Import of XMP metadata from sidecar files

[Robert Krueger]

Bart,

unfortunately I only got confirmation from Adobe that those are still the options one’s got on the table. I got advice from the integrator support to do the integration internally with a custom Premiere panel but it does not fit into my workflow at all and it does not solve the problem of potentially rewriting huge files, because my understanding is, if you apply metadata to a file from within the panel using their api all happens automagically but it is still the same thing, i.e. for a mov that does not have enough free space reserved in its header, the file will be rewritten entirely.

Not 100% but pretty sure that this is correct, unfortunately. I will probably live with the rewriting and implement this using their XMP SDK.

I would like to lobby a bit, so Adobe opens up to the thought of (at least optionally) honouring sidecar files for formats that support embedding but I am pessimistic as far as my leverage is concerned.

[Bart Nagel]

Thanks for responding, Robert.

In my case, I don’t actually mind if the files are rewritten. So maybe the panel is the way to go in my case. To be sure I’d have to look into what’s possible and what’s not.

It might be interesting to know in fact which video formats XMP is *not* supported. Part of my workflow will possibly be a remux (or transcode in some cases) and I could potentially target a container format where Premiere would always use sidecar files anyway, as long as it supports the codecs we need. Do you have any idea what sorts of formats those might be?

[Robert Krueger]

Off the top of my head MXF is one option but I would have to check the spec and Premiere’s list of compatible formats to find the one that’s the most versatile. Depending on what kind of codecs you work with, MXF may be too restrictive.