Premiere Pro Timeline

[elindsay]

A silly question! I have premiere pro (gave up on elements as it was constantly crashing). It's a little ahead of my skill base though!! I have opened a new project and want to drag one of my sequences in to the timeline. I can't because the timeline has disappeared (obviously I've pressed a button somewhere). I have reinstated the timeline box but I can't get the features e.g ruler etc back. The box is blank. therefore I can't work with my sequence. Any ideas how I get the full timeline back? I can't seem to find the answer. many thanks Erika

[momoffduty]

When you close out an empty sequence it disappears. Create a new sequence by clicking on the new button at the bottom right corner of the project media panel.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

.....or File>New>Sequence

[Peru]

I have opened a new project and want to drag one of my sequences in to the timeline. I can't because the timeline has disappeared (obviously I've pressed a button somewhere).

When you say "drag sequence" do you mean drag a clip or do you mean nest a sequence within a new sequence?

Or do you mean just open an existing sequence? If the latter is the case, just double click the sequence and it will open (at least in CS4 it will).

[elindsay]

I was working on a project and dragging clips in to the timeline successfully. I have not finished my editing yet. However, I must have clicked on something as the timeline has disappeared again and the empty box says there are no sequences. Where has my editing gone to? What can I do to retrieve it. I was nearly at the end and it seems all has been lost.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

There are options in PPro to autosave projects so all may not yet be lost. The auto save files should be in a sub directory of your project.

So, for example, if your project is located at "C:/Project" then your auto save files will be in a directory "C:/Project/Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save".

[Bob]

I was working on a project and dragging clips in to the timeline successfully. I have not finished my editing yet. However, I must have clicked on something as the timeline has disappeared again and the empty box says there are no sequences. Where has my editing gone to? What can I do to retrieve it. I was nearly at the end and it seems all has been lost.

If you have not deleted the sequence, it should still be in the project panel (the project panel is on the upper left if you are in the default workspace). Look for the sequence item in the list of items in the project and double click on the icon next to the sequence name. That will open the sequence in the timeline panel and you can continue to work with it.

I don't know how you deleted the sequence from the timeline panel. One way is to click on the "x" on the sequence tab in that panel. The timeline panel is a viewer. You open sequence timelines in the viewer to work on them. Removing a sequence from the timeline panel does not delete the sequence. The message that there are no sequences is merely a statement that you have not opened a sequence in the timeline panel yet.

If you have worked on a project that has more then one sequence and opened more than one in the timeline panel, the workspace will remember that when you start a new project unless you reset it or delete the extra tabs. If you don't do that, no harm, you'll just see a tab in the timeline panel for the number of sequences that were used prior. The tabs not associated with a sequence in your current project will say "no sequence". You can delete them manually by clicking on the x. Or, you can reset the workspace from the menu: Window>Workspace>Reset Current Workspace...