Sort for After Effects and Premiere Pro
Automatically order and categorize project items
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Part of Motion Studio: 100+ tools, $11/moAfter Effects
Description
A very handy tool to sort your entire After Effects project files
Setup
- Open the Sort tool interface
- Specify all of the presets for the resulting folder structure
- (optional) save the presets for quick application in the future
Any of the folder names below can contain a slash ("/") character to tell Sort to create nested folders!
Options
Compositions
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Composition items
Audio
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Audio items
Video
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Video items
Images
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Image items
Old
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the folders that no longer have items contained in them
AI & PSD
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Illustrator and Photoshop items
Nulls & Solids
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Null and Solid layers
Missing
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the missing source items
Remove old Folders
Deletes the empty folders inside the Old folder after sorting.
Remove Unused
Removes unused footage
Ignored Files/Folders
Comma-separated names that Sort skips. Matching ignores case and covers the whole name. Use * as a wildcard
ignore matches any name containing "ignore", and render * matches names starting with "render ". Items inside an ignored folder stay. An item whose own name matches is moved to the project root (or the selected folder).
Sort only selected folder
Toggle on to only sort the files in the currently selected project folder
Keep label colors
Leaves existing label colors unchanged. When off, Sort applies its own label color to each item and folder it moves or creates.
Premiere Pro
Sort supports nested folders. Simply add a `/` in between each folder you'd like to nest.
The sort parameters above would result in something like this:
Undoing Actions
Because Premiere Pro's scripting API has limited support for Undo Groups, we hacked together an alternative. After performing any sort from the Sort panel, you can undo that action by clicking the Undo button in the top-left corner.
Options
Sequences
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Sequence items
Audio
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Audio items
Video
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Video items
Images
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Image items
Old
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the folders that no longer have items contained in them
Missing
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the missing source items
Remove old Folders
Toggle on to remove folders that no longer have items contained in them
Ignored Files/Folders
Name of a folder to ignore from Sorting
Sort only selected folder
Toggle on to only sort the files in the currently selected project folder