Editing sequences and clips

The clip or clips are pasted into the sequence, and the current-time indicator jumps to the end of the pasted clip or clips.

More Help topics

“Targeting tracks” on page 173

“Copy and paste clip effects” on page 280

Delete all clips on one track

Note: You can also delete a track along with everything it contains. See “Work with tracks” on page 138.

Rendering and previewing sequences

Premiere Pro attempts to play back any sequence in real time and at full frame rate. Premiere Pro usually achieves this for all sections that either need no rendering or for which Premiere Pro already has rendered preview files. However, real-time, full frame-rate playback is not always possible for complex sections without preview files: unrendered sections.

To play back complex sections in real time and at full frame rate, you may have to first render preview files for those sections. Premiere Pro marks unrendered sections of a sequence with colored render bars. A red render bar appearing in the time ruler of a sequence indicates an unrendered section that probably must be rendered in order to play back in real time and at full frame rate. A yellow render bar indicates an unrendered section that probably does not need to be rendered in order to play back in real time and at full frame rate. Regardless of their preview quality, sections under either red or yellow render bars should be rendered before you export them to tape. A green render bar indicates a section that already has rendered preview files associated with it.

Sequences refer to preview files in much the same way as source media. If you move or delete preview files in the Windows or Mac file browser rather than the Project panel, you’ll be prompted to find or skip the preview files the next time you open the project.

You can customize a sequence preset to allow previewing of uncompressed 10-bit or uncompressed 8-bit footage. For more information, see “Create a sequence with uncompressed video playback” on page 150.

FAQ "Why is there a red or yellow bar in my sequence?"

See this article for details about what red, yellow, and green render bars mean and how they relate to playback and rendering previews.

See this blog post for information about RED Rocket support in Premiere Pro CS5 (5.0.2), which acclerates processing of RED (R3D) media.

Last updated 1/16/2012

Editing sequences and clips

More Help topics

“Change sequence settings” on page 148

“Source Monitor and Program Monitor overview” on page 122

Define the work area for rendering

Do any of the following:

•Drag the work area bar over the section you want to preview. Make sure that you drag the work area bar from its textured center; otherwise you cue the current-time indicator instead.

Grabbing the work area bar (above) and dragging it over the section to preview (below)

• Drag the work area markers (at either end of the work area bar) to specify the beginning and end of the work area.

Dragging the work area markers to expand the work area

•Position the current-time indicator, and press Alt+[ (Windows) or Option+[ (Mac OS) to set the beginning of the work area.

•Position the current-time indicator, and press Alt+] (Windows) or Option+] (Mac OS) to set the end of the work area.

•Double-click the work area bar to resize it to either the width of the time ruler, or the length of the entire sequence, whichever is shorter. To define the whole sequence as the work area, the whole sequence must be visible in the Timeline panel.

Note: Position the pointer over the work area bar to display a tool tip that shows the work area bar’s start timecode, end timecode, and duration.

Last updated 1/16/2012