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Clip metadata within Premiere
Good morning – the cameraman who shot the project I’m editing is asking for the metadata on certain shots from a second camera that he did not shoot. He wants to know the lens, iris, ISO, etc. of the original shots. I’ve been looking through the metadata options in the project window and can’t find those details. Does anyone know where I can find that information, or whether Premiere can tell me that at all? (I also just tried to open a shot with a version of XDCAM Transfer that I hadn’t used in years, and nothing would import, from the single shot back through the entire XDROOT folder.) Thanks…
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That’s assuming all that info was applied during the shoot from lens too camera.
I know that my RED Scarlet records all that info if the lens is supported (electronics).
For me, only EF lenses apply that metadata to the clips.I have a third-party PL mount that doesn’t support electronic info.
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If you start watching the video below at 12:40 it might be what you are looking for.
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Thanks, Andy – the video did confirm that I was looking in the right place, but I opened up every possible tab in the metadata display looking for the specific data I was being asked to find, and this was the closest that was there:
(Gosh, that’s big) …and most of the parameters are blank or unaccessible (no check-boxes). (Unless I’m reading it wrong, which is always conceivable.) It’s possible that Eric was right, that the metadata was never there to begin with, based on the camera lens. Beats me!
Thank you again.
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I don’t have a high-end camera to test out how the metadata works in Premiere Pro. Maybe someone else will.
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Actually, the video andy shared highlights the problem: It’s not you (and often it’s not the camera), it’s Premiere. The guys are scrolling through the camera metadata fields, and they’re all utterly blank. They’re mumbling that “it’s all there”, but it isn’t.
For sure, not all cameras record all metadata; but for the vast majority of cameras and codecs, Adobe never bothered to parse the metadata so you could see it in Premiere. If this bothers you, please vote for this feature request:
https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/34796998-ingest-camera-metadataOften, if you download the manufacturer’s respective software (like Canon XF or Sony Catalyst Browse), you’ll be able to see the metadata you need.
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