Sort

Automatically order and categorize project items.

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After Effects

Description

A very handy tool to sort your entire After Effects project files

Setup

  1. Open the Sort tool interface
  2. Specify all of the presets for the resulting folder structure
  3. (optional) save the presets for quick application in the future

ℹ️ 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
Toggle on to remove folders that no longer have items contained in them

Remove Unused
Removes unused footage

Ignored Files/Folders
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the missing source items

Sort only selected folder
Toggle on to only sort the files in the currently selected project folder

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Premiere Pro

ℹ️ 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