File Order Randomizer

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November 15, 2025
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Hi,

My team and I make up to 100 videos every day. We have a selection of up to 1,000 background videos that we can use, and I wanted to ask if there is any way to have these background videos sorted randomly each time we make a new video, because right now they are always in the same order.

I've already searched for plugins and found one, but it's not available in the EU and has problems with more than 50 videos in a folder. (File Order Randomizer | Adobe Exchange).

So I wanted to know if anyone can help me or knows a solution for this? It would save us a lot of time, because we have to sort the clips manually for each video.

Thank you very much.

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Mathias Moehl

Community Expert

Sounds like a good job for my (paid) extension Automation Blocks.

Here is a sample automation which picks background music randomly from a folder and inserts it into the active sequence. I bet you can modify it to insert background videos instead.

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

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hanno_1571Author

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Hello.

Thanks for your answer, but I don't want to pay $60 and don't really know if it works...

Do you have maybe a contact for me, that could try it? I would be super thankful 🙂

Mathias Moehl

Community Expert

You can use the free trial version. It is fully functional (time limited).

To be more specific with tips, I would need to understand better, what exactly you need.

The block script from the video above is a bit advanced, since it performs many tasks: importing footage from a folder into the active project, and inserting as many random audio clips as necessary to fill the entire timeline. For your scenario, probably something simpler could already work.

Here is a very basic example, which just picks a random footage item from a project bin and inserts it in the active sequence:

To try it, just download the attached XML file and load it into the trial version of Automation Blocks. You can then directly run a script or customize the blocks as needed.

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects

insert_random_footage_from_bin_to_active_sequence.xml

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