Sorting order in Icon view

[Alex Hawkins]

Hi Jim, I see you got no joy on your post.

I too, tend to browse through clips in icon view and have exactly the same problem.

I do not know how to fix it.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Jim Mcnally]

Hi Alex,

Yes, I never did get an answer regarding this. It’s inconvenient at best to have the thumbnails dumped into the bin randomly as they are. I’ve heard of some using Bridge to do their sorting but I think the back and forth between programs would be a little painful on certain projects.

Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com

[Rupert Howe]

Hi Jim,

I just replied to Alex in the “Icon view out of order” thread, so I won’t repeat it all here.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/913330

But briefly it seems the only way to control initial order in Icon View is to have the Bin in Icon View before importing – ie putting the files into the desired order before dragging them in.

Hope that helps,

Rupert

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

[Jim Mcnally]

That’s perfect! Thanks Rupert, that makes life so much simpler now.

Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com

[Richard Cooper]

OK So this is a silly bug!… but 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

[Simon Ray]

Thanks so much for taking the time to put this up Richard – a huge help!

[Elliott Balsley]

This issue used to cause me great frustration too. I don’t know when it was fixed, but in my Premiere 7.1, there is now an icon at the bottom of each bin in icon view called “Sort Icons”. Hooray!

Elliott C. Balsley
DIT, Colorist, Cinematographer
http://www.llamafilm.com

[Art Henares]

Wow I can’t believe it took me a year to find this thread but thank you!!

[James Drake]

that was exactly the solution I was looking for. Thank you so much!

[Adam Bedard]

Wow. This has been bugging me for a VERY long time. TYVM! Just made my day.

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