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Yes, that is indeed the problem. I have put in a query regarding adding it to the spec with Adobe, but they didn’t seem to see the need, citing future upgrades to the API that cannot be spoken about yet.

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Hi Alex, thanks but yes, that was literally the first thing I tried (and it doesn’t work, as outlined in the OP).

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Thanks for your reply.

You misunderstand what an XML is or how it works.
It’s not an app or something which can do anything.
It’s just an list, an intelligent table of contents.

I do know what an XML file is though, thank you ???? I am not expecting the XML file to “do” anything on its own – what I’m looking for is a way for the XML file to tell Premiere to do something specific when I import it (or to be pedantic, to include information in the XML that Premiere will read and understand).

If there would be a kind of plugin in PP which could be used creating a movie out of image sequences which is intelligent enough to store parameters for XML – a XML would work.
Otherwise the XML just is could for saving the references to the files etc.

Yes, indeed. And Premiere will then parse that list of references to files, when I click “Import…” inside of Premiere. What I’m looking for is a way to tell Premiere that when it parses that list, the files referred to in the file element should be imported as Image Sequence (instead of Still Image), the same way Premiere will do it if I manually select the same file using the Premiere UI.

Now maybe Premiere cannot do it, but the rest of the features are already there – importing an XML file, Premiere parsing that file and creating a bin and a clipitem based on the data in the XML file etc. I can even set up sequences of multiple layers and clips, I just cannot get those clips to be interpreted as Image Sequences rather than Still Image.

Here’s a quick image of the process:

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Hi Tero, thank you for your reply.

Maybe I need to add a bit more detail – I’m talking about the difference between importing as a still frame and image sequence, when using the UI it’s this checkbox:

The XML import will take the image fine, but as a still frame rather than sequence. I would just like for a way to tell Premiere that it should import as “Image Sequence” (this option was formerly known as ‘numbered stills’).

These frames are CG renders so they don’t really have reel information, timecodes and other “real film” data – they are just numbered with a sequential suffix: .0101.jpg, .0102.jpg and so forth. Premiere has no problem importing them as a sequence when adding them via the UI – it’s just when importing the bin via XML it fails.

If this option is truly not there in Premiere, then I will certainly add a “wish” for it on the Adobe platform, but I was hoping to solve the problem in a timelier fashion than that 🙂