Classroom in a book

Automating your storyboard to a sequence
Now you’re going to move your storyboard clips to the Timeline, placing them 
there contiguously, in sequential order. Adobe Premiere Pro calls this process 
Automate to Sequence
. Here’s how you do it:
1
Make sure the current-time indicator is at the beginning of the Timeline. 
Automate to Sequence places the clips starting at the current-time indicator 
location.
2
With the Storyboard bin window active, choose Edit > Select All to highlight 
all the clips. You can also marquee-select or use the Shift-click, Ctrl-click 
(Windows), or Command-click (Mac OS) method.
3
Click the Automate to Sequence button in the lower-left corner of the 
Project panel.
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 Note:
Some of the 
videos are a little dark 
and can be hard to view 
critically in the Project 
panel’s preview area. In 
those cases, double-
click a clip to view it in 
the Source Monitor.

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The newly opened Automate To Sequence dialog has several options. Choose 
the settings shown in the following image. The options include:
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Ordering
: Sort Order puts 
clips on a sequence in the 
order you established in the 
storyboard. Selection Order 
places them in the order 
you selected them if you 
Ctrl-clicked (Windows) or 
Command-clicked (Mac OS) 
individual clips.
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Placement
: This places clips 
sequentially on the Timeline.
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Method
: The choices here 
are Insert Edit and Overlay 
Edit, both of which will be 
discussed later in this lesson. Because in this instance you are placing the 
clips on an empty sequence, both methods will do the same thing.