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Linking Clip Data to XMP Metadata
Hi all,
I am running CS5 on a mobile, laptop workstation as well as a desktop tower based system. I started a project on my laptop with the majority of the raw media sitting on portable external hard drives. After some super hardware upgrades to the tower system, I have transferred all of the Adobe project files to the other computer and opened the project to continue work. Our raw media lives on a raid, and I move select folders to external drives to work on the laptop as needed. As I started reconnecting the media in this project to the raw media on the raid rather than the portable HD, I noticed my detailed log notes within each media directory bin disappear. Luckily I noticed this early on in the reconnect process.
My first instinct tells me that if I replace the media directories in this project living on the raid with the media directory duplicates I had been working from on the portable HD, that when I reconnect again to the directories on the raid, the log notes will not disappear, but this was not the case when I tested it.
Well I did a bit of digging in the CS5 Premiere help manual (pg. 108) and came across the ability to link clip data entered into a project, like Log Notes, and link that to the metadata XMP. As the document states clip data added in a project that is created prior to establishing the XMP link will NOT to be saved to the metadata, but even when I perform a test linking the clip and xmp log notes fields prior to adding any information to a clip’s log notes the information input after linking does not seem to save in the metadata. I test this by making the specific clip offline and then re-linking the clip.
What and where do the files live associated with a project that retain the clip data input into the project? Is it part of the media cache etc? I did not bring any media cache files form the laptop back to the tower.
Any thoughts appreciated, thanks!
Lindsay
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I had a similar problem. I paid a freelancer to log a bunch of scenes. We created custom clip log fields in the project window with “meta display > add property”. For that edit it worked great. When I went to use the clips on a project several months later and import them into a current project I was working on they didn’t come in with any of the clip data fields. I of course had saved the custom fields from the previous edit so I enabled them for the current edit but the were all empty.
I read up on linking clip data to XMP data and found out that it doesn’t always work for clip data fields.
Quoting here, from “Link clip data to XMP metadata”:
“In the Metadata panel, the Clip property value fields are internal. They reside in the Premiere Pro project file, and are readable by Premiere Pro alone. However, SOME of the property value fields in the Clip section have a link option box next to them. After you select the link option, Premiere Pro automatically enters the information that you enter into the Clip value field into a corresponding XMP field.”
My custom fields do not have the link box next to them. I guess you have to stick to the predetermined CS5 fields, which doesn’t always suffice for me, in order to get the “link box” to appear.
Hope this helps.
Kent
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