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Metadata “Analyze” button greyed out (P2 footage)
Hi Y’all,
If anyone can help I’d be much obliged. I have transcripts of a bunch of documentary interviews, and I’d like to sync them with the footage using the analyze feature of the metadata window in Premiere Pro CS5. I’m using a Mac (Snow Leopard)
I have read in other posts that you need to change the footage from read to read and write. Problem is that the Contents folder is already read and write. The .mxf files themselves are read only, despite my info window telling me they are read and write for each user.
Can anyone help?
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11 Replies
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Hi Tim,
Make sure you apply permissions to subfolder contents. That should take care of it.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Thanks for the rapid response! Just went and tried that. used “apply to enclosed items” on both the contents folder and the video folder that contains the .MXF files. Then when I “get info” on one of the .MXF files, it still shows me “you can only read.”
Am I missing something?
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Hi Tim,
Try to select all the folder inside the Content folder and apply the read/write permissions.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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still doesn’t seem to work. grrrrrrr…
Such a useful feature, so near and yet so frustratingly far.
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I just realized that you were using Snow Leopard. This is what I had to do in the past to apply permissions to multiple folders.
https://www.applegazette.com/mac/osx-quick-tip-expand-multiple-folders-simultaneously/
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Just in case anyone else stumbles across this thread, I finally fixed it.
What I had missed was that all the files were “locked” so that even though I had changed the permissions, I couldn’t write to any files. Perhaps this is obvious, but in order to change the locked status, you just have to uncheck the locked check box in the General pane at the top of the Info window. If you want to do that for multiple files at once, you select all the files, right-click, then hold down option so that get info changes to show inspector. Click on that, and unlock all your files.
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hey bud, had this problem tonight and your last post saved the day. thanks a lot for coming back to the forum and posting your solution!
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Yes, thanks for coming back! Just what I was looking for!
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I have no Analyze button at all. Not just grayed out, but non existent. I’ve unlocked each file and folder. Read & Write settings applied to each. I’ve closed Premier and opened it back up. Still no button. I’m looking in the Metadata area under Speech Analysis. Same as screen shots I have seen for others, but I get no button.
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Even more frustrating, I opened the file in Premier Pro CC and the button is there! And it’s working. So why is the same button NOT in PP CC 2014?
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