Importing Multiple Clips in Order

Does anyone know why when I import video from either my video camera or off of a DVD through a ripping software the clips come in in multiple clips? I could deal with this if they came in the same order but they aren't even close to being in order.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Peter

Don't import into or edit in the clips viewer, do so to the Timeline. Then they will always be in order.
Regard the clips viewer as merely a 'parking lot' for stuff you may not need but don't want to delete yet.

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Sorry, I missed part 2. Unless CS4.2 has added a true "Group" function, like in InDesign, Illustrator, etc., there is not a direct way to keep Selected Clips together. However, you can put them on their own Sequence and then Nest that Sequence with others. This is often done, so that one can apply Effects "globally" to that Nested Sequence. [Note: there is no real Group function in Titler either, but for many operations, one can Select multiple Text Blocks, Shapes, Lines, etc., but there is no way to permanently "hold" that group.]
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I have a bunch of clips that I am trying to apply a watermark to. I have my workflow currently set up in Premiere Pro but there is no way (that I know of) to apply a watermark to them all at once. Is there a way that I can do this in After Effects?
Thanks in advance!

I feel like the first method I mentioned is your best bet. Here's a detailed workflow with more screenshots:
1.) Import all of your files including your watermark. I think the best way to create the watermark is to use Photoshop. First go to File > New.
. Since my footage is 1920 x 1080, I used the HDTV 1080p/29.97 Preset as shown in this screenshot:
A) Next to Preset: Select Film & Video
B) Since the footage I'll be importing into After Effects is 1920 x 1080, I selected HDTV 1080p/29.97 next to Size:. If your footage is a standard size then there should also be a preset that matches it.
C) Finally set the Background Contents: to Transparent.
2.) When you're done making your watermark in Photoshop I would suggest saving it out as a PNG file. PNGs will maintain the transparency, they're excellent quality and the file size is smaller than TIFFs or PSDs and my experience is this will help After Effects run more smoothly.
3.) Create a New Composition from Selection.
A) Shift select all of your clips. Then drag and drop them onto the Create a New Composition icon.
B) This will open up the New Composition from Selection window. In the Create box select Single Composition.
C) If you are doing this with different sized clips it won't work. Otherwise it will automatically be set to Use Dimensions From: the first clip you dragged onto the icon. In this case Car L to R.mov is the first one I dragged.
D) Since you're going to be rendering this right back out select Add to Render Queue.
E) Then select Sequence Layers to line up the layers into a sequence within the composition.
F) Finally, click OK. This will immediately add the clip to the Render Queue.
4.) Now you're going to want to set up your timeline, so click back to your composition tab.
A) Drag your watermark over your clips and make sure that it extends to the end of your composition.
B) Change the blending mode to Overlay.
C) Hit the T key to activate the Opacity control and change the opacity to 25%.
D) In this case the beginning of the Work Area is already set to the beginning of the composition. But, in the future you can press the B key to set the beginning of the work area to wherever the playhead is located.
E) Hold the shift key to snap the playhead to the last frame of the first clip. Then press the N key to set the end of the end of the work area. Note that the N key places the end of the work area immediately after the frame you're currently viewing.
5) Then click back on the Render Queue tab.
A) Click Best Settings.
B) Click Custom. This will open the Custom Time Span window.
C) Since the render queue automatically recognizes where you have your work area set up, you don't need to do anything. Just click OK and this will save your current work area position.
D) Click OK again to exit the Best Settings window.
6) Repeat the second part of step 4.
A) Make sure that the playhead is showing the very first frame of the second clip and press the B key to set the beginning of the work area.
B) Hold down the shift key to snap to the end of the clip. Press the N key to set the end of the work area. Then press Control Command M or Command Shift / to send the second clip to the render queue.
7.) Repeat Step 5, but rename the clip with it's actual name. If you don't it will be fine, but After Effects will keep the same clip name and add numbers to ends of all your clips.
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However, if you're going to upload these clips to the Internet using Vimeo or Youtube for example. I would highly suggest using Adobe Media Encoder. After Effects is not designed to export the H.264 files these websites require and you'll get far better quality by using the Youtube or Vimeo presets in Adobe Media Encoder.
To do this, follow steps 3, 4 and 6 exactly as the screenshots indicate only instead of clicking Best Settings and setting the Custom Time Span in the After Effects Render Queue, click the preset setting under your composition in Adobe Media Encoder and set the Source Range to Work Area.
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Can you avoid multiple clips of the same media in a project

We have 2 suites and we sometimes work together on a common project utilising the same media.
If I want to use a sequence from the other suite I can easily import it.
The problem: it creates another folder with clips that only belong to the imported sequence.
The end result after a few imported sequences is that my final timeline has instances in it that
are from clips belonging to several different folders or bins even though the media is the same.
In summary... is there a way you can avoid having multiple clips of the same media in a project.
Makes for a very messy project when you have finished.
You've got multiple clips with the same name scattered everywhere.
Cheers

Not yet.
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Exporting multiple clips from one sequence as separate files.

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I have about 100+ video files that I want to cut into shorter clips, edit a bit and then export in a Final Cut friendly format (currently they are AVCHD mts files) to send it to my friend, who is putting the whole movie together.
I dont want to use Final Cut for this ( I cannot, I have a windows machine) and I was hoping to work with premier CC and media encoder CC.
There is a way of putting all clips in one sequence and then nesting each one, then you can send them to Encoder CC and it will render them as separate files - thats is just not very productive, nesting clips one by one and it takes forever for Encoder to import sequences.
I was wondering if there is a better workflow? I heard that Final Cut has shortcuts to do this very easily, you just click on all those clips in sequence and "batch export" them, which puts them in some place as separate, already cut files.?
Anything? I love premier, let my feelings be justified!)

Kevin Monahan ...
Lucid George is right ... select one trimmed clip, File->Export->Media, you can choose whether in-out or entire clip.
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