What does Adobe Bridge do for me in regards to a video post workflow?

[Ron Pestes]

I usually keep it open in the background and use it to preview clips and do batch rename. I preview clips there because you don’t have to drag them into a bin and then delete them if you decide you don’t want to use it as in PP. It is also easier to drag clips to different files on your drives in Bridge if you need to rearrange them.

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[Ann Baldwin]

In agree with Ron. I find Bridge perfect for pre-sorting my clips. i use the rating and labeling features to designate which clips I’m most likely to use (for me that’s the green label). I change those labels to yellow if I actually use them in the final movie. Before I import a clip by dragging and dropping it into the project panel, I usual rename it more descriptively.

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[Walter Soyka]

See Joe Bourke’s excellent article Managing Broadcast Assets with Adobe Bridge [link] for some ideas.

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[Joseph W. bourke]

Thanks Walter –

I was just about to jump in and suggest that. I’ve been using Bridge for years, to organize all of my project assets as the project progresses, and then to help me keep track of the client’s master elements after the project is done (or when revisions are needed). Through use of Metadata, I’m also able to quickly tag assets which I need marked with my copyright information, as well as quickly find the correct version of the After Effects project which created the final output (even though I’m very organized, I often have multiple client revisions). Here’s a short blog post on how to find that elusive AE project:

https://bourkemedia.com/adobe-bridge-metadata-saves-the-day/

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
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[Don Walker]

Joseph,
I read both of your articles, and have to say, that if I transition to a Adobe CC workflow, I will definitely use Adobe Bridge. Is the link to the project also embedded in the metadata on a Premiere export?
Thanks everybody for your answers!

don walker
texarkana, texas

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[Joseph W. bourke]

Hi Don –

It took me a little while to figure out, but yes, the “project pointer” is embedded in the same place as I show in my Blog post for AE output files. It took me a while, because it at first appeared to me that you can’t write Metadata to a .prproj file (which you can’t – there’s one for the feature requests). So I was assuming that there wouldn’t be anything viewable in Bridge under File Info. I was wrong, in a way. Although you can’t write or append Metadata for a .prproj file, there is still a link back to it from the output file – in the output I was checking, a .mov file. The project name showed up just fine.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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