Are markers written to the media file?

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Yair Bartal] “Does that mean it changes the original media file or it writes that info into a sidecar XMP file?”

Depends on what you’ve selected in the preferences.

[Yair Bartal]

Thank you for your response.
Where exactly do I find it in the preferences?
(Premiere pro CC 2014.1)

[Dennis Radeke]

It depends on the media itself. Things like Quicktime are ‘containers’ of media and can contain metadata in addition to traditional things like video, audio, timecode, closed captioning, etc. Other formats do not support direct injection of metadata. These include things like MXF files. When we can write into the media itself, we will. If we can’t, we will write a sidecar XMP file adjacent to the media. With Premiere Pro CC2014.1

You can find more about it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/preferences.html#media_preferences

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Yair Bartal]

Thanks Dennis for the info.

My question still holds:
Specifically, are markers written directly to any media file (like say Quicktime).

Yair

[Dennis Radeke]

For Quicktime, yes.

[Alex Udell]

Hey Dennis…

this seems odd to me….

a media asset lives in a files system….and can be used in multiple projects.

If it’s a lengthy asset, it may be that lot of different users may want to mark up a media file many different ways.

Wouldn’t this be confusing to have the markers stored in the asset or the assets metadata?

I certainly see some value in markers being independent of a given project as well…

Maybe I’m not thinking it thru.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Dennis Radeke]

Hi Alex,

The reason we will try to inject the metadata into the file if possible is that it cannot then be lost. We also allow for saving the metadata in a project only so that you don’t have the situation that you describe.

Hope this helps,
Dennis

[Alex Udell]

Got it! Thanks!

on a side note…

I think I’d like to do a feature request tho….option to always select sidecars. I’ve noticed that some ppl want the data, never want the data embedded even if the coiner supports it.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Dennis Radeke]

Hey Alex,

You can make the request here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Thanks,
Dennis