence, and that's all we need.  Drag your original sequence into the LCN (Linkage control nest).   Never do anything to this LCN sequence, only to your main, it will show up in the LCN.  Now drag the LCN to the SC sequence.  You can cut all you want in the SC sequence.  Each time, just use the slice tool to place edit marks, right click the portion you want, and select NEST, then type in a descriptive name.  Afterward, drag the LCN back into the SC sequence, and VIOLA!  You can cut it again, without affecting the other subnestclip.  Downside is if you change that locaction in your main, you change the subclips.

Alternatives:

I would go ahead and start with prelude.  You can start by setting your video to encode to the same intermediary format in AME (on it's own_- and it will stich some clips together for you, a good choice if some are split up due to file size limits).  But while that is going on, you can also have Prelude ingest your video and just copy it to the same location to an original footage folder.  If you have more than 20 clips and a lot of work to do, ingest, copy and transcode all at once using Prelude to get it all into one folder.  Once you've got it all in prelude, you can start putting rough cuts together.  You can use a video in more than one rough cut, and you can tie two or more together, trimming them appropriately and saving each rough cut.  This is where prelude will be different from AME:  It will read each full video based on the wrapper listing.  If you have clips that are split due to file size, it will stitch them for you because it reads them as one clip from the bdmv or avchd folder structuring and custom file lists.  Downsides: You cannot sound sync with prelude.  It is preliminary finishing only.  Sound sync can be easily done and applied.  Once sync'd you can export each clip with it's better audio, close premiere, move ingested footage to a folder with "Old" in the name and replace it with the exported clips, making sure the names match.  Open your project and the sound sync is done in your final sequencing.