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Clip stringouts

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[Narrator] Clip stringouts are a great way to organize your media. You can use bins, of course and bins within bins. But a clip stringout allows you to group together content in a way that you can very, very quickly browse. I've set up two stringouts here and essentially, they are just sequences that contain a lot of clips already. Here I've got a sequence called Clip Stringouts - Source 001 And if I scroll through here, you can see we've got lots of shots from a drone. And here, I've got, Clip Stringouts - Source 002 We've got some shots of New York. How you organize your stringouts is up to you. You might have all of the content from a particular location, you might have all of the content from a particular scene. Or perhaps from a particular drop from a camera, everything on the memory card before you switched for a new card. The benefit of using stringouts is that you can so quickly go through the contents and identify what's in it, And also see alternative takes simply by scrubbing. If you decide that you want one or more clips from a stringout in another sequence, there are several ways to do it. One way, for example, is to select the clip and copy it by pressing command + C here on Mac OS, that'll be ctrl + C on Windows. And then, in your master sequence, position your playhead and press command or ctrl + V. I'll just zoom in a little so you can see that. Another way is to use so-called, "pancake timelines" And this really is just the benefit of the user interface design in Premiere Pro. If I take this Clip Stringouts - Source 001 timeline panel and drag it down into its own frame, you can see now I've got my clip stringouts main sequence above and below that, I've got my Source 001. It's a little bit cramped on the screen here because I'm running my monitor at a relatively low resolution to make it a little easier for you to see. On a full size monitor, this is a lot easier to work with. But you can see the clips down in the sequence and if I want to move one or more clips from the sequence at the bottom of the screen to the sequence at the top, I can just drag from one to the other. I should note, of course, these clips don't have any audio. If they did, clip linking would apply. But there's another way. I'm going to close that panel, and I'm going to close this other stringout panel and position my playhead a little further on in my main sequence. And now I'm going to switch this toggle. Insert and overwrite sequences as nests or individual clips. I'm going to turn this off, and we're now going to get individual clips when editing one sequence into another - this is the opposite of nesting. So I'll scroll along a little bit and just to illustrate, I'll take this Source 002 stringout and drag the whole thing into my sequence And right away, before I even release the mouse, you can see they are all of the clips from that sequence. I'll just undo with command + Z or ctrl + Z. Notice that now I have a sequence selected in the project panel. I have many more tracks available as source in the timeline panel. Ordinarily, you'd expect to see just one option for the video tracks. In fact, if I select this video clip in the source monitor, you can see that's what I've got. But because I've got a sequence selected with all of its various tracks available, I've now got full control over which parts of that sequence I'm going to use. I'm going to drag this first stringout into the source monitor. And now I've got the entire contents of that sequence available as one long, browse-able piece of media. If I double click on the sequence in the bin, of course, it is just a sequence. There's nothing special about it, so it behaves as you would expect. I can make editing changes and change the order of the clips and so on. Now I'll go back to my main sequence and in the source monitor, I'm going to add an in point and an out point, and then I'll drag to pull these clips into my sequence. Of course, I could insert or overwrite if I wanted to, as well. Again, I'm now not getting a nested sequence, I'm getting the contents of that sequence as selected by these in and out points. So, clip stringouts are a great way to organize your media. Particularly when you have a lot of content of a particular type that you want to browse through quickly.

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