{"id":9696,"date":"2012-07-27T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:38:20","slug":"sequence-markers-premiere-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/sequence-markers-premiere-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Automating Clips to Sequence Markers in Adobe Premiere Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Automate your clips to fall at specific predetermined places in a Premiere Pro timeline!<\/h2>\n

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If you’re looking to create a quick down and dirty edit cut to a beat or time interval, this very handy editing trick for Adobe Premiere Pro<\/strong> is the way to go! In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to mark points where you would like new clips to start and then bring a batch of clips down to a Premiere Pro timeline<\/strong> at those spots. It’s actually much easier than you may think!<\/p>\n

The beauty of this function is that it allows you to set up a complete timeline with predetermined edit points, and moves any existing footage on the timeline down after your inserted clips. This preserves any editing you may have done up to that point (just make sure you choose the ‘insert edit’ option).<\/p>\n

So, how does it work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first thing you need to do is specify the points where you want your clips to fall in a Premiere Pro timeline<\/strong>. This is done with unnumbered sequence markers. Note, the following method will not work with clip markers linked to a piece of music. If you want to set insert points for your clips based on music cues, you will first<\/em> need to place the music track in your sequence and then<\/em> add markers to the sequence. \u00a0Essentially, sequence markers are added in the timeline while clip markers are added in the source monitor and cannot be used for this process.<\/p>\n

In Premiere Pro<\/strong> CS6<\/strong> markers<\/strong> are added with the ‘M’ key, while in previous versions of Premiere Pro markers<\/strong> were added with the ‘*’ key on the NUMBER PAD \u2013 not the main keyboard! \u00a0If you didn’t have a number pad you had to add them through the ‘Marker’ menu at the top of the screen \u2013 a slow and rather annoying work-flow!<\/p>\n

These photo examples give examples of the difference between clip markers and sequence markers:<\/p>\n

Clip markers in the source monitor – this won’t work:
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Those same markers shown in a timeline (still not usable for this method):
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Sequence Markers in the Timeline (added with the ‘M’ key)
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Now that you have set your Premiere Pro sequence markers<\/strong> you are ready to automate your assets from the project panel to the timeline. Premiere Pro CS6<\/strong> allows for very easy setting of ‘in’ and ‘out’ points in the project panel. However,\u00a0if\u00a0you set these ‘in’ and ‘out’ points you need to bear in mind that it is likely that one of two things will happen:<\/p>\n