Finding the “file type” or “codec” of a file in PP

[Kris Merkel]

You can right click in the bar that contains the names of the metadata columns to bring up the metadata display selections. Not sure if what you are looking for is there but if it is that is where you will find it.

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[Luke Pearson]

thanks, Kris. Yea i’ve been browsing through all those metadata options but haven’t been able to find what I”m looking for. There are a lot of options so I wasn’t sure if I was missing something simple.

Luke Pearson
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[Ivan Myles]

[Luke Pearson] “In FCP this info would show up under “compressor” in the browser window. I’m not seeing this info anywhere in PP.”

There is a Compressor field in the Properties window, but it does not always provide info for all codecs.

[Tim Kolb]

You can look in the metadata panel under Dynamic Media-Video Compressor

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Kris Merkel]

I saw that in the list but it does not show the compressor type, my thoughts were that this is a field where the user inputs the data but I could be wrong. we might see this in the next release on the 17th of June.

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Kris Merkel
twitter: @kris_merkel
Product Manager, Flanders Scientific Inc.
http://www.shopfsi.com
Co-Founder, Atlanta Cutters Post Production User Group
http://www.atlantacutters.com

2.2Ghz MBP core i7
16Gb RAM
CS6/FCP7
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AJA IO XT
FSI LM-2461W/CM-170W

[Jeff Bugbee]

A year later, this is still an issue. I have several H.264 and ProRes422HQ videos in my project bin and none of them show the codec. If I right click-properties each individual file I can see the codec. Why doesn’t this column populate correctly?

This is in Premiere Pro CS6.

[Tim Kolb]

This column seems to be active with codecs that Adobe handles natively in CC…I don’t know if that can harvest that metadata from a QT file…I can’t get that column to work for any QT file here. (on Windows)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jeff Bugbee]

My apologies, this is on a Mac. FCP 7 had no issues identifying the files, and I’m able to see the metadata on individual files when I right click properties. I can’t speak for CC as it’s not cost effective right now for my company to switch from one capital expense purchase for licences (cs6) to a reoccurring subscription expense for CC. We have over 200 seats to license and previously we upgraded every other version. However, I digress as this thread is about why metadata doesn’t show up in a specific field, not about the differences between CS6 and CC.

[Tim Kolb]

I wasn’t so much focused on the differences between CC and CS6…I just looked at CC.

The column doesn’t seem to be very active at any rate. I did get data on XDcamHD media.

QuickTime and CineForm AVI left the column blank for me. Not terribly useful.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jeff Bugbee]

At this point I don’t expect a fix, especially for CS6, I was just wondering if I was overlooking a fix or perhaps another field that shows the codec. We daily get in hundreds of differently formatted videos and to be able to glance down a list to confirm they are our correct specs would be extremely useful. FCP7 can do this so issues like this are severely impacting our decision to move to Premiere.

Thanks for your input Tim! I’ll add this issue to the evergrowing list of “reasons to upgrade to CC” to give to my boss haha