Order footage by time not date

[MrSMW]

I might be going mad, but I cannot find a way to do the following…

So with stills, whether the material is from 2 or 3 cameras, I can sort footage by date AND time, down to the second at least so as long as the cameras have been synced for time, all good.

With the video footage, I only seem to be able to do it by date, so in the folder I am going to cherrypick clips from to add to my timeline, I might have:

200 clips from Cam A followed by 150 clips from Cam B followed by 100 clips from Cam C all shot across say a 12 hour time period.

Having to trawl backwards and forwards is an utter pain but all I can find are links to organisation by date only.

Premiere user if that makes a difference.

Any help appreciated and it’s probably one of those stupid things where once I have the answer I will slap my own head!

[Roger]

Inside of Premeire Pro you can sort on Creation Date if you add that from the Metadata Display.

[fuzzynormal]

1 hour ago, MrSMW said:

I only seem to be able to do it by date

Add "Creation Date" to your project's MetaData Display Tabs.

Now, if you're wanting your video clips to be icons and also sorted this way, you can toggle to list view, sort 'em, then toggle back to icon view.  They should then be in your desired order at that point.

 

FWIW, it's not a bad idea to dig into the meta stuff in premier's metadata window; pretty granular.  You can set 'dynamic' values on clips for all sorts of useful organization.

 

[MrSMW]

Thanks fellas.

I think I have worked out why I cannot get this to work and that is because I cloned the settings from Cam A to Cam B so they are identical...including file numbers...so the software is only allowing the footage to be shown as 'everything' from Camera A and THEN everything from Camera B.

I went into my photo sorting software, PhotoMechanical and changed the file names and then managed to reorder everything once the material from each camera had a unique name.

I will only know for sure if I reset each camera to start with say A and the other B and then C etc which is what I had previously and never had this issue before.

So almost certainly me as expected 🤪