Is OPEN AS SEQUENCE OPTION in FILE OPEN intended to control DRAG AND DROP of MULTIPLE IMAGES?

mbatchelor

All --

While working with

    ** A.SEQ FILE with 6 frames
    and
    ** B.TIF FILE with 1 frame

I selected A.SEQ and B.TIF within a WINDOWS EXPLORER FOLDER and did a DRAG AND DROP into PREMIER.

I was surprised when the result was a SINGLE IMAGE with 7 frames titled

    MERGED SEQUENCE

After poking at this a bit, I have found that:

1) If the

    OPEN AS SEQUENCE OPTION = ON

the last time the

    FILE OPEN

was used, then a DRAG AND DROP of MULTIPLE IMAGES will also result in a SINGLE MERGED IMAGE.

2) If the

    OPEN AS SEQUENCE OPTION = OFF

the last time the

    FILE OPEN

was used, then a DRAG AND DROP of MULTIPLE IMAGES will also result in a the opening of MULTIPLE IMAGES.

This seems like unintentional behavior.

Can someone please address whether there is another way to control the response of PREMIER to the DRAG AND DROP of MULTIPLE IMAGES?

Thanks. 

-- Matt

PierreD

Hi Matt,

Yes you are right this is not the expected behavior. I'll file a bug for this. If you want to make sure that the D&D behaves properly you can set the preference to not open files as sequences in a macro.

ThisApplication.Settings(, "FileOpen").Set("OpenAsSequence", False)

Pierre

mbatchelor

Pierre --

Thank you for looking into this and responding so quickly.

-- Matt