Display clips in Explorer in date taken sequence?

[John Rofrano]

[Paul Gregory] “I usually start a project by opening the Explorer window & dragging the required clips from there. Can this window be made to display them in date taken sequence?”

Switch to the Summary View | Details view and and click on any column header to sort by that column. In your case, you would sort by Modified. Like this:

~jr

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[Paul Gregory]

When I click details I can then sort date in each column. What I’m seeing is the date imported from camera & I can sort that. What I’m after is the date clips were shot (details from camcorder, time date ) and being able to sort that.

Thanks in advance

[John Rofrano]

[Paul Gregory] “What I’m after is the date clips were shot (details from camcorder, time date ) and being able to sort that.”

I’ve never seen anything support that. Some tapeless camcorders name their files with a timestamp of the recording so that you can just sort by filename, but I’ve never seen anything reach into the file and grab the internal capture date (sorry).

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[Paul Gregory]

Thanks for the answer. I thought that I should ask because if I go to Windows Explorer & click on the same clips & then ask for extra columns you can display dozens of extra columns of information including the time/date stamp, camera model, etc. Almost anything except GPS coordinates if you a camera that records that data as well.

Thanks in advance

[Andrew Lenczycki]

Have you tried renaming the files from within Windows AFTER sorting them thru windows by the “date stamp” field. If you group rename them they will be in that filename order.

Ex: jpg010, jpg002, jpg059, jpg41 came from two different cameras, but they all have their “date stamp” data. If you sort by that field, say they end looking like this:

File Date Stamp
jpg059 12-7-2011 12:15:03
jpg002 12-7-2011 12:22:15
jpg041 12-7-2011 12:25:58
jpg010 12-7-2011 12:26:19

Now if you batch rename them (click on the first file name in date stamp order, then shift-click on the last file in date stamp order, then right click and select rename “vacation_pic”) they will be renamed in date stamp order, but will be named vacation_pic(0), vacation_pic(1), vacation_pic(2), vacation_pic(3). I have to do this frequently when we have group events with multiple pictures taken by multiple people and I want them all to be in date:time taken order.