Quick Question! - About the original intended design of Premiere Pro

[Touri]

Using the example of a Movie as your project, 
Was the original design of Premiere Pro intended for each sequence to be a scene?

If so, is there a way to access some sort of Master Sequence Timeline, where you can easily combine all your sequence scenes  into one place and edit them there as you wish?

I know you can copy and paste and nest, but from my limited understanding, if you do create a sequence that you use as a Master Sequence Timelime, anytime you want to make a minor edit, you woul need to go back to the sequence-scene, make the edit and then copy and paste it back to the master sequence, which is not worth the hassle.

Any guidance or insight you can share on the most efficient way to structure your workflow for something this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, kindly.

[RobShultz]

Why couldn't you just make your edit and save your new project with a different file name leaving the original in tact?

[Touri]

I don't follow....

My proposed scenerio is I'm editing a feature film. For each scene I create a new Sequence, so I can easily access each scene as needed. Then I combine all the scenes together on one master sequence, where I can apply FX and filters to all scenes at the same time and export the whole project. So with this scenerio, if I made any edits on the either the master sequence or the individual scene sequence, the other won't be affected, so i'd have to make each edit in 2 different places to keep everything consistent. 

[R Neil Haugen]

It was designed to work basically any way you want to work. Why? Because of the currently several million daily users, the most amazing thing is that no two users work alike.

Noted expert in pro workflows @Jarle_Leirpoll has a huge book, over 1,000 pages, on nearly every aspect of professional workflows at speed in Premiere. It's a bit dated in some respects but is still the best overall guide. I bought the ebook, and found it so awesome, massively detailed, that on seeing a paper 'real' book on a shelf, I simply grabbed it not caring about price. It's that useful.

Jarle’s Book “The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro”

Springer Site for Jarle’s book paper & ebook The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro

Jarle notes that he typically works in broken up sections, then has a master sequence where each section is a separate nest. Others do different things.

There's very good advice for working from 'standard' through episodic and long form and everything else in the following documents ... well worth the time to read. The best docs Adobe has put out really ... and the "long form" doc has simply most of the best advice for many standard editing processes, no matter whether you will ever do any long-form.

Premiere Pro Productions Introduction

Using Productions in Premiere Pro

Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide 

Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam

[Peru Bob]

anytime you want to make a minor edit, you woul need to go back to the sequence-scene, make the edit and then copy and paste it back to the master sequence

By @Touri

If you make a change inside a sequence which has been nested into another sequence, the change will occur in the other sequence into which it was nested.

[Touri]

ohhh, thanks that's very helpful to know...

thank you!

[Peru Bob]

You're welcome. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Oh, you are doing long form. 

I do hope you are working in Productions mode, not the old stand-alone single project model. The original process simply isn't capable of handling the size and scope of long-form work in the ways that the Productions mode does.

Read through those Productions documents. Please, for your sanity!  😉

[Touri]

Thank you, kindly. I just saved the links you sent me and I certainly will review them. 
I appreciate the insight.