How to IMPORT alphabetically? Or how to ORDER files in the timeline by their name?

Question

When I import 10 mp4 files, all named from 0.mp4 to 10.mp4, the sequence I get is not ordered.

For example:

The 2.mp4 here is the one where the blue line passes, so its clearly where it should be.

Note: The mp4 are inside folders, I simply click on the holding folder, that contains multiple folders, and each contain an mp4. Only the files are ordered like that. The folders have the same name except for a number

-> How to import by order of name and make sure the sequence created automacially fall under that order?

-> Is there then, a method to order the items in the time line just by clicking and doing something like "order by name"? and be able to reorder them?

Ann Bens · Accepted Answer

Rename files to 2 or 3 digits. You can do this in The Bridge. (001,002,003,004, etc)

The way you select in the project window determines the way your clips are dropped in the timeline.

Sort on name or whatever order you want in the project panel.

Select first clip, hold shift and select last clip.

Grab first clip and drag into timeline.

This is one way: you can also lasso from top to bottom and drag first clip.

R Neil Haugen · Answer

Computers often do numbers in a "logical" manner ... but ignoring digit placement, which is crucial to our using of numbers. They can just sort by first character, then second character, then ...

So anything starting with 1 goes ahead of anything starting with 2.

1

10

2

And this is ... odd. I've seen Premiere do this sort of sorting myself, though at other times, it doesn't. Very bizarre.

Ann's right ... you have to have a consistent number of characters involved to get away from that.

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