Organize Projects, Folders, Catalogs, and Variants

Media items and editable versions

The library’s Projects section groups imported media into source items. Each ordinary source item contains variant tabs; the source item itself is not a second editable timeline. Open a variant to change the transcript, clips, markers, framing, audio selection, or export choices.

Catalogs

Catalogs group projects in the library. Create one from the Catalog picker or while moving a project, then use it as a focused workspace for a client, series, channel, or batch of related media.

To move a project, right-click it in the library and choose Move to Catalog, then select an existing Catalog or create a new one. Sequence changes the library assignment without changing the media or transcript.

Unassigned

Unassigned is the built-in location for projects outside a custom Catalog. Deleting a Catalog moves its projects to Unassigned rather than deleting them. You can rename or delete Catalogs you created; the system Unassigned Catalog remains available.

Project folders

Folders organize projects within the active Catalog. Select one or more projects and choose New Project Folder, or create an empty folder from the library toolbar. You can then move projects into an existing folder from their context menu.

Expand or collapse a folder to control how much of the library is visible. Sequence remembers that state. A collapsed folder shows its project count and carries a warning when one of the projects hidden inside has missing media.

Rename a folder from its context menu. When removing one, choose whether to keep its projects in the Catalog or delete the folder and its projects. Read the confirmation carefully: deleting the projects is a separate, destructive choice.

Pin a project or folder

Pin the project or folder you need most often to keep it at the top of the current Catalog. Each Catalog has one pinned top-level item at a time. A project inside a folder belongs to that folder in the top-level ordering, so pin the folder rather than the contained project.

Select and manage several projects

The library supports multi-selection for actions such as creating a folder, moving projects, and deleting projects. This is useful after a bulk import or when reorganizing a large Catalog.

To process several recordings, select them in Projects, right-click, and choose Transcribe. Review each recording's track setup first and follow any model or media-access prompts. Monitor the queued work in Action Center rather than starting duplicate jobs from individual tabs.

Multi-Cam folders and programmes

A regular folder organizes separate projects. A Multi-Cam folder instead synchronizes cameras and audio around one shared transcript and provides programmes: editable outputs with their own cuts, camera choices, markers, and export settings.

Programmes are not the camera source containers. Camera variants and programme tabs are distinct editing versions, even when they present the same shared transcript. See Multi-Cam Editing for creating a group and choosing the camera variants used by a programme.

Variants

Variants create alternative edits from the same source media. Each tab can keep its own transcript corrections and enabled words, clips, markers, playback position, crop, layers, silence removals, cleanup choices, audio selection, and export choices.

Create a fresh version to start a different edit, or duplicate the active version to preserve its editorial decisions and settings as your starting point. Variants share the underlying source transcript; duplication does not make a second independent source transcription. Deleting the shared transcript affects the other versions that use it, so read that confirmation carefully.

Audio is normally variant-specific, but linked Multi-Cam external audio and its normalized derivative are shared by the group. See Normalize Audio for that exception.

Switching between variants

Sequence remembers playback state as you switch between tabs, so you can compare versions without constantly finding your place again. The library selection stays tied to the project while the active tab controls the variant you are editing.

Assets and Speakers

Switch the library to Assets for catalog-scoped reusable images, videos, audio, and live links to edited variants or programmes. Assets can have their own folders; they are not extra source-project tabs. See Layers and Reusable Assets.

The Speakers section provides reusable speaker identities. See Speaker Detection for detecting speakers and associating them with people.

Search your library

Click the workspace's Search button or press ⌘F. Search covers the library rather than only the open transcript. Choose the scope for transcript text, media, speakers, or metadata; ⌘1 through ⌘4 switch those scopes while Search is open.

Results are grouped by Catalog, project or Multi-Cam folder, and variant. Select a result to open its editing version. Transcript results can take you to the matching passage; a missing or unavailable passage is reported rather than opening an unrelated edit.

Use the speaker library's Show All Projects action when you want appearances of one person. Use Find Within Transcript instead when you only want to search the currently open transcript.

History

Use the History pane to review actions for each variant. Import, remux, normalization, transcription, profanity cleanup, filler-word cleanup, and other operations show how the version reached its current state.

History lists actions and times; it is not a clickable timeline for restoring arbitrary earlier versions. Clear History… removes history entries for the active version after confirmation. Use Undo / Redo for reversible editing actions and keep variants or backups when you need a durable alternative.

Project cards also surface active background work and missing-media status, so you can see which item is transcribing, remuxing, normalizing, or waiting for a relink without opening every project.

Use a Sequence Package when handing off an editable project and its dependencies. Moving an item between Catalogs is library organization, not a portable project export.