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tylers43506189
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October 30, 2021
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Chronological / Alphabetical Order Hyperlapse

  • October 30, 2021
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Hey! 
So I've been editing hyperlapses wihtin after effects, not professionally or close to it so please bare with a newbie. 
Anywho, every time I load the  ~100~ pictures into AE they jump back in forth and don't go chronoloigcal.  I do click alphabetical order, and camera raw.  Also my files load in from last to first when importing (ae interface).  
I even rename and reorg the files in my computer to chronoligcal order by name and or index /counter etc.  

Any known fixes or what am I missing as a oh wow I'm smart moment? ha 

 

Camera is a Sony a7iii
MacOS computer 
AE 2022 

Thank you for the help! 

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tylers43506189Author
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October 31, 2021

  

 Thanks for your replies so far, heres are screenshots. 
budhouse is short for budweiser house, has zero matter to the issue but whatever. 
I cmd+a renamed them after i sorted yesterday in the folder and theyre correct in there.  
the import didnt see or recognize the correct order. 
Ive done both counter and index as far as a naming within the folder.  
Bridge: is this something i need to reset or change a setting on? I assume we all have it with and its one of those automatic downloads , its in my launchpad. 
Seriously thank you for the help ! 

 

Meng Zhiqun
Meng Zhiqun
Inspiring
November 1, 2021

Bride batch renaming has quite a few options for u to play with, which is what we need now actually. I think the problem with the file naming is that there are no 0s infront of the indexes. Ae should work better when your images are named something like "images0001" to "image0100" as opposed to "image1" to image "100". Have a try at Bridge to see how this does yeah!

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    tylers43506189Author
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    November 1, 2021

    Thanks for the rec on bridge batch, had to figure out how to do that but sure enough renamed it all in bridge as a batch and it changed in my folder. 

      Meng Zhiqun
      Meng Zhiqun
      Inspiring
      October 31, 2021

      Could we get a screenshot of how your images are named so that we can have a clearer picture on this? Also, adobe Bridge allows you to batch rename files, instead of renaming them individually painstakingly.

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      Rick GerardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 31, 2021

      Your files probably have naming errors. Not enough zeros before the number. If you have 100 frames then the first image must be "fileName001.png". It's better if you have even more zeros. That is the only way to force the right order.

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      tylers43506189Author
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      October 31, 2021

      update: 
      I went into the folder and rearranged all the pic to a alphabetical / chronological order. luckily only 100.  Then renamed and indexed 1-100.  SO its in the correct order. 

       

      Deleted previous work in AE and started from ground zero of importing.  Imported in alphbetical order into workspace / project window.  clicked and dragged into new comp.  

      AE still has them out of order and the sequence or chronological order is jumping from pic to pic instead of a smooth 1-100 
      its going 1 -25-3-4-5-17 etc (if this helps make sense)

      Thanks for your help and the replies thus far 

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      October 30, 2021

      Sounds like you're missing the EXIF part in your plan. Metadata can easily mess up a whole lot of things and that may be your problem, when ACR reads it. the dates could simply be completely different from the actual file creation dates and a whole lot of other things could be going on as well.

       

      Mylenium

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      tylers43506189Author
      Participating Frequently
      October 30, 2021

      hmmm, so where do i get the exif data or does it automatically create and import when i put the pics onto my computer? and do i need to keep the exif file in the same folder as the pics? 

      Meng Zhiqun
      Meng Zhiqun
      Inspiring
      October 30, 2021

      Have you tried double clicking the project window and importing the images as image sequence?

       

      If not, how do you place them as layers in the comp? If you click one item, and shift click the end of the item and drag into the timeline, it would work. 

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      tylers43506189Author
      Participating Frequently
      October 30, 2021

      i double clikc the project window to bring everything in and it comes up with the mac file window 
      choose 1 then it loads all the pictures .  I do click camera raw as well as alphabetical. 
      after that comes through i click and drag to make a new comp 

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