Creating and modifying a sequence

- In this video, we're going to look at how we can create a new sequence, as well as make changes to the sequence we created when we imported our assets in the last movie. So keep in mind that this chapter is structured in a way that you're just going to want to follow from the beginning as there's no sequence for you to pick up from. So right now I have the Iceland quick edit sequence that we created and all of the raw clips. And sometimes during import, you can choose to actually create a sequence at a later point in time. To give you an example, I'm actually going to head back to the import module, 'cause right now we're in the edit module. And I've clicked on the favorites folder where all of the exercise files are. This time we're going to bring some clips into our project panel, but without putting them inside a sequence. I think a few shots that we can bring in happen to be some regular 16 9 shots that weren't brought in last time. So I'm going to select this image 5117. I don't want it to be part of a sequence, so I'm going to click off the Create new sequence. I don't want it to go into any bins right now so I'm going to click off that, as well. Let's select a few other clips. This shot here of the waterfall, and a few shots of some driving footage. While this does get populated in this new sequence area down here, keep in mind, it's not going to go inside any sequence, it's just going to be inside your project panel. We'll choose import, and since I had my vertical clips bin open that's where they go. I'm in list view, but we can easily switch to icon view that we saw earlier. And one other way that we can bring them into a new bin is with them currently selected, I'm just going to press cmd+x or you can press Ctrl+x on a PC. Let's find our project, which is located right here, The Iceland Travels. For any reason that you don't see it, you can click on the arrow to go back to the project level where we should have the 16 9 bin that we created. I'll double click that and then just press cmd+v or Ctrl+v to paste those clips into this bin. Now that this is nice and organized, if you were to bring this in in this fashion on import without a sequence we would need to create one from scratch. All sequences in Premier Pro take the first clip that you drop inside of it first to create the dimensions of that sequence. For instance, if we take a look at this shot here, the volcano that I brought in earlier, and we right or control click that clip, we can see that the properties of this shot happen to be ultra HD 3840 by 2160. Let's create a sequence just based on a small portion of this clip. One great thing in working in this icon view is I can move to the beginning of the shot and actually start to create some in and out points. Those are with the simple I and O key. So, I will create an endpoint and I'll just play forward from the beginning of the clip by pressing the space bar key. And a few seconds later, I'll press O to make an outpoint. Should notice that only that portion of the clip is selected. Now another way to check this is to double click that clip and you'll see it loads into the source monitor. And if I expand this little section down here, I should be able to see the in and out points that I created. You can create them in here, as well. For any reason that your interface doesn't look like mine just go to the window menu and go to workspaces assemble. Now that we have the in and out points established we can create a sequence easily from this. We can just drag this clip onto this new item icon here at the bottom. And now we have a sequence created that's named after that clip. And with it selected, if we go to sequence, sequence settings, you can see it matches the dimensions of our clip, that ultra HD. I'm going to cancel this and just close this so we can take a look at the Iceland Quick edit. We haven't looked at the clips that we brought in from the previous exercise, but I'm just going to move my play head throughout them by clicking and dragging on it. And I noticed a few of these shots are smaller than the other shots in the project. There are a few different reasons for that. One is, I mentioned that some of these clips that I shot happen to be in slow motion, and the slow motion was recorded at 1080 by 1920 versus some of the ultra HD vertical dimensions of other clips. I have one of two options: One is I can leave the sequence as is and scale these clips up, losing some quality, because, in fact, they're going to be almost double in size. The other option is to change the sequence settings and scale it down, and scale down the larger clips to fit into that dimension. That's what I'm going to choose 'cause I don't want to have any loss of quality of these smaller shots. With the sequence selected in the timeline I'm going to go to sequence, sequence settings. And here under frame size, I'm just going to type in 1080 followed by the tab key, where I'll type in 1920. I'll press okay, we'll see that the preview format is going to change. We should see that the clip that I was over, those smaller is now a lot larger, but several of the shots, which happened to be much larger than our new sequence size need to be scaled down. For instance, I'm going to go over the first shot and in the timeline just press the equal key so we can zoom into it. And, I'm going to press shift+5 just to reveal the motion parameter section. So if you start to scale this down here, you notice by scaling it down to 50% we're able to see now the entire clip. One great thing is that once you've made a change to a shot we can select a clip and press cmd+c to copy that change, and then we can select all of the other shots that are in the timeline that need to be scaled down. So for instance, these two shots need to be scaled down. I'll drag a lasso around them. Go to my edit menu where I'll paste the attributes of the motion scale. So motion, I don't want to do opacity and time remapping, I'll just do motion. Now they are scaled it down. I'm going to repeat that step by going through some of these other shots. This volcano shot in particular, if I go to edit, paste attributes, bring that down in terms of its motion, now it fits the frame. I do want to mention that this shot in particular, this longer 5414 shot, if I actually drag the scale, this was in the horizontal perspective, so I'm going to pretty much just keep it at its size and we can worry about its positioning a bit later. And then the same thing of these two remaining iceberg shots. They happen to be, not 9x16, but in a 16x9 format. So that's how we can create a sequence, not to mention make modifications to an existing sequence if required for our Premier Pro for social media workflows.