<p>The answer is that this is not possible - at least as per the time of writing this answer, since the concept of "image sequence" does not exist in the XML spec Premiere utilizes - namely, XMEML version 4, also known as Final Cut Pro 7-style XML.</p>

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<p>I'm trying to make life a bit easier by generating an XML file to quickly import a number of image sequences into a Premiere Pro project (PPro 2017.0.2 in case it matters).</p>

<p>It almost works - but when I import this XML file into premiere, it imports the first file in the sequence as a Still Image rather than an image sequence.
The path to the file is correct, and the first frame does show up just fine.</p>

<p>It feels like it's only a small change that's required, but I have not been able to find any information on it anywhere.</p>

<p>Since the (sample) XML is very short, I also included it here (the real file has a few hundred clips, they all behave the same way).</p>

<p>I tried manually importing an image sequence into premiere and exporting the result as FinalCut XML, but if I re-import that file, it also gets imported as a Still Image, so no help there.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;  
&lt;xmeml version="4"&gt;  
  &lt;bin&gt;  
    &lt;name&gt;mpf_07 Images&lt;/name&gt;  
    &lt;children&gt;  
      &lt;bin&gt;  
        &lt;name&gt;Preview&lt;/name&gt;  
        &lt;children&gt;  
          &lt;clip id="mpf_07_01"&gt;  
            &lt;duration&gt;229&lt;/duration&gt;  
            &lt;in&gt;0&lt;/in&gt;  
            &lt;out&gt;229&lt;/out&gt;  
            &lt;name&gt;mpf_07_01&lt;/name&gt;  
            &lt;media&gt;  
              &lt;video&gt;  
                &lt;track&gt;  
                  &lt;clipitem id="clipitem-Preview-mpf_07_01"&gt;  
                    &lt;name&gt;clipitem-Preview-mpf_07_01&lt;/name&gt;  
                    &lt;file id="file-Preview-mpf_07_01"&gt;  
                      &lt;name /&gt;  
                      &lt;pathurl&gt;E:\mpf_07_01.0101.jpg&lt;/pathurl&gt;  
                      &lt;rate&gt;  
                        &lt;timebase&gt;24&lt;/timebase&gt;  
                        &lt;NTSC&gt;FALSE&lt;/NTSC&gt;  
                      &lt;/rate&gt;  
                      &lt;duration&gt;320&lt;/duration&gt;  
                      &lt;timecode&gt;  
                        &lt;rate&gt;  
                          &lt;timebase&gt;24&lt;/timebase&gt;  
                          &lt;ntsc&gt;FALSE&lt;/ntsc&gt;  
                        &lt;/rate&gt;  
                        &lt;string&gt;00:00:00:00&lt;/string&gt;  
                        &lt;frame&gt;0&lt;/frame&gt;  
                        &lt;displayformat&gt;NDF&lt;/displayformat&gt;  
                        &lt;reel&gt;  
                          &lt;name /&gt;  
                        &lt;/reel&gt;  
                      &lt;/timecode&gt;  
                      &lt;media&gt;  
                        &lt;video&gt;  
                          &lt;samplecharacteristics&gt;  
                            &lt;width&gt;2048&lt;/width&gt;  
                            &lt;height&gt;1126&lt;/height&gt;  
                          &lt;/samplecharacteristics&gt;  
                        &lt;/video&gt;  
                      &lt;/media&gt;  
                    &lt;/file&gt;  
                  &lt;/clipitem&gt;  
                &lt;/track&gt;  
              &lt;/video&gt;  
            &lt;/media&gt;  
            &lt;rate&gt;  
              &lt;timebase&gt;24&lt;/timebase&gt;  
              &lt;NTSC&gt;FALSE&lt;/NTSC&gt;  
            &lt;/rate&gt;  
          &lt;/clip&gt;  
        &lt;/children&gt;  
      &lt;/bin&gt;  
    &lt;/children&gt;  
  &lt;/bin&gt;  
&lt;/xmeml&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>To clarify, this is the setting when using the Premiere UI to set it up, everything else works except Premiere doesn't see the Bin as an image sequence, but rather as a still image:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/0XiUm.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/0XiUm.jpg" alt="To clarify, this is the setting when using the Premiere UI to set it up"></a></p>

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Importing XML into Premiere Pro - numbered stills / image sequence
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# Importing XML into Premiere Pro - numbered stills / image sequence

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-09)

I'm trying to make life a bit easier by generating an XML file to quickly import a number of image sequences into a Premiere Pro project (PPro 2017.0.2 in case it matters).
It almost works - but when I import this XML file into premiere, it imports the first file in the sequence as a Still Image rather than an image sequence.
The path to the file is correct, and the first frame does show up just fine.
It feels like it's only a small change that's required, but I have not been able to find any information on it anywhere.
Since the (sample) XML is very short, I also included it here (the real file has a few hundred clips, they all behave the same way).
I tried manually importing an image sequence into premiere and exporting the result as FinalCut XML, but if I re-import that file, it also gets imported as a Still Image, so no help there.
  
  
    
    mpf_07 Images  
      
        
        Preview  
          
            
            229  
            0  
            229  
            mpf_07_01  
              
                
                  
                    
                    clipitem-Preview-mpf_07_01  
                      
                        
                      E:\mpf_07_01.0101.jpg  
                        
                        24  
                        FALSE  
                        
                      320  
                        
                          
                          24  
                          FALSE  
                          
                        00:00:00:00  
                        0  
                        NDF  
                          
                            
                          
                        
                        
                          
                            
                            2048  
                            1126  
                            
                          
                        
                      
                    
                  
                
              
              
              24  
              FALSE  
              
            
          
        
      
    


To clarify, this is the setting when using the Premiere UI to set it up, everything else works except Premiere doesn't see the Bin as an image sequence, but rather as a still image:

**Tags:** premiere, automation, xml


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2017-04-16. Score: 1

The answer is that this is not possible - at least as per the time of writing this answer, since the concept of "image sequence" does not exist in the XML spec Premiere utilizes - namely, XMEML version 4, also known as Final Cut Pro 7-style XML.


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