Organising clips in a project

[Ken Veal]

I have covered a charity event with video and stills. There was lots going on and I spent some time taking shots/ filming.
I took shots/ video at a scene and then would return later on to film or photo there. So the files of the same scene would not be in file number order. I sorted all these still and video files into their dedicated folders on the hard drive.
When imported into the named sub folder of the project (with the same name as the project ) all the files appeared in numerical order negating my intention of keeping them in subject order.
Is the only option in future to have a named sub folder for each subject in the Video Studio project separate to the project name? So Scene A sub folder would have the same name as the hard drive Folder called Scene A.

[Davidk]

Windows explorer sorts and displays files in alpha order within folders. So if you have same subject files with different camcorder sequence numbers and/or dates, then when imported to your PC, don't just sort/put them in a unique folder but re-name them to suit your preferred order (what I personally do is simply add a suitable name - usually a place and a subject, sometimes with numerical add-ons, eg subject 1, 2, 3 et al - preceding the recorder clip number. This way windows will sort them by subject and you have the reference to the original clip in the file name). However, once imported to VS, shuffling the clip order in the timeline to achieve the subject sequence you want will maintain that order regardless of where you have them or what their names are.