How clips, markers, and labels work in a Production

Learn how clips, markers, and labels behave inside a Production, so you understand how Adobe Premiere references media, shares marker updates, and handles label colors.

Clips in a Production

Productions follow a specific clip-referencing model that determines how clips behave across projects.

• The clip-referencing model works differently from other project types.
• The model places clips in a media project, while a timeline project contains a sequence built from those clips.
• The model does not create new source clips when you edit media project clips into a sequence. The timeline project only contains the sequence.
• The model still shows only one item in the timeline project, even if you cut all 100 clips into the sequence. The clips in the sequence refer to the original source clips in the media project.
• The model prevents duplicate clips from being created when you move sequences between projects.
• The model works only inside a Production.
• The model requires each sequence clip in a standalone, non-Production project to have a corresponding source clip in the project.

To understand this clip-referencing model, consider a Production with two projects: a Media Project that contains the clips, and a timeline project that uses those clips in a sequence.

Markers in a Production

Source clips can live in a different project than the sequence that uses them, so marker behavior depends on read and write access to those projects. When both the source-clip project and the sequence project are open in read and write mode, adding a clip-level marker to either instance makes the marker appear on the other instance.

If you add a marker in a sequence while the source-clip project isn't open in read and write mode, the marker exists only in the sequence. The next time both projects open in read and write mode, the marker synchronizes to the source clip and back.

Labels in a Production

When you cut a source clip into a sequence, it retains the label color from the project. From that moment forward, the label color becomes independent. Changing the label color in the sequence does not update the label in the project, and changing the label in the project does not affect the sequence.

Multiple copies of the same clip in a sequence also don't update one another.

Multi-camera source sequences

Multi-camera source sequences (multicams) behave like ordinary source clips within Productions. To modify a multicam, change the containing project's state to read/write mode. You can press Cmd (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) and double-click a multicam clip to open its source project and display it in the timeline for editing.