Icon view out of order

[Ann Bens]

Icon view has an auto clean up.
What ever size the icon view is the clips always stay in the same order from legt to right.

[Alex Hawkins]

Sorry Ann I’m not sure what you mean. I know earlier versions of PPro had a clean up button in the project panel, but I am on CS5.5 and that button no longer exists.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Rupert Howe]

Hi Alex,

Seems that the only way to sort the initial order is to import the clips into the Bin in Icon View.

ie arrange the clips in whatever order you want them in Finder (or Explorer I guess, though have only tried on Mac) , then set the Bin to Icon View and drag them in.

Then you can go back to List View and sort them there in whatever order you want, as it works completely independently. When you go back to Icon View, it will keep the order from time of Import.

As you noted, if you import them in List View, Premiere will weirdly jumble them up when you switch to Icon View – I’m sure there’s some kind of order to them, but I haven’t looked hard enough to see what it is.

Bit annoying that there isn’t a manual override, and that if you’ve already started using clips that you’ve imported to a Bin in List View, you’d have to reimport them all to make use of the Icon View properly.

But this is the workaround, I guess. Hope it helps a little!

Best,

Rupert

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Rupert Howe
Production Workflow Consultant
Support Partners (UK) Ltd
https://support-partners.com/

[Richard Cooper]

I posted this on another thread just now but it applies here as well.

…. I just figured a quick solution.
Open the bin in list view so they are in order. Then create another empty bin and set that on into ICON view, then just select all in the original bin and move the clips over into this new bin and they will stay in the correct order. And a bonus… they will maintain this order now even when you go back and forth from icon to list views.
A Pain for sure, but not as painful as it could be.

Good Luck!

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com

[Jessie Moore]

You, sir, are the BOMB! That has been driving me crazy! You just saved me a ton of time, and aggravation!

Thanks for posting your solution.

[Richard Cooper]

Glad to help!

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com

[Lewis Stiefel]

Ditto….Thanks Richard…starting to migrate from FCP7 to CS6….that is quite annoying…
seems like something really simple Adobe should address.

[Patrick Bennett]

This is quite odd. I believe there is a simple sort button/command in just about every other piece of adobe software, why not this one?

[Jessie Moore]

Sadly, they have not fixed this in CS6 either.

[Justin Crowell]

Anddddd….apparently no fix in CC. Wonderful.

Editor, Producer, DP
JustinCrowell.com