Source Monitor > Open in Timeline is broken in 23.5/23.6 on Windows 10

[Photojournalist Mat]

A regular part of my workflow is to create one timeline with all my video in it, drag it into the source monitor, then click the source monitor wrench menu and select "Open Sequence in Timeline."

This gives me a source view timeline that I can stack and easily toggle between it and my edit timeline. If I open another clip in the source monitor, I can quickly get back to my source timeline by clicking on the stacked timeline because it's ganged to my source monitor.

Since updating Premiere, I can no longer use this workflow effectively because the timeline does not stay ganged to the source monitor. In fact, mos of the time when I select "Open Sequence in Timeline," the timeline closes out and the source monitor goes blank. Sometimes it successfully opens, but the timeline doesn't stay ganged to the source, which results in me needing to redo the process entirely if I have to temporarily load something else in the source monitor. 

As I edit for TV news under very tight deadlines, the speed of this workflow is crucial to me, and unfortunately these newer versions of Premiere are serverally hampering me (such as the recent keyboard shortcut bug that thankfully was resolved) and forcing me to go to try to go to older versions, which in turn sometimes causes issues with being able to open newer video files. 

Please make stability a bigger priority for Premiere development.  That is so much more important than fancy new features. Don't get me wrong, I like fancy new features... but I like (and NEED) stability more. 

Thank you. 

[Photojournalist Mat]

This seems to now be FIXED in the latest August release. 

Thanks.

[Photojournalist Mat]

I apologize, I was in error... it is not fixed in the August 2023 release. 

[gormadge]

Following this, I'm getting the same issue, specs below:

Apple M1 Max, 64GB RAM, Ventura 13.4.1
Premiere 23.6

My ability to 'Open Sequence in Timeline' from the source monitor is totally gone. Selected sequence just disappears from my open timelines and the source monitor clears when that option is selected. This has been happening since PP 23.4 for me, and has never successfully worked in these two versions of Premiere Pro.

[Photojournalist Mat]

This is still BROKEN as of the 24.0 release. 

[Photojournalist Mat]

This is still broken in version 24.1.0 

[alexw18763660]

Yep, this is a bug for us too. Ususally open on the second time you do it with the same sequence but it's annoying. M1 Max. 24.1. 

[AC 2046]

I think I am having the same issue. 

I generally pull my selects into a single timeline, go to Media Browser, open the project I am working on, locate the sequence, double click, and it loads the sequence into my Source monitor, AS WELL AS opens a timeline with a red play head. 

I would take that timeline, since it is a representation of what is in my source monitor, and undock it and "pancake" it on top of my working sequence. 

With the recent update, the sequence with the red play head is not loading. The sequence is loading into the Source window, but I no longer can shuttle and look at the clips in my timeline. 

Is this the same issue, has anyone had a fix? 
Thanks!

[gormadge]

I can confirm this issue persists for me in PP24.1.0, and hasn't worked in any version in between over the last year and a half. No fixes as far as I can find, would love to hear any suggestions.

[R Neil Haugen]

Have you tried the new release? Just curious.

[AC 2046]

So, it's working for me. I am a dumb dumb and I clicked the wrench icon on the source monitor window and clicked "open sequence in timeline" and the sequence (with red play head) opened. I got turned around because every version of premiere opened this timeline automatically when I selected the sequence using Media Browser. 

Hope that helps someone out there! 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @Photojournalist Mat, @AC 2046, @gormadge, &@alexw18763660,

I read your report. I'm curious to find out if the issue is fixed. If not, please file a bug in the following format so the team can reproduce it: How do I write a bug report?

Sorry for the frustration.

Thank You,

Kevin

[gormadge]

Hi @Kevin-Monahan 

Thanks for checking in - issue persists for me in PP24.2.1 - same behaviour as the OP. Unfortunately doesn't work for me like it does for @AC 2046 .

I'll submit a bug report.

[gormadge · Accepted solution]

@Kevin-Monahan I was writing the bug report and it has worked for the first time in a year! Steps I seem to be able to follow for it to work now:

• Right click on the desired sequence in the project panel
• Select 'Open in Source Monitor'
• In the Source Monitor, click the spanner (wrench) icon at the bottom right
• Choose 'Open Sequence in Timeline'

This then provides the desired result - the source monitor has its own sequence with a red playhead ganged to it, allowing the Program timeline and program moitor to operate independently of the sour other.

Hopefully that helps others? Happy to have this working again - I'll update if this has issues again.

[AC 2046]

Hello @Kevin-Monahan ! It is working for me now. In previous versions, the source timeline would automatically open (the timeline with the red played). 

So not sure if that is a bug per se, but it was different than how it behaved in previous versions. Thank you for the follow up! 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Thanks for the follow-up and reports, @AC 2046 and @gormadge! We can move this one out of the bug reports forum for now. I'm doing some clean-up here now, you see...

Cheers,
Kevin