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January 28, 2025
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Let us determine the default "Sort Icon" mode in "Icon View"

  • January 28, 2025
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In the Bin browser (project window) of Premiere pro, the "Sort Icon" mode in "Icon View" is set to "User Order" by default.

Depending on your workflow this can be pretty inefficient, especially that the untouched "User Order" seems pretty random to me.

 

In my case, I like to sort them by name in order to browse all on my footage in the order I shot them in. So it already happened to me to forget to sort them by name and finding myself selecting my footage in the random order that is imposed. Let alone the fact that it takes time to change the sorting mode every time I open a new Bin.

 

I have at least 2 possible solutions for this:

  1. Let us choose the default "Sort Icon" mode in Edit>Preferences (maybe in "general" or "media"?)
  2. When we open the "Sort Icon" list, a "(default)" appears next to the default mode, and we can change that either by right clicking on a mode and selecting "set as default",
  3. Having a "Set default" option at the end of the list which opens a menu that lets us choose default mode. 

 

 

5 replies

10Eighteen Media
Known Participant
October 13, 2025

Adobe please give us a way to set the deafult here. No one uses "use order" name would be the correct default if not!

 

Inspiring
September 30, 2025

AMEN!

Participant
August 6, 2025

I was getting quite frustrated with the random user order setting. I have been able to find a fix for this. First go into the bin where all your footage bins are kept and then switch to icon view and sort it according to list view order. Then switch back to list view. Open any footage bin and switch to icon mode. It should show sort list view by default.

Participant
July 22, 2025

User Order is seemingly random, it's supposed to be some form of storyboarded ordering but how this is determined with zero user input is hard to understand.

 

Name order should be the defult, please stop inventing new ways to slow our workflows down.

 

Locking in features like this is exactly the kind of reasons we editors need to switch back to FCP.

Known Participant
January 28, 2025

I bet a majority of users use Sort by Name most of the time.