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Lost sequence - Why is this even a feature??

New Here ,
Oct 14, 2024 Oct 14, 2024

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I am an extreme newbie - I spent about an hour working on a project to where I was done making edits and wanted to focus on color grading the videos.

So like any newbie would, I clicked on the "X" next to my sequence to, what I thought would just close the timeline panel, but no. It deleted my entire sequence. 

Now I thought "How weird! they wouldn't just put a button so detrimental to the creative process right out in the open. My project must be saved somewhere" Alas, After searching through the community answers and and doing my own digging, the sequence is nowhere to be found. 

All the answers on here suggest "Just look in your project panel and find the sequence icon" Okay it's not in there all that is in there is the raw footage I used to create the video.

"okay but it should be in your auto-saved folder" sure, but when I drag it in it all comes out as one solid video, meaning I can't make any edits to the clips. 

This is a horrible feature and I can't image why it's so difficult to recover a project. Please do soemthing to fix this I am not the only one experienceing issues. 

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LEGEND ,
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I have never had this happen, it's not a 'feature'. There are a couple things you could be hitting here off the top of the head.

 

 

First, you may see the sequence in the project panel and not realize it. Which is very easy to do. Why?

 

Sequences typically have the first frame of the first clip as their thumbnail, and as the sequence name. At a quick glance, it just looks like anoter clip, or a duplicate of that other clip.

 

The only difference in the Project panel between clips and sequences is the little icon by that name. Sequences have an icon with like four horizontal bars sorta looking like the video tracks in the timeline panel.

 

Second, sometimes people accidentally make something "hidden", and there's even a keyboard shortcut to 'hide' something you might have accidentally triggered.  And that's a darn bugger of an issue. You of course don't realize you've done so ... and yea, been there done that personally!

 

So right-clicking in the Project pane, and selecting "show hidden" I think it is, pops up any things you've accidentally hidden.

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