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Hi all, I'm trying to import a bunch of tiff stills. Every time I do this they are put in random order, so for example if I drag them to the timeline, for a time lapse, all the clips are in non-sequential order. Like they are being renamed???
Impossible to produce a time lapse at present as all the clips are jumbled up on the time line. Please no comments or suggestions about doing this in AE or something else. It needs to be done in Resolve in this work flow and yes I do know how to do this in AE and or FCP (I'm in the field basically and other software not with me) etc etc but it really needs to happen in Da vinci Resolve 14 at present. Any one else experience this? BTW it's the unpaid version that came with a BMMCC.
Computer is a mac with running 16GB RAM, NIVdia GeForce 2GB GPU and blasted High Sierra 10.13.3 2.5Ghz.
BTW if I simply drag individual files one after the other then the order and name is kept but of course I can't sit there dragging hundreds of files. Does anyone think this is a memory or TIFF related problem.

OR have i done something colossally stupid?? I'm up for that too LOL!


Francis

Francis Chee wrote:Hi all, I'm trying to import a bunch of tiff stills. Every time I do this they are put in random order, so for example if I drag them to the timeline, for a time lapse, all the clips are in non-sequential order. Like they are being renamed???
Impossible to produce a time lapse at present as all the clips are jumbled up on the time line. Please no comments or suggestions about doing this in AE or something else. It needs to be done in Resolve in this work flow and yes I do know how to do this in AE and or FCP (I'm in the field basically and other software not with me) etc etc but it really needs to happen in Da vinci Resolve 14 at present. Any one else experience this? BTW it's the unpaid version that came with a BMMCC.
Computer is a mac with running 16GB RAM, NIVdia GeForce 2GB GPU and blasted High Sierra 10.13.3 2.5Ghz.
BTW if I simply drag individual files one after the other then the order and name is kept but of course I can't sit there dragging hundreds of files. Does anyone think this is a memory or TIFF related problem.

OR have i done something colossally stupid?? I'm up for that too LOL!


Francis

the folder they come from is sorted by name?

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Hi, I named the folder within Mac OSX then simply went to it via the media storage, navigated to the correct folder on the external drive, found the folder, created a bin made the individual files visible via the "show individual frames" attempted to select all the individual files (250 files) and dragged them to the bin. They were renamed in some sort of random order so when placed on the time line the timelpase doesn't make sense at all, as images are all over the place. The individual images are named from DSCF_00000.tif consecutively until DSCF_00999.tif
I know if I try and import all 1000 at once it just hangs my system so I did 500 files at a time. I can see the individual files but as I said as soon as I do cmd A to select all and drag them into a bin the crazy stuff starts to happen.

After importing all the images, try forcing the sorting of images in ascending order. You click File name for example in the media pool.

After, select all images et place in TL.

Francis, what are the resolution of the stills? Your GPU only has 2GB of memory so that may develop into another issue.

Francis Chee wrote: Any one else experience this? BTW it's the unpaid version

Yes Francis I am. However it is happening with my AVCHD video files. They are all numbered in numerical order and as soon as I multi select them and drag them into the media pool they all get jumbled up. Only downloaded the program last night and I am already having problems with it!!

The media pool column can be sorted by selecting the top of the column

That's great Peter, thanks very much - odd that it does not do that automatically...

Hi there Jean Claude, thanks this worked. But I never had this problem again until 3 years later! again nowin 2021 when importing Jpegs from an Olympus system, strangely, files from Panasonic cameras were ok, but your solution fixed all! many thanks!
Thank you to everyone else !

Francis Chee wrote:Hi there Jean Claude, thanks this worked. But I never had this problem again until 3 years later! again nowin 2021 when importing Jpegs from an Olympus system, strangely, files from Panasonic cameras were ok, but your solution fixed all! many thanks!
Thank you to everyone else !

Keep in mind that if you import without changing the setting to Show individual images, the stills will be imported in order as a virtual video clip.