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  • Not all meta-data available to be filtered?

    Posted by Scott Barnes on September 12, 2011 at 3:32 am

    I just finished Reading Philips Hodgetts Book on Final Cut X and meta-data. It had some really interesting possibilities at the end for the future but one thing that struck me is odd was a note he made about the info tab on the clips and the metadata views. In the Info Panel you have all this clip and other meta data and can even add unique fields but not all of this meta data is not filterable by Smart Collections or the Find Filter. So my question is what is the point of having all this meta-data if you can only view it on a clip by clip basis?

    Has anyone found a way to filter based on this extended meta data?

    On the same note if you add a custom meta-tag is there a way to delete it and not just remove it from the view?

    I am not bound by what is possible.

    Scott Barnes replied 14 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Ben Scott

    September 12, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    theres no way to filter like you are suggesting, wish there was

    the whole thing has potential but unsure why they didnt implement in the same way as Aperture works e.g. proper smart collections, GPS additions to footage, export of metadata out of program to social media, proper copy paste metadata

    also I am unsure if metadata mapping is happening properly with content like p2 cards, this would be interesting to know if it works

    also pretty sure there is no metadata templates like there was in final cut server, shame, that is what is really needed.

  • Craig Seeman

    September 12, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    I have a hunch that the full use of metadata is not yet implemented. I can’t help but think there will be a server like program for FCPX. It may well be that Philip Hodgetts himself may find ways to utilize the metadata.

  • Jeremy Garchow

    September 12, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    I agree that it’s just not all enabled yet.

    It’d be silly to have all this metadata come in and have it not be useful.

  • Scott Barnes

    September 16, 2011 at 12:03 am

    I agree I just wanted to make sure there was not something I was over looking.

    I am not bound by what is possible.

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