Sequence is a collaborative video editor that runs entirely in your browser, so your whole team can cut, review, and finish in the same project without installing anything. Your three-point editing, blading and trimming, slip/slide/roll, retiming, nesting, multicam, and J-K-L habits all transfer — this guide covers the timeline model, audio routing, and media handling that work differently.
How Sequence maps to Premiere#
| In Premiere | In Sequence |
|---|---|
| A sequence | A timeline — "Sequence" is the app; a project holds many timelines, arranged in the Storytree |
| Fixed V1/V2/A1 tracks, patching, and a ripple/overwrite choice | The Reflow Timeline — one primary lane plus attached clips; edits always ripple, so several editors can cut the same timeline at once. See Timeline overview and tools |
| Project panel and bins | The Browser — Media, Timelines, Collections tabs; bins become folders, and Collections build themselves from what the team tags and rates |
| Effect Controls and the Effects panel | The Inspector — one panel for a clip's color, audio, effects, and keyframes; no searchable effects browser |
| Lumetri Color | Inspector Color tab — wheels, LUTs, light and color adjustments; no curves, HSL secondaries, or masks |
| Audio Track Mixer, sends, and submixes | Component tracks — route each clip's audio to a named track instead of a mixer channel. See Work with Component Tracks |
| Adobe Media Encoder and the export queue | Server-side background jobs — exports render in the cloud in parallel with your editing; close the tab and the finished file appears in your library |
| Export — media, AAF, and XML from one place | Export Timeline and Generate Timeline Package — one renders a video file, the other hands your cut to another app |
Follow your Premiere workflow#
Premiere links to media on your drives; Sequence uploads every file into the cloud project first, then processes it in the background before you can cut with it.
Your bins become folders, label colors and star ratings attach to selects (marked ranges), and Collections gather your footage automatically.
Cut on the Reflow Timeline with the tools you know — Select, Blade, trim, retime — and route sound with component tracks.
A smaller, fixed effect set in the Inspector, paired with a keyframe system deeper than Premiere's: a graph editor, physics eases, and expressions.
Render a file with Export Timeline, or send your cut to DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, or Pro Tools with Generate Timeline Package.
Bring in media faster with Shuttle
See Get started with Shuttle for access to media locally on disk and faster uploads.
What surprises Premiere editors#
- There's no Overwrite edit. The three add controls are Insert (ripples the timeline), Append (adds to the end), and Drop (lays a clip on top as an attached overlay). The period key that overwrites in Premiere appends here.
- Blade is B, not C. In Sequence, C is the Comment tool. See Timeline overview and tools for the full shortcut list.
- There are no built-in transitions. There's no Cross Dissolve to drag onto a cut; you fade by keyframing opacity and volume.