How are you using metadata?

[Bill Davis]

I’ll support this thinking as well.

My test is simple for an X editor. When you’re engaged in actual editing, and you find yourself thinking “I have a shot that would really work here” – if the time from that thought forming in your brain to actually having the shot in place so that you can see if it works is greater than 10 seconds, you didn’t tag things well enough.

If you did, it won’t.

Period.

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[Keith Koby]

We are using roles extensively inside of fcpx. We actually start each project by importing an xml that has all of our house roles attached to some bars and tone clips. This way it stays standardized. Those roles travel to audio and then final audio gets roled when it returns.

We also mine the QT Author tag that fcpx inserts on export as well as the tags metadata. These things get mined from QT and automatically inserted into our MAM.

All very important “metadata”, but maybe not the keywords and such that is more typical of the term.

Keith