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Careful now: Premiere saves all your project info in the meta data of your exported published files
An experienced Premiere user on the Adobe Premiere forum got up in arms about this, and I thought I’d give a heads-up for Premiere users here as well. He was pretty miffed, stunned even.
I have been aware of this for a couple of years now, but seeing the default settings is to save all your project information into the published movie files, and this is probably something to be avoided and undesirable for most film makers, here goes:
All the used files, clips, your project OS file path, history of software, the history of your changes, your project drive letter… It becomes available to anyone who wants to know about your project information through a simple tool like ExifTool.
If you were not aware of this, download ExifTool
https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/…and drop one of your published Premiere movie files (mp4 for example) on the ExifTool icon.
There you go, all your project laid bare for all to see. Used some sensitive file names? Better not, because unless you turn this behaviour off, your client can potentially figure out what’s been going on in your PP project.
This behaviour can be turned off when you export/publish your final project in the export options under the ‘metadata’ button. Select ‘None” in the dropdown menu to prevent all your project data from being written in the final output files.
In my opinion it makes no sense at all to have all your project data, clips and files you used, and so on, being saved in a final export. It would probably be a better idea to have this option turned off by default, and only have it turned on manually by the user.
Also, I discovered that Premiere amends the meta data of any file you import into Premiere. Not such a big deal, but it still adds a history, and which user agent was used to open it. This can be turned off in the preferences under Media.
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[Herbert van der wegen] “Also, I discovered that Premiere amends the meta data of any file you import into Premiere. Not such a big deal”
It actually can be big deal becomes sometimes, when you’ve imported a file from a NAS share, modifying the original file on the disk can cause the file to become corrupted. This isn’t a Pr issue per se, I’ve seen it happen with other NLE’s, but they at least warn you that you’re about to modify an original file. Also, the fact that this behavior is enabled by default is maybe not the best choice. Just something to be aware of.
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This is a HUGE deal!!!!. An editing program should never under any circumstances mess with original media files PERIOD!!! And it certainly should not do so by default. The metadata belongs to the project not the media. If you desire to change metadata on source clips this should be a conscious choice. What if you are backing up data based on file changes?
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