Importing XML into Premiere Pro - numbered stills / image sequence I'm trying to make life a bit easier by generating an XML file to quickly import a number of image sequences into a Premiere Pro project (PPro 2017.0.2 in case it matters).

It almost works - but when I import this XML file into premiere, it imports the first file in the sequence as a Still Image rather than an image sequence.
The path to the file is correct, and the first frame does show up just fine.

It feels like it's only a small change that's required, but I have not been able to find any information on it anywhere.

Since the (sample) XML is very short, I also included it here (the real file has a few hundred clips, they all behave the same way).

I tried manually importing an image sequence into premiere and exporting the result as FinalCut XML, but if I re-import that file, it also gets imported as a Still Image, so no help there.

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;  
&lt;xmeml version="4"&gt;  
  &lt;bin&gt;  
    &lt;name&gt;mpf_07 Images&lt;/name&gt;  
    &lt;children&gt;  
      &lt;bin&gt;  
        &lt;name&gt;Preview&lt;/name&gt;  
        &lt;children&gt;  
          &lt;clip id="mpf_07_01"&gt;  
            &lt;duration&gt;229&lt;/duration&gt;  
            &lt;in&gt;0&lt;/in&gt;  
            &lt;out&gt;229&lt;/out&gt;  
            &lt;name&gt;mpf_07_01&lt;/name&gt;  
            &lt;media&gt;  
              &lt;video&gt;  
                &lt;track&gt;  
                  &lt;clipitem id="clipitem-Preview-mpf_07_01"&gt;  
                    &lt;name&gt;clipitem-Preview-mpf_07_01&lt;/name&gt;  
                    &lt;file id="file-Preview-mpf_07_01"&gt;  
                      &lt;name /&gt;  
                      &lt;pathurl&gt;E:\mpf_07_01.0101.jpg&lt;/pathurl&gt;  
                      &lt;rate&gt;  
                        &lt;timebase&gt;24&lt;/timebase&gt;  
                        &lt;NTSC&gt;FALSE&lt;/NTSC&gt;  
                      &lt;/rate&gt;  
                      &lt;duration&gt;320&lt;/duration&gt;  
                      &lt;timecode&gt;  
                        &lt;rate&gt;  
                          &lt;timebase&gt;24&lt;/timebase&gt;  
                          &lt;ntsc&gt;FALSE&lt;/ntsc&gt;  
                        &lt;/rate&gt;  
                        &lt;string&gt;00:00:00:00&lt;/string&gt;  
                        &lt;frame&gt;0&lt;/frame&gt;  
                        &lt;displayformat&gt;NDF&lt;/displayformat&gt;  
                        &lt;reel&gt;  
                          &lt;name /&gt;  
                        &lt;/reel&gt;  
                      &lt;/timecode&gt;  
                      &lt;media&gt;  
                        &lt;video&gt;  
                          &lt;samplecharacteristics&gt;  
                            &lt;width&gt;2048&lt;/width&gt;  
                            &lt;height&gt;1126&lt;/height&gt;  
                          &lt;/samplecharacteristics&gt;  
                        &lt;/video&gt;  
                      &lt;/media&gt;  
                    &lt;/file&gt;  
                  &lt;/clipitem&gt;  
                &lt;/track&gt;  
              &lt;/video&gt;  
            &lt;/media&gt;  
            &lt;rate&gt;  
              &lt;timebase&gt;24&lt;/timebase&gt;  
              &lt;NTSC&gt;FALSE&lt;/NTSC&gt;  
            &lt;/rate&gt;  
          &lt;/clip&gt;  
        &lt;/children&gt;  
      &lt;/bin&gt;  
    &lt;/children&gt;  
  &lt;/bin&gt;  
&lt;/xmeml&gt;


To clarify, this is the setting when using the Premiere UI to set it up, everything else works except Premiere doesn't see the Bin as an image sequence, but rather as a still image:
The answer is that this is not possible - at least as per the time of writing this answer, since the concept of "image sequence" does not exist in the XML spec Premiere utilizes - namely, XMEML version 4, also known as Final Cut Pro 7-style XML.