Timeline in Vegas 8?

[guzzi]

Completely new forum user! Having problems loading videos/photos to Vegas 8. I have several hundred video clips and photos from a recent trip to Alaska. These were taken with (3) different digital cameras. My main storage file (ACDsee Pro 2) allows me to arrange all of the photos and videos into a single file, date/time taken (timeline) sequence for all files. When I try to import these into Vegas, it re-arranges the files in alphabetical order by the type of camera. How can I get these into Vegas, and maintain my timeline, without having to pick thru the individual file dates from (3) cameras? What gives? HELP!
GUZZI [/b]

[fredfillis]

Here is what I do in Win XP with jpgs.

Open the folder that contains my jpg's. If it is multiple folders, use search instead. Make sure your view contains the "date picture taken" column or similar. Sort on that column. Select the files you want. Scroll back up to the top of the selected range. Drag from the top of the range to the vegas timeline.

[guzzi]

thanks for the tip; however my problem is I have files taken with (3) different digital cameras. each has its own file extention; .jpg, .mov, and .mp4 all taken during the same trip. In order to get the different files in a timeline order, I sort them in ACDsee by date and time taken. This gives me all files in the order taken, regardless of their extention type. When I go to import them into VEGAS 8 pro; vegas only brings them in re-sorted by file extention type, thus ruining the date and time taken, and my timeline. Since I have 1800 clips and files, sorting thru them all to get them into Vegas by sequence taken, may drive me nuts!! Any ideas are appreciated.
Guzzi

[fredfillis]

Can you just drag them from ACDSee to Vegas?

The metadata created by your camera and written into your files may not be available to windows, but clearly ACDsee can see it. Maybe there is something else out there that can too.

You could try something like bulk renamer and then sort by file name. It sounds painful but its not too bad. I had over 5000 jpgs to deal with but windows could read the date picture taken metadata from the exif and that made my life a little easier.

If anyone knows of an app that can read all that metadata etc then I'd like to try that myself!