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Content management using Adobe XMP
Hey everyone. A task we are pursuing right now is figuring out the best way to organize an evergreen folder for our media – music, footage, stock stuff, etc.
I really like how XMP embeds metadata into our footage, making it easy to log in Prelude and edit in Premiere. However, I haven’t found a good solution for using this data to help find and access the footage.
The pie-in-the-sky hope is that there is a program or feature in a current program that lets me just search for a project title and location (for example), and quickly finds every clip on our NAS who’s XMP metadata matches these parameters. Once I find those clips and import them into Premiere for a new project, the comment markers, transcription markers, etc. are still there, in the XMP metadata.
Is there anything out there that can do anything remotely like this? Or workflow tips that you can think of to help us as we organize our stuff.
I appreciate any help you can give.
– David
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Try using Prelude like Lightroom, one Prelude project per drive as a searchable library. I haven’t used Prelude with more that 200-300 clips so I’m not sure if it will scale but it’s worth investigating. Don’t use Lightroom directly, it doesn’t handle audio only files and it doesn’t support as many video formats.
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Thanks for your reply. I’ll look into that… sort of using Prelude as a logging and organizing system.
With Adobe’s XMP stuff, it seems like it’s a ripe time for them to make an organization solution (like Lightroom or Bridge) for video, or just enhance Bridge for this purpose.
– David
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I’ve given this a shot, and this works for basic searching. The main limitations of this workflow (if anyone is interested) is the limited search parameters. There is no way to search for multiple parameters (for example, typing in both the speaker’s name and the camera angle). But for now, this definitely will work. I hope that with the emphasis Adobe has had behind the scenes of developing XMP metadata (particularly with Prelude) there will be a good organizational use of this in the future. A Lightroom-type solution, or an enhanced Bridge would be killer. Or even just a very powerful index and searching capability within Premiere Pro.
– David
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Just wondering what you learned about how Prelude functions under such a heavy workload. How much footage are you dealing with, exactly? I’m working on a documentary with 5TB of footage and literally thousands of clips. Do you think Prelude’s metadata search will work after importing all of my clips into one project? Have you experienced any lag when you search? Any thoughts you have in general about organization and workflow for such a massive project would be much appreciated.
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The question is quite actual for me as well. I would really appreciate it, if somebody shared their experience of using Prelude for large (thousands of clips) projects.
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