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Sorting project media by date/time stamp
In the Project Media window I have the columns:
* Name
* Date/Time Stamp
* Use Countand nothing else.
Clicking on the Name heading sorts the media by name in ascending and descending order with alternate clicks. This also works for Use Count.
However, when I click on the Date/Time Stamp heading the media does some kind of reorder by this column but it is not sorted correctly.
Firstly, the media sorts by Tape Name and then Date/Time Stamp. This is not very useful to me as I shoot (multiple clips) with multiple cameras and need to order all of the clips by Date/Time Stamp before dropping them into the Timeline.
Secondly, and this is definitely a bug, each alternate time I click on the Date/Time Stamp header, the media clip that was previously at the top of the list moves to the bottom. Try it a few times, you will see that the earliest clips (one by one) start moving to the bottom of the (ascending) list.
I do not want to give all of my tapes the same name during capture as this would make recapturing single clips at a a later date very difficult.
Is there another way to get my media into the Timeline in chronological order while we wait for Sony to become aware of and fix this bug?
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5 Replies
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in my project media window, when I sort by details, I have many columns. Right-click any column heading and you can see all the choices to view by. Not sure why you can’t see all these.
Mary Waitrovich
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Hi,
I am having the same problem sorting by Date/Time Stamp, did you find a solution?
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Sorry, no solution yet.
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Here’s one:
Capture using Scenalyzer which will append the date/time to the file name. Then just sort by file name.
Edward Troxel
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Hi,
I was thinking that but am not sure if some of the metadata like Tape Number gets stored in the DV file or not. I should just experiment and figure it out but thought I’d ask anyway – if you capture with Scene Analyzer will the tape number be recorded in the DV-AVI’s header? This is an issue for me because I have 70+ tapes but they aren’t numbered in the order they were shot [*sigh* – don’t ask]. I want to be sure if Sony Vegas ever has to recapture any footage that I import as AVIs it knows the tape to ask for. Also, is there any possibility the time codes could somehow be recorded differently between scene analyzer and the vid-cap utility? I know technically that is impossible but just wanted to ask.
btw – whether you capture from sceneanalyzer or not you can also use the DVDate utility to do the rename. It allows for more flexiblity in renaming the sceneanalyzer.
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