Do something so the sequences can be LOCKED inside a Premiere Pro Project.

Report · Mar 11, 2025

When the heck are Adobe developers ever going to do something so the sequences can be LOCKED inside a Premiere Pro Project??? I am sick and tired, and I mean sick and tired of opening my Project and the sequences are all jumbled, and out of order. The software developers for Premiere Pro need to have a LOCK mechanism, so the sequences stay the same every time when you open up the project. Sometimes the sequences remain intact, but much of the time, the Sequences are out of order, or don't even show up, and you have to put them all back in order again in the project. This has been happening for many years. FIX THE PROBLEM!!! Anytime you have many sequences in a project this happens. FIX THE ISSUE PLEASE!!!!

Report · Mar 11, 2025

Projects cannot be changed, while projects are closed; this includes the sequences within a project.

Is another user accessing and changing your projects?

Another possibility: Are you perhaps sorting the project window differently, in the session in which things appear to have been re-ordered?

Report · Mar 20, 2025

And this is the problem right here. You have no clue as to what I am even talking about, and you are making assumptions by stating the projects cannot be changed. The sequences on the timeline of a huge project, alot of times all disappear, and you are left with one sequence on the timeline, or all of the sequences are still there, but they are all mixed up. Did I say anything about the project being changed? No I did not. The project, and everything to do with the project is all there, but you have to go back in the bin, and click each sequence one by one for them to all appear again in the timeline window. Adobe might want to check this out using a huge project with 10 or 12 huge sequences, and close the program various times, and you will see the sequences do not always stay in order on the timeline/editing window, and sometimes they all disappear, with the exception of one sewunce showing up. This has been happening for many years. The sequences need to have a way of locking them into place on the timeline, so they always appear. I should not have to go into the bin and click each sequence in the bin, so they all appear again on the timeline. This does not happen every single time, but it happens quite alot. You have no clue, unless you have edited a huge project with 10 or 12 sequences, and experienced the problem.

Report · Mar 20, 2025

>...you are making assumptions by stating the projects cannot be changed.

As the manager of the team that handles PPro projects and Productions, I feel safe in that assumption.

>The sequences on the timeline of a huge project, alot of times all disappear

We have no open reports of such behavior. Can you reliably reproduce that behavior?

>...you are left with one sequence on the timeline, or all of the sequences are still there,

> but they are all mixed up. Did I say anything about the project being changed? No I did not.

If sequences are in a project, and the sequences change, then the project has changed.

>Adobe might want to check this out

Sounds great! If you can provide a project, and steps to follow which reliably cause sequences to disappear, we'd love to pursue the issue further.

When you say that sequences 'disappear', it sounds as though you mean that their project items do not disappear, but that their timeline views close; is that correct?

Report · Mar 20, 2025

You were not clear in your first post where the changes occurred. At all, sadly. I had the same reaction as BBB to your post after reading it through two or three times before going to their post.

Ergo, BBB had to make assumptions or guesses as to what you were referrng to. I also assumed when you talk about things changing in the project that you meant the Project panel.

That said, your correction was quite useful. Personally, I see that behaviour only when going between workspaces .... if I work in X workspace a bit, save all, close, relaunch, things are exactly where I left off. Say I have 5 sequences open in the timeline panel, in a specific order.

But if I then go to a different workspace ... say, go from Edit to Color, using either the built-in workspaces or my custom ones ... it may drop half of the sequences from the timeline panel.

And on going back to the Edit workspace, might restore them to the last moment I was in Edit ... or not.

And yes, that is frustrating.

Report · Apr 30, 2025

Adobe doesn't know about this problem. I would assume, they never put a huge project on the timeline, with many sequences, and open and close the project many times. In any event there should be a way to lock the sequences to the timeline, so the sequences never disapear. I am sick and tired of going into the bin area, and clicking all of the Sequences that are not appearing, and putting them back on the timeline. Often a huge project will have all of the sequences out of order when you open up the project. If you're lucky, all of the sequences will appear in order, with none of them missing. The problem is an easy fix, if Adobe added a LOCK MECHANISM so the Sequences could never be mixed up, or disappear when you opened the Project. One thing remains certain with Premiere Pro. It will always be buggy. You will always have to come up with workarounds, and even when a bug is fixed, it may come back a few releases later. I love Premiere Pro, but I do get sick and tired of troubleshooting, and coming up with worksrounds for various bugs.

Report · Apr 30, 2025

Try editing a 120 minute Feature Length Movie someday with 12 sequences, and thousands of clips, images, etc, etc on the timelines. Just because it has never happened to you, or you have never seen this, does not mean it does not happen. Have you and your team put in a huge project with 12 or more sequences, and opened and closed the project a bunch of times??? I highly doubt it. I have been a Premiere Pro user for 15 years, and one thing remains true. There will always be bugs, and the user will always have to come up with workarounds, and tricks to overcome every bug that comes with every new release. What's even worse??? Is that you will get rid of a bug, only for the bug to reappear sometimes a few updates later.

Report · Apr 30, 2025

I can reliably produce the behavior. Can a video be posted here?

Report · May 01, 2025

A video won't help.

Step-by-step instructions which reliably reproduce the behavior, definitely will.

>you are making assumptions by stating the projects cannot be changed.

As the manager of the team responsible for PPro's project handling, I feel confident in stating that projects which are not opened, cannot be changed.

> The sequences on the timeline of a huge project, alot of times all disappear, and you are left with one sequence
> on the timeline, or all of the sequences are still there, but they are all mixed up. Did I say anything about the
> project being changed? No I did not

Since sequences only exist in projects, if those sequences are changing, you are saying that the project is being changed.

We're not sure what you mean by a 'sequence on the timeline'; a timeline is a view of a sequence. Do you mean that, between launches, a different set of sequences is open, in timeline view?

> much of the time, the Sequences are out of order, or don't even show up, and you have to put them all back
> in order again in the project.

We're not sure what you mean by 'in order'; the Project panel can be sorted based on many different criteria. Also, project sort order has nothing to do with which sequences are open in Timeline view.

Are you saying that sequences become invisible in the Project panel?

Report · May 01, 2025

Bruce,

Which sequences are open, and in what order, can change at times. It probably will change if you switch between workspaces, and can be different when launching. Although it normally isn't for me. But at times, has happened.

I'm wondering though, if in a Production, with several others working, the sequences 'open' in the Timeline panel might change from other users under certain circumstances ... ?

Report · May 01, 2025

> Which sequences are open, and in what order, can change at times.

Agreed!

> I'm wondering though, if in a Production, with several others working, the sequences 'open'
> in the Timeline panel might change from other users under certain circumstances ... ?

Productions only offers project-level locking, not sequence-level locking. So, while 'User2' could save a project (within a Production) with a different set of open sequences, those changes wouldn't impact User1's view until/unless they opened that project (which, if User2 still had it open, would be read-only for User1).