… for Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Tip #431: A Faster Way to Build a Premiere Sequence

Larry Jordan – LarryJordan.com

Automate to Sequence is a very fast way to create an edit.

This article first appeared in MotionArray. This is an excerpt.

Let’s say you are building a montage or music video where the audio determines where the edits need to be.

• Add your audio to the timeline.
• Play the audio and add markers (shortcut “M“) where you want to add shot changes; generally on the beat.
• Select the clips you want to add in the order you them added to the sequence.
• Click the Automate to Sequence button in the lower right of the Project Panel.
• In the dialog displayed in this screen shot, make SURE to set Placement to At Unnumbered Markers.
• Click OK and, poof!, instant sequence.

EXTRA CREDIT

Review Premiere’s Help Files to learn what the other automation settings do.