How to Sequence Settings Premiere Pro 2022 ?
Because I'm going to make sure this never happens to you again. If you guys are new here, welcome to the blogger. My name is Anil Rana and I love to create Premiere Pro content that helps you better understand what is happening in this program. My goal is to simplify and explain in-depth all of the functions.
In Premiere are so you never have to watch another tutorial about the same topic twice. So today we're talking about sequence settings. Let's go ahead and break it down. OK, so we've got a blank Premiere Pro project and the reason people tend to get in trouble with sequence settings is that they take one of their clips. Drag it to the page icon and let Premiere
Generate the sequence settings for them without actually understanding what they just made. If you aren't already familiar with this feature. If you take a clip and drag it to that icon, Premiere will create a sequence that is based on the clip that you dragged in. So if you had a 4k 24FPS clip it would make a 4k 24FPS timeline
And delivered in 1080P but accidentally dragged in a 4K clip first. Now your timeline settings would be completely wrong for your project. Most people who use this feature don't pay attention to what clip they drag in first, and that is the reason it's a problem. This feature can be great if you know exactly what you want your project settings to be an
You dragging the correct clip first, but more often than not I see people pick a random clip and let it generate a sequence for them without ever double-checking what it made. So yes, this feature can be awesome, but not if you don't double-check to make sure that it created the sequence settings you wanted It always makes sure
That you know the resolution. And frame rate. You want your video to be in before you shoot the video. It will help make your post-production life a lot easier. If you aren't asking these questions. Once you get to the edit bay. So what we're going to do is create a sequence from scratch and save them as presets. If you hit command
And it will generate a new window for us to create a sequence from, we aren't going to use any of these presets, but instead, come over to the Settings tab. This will let us customize all of our sequence settings for our project. Make sure that when you come to this tab you change your editing mode to custom
So that it will let you manually adjust all of these settings. Now let's briefly go over what we're doing in this panel. When you're creating a sequence, you're trying to tell Premiere what media you are working with, so it best knows how to handle it. There are three main settings inside of this panel that controls how Premier will view your media.
Those are video settings which consist of your frame rate, resolution, and colorspace audio settings, which consist of audio channel and sample rate. And finally, video preview files which tell Premiere what format you want your rendered timeline files to be in. So let's start with the video settings. First, you need to choose your frame rate. All of the videos I make
Are always in 23.976. I never shoot anything in 30 FPS and I don't want my videos to be delivered in 60 FPS. So 23.976 is what I will be choosing. But if you are someone who makes gaming content then you will more than likely pick 60 FPS. Just make sure that you know the frame rate you want before you make your video.
Next, we need to decide on the resolution of our video. These days I shoot most things in 4K, so I'm going to set my resolution to 3840. By 2160, which is UHD 4K, you should be setting this resolution based on how you plan to deliver your video. If you're going to deliver a 1080P video, I suggest setting a 1080P resolution here.
If you're going to deliver 4K, then set a 4K resolution. we have a bunch of settings that are going to look confusing, but 99.99% of the time you will be using the same settings for these Those will be square pixels, no fields, progressive scan, and color space of REC 709. All modern cameras are shooting with square pixels and progressive scans. So it's very rare
That you're going to need to use any other settings other than these. The only time would be if you're working with an older camera that shoots interlaced footage. For color space, there are only three options, rec, 709, rec. 2100, HLG, and REC 2100 PQ. Again, the vast majority of you will be using REC 709 in less you are shooting and delivering HDR content.
REC 2100 is all about HDR, So we're going to make sure we pick Rec. 709 There's also this display format checkbox. This is just telling Premier how you want to count. On your timeline, by default, it should say 23.976 timecodes. This means that on your timeline indicator this number will count in frames, then seconds, minutes, and hours.
And tell Premiere whether or not you want yours. Audio to be in stereo, 5.1, multi-channel, or mono. We're going to choose stereo. Now come back to the Settings tab and change your audio sample rate to 48,000 and leave the display format set to audio samples. Finally, we have the preview files. These are the files that Premiere creates anytime you render your video on the timeline.
What's happening is Premiere is rendering a separate video file for itself to reference so that it doesn't have to playback the original clip you had on the timeline with all the heavy effects on it. So all of these settings are asking what resolution and codec you want those files to be in. By default iFrame, only MPEG is totally fine, but what you may notice
Is that the resolution of these preview files does not match the 4K settings that I set. This is because the format iFrame does not support 4K resolutions, so if you were to render your video on the timeline you would be looking at video files that are not in 4K. If you're working on a 4K timeline and want your render files to be in 4K as well,
You can change the format to QuickTime. the codec to Prores 422 HQ. Now the resolutions will match. Be warned though, it will take Premier longer to render your timeline if you're using 4K preview files instead of 1080P files like it normally uses The reason I mentioned this is because people often get confused about why their video looks worse after rendering it,
And this is the reason why iFrame is always the default format which doesn't support high resolutions. So if seeing preview files in the highest resolution is important to you, go ahead and change it It's not going to use these render files for the final export at the bottom. Here you have maximum bit depth and maximum render quality. You can completely ignore these because these settings are not
Going to be important for 99.99% of you This only affects your video previews while rendering your timeline and not your final export. Enabling these will make your timeline renders take much longer and will not be of any benefit to most of you. I'll leave a link down below to an Instagram video I made about this topic
That explains what these buttons do. Alright, we've made it through all of the sequence settings now instead of having to set this up every single time you make a project, we're going to save this as a preset. Now you can give it a name and a description if you want. I would highly recommend making presets for all of the common timelines that you use.
This will prevent you from having to guess if you're using the correct settings for a project now in the future, anytime you want to make a new timeline, you can hit command N scroll to the bottom of the list where you'll see custom which has all of your presets. Alright, this is editing Chris here and I just wanted to add a small note. And that is, please name your sequences
Something meaningful when you make them. Name it after whatever the project is, but please don't let Premiere give it some generic name like sequence 01 or even worse, naming it after your clip. Now that you guys have watched this video, you know that you shouldn't just drag a clip to your sequence and let it generate one for you. But notice what happens when you do that.
We now have two clips here that are named very similarly and a lot of people don't know the difference between them. This is the sequence. This is the clip. Well, how can you tell? There are a couple of ways. One this has. MOV at the end of it, but the other way is these little icons. This is a sequence because you can see all the little timeline editing blocks on it
And you can tell this is a clip because it has a green audio waveform as well as a pink filmstrip in the background. This will tell you that this video file has audio and video. If this didn't have audio, this green block would be gone and you would only have the pink filmstrip. Similarly, for audio, it will only show you the green audio waveform
Where your sequences are and what they are named. If you have it named something generic like one of your video clips, that doesn't mean anything and it's going to be very hard to find. Another thing is when you drag a video clip in, it puts the sequence wherever that video clip is and your sequences should not be in a random spot. They should be in a sequences folder.
You'll notice up here that I have a folder for all my sequences and I would recommend that you make something similar. So that you can put them inside of there. So for example in this final folder here I have set up your sequence settings properly and I know that this is the final timeline that I was working with and if I double click this it will open up
And I've got my project right here. So basically please just don't name your sequence setting something random like this you should have them in a proper bin and named something that means something to you. If I was going to revise this timeline I would duplicate it and then I would erase this copy and name it V2. So now I know I'm working
With a second copy of this and I know which one is which. Now with your timeline created, you can start bringing your footage in at the first clip you try to drag in doesn't match your sequence settings. For example, dragging in a 1080P clip to your 4K timeline premiere will only ask this one time and that is it. The first clip you drag in
Doesn't match your sequence settings. If you already had a 4K clip on your timeline premiere would not ask you to change the sequence settings because it assumes that you're already happy with the settings. Since you had the correct clips on the timeline. Since I already know I want this project to be in 4K, I'm No, I don't want it
To change my settings. Now you'll see this 1080P clip has black bars all around it because it's so much smaller than a 4K file would be. So to fix this you can right-click it and then choose set to frame size which on a side note never choose scale to frame size we’ll cover that in another video, but all you need to know for now
Is that you should always use set to frame size. An never scale to frame size. Also on that note, if you have a 1080P timeline and a 4K clip
and you drag the 4k clip clip onto the timeline, you'll notice that the video is punched in. To fix this you can do exactly what we said to do for the 1080P clip. You just right-click
And set to frame size and Now it will zoom the video down so that it fits inside of your frame. So there you guys go. Now you know how to properly set up your sequences so they don't have black bars, choppy frame rates, or low-resolution previews. If you haven't already, make sure to smash that like button, and if you enjoyed the content