After Effects render - wrong order of timelapse images

[Ian]

Bought sns-hdr today and attempting my first After Effects render of the batch-rendered tiffs from sns-hdr. After Effects is misunderstanding the file order and the timelapse is flipping back and forth in the sequence. I presume this a known problem? How do I get around it? Thanks
Ian

[Sebastian Nibisz]

Can you give examples of file names that have changed the order?

[Ian]

I can`t copy/paste all the file names but these are the first two:
B10_6601-HDR(3)
B11_6604-HDR(3)
and these the last two:
B1467009-HDR(3)
B1477012-HDR(3)
The rendered video starts 3/4 of the way through at B1006871-HDR(3)* and flashes single images from earlier in the sequence. Then it goes back to the first image and runs through to the 3/4 way point.
*I notice that this is the first image without a hyphen after the first three digits.
I`m importing a single file, ticking tiff sequence and follow alphabetical order. This obviously doesn`t work with the way SNS names files.
At 15.55 he goes into this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_5FoY-l1BM
Looks terribly complicated. What simple way do you recommend?
Thanks for your help.
Ian

[Ian]

I beg your pardon - the file names stem from the original raw file not from sns.

[Sebastian Nibisz]

SNS sort files by the name. Numbers in the names must contain the same number of digits.

This is wrong:
Name_9.ext <- one digit
Name_10.ext <- two digits

This is ok:
Name_09.ext <- two digits
Name_10.ext <- two digits

[den]

Perhaps the freeware "Bulk Rename Utility" would be helpful...

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Initially the GUI may be overwhelming but the utility is well documented.
A command line version is available as well.

...den...

[Ian]

thanks. I downloaded it. As you say, there`s a learning curve to it!

[Ian]

Update - my 10 remaining brain cells fought vainly with Batch Rename Utility. But I found Adobe Bridge did the job really simply and effectively: Tools - batch rename - sequence number - 001 - three digits. Problem solved.