What does Adobe Bridge Add to Premiere?

[Richard Milner]

Alex,

Let’s get someone else to verify this, but I believe that you can delete files with bridge as well as preview the clip. I don’t know about moving, but I assume it can.

I have some hope that bridge functionality will be beneficial to a San environment. I’m looking at SAN usage too. I haven’t worked with bridge, but this is my understanding. (or should I say the way I wish it works)

When a piece of media is digitized into premiere, it becomes part of Bridge too. Bridge is a standalone piece of software. If you want to use clips that are shown in bridge, you just open bridge in premiere and pull down clips into your project.

Bridge itself has metadata search tools that you can use key words as well as other fields that you can do boolean searches on.

When the metadata is downloaded into your project, the essence doesn’t move from it’s place on the SAN, so it’s there for anyone else to use by loading the metadata information into their app that points to the essence’s location.

Let’s get others to give their 2cents

[Alex Udell]

Thanks Richard that’s good info.

I’ve put an e-mail to my reps at Adobe….perhaps they can shed some light on the subject.

As far as moving (or copying) is concerned…I understand that the benefit of a SAN is to be able to have multiple ppl accessing a single file. This is good….but in some instances…I’d like to have a freindly interface to copy material to a new location, that way if one editor deletes material…the other person doesn’t lose it….and from what I can see as far as Premiere’s architecture is concerned, since the data seems to be porject based and there’s nothing overseeing all the linkages…there’s no way to really determine external dependencies….

So adobe needs another layer of application to track all this…or do like I plan to…make additional copies of “library” material to a differnt location. being able to identify material based on meta data search is important to this process….so that’s where I see Bridge being useful.

Alex Udell
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[Alex Udell]

Hi Guys….

This just in

from the Adobe Pre Pro 2.0 PDF

“Adobe BridgeAdobe Bridge brings the files in your project into one central command center, making it faster and
to access and manage video and audio files, native Photoshop and Illustrator files, and After Effects projects. Efficiently organize, browse, preview, and locate your content files. Drag the files you want directly from Adobe Bridge into your current project. Within Adobe Bridge, you can also run batch processes and
a wide range of common tasks, such as creating new folders, renaming, moving, or deleting files.”

Link = https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/pdfs/premiere_nfhs.pdf

Alex Udell
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[Richard Milner]

Alex,

Much of my information I gleaned about bridge came from a demo DVD that comes with 2.0.

[Alex Udell] “since the data seems to be porject based and there’s nothing overseeing all the linkages…there’s no way to really determine external dependencies….”

I think that bridge is the overseeing software that sees all the elements. Remember with this verison of PP, XMP data is embedded into the captured media files(Adobe’s version of a portable metadata container ala XMF).

“So adobe needs another layer of application to track all this…or do like I plan to…make additional copies of “library” material to a differnt location. being able to identify material based on meta data search is important to this process….so that’s where I see Bridge being useful.”

In the 1.5 version of PP if you open up the the project file with a word processor, you’ll see that PP project tracks iterations of clips. It will be interesting to find out:
1. Does Bridge track all iterations(children) of a media file?
2. Does the header XMP data of the iteration contain ID information about the parent clip?

Does anyone know?

[Alex Udell]

Hi Richard….

“I think that bridge is the overseeing software that sees all the elements. Remember with this verison of PP, XMP data is embedded into the captured media files(Adobe’s version of a portable metadata container ala XMF). ”

This assumes then that all the media mgmt functions for Premeire Pro should happen from the Bridge….(as opposed to using Import/delete from Premiere itself….certainly would make sense to me….

Not having seen PP 2 yet…you’d have to tell me ultimately….

Alex Udell
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[L. D. james]

The bridge does all the things Adobe and this forum referred plus more. However, it wouldn