Help with Adobe premierCS3 at DVinfo.net

John Okafor · July 24th, 2008, 12:38 PM

I'm very new to this and I have been watching a lot of premier training videos on Lynda.com.
I used canon GL2 to cover an event that took two tapes. After some minor editing on both tapes I saved tape1 as event1 project and tape2 as event2 project. I want to join both tapes. I opened Event1 project and imported event2 project into event1 project. I inserted event2 clips into event1. Now here is my dilemma. After the insertion event2 clips did not show any of the editing I did to it. It plays the original clips. If I opened event2 project by itself it plays the edited version but when I import it into event1 project it plays the unedited version. What am I doing wrong? Please help or tell me a better way to do this.

Adam Gold · July 24th, 2008, 01:05 PM

You need to nest the timelines. I would create a third project -- call it "event merged" -- and import both of the other projects into it. Then just click on the sequences that appear in your project window.

John Okafor · July 24th, 2008, 07:10 PM

Thank you so much Adam. Your suggestion solved my problem.

Adam Gold · July 24th, 2008, 07:27 PM

The cool thing is that any changes you make in the original timelines will be reflected in the merged project.

July 24th, 2008, 12:38 PM	#1
John Okafor Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 39	Help with Adobe premierCS3 I'm very new to this and I have been watching a lot of premier training videos on Lynda.com. I used canon GL2 to cover an event that took two tapes. After some minor editing on both tapes I saved tape1 as event1 project and tape2 as event2 project. I want to join both tapes. I opened Event1 project and imported event2 project into event1 project. I inserted event2 clips into event1. Now here is my dilemma. After the insertion event2 clips did not show any of the editing I did to it. It plays the original clips. If I opened event2 project by itself it plays the edited version but when I import it into event1 project it plays the unedited version. What am I doing wrong? Please help or tell me a better way to do this.

July 24th, 2008, 01:05 PM	#2
Adam Gold Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Woodinville, WA USA Posts: 3,467	You need to nest the timelines. I would create a third project -- call it "event merged" -- and import both of the other projects into it. Then just click on the sequences that appear in your project window.

July 24th, 2008, 07:10 PM	#3
John Okafor Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 39	Thank you so much Adam. Your suggestion solved my problem.

July 24th, 2008, 07:27 PM	#4
Adam Gold Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Woodinville, WA USA Posts: 3,467	The cool thing is that any changes you make in the original timelines will be reflected in the merged project.