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Importing image sequence: option greyed out

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May 1, 2013
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I'm trying to import a sequence of numbered images as a video clip into Premiere Pro CS6, but it won't take the files:

I've got 9480 JPEG image files named like BlahXXXX.jpg where XXXX goes from 0000 to 9479.

Now when I go to File > Import... and select all those files, the checkbox in the bottom of the file choosing window (image sequence) gets greyed out. If I just select a single image, I can check it, but when clicking "Import" then, Premiere will only import that single still frame.

What am I doing wrong?

Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

All of my PNG images were consecutively numbered. Like I said before the process worked flawlessly in AE CS6, just not in Premiere Pro CS6. Only a single PNG image was allowed to be sequenced with the Image Sequence Checked. If over one was selected the Image Sequence was grayed out and not selectable. If one was selected and imported only one image was sequenced.

Hi Digihill1,

This works as expected for me. Try this:

Choose File > Import (not the Media Browser)
Navigate to the folder with your image sequence in it
Click the first image in the image sequence (only select the first image, not all the images in the folder)
Click the Image Sequence check box at the bottom of the Import dialog box
Click the Import button
Your image sequence is imported as a clip

Thanks,

Kevin

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Lavish_dynamism2277

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My issue was that I was attempting to import .gif files. Which are not supported

sidx87

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The solution is simple, if you have any suffix or prefix in the filename apart from basic numericals (for example, if your filename is like 'adobe001.png' or '0002adobe.psd') then you'll need to remove it and keep only the numericals ascending with files (1.png, 2.png, n.png) or (0001.png, 0002.png, 000n.png), as only in this case premiere pro will recognize them as sequence and that option will be active again. Now renaming each file or frames won't be a sane decision, so I recommend using a third-party software to rename files in bulk numerically. I used this https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php and it worked fair.

Lon Goldstein

Inspiring

Thank you. Very helpful. FYI on Mac you can bulk rename right from the Finder:

https://www.imore.com/how-rename-multiple-files-once-mac

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mourads17253926

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A simple solution in case someone still struggling with this issue:

Instead of naming "01-image, 02-image..." --> change the name to "image-01, image-02.."

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jedf5278603

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I may be late or repeating somebody, my issue with this was my file names weren't all the same, img0001 through img 9999 were then followed by img10000, a different number of numbers.

bbfocus

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This was a lot of help, thanks! That's crazy cool how Premier recognizes the whole video clip from just one photo.

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peters57728439

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It didn't work for me when there were numbers in the filename except the sequencing numbers. First my images were called something like P32413492432_001 to P23473942030_500 and importing as sequence didn't work. After I had exported them as IMG_001 to IMG_500 it suddenly Premiere Pro imported the images as sequence

Steve_at_Layton

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Today is April 10, 2018, and I have the same problem. I've done this several times before. This is a bug, Adobe, not user error.

birdseyeinc

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April 12, 2018 and same problem, Image Sequence check box is greyed out and not available.

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