how to un-nest a sequence in premiere?

I would love a better workaround than dropping markers and bouncing between two sequences.  I have 50+ revisions on my EDL.

No posted solutions are good if you have edited the nested clip, which of course you have or you wouldn't have bothered to nest it, in the first place.  Adding markers at each edit and then repeating all your cuts inside the nested sequence is very a frustrating duplication of effort.  I think this feature should be added.

My project include a lot of PiPs.  We nest the PiPs for fast multicam editing.  All good.  However, the client just redid the entire demo inside of the PiP to the edited timing, providing and EDL based on the edited sequence.  I have to manually add all of the slides into the nested sequence at markers on the parent timeline.
I need to extract the nested content with all of the cuts and trimming intact.  The absence of a flatten/extract feature means I have to mark every insertion point on the nest clip and then any edits have to be done bouncing between the two sequences.  With fifty plus edit points, the task is pretty frustrating.  I regret ever nesting my clip in the first place.

I jound this tool that helps with it :
https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/grave-robber

just select the clip that you want to un-nest and press "F" and select the area that you want to add simple 🙂

I want to renew this discussion here, as there still seems there is no fix for this very simple request. I agree with the others on this thread– this 'flatten' feature for nested sequences should be added as a right-click option. Multicam sequences can be flattened with a simple menu option, so why not Nests? I understand the challenge of leaving enough space in your tracks for all the A/V clips that would then appear, but the user would see this coming and could make the needed space. This added command could simply overwrite what's there, or offer a simple warning if it were about to nuke a few of your timeline clips.

There seems to be alot of folks on the internet wondering why this feature would be of use. The assumption with many of those comments seems to be that everyone is finishing their projects in Premiere, when in the professional film/postproduction world it is generally not the case that films or TV get mastered in Premiere. When transferring an XML sequence to a finishing tool like Resolve, it's imperative to be able to 'flatten' all elements in preparation for export or roundtrip to another application. Adobe should seriously invest in this crucial option so Premiere can 'play nice' with other programs. Either that, or Digidesign, Adobe, Apple, and Black Magic Design all need to sit in a room together and figure out a new media exchange system that transcends the weaknesses of XML (still leftover from the FCP7 days) and AAF.

Who's with me?

I made a video about how to solve this problem because I could not get the best answer in this forum to work for me, and found a few caveats.    RoninEdits' video was still way better than any videos on this available online which don't address preserving your cut points.

Hope it's helpful.

How to Un Nest a nested clip in premiere while preserving the cut - YouTube

In the latest adobe premiere cc 2018, all you have to do is double click o the nested clip and it will take you into the clip so you can edit it

Side note. In Avid from day one, version 1, you could/can just edit sequences same as you do clips. or move elements from one part of your sequence to another without nesting. Super fast. Nothing messy. eg. say you want to move all dialogue and pic of a section, but not music track. You just select in and outs, uncheck the music track so it doesnt get copied. Option drag, or Alt drag from the timeline monitor to the source monitor and just those elements get copied to the source monitor. At the same time the program automatically creates a new subsequence in your bin, the name is already highlighted so you can just start typing to rename it. This feature is super fast for assistant editors to break down grouped sections of original audio and synced to pic from remote audio recorder to "bin out" stuff. That's one big reason Avid has the feature film market. Super fast to bin out synced audio. Option-drag, type name, select new in and outs and option-drag, type. Like washing dishes.

You can also load any sequence into the source monitor without it getting nested. Nesting isnt a feature, its a cumbersome workaround. On my keyboard I have Toggle Timeline/Source View mapped to the letter "G." Just press G and I get the sequence tracks from the source monitor showing in the timeline. You can then see which parts of the sequence loaded into the source monitor you want to cut into the sequence you're working on.

I dont think Premiere or Final cut will ever have that ability, coz the basic software architecture is clip-based, not data-based as in Avid.

Adding to this with important advice:  Make sure, when using this technique, to create a few spillover tracks (both video and audio) as well as activating them, so that all content is brought in.  If you don't, and if your sequence has more tracks than the destination, Premiere just dumps what it can and leaves out the rest!

It would be nice if Premiere made this as easy as Davinci Resolve 12.  With a single action one can "Decompose in Place".  Really simple and really sweet.

Thanks for your reply!!

That´s definitly what I am going to do!!

I search all the web, asked google so many questions and no answers... copy/paste is the only old school option!

Thanks,

Fred