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Search Metadata for +100 Hours of Footage All At Once?
I’m working on a feature documentary with +100 hours of raw MXF and AVCHD footage. Organizing it all has been an issue. We’ve been toying with using the XMP metadata system that comes with Premiere Pro CC, but it seems to have a major limitation: you can only search the metadata of clips that have been imported into the program. Therein lies the problem. Importing +100 hours of raw footage into Premiere isn’t possible without causing the program to crash.
My first question is this: Is there some third party program for macs that can help me tag my footage and then allow me to search it all at once? Ideally, this program would have an exe to link to Premiere Pro, but it’s not a deal breaker.
If not, maybe you can help me with my second question. I recently realized that my mac actually looks inside XMP files when it searches my hard drive, so when I type in a keyword in the Finder, all the XMP’s that contain that key word come up. To open these XMP’s and see what’s inside, I’ve been using TextEdit. The issue with this is that the information I need is hidden amongst a lot of code and gibberish. Is there a program that can read the XMP files I created in Premiere and display them in a user friendly way?
Does anyone have any suggestions a more practical workflow in general? Thanks so much!
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I think you will find that Adobe Bridge is the tool you need for this chore, but you should read the following to check whether the downsides outweigh the benefits:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4468470
The above discussion is bit dated, but I think the part pertaining to AVCHD files still stands. Here are some more workflow ideas for Bridge:
https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1729266
Since I’m not on a Mac, I can’t intelligently discuss your issues with external Metadata readers, but I think you should give Bridge a shot.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Adobe PPro can’t handle over 100 hours of footage? Another strike against it for what I do.
Shane
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I believe there’s a max of 24 hours of footage per timeline. It may just be that you need to rethink your workflow. Here’s an interesting approach:
https://aefreemart.com/?p=3483
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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