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HPX-370 P2 Metadata and Adobe Bridge
Hello Everyone,
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I’m having some trouble getting Adobe Bridge to write metadata to files generated with a Panasonic HPX-370 p2 camera.
The company I work for recently requested that I come up with a digital asset management plan for new video. Since we were already buying the HPX370, all my research pointed to Adobe Bridge being a perfect solution for adding metadata in the form of keywords to our videos to make our video database searchable.
Now that the camera is in-hand, I have been unable to alter the metadata through Adobe Bridge. Here is my issue. 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.
I thought this would be fairly easy to find a fix to, but not a ton out on the net about this specific problem. What am I doing wrong here?
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4 Replies
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Here’s something to try Brian, although I don’t guarantee that it will work. Select the file(s) you want to accept metadata. Then right click and select “Purge Cache for Selection”. Try this with one file, and, if it works, select multiple files and your problem is solved.
Bear in mind that some files are not compatible with Bridge XMP Metadata. If not, submit a feature request to Adobe. Here’s some good info on Metadata from the Bridge help files:
https://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phscs2ip_metadata.pdf
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Hi Joe,
Thank you for such a quick response!
I actually previously tried your suggestion of “purge cache selection” to no avail.
I’ve moved this discussion over to the Adobe Forums in hopes of getting this feature added: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1344376
Why can’t all of the software and hardware manufacturers just make a uniform metadata format?!?
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Although it defeats the purpose of native editorial…
You can transcode on ingest to a more Metadata friendly format.
This may also have the benefit of not necessarily having to keep the whole P2 folder structure intact, which also makes media easier to move around your storage.
Alex Udell
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Hi Alex,
Thank you for the input. I’ve definitely considered the possibility of transcoding to another format.
After living through DSLR workflows in the past, I’m really trying to steer clear of the conversion option; that will add a lot more work over the coming years if we have to convert majority of what we shoot for archiving.
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