A method and apparatus for creating a media sequence with an optimal sequence preset comprising accessing a plurality of media, wherein each media file in the plurality of media files comprises at least one frame comprising at least one object; calculating a sequence perimeter based on a union of a plurality of calculated frame perimeters for the plurality of media files, wherein the frame perimeter comprises each of the at least one objects in the at least one frame of the plurality of files; determining a sequence preset within a threshold of the calculated sequence perimeter; creating a sequence using the determined sequence preset; importing into the sequence that portion of the at least one frame of each media file in the plurality of media files that is within the calculated frame perimeter; and aligning each calculated frame perimeter of each file imported into the sequence with the sequence preset.