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yenaphe
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
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Allow Batch Image sequence import

  • January 24, 2023
  • 15 replies
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We're working on animation movies, and more specifically editing a feature film. We have 1600+ shots in this movie, that are all rendered to image sequences in various 3rd party software.

We need an efficiant way to import the shots into Premiere. Right now, there's no way to batch import the sequence. We should at least be able to drag & drop folders containing image sequences and have them imported all at once.

A dialogue box upon import should ask us if we want to import the folders content as image sequences, and maybe even let us define the framerate at that point (this would be nice).

Right now, the only way to import sequence is to use the import dialogue and go through each and every folder and select the first image and check "image sequence").

This is not feasible on very large project. Thanks!

15 replies

Participant
May 14, 2025

Your app does not correctly import sequences.

Participant
February 19, 2025

I see this post from 2023 and still dont know why it is not implemented yet. I guess Adobe is not trying to help the comunity at all. 

Participant
December 12, 2024

Ah, this works. I was able to scan a folder for IMG Sequences in After Effects with the Immigration Script:

https://aescripts.com/immigration/

Then import all sequences via Immigration and then copy paste the over to Premiere. This works with large amounts of IMG Sequences.

Cameron852
Participant
January 24, 2023
Here's how to do it using the adobe creative suite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5stVXTrn3k
Participant
January 24, 2023
Please can we get this feature?
felixs17274976
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
need
Participant
January 24, 2023
Is this still really not an option??? I mean REALLY?
Participant
January 24, 2023
IMPORT A FOLDER AS IMAGE SEQUENCE, IMPORT MULTIPLE FOLDERS AS DIFFERENT IMAGE SEQUENCES wow, this is so essencial! we need this fast! its making my work so much tiring, my hands are hurting , I have 300 shots do import.....
Participant
January 24, 2023
I found this on a blog, works surprisingly well actually:

1. Open After Effects
2. Drag the folders with all the rendered images separated by folders C01, C02 etc…
3. Drag it onto the project window in AE
4. Copy everything from AE (CTRL + C)
5. Paste on the Project window on Premiere (CTRL +V)

If you set framerate etc in AE it also carries over.

Source:
https://cocoalopez.com/blog/?p=2892
Ivan Stepanov
Legend
January 24, 2023
Dear Sir, take a look at Watchtower extension:
http://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/watchtower

it auto imports media from watch folders and also supports image sequences, which will allow for batch import.
Also growing image sequences will be updated.