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can’t add keywords in Bridge to mxf files
Hello Everyone,
I’m trying to organize a pile of footage that I have and I’d like to make it keyword searchable and thought Adobe Bridge would be the perfect solution for this by adding metadata in the form of keywords to our videos to make our video database searchable.
However, I have been unable to alter the metadata through Adobe Bridge. Every time I go to add a keyword or change the metadata on one of the mxf video files within bridge, the stock response is: The file “Filename” cannot store XMP metadata. No changes will occur.
Is there something I am missing?
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13 Replies
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Hi Christina…
From what I can tell, Bridge can’t do this. I concur this is quite frustrating. I assumed that even if it couldn’t be written to, that Bridge could create a Sidecar file. But I can’t seem to make that work either.
Prelude might offer some hope, but not having spent much time there, I don’t really understand the metadata capabilities of that application.
Another possibility is that you use Prelude or Adobe Media Encoder to flip your files to Quicktimes, which as a format , do support keywording.
I’ll keep poking around. If you find anything…please report back.
sorry…
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX -
Thanks… I’ve never used prelude I’ll have to look into that more. I know that converting all of our footage is out of the question. It just wouldn’t make the process streamline..
We shoot a lot of broll where I’m at right now and sometimes we like to use that in the future for other projects so being able to type in “girl riding bike” and have footage show up accordingly is the ideal situation.
Is there any other way you can think of to accomplish this?
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Hi…
are you on Mac or PC?
Alex
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OK…
So these days….both PC and Mac let you add tags to files for searching at the OS level…
You might see if you can simply use an desktop window to navigate to file…and add a custom tag to it…
then see if you can search by that tag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5ZAHuGMWM
I think that should work.
once you find things….you can always add them to bridge collections if you like…
I’m on a mac at the moment….so I can’t test it…
but give it a shot…and please post your results…
Alex Udell
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And I was wrong.
Can’t tag MXF files at the Windows OS level either.
Alex Udell
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Here’s what you can do…
Create a bridge collections that are meaningful orgnizationally to you.
then you can take the mxf’s and drop them into the different collections.
you can even combine things from different sets of mxfs in a single collection.
thing of them like BINs that live in Bridge.
and then you can drag a drop from bridge to Ppro.
this I just tested and works fine.
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX -
just trying to log some headache .mov H264 footage
This quicktime format also gives me “unable to store XMP” error
how do you get side files to work in adobe bridge?
( only settings I can find are for raw picture files)
Steve
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Bridge has been conspicuously left out of the modern video file wrapper/metadata arena. I’m not certain why…and I’ve asked the question…a lot.
Bridge is apparently for print/web.
In addition to being frustrating, it seems illogical in the face of Adobe’s philisophically interlocking suite of applications…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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Well I’ve got the same problem here, but with regular mp4 files straight from GoPro 4 Black. What’s funny tough, I can add keywords to all files in my folder except one. There was another mp4 file that I couldn’t edit in CS6, but I managed to add keywords in CC. But this last one I just can’t figure out, even tough it isn’t any different from the others (well they’re all from different days, but I don’t think this matters).
Looks like they abandoned video capabilities in Brige 🙁
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