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Media Management in Pr 5.5 & Bridge
Just ramping up in Pr. But I’ve discovered a confusing issue that I need clarity on. (searched on Media Management in this forum but did not find this discussed).
I am using multiple cameras on many shoots. 7D, GH2 and XF305. I need to be able to do, like I did in FCP, log info after my shoot. I like to go through the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of takes, and do some quick skimming to identify the right takes, rename takes, add metadata, etc.
It appears that Adobe wants you to do this in Bridge. However, Bridge does not support MXF, it appears, from my work last night with it. I was able to nicely add metadata and change file names for my 7D files, but haven’t yet tried GH2.
Ideally, it would be great to have metadata ability for all my files in Bridge, available to the whole suite of Adobe products that I’m in the process of learning. But if there are serious limitations to this, maybe this is just a non-starter. I don’t want to get a year down the road and wished I had learned a competing product because it was more able to help me manage my ever growing library of client material. It’s already becoming unmanageable and I’m really disappointed in Apple for abandoning FCP and leaving us stuck with metadata that appears to be unsalvageable. Or have some of you managed to move it via XML to Pr?
Al
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Not sure about the Bridge stuff but moving projects via XML definitely works.
Panasonic HPX170 P
2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM
Matrox MXO2 LE with MAX
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Final Cut Pro Studio 3, Avid Media Composer 3.5.4
The College of WIlliam and Mary -
Right. I’m speaking specifically of the metadata in Bridge. But I think I’ve solved this. Adobe Premiere does it’s own Metadata management, and Bridge does consume it but doesn’t really add to it. On Location seems to be the real ‘bridge’ to Premiere metadata. Hope Adobe doesn’t kill it!
Al
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