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Merging Clips and Metadata Preservation
Hi All,
Today I moved from CS6 to CC and am working as assistant editor on a feature film. They used dual system sound on a RED epic (PR422 Proxied for portability). I am synching the sound to the picture using the merge clips feature as I did in CS6. Now however, the metadata like Scene, Take, Shot, Nickname, Description, does not carry over to the new clip.
It does carry over but only if I look at the metadata panel and not in the bins. It seems that it is thinking there are multiple values when I only filed in the metadata for the original video clips. The audio metadata is empty in those fields.
Is there a hidden option to preserve the data only from the video or at least merge the two sets of data.
It was transferring fine in CS6
Any Ideas?
Edit:
It seems to be the XMP portion of the info that does not carry over anymore.
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4 Replies
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There are a small number of timeline features sacrificed with merged clips. The metadata issue you are experiencing is one of them. Solution? Avoid merging. Plural Eyes (2 or 3) will sync your audio tracks and leave in tact all timeline features.
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one of the “small” things that is sacrificed with merged clips is match frame. If you merge clips within CC you will then have no match frame capability at all with those clips.
seems like a pretty “big” thing to me but so far it hasn’t been fixed. And yes, despite all of the hype by Adobe saying that syncing clips within premiere is easy peasy, you need to do all syncing in pluraleyes and then import to premiere.
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The thing is there is no onboard sound…. so I do it the old way we used to do it with film. I just hate that I entered all the info and then need to re-enter it after the merge. The audio info is empty, why does premiere consider “empty” as a value… incredible stupidity… it worked in cs6.
Should have pushed to use my preferred platform, Avid.
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I was under the impression dual system sound meant two sources. Were the scenes slated with time code? I think Premiere’s option gives you the choice to sync with time code reference. Too bad you are working without sound, or this would be a cinch.
Kuhnen Brown
InterMountain Digital
Oregon
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