Premiere Pro · Cutting and the timeline
How to nest a sequence in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Select the clips in the Timeline, right-click and choose Nest. Name the nested sequence and click OK. The clips become one item you can move, scale or add effects to.
In Premiere Pro
01
Select the clips
Select the clips to group. They can be on several tracks.
02
Choose Nest
Right-click and choose Nest, then name it. Premiere replaces the clips with one green nested sequence.
03
Apply effects
Drop an effect on the nest, and it applies to everything inside.
04
Edit inside
Double-click the nest to open it in its own Timeline tab. Changes there update everywhere the nest is used.
- Nesting multi-channel audio can change its channel layout. Check audio after nesting.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie doesn't nest; it works with whole edits.
In Eddie, each version is its own edit, and every prompt changes that edit. You can also cut several short clips from one video as separate edits. In Premiere, nest the parts you want to treat as a block after the hand-off.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- How do I un-nest in Premiere?
- Premiere has no un-nest command. Open the nest, copy the clips, and paste them back into the main sequence.
- When should I nest?
- To apply one effect to many clips, to reuse a section, or to reframe a whole multicam for vertical.