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My sequence is not showing up in timeline

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
March 5, 2021
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Reaching out to the experts here.

So i created my first video in Premiere Pro and I posted it to YouTube under private so my friends could see it and give feedback before publishing. However I notice that two frames in the video gave an error message indicating that when i created the final video that i'd somehow deleted the original source of the video clip. I figured easy, so i just go back into premiere pro and re-open my project and put the missing file back in the video and re export.

However when the project opens in premiere pro all my library of images and video clips are in the left hand box but nothing shows in my timeline so I can insert or edit etc. I have searched and tried dozens of ways to find it but come up blank. I really dont want to go back and re create the video unless I have to. I sense its a simple route directory, source setting i'm missing or havent clicked.... but i'll be damned if i can find it.

Anyone experienced this before?

Mark

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Richard M Knight

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Can you Dropbox a copy of your project, without the media, so we can have a look.

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falcnrAuthor

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Hi Richard,

It appears my sequence is missing entirely within the single project i'm working on.

i'm going to start a new project and see how this goes. My first attempt to do this wasnt great as when i tried to import the 3 random videos into the timeline it wouldnt allow it. Apreciate your assistence

Mark

Ann Bens

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To support this assumption, I tried to make a second video and randomly picked 3 videos and put them in my project folder. I then tried to drag into my timeline and they wont go. I get that hand grabbing logo but when it enters the timeline it has a "no entry" symbol.

That is a different user error.

I think you have under estimated the software: especially if your are new to video editing.

The software is targeted towards Professionals and advanced hobbyists.

Premiere has a steep learning curve, not something you master in 7 days.

Even after using the software for 20 years I learn something new every so often.

You can master the software but it will take a little bit more of your time.

Guessing you sequence is gone. Might want to look into the auto save folder for a project that might still have the sequence.

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Richard M Knight

Community Expert

You need to have the project panel open:

In my example the project is called book day.

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falcnrAuthor

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Any idea why this "automate sequence" is greyed out in the project folder and can't be activated?

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falcnrAuthor

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Because you have not setup the clips for automate to sequence.

Why not try a fix your orignal problem first.

Set Project window to List View: second icon on the left.

Now look for this icon

Hey everybody, I really appreciate everyones help however this is becoming a huge source of frustration.

In the time i've tried to fix this i could have re done the entire video from scratch however I was trying to figure out what went wrong and how i can avoid it in future. I thought it was simply i didnt activate some tab etc.

I am wondering if the fact I am using the 7 day trial version to see how it works as to weather certain drop down menus are greyed out or items missing ? While I am new to this software, simple directions to do things are coming up fruitless as what everybody including myself is expecting to be there ... isn't. I really dont think i'm blind and you've all been great in directing me what to look for but sequence simply isnt there in my project folder, attached to any file, video, sound or jpg. I have no explanation other than perhaps because i'm currently still in my 7 day trial version that it won't allow and additional editing or review. Speaking with a friend using this when he touches a subject header in the top tool bar it drops down a menu and most items are active but in mine in some cases all but one are greyed out and inaccessible.

To support this assumption, I tried to make a second video and randomly picked 3 videos and put them in my project folder. I then tried to drag into my timeline and they wont go. I get that hand grabbing logo but when it enters the timeline it has a "no entry" symbol.

I think I will subscribe for PR as my experience creating the first video was fairly straightforward but this experience using the trial version has put a bad taste in my mouth as a newcomer since there are no explanations as to what I should expect or what is limited etc. I also dont know enough about the program to know if I created the problem somehow by not saving somthing or if it is a limitation of the softare.

Thoughts ?

Mark

R Neil Haugen

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There are no "dumb" questions, so please ... ask away! This is a complex and complicated app, and after a number of years of hours a day, I still find things I'd had no clue about. As does everyone I know.

That screen you're showing ... see where it says "Source" at the top? That is the Source Monitor. You need the Project panel, at first often found among those in that "panel group" in the lower left corner of that image. There are other panels to the left or right of those showing.

In your first image, here?

Look at the top right corner of the area with the blue 'active panel' border. It says "Project". That is the name of the panel, and it is one of several panels in that blue outlined area or "panel group".

So it's in that Project panel that you will find your sequence, with the icon that is shown in Gerik's post.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

gerikp

Community Expert

Here's what a sequence icon looks like when you are in an icon view in the Project panel. Sorry, the example I sent you was in list view.

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falcnrAuthor

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Hey Gerik,

As mentioned to Neil. I am of the understanding I am in the project Bin ... does it look like it to you in this image? If so, no such icon for the sequence is evident in my images or videos.

Am I skipping something obvious ?

thx

Mark

R Neil Haugen

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Gerik was talking about the Project panel, on the left of your image. His was simply displayed in List view, yours is displayed in Thumbnail view.

Scroll down through the project panel, and find where there is a thumb with that icon on it that his pic points to. That is your sequence, typically named identically to the first clip dropped on it. Which is confusing.

And why many of us immediately rename clips when creating them. Sequences named for clips in the same bin is confusing.

Neil

(Oh, and this forum's software is silly at best. Please drag/drop images directly onto your text reply area so we don't have to download strange files to see them.)

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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falcnrAuthor

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Hi Neil,

thanks for the fast response. Sorry for dumb questions. In assembly you get the image I previously sent but when I see the Project Panel shown in the editing page has nothing resembling this "sequence". Am I missing something ? Is it in a sub menu ?

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falcnrAuthor

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Hi Gerikp

Here is a screenshot image and nothing in timeline or any icon etc to click onto. Please note I'm just getting into video editing and this is my first video i've edited on PR so i'm still navigating through it all.

Thanks for your help though. I sure hope I don't have to re make the video and it really is only a matter of finding it behind some curtain.

gerikp

Community Expert

Your sequence is probably hiding out in your project bin amongst your clips and such. Look for the Sequence icon That has a bunch of horizontal lines that are blue and green. Double click it to open it up in your timeline. I've attached a screenshot for reference.

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