How to sync metadata between QuickTime movies

How to sync metadata between QuickTime movies:
It's common nowadays for videos to be processed through one or more applications prior to editorial. Unfortunately that can result in camera metadata being stripped from the processed files. This can cause lots of problems later on if you need to relink back to the original files for grading.

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When you say “metadata” do you mean pre-post, asset management or distribution metadata?

When you say “metadata” do you mean pre-post, asset management or distribution metadata?
What is metadata. Well, largely it depends on where you are in the production-to-distribution pipeline. We use metadata to solve problems in production, asset management and distribution. Let’s consider each of these problem and how it was solved before the digital era, and where metadata fits into the modern workflow.

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Avid and Resolve use Metadata to link to Essence

Avid and Resolve use Metadata to link to Essence:
A container, like a glass containing liquid. That glass would be the metadata and the liquid in that glass would be the essence. I want to replace low quality liquid with high quality uncompressed master resolution liquid.

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Joust Standardizes Digital Pipelines from Set to Post

Joust Standardizes Digital Pipelines from Set to Post | Production:
The application’s purpose is to standardize digital pipelines and save money in the usual budgeted items such as VFX pulls and conform. It also can automate and put digital media and metadata in the control of production. Joust acts as a repository for data during principal photography, including data wrangling, script and camera notes as well as pertinent color information for each shot. Associated metadata will persist through the entire lifespan of a shot to final delivery.

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Custom Metadata and Searches in Premiere Pro

Custom Metadata and Searches in Premiere Pro:
Ever wonder how you can organize your project at a level beyond bins? Sure bins are great, but what if you want to have more specific categories. Perhaps you need a clip to appear in 2 different bins, it fits your animals category of clips but also fits your water category of clips. There’s no need to duplicate your clip, you can use custom metadata to add more fine-grained organization to your project.

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Making Metadata Work for you—Creating Custom Columns in Avid Media Composer

Part 1: Making Metadata Work for you—Creating Custom Columns in Avid Media Composer | Premiumbeat.com:
Sometimes, the most important information about your clips is the user data that you define.  In Part 1 of this two-part tutorial series, find out how to create custom columns and save your custom bin views in Avid Media Composer.

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Metadata for File-Based Workflows Becomes Core Component

TVTechnology: Metadata for File-Based Workflows Becomes Core Component:
Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems.

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TVTechnology: Metadata Is Paramount to Content Files

TVTechnology: Metadata Is Paramount to Content Files:
Metadata has two broad definitions. One is “structured data about data” or as some say—“the bits about the bits.” Another definition is more literal and comes from the Greek meaning of meta—alongside, that is “alongside” that being described.

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Some thoughts on Metadata · The present and future of post production business and technology The present and future of post production business and technology

Some thoughts on Metadata · The present and future of post production business and technology
There are many kinds of metadata, and previously I’ve noted six that are important to production. There’s a whole second category of metadata that’s more related to asset management, but they share the common goal of being able to find a specific shot, as quickly as possible. In this post I’m talking about what would be Added Metadata of the six.

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Metadata and MXF, part 1

Metadata and MXF, part 1:
This month, we will begin a two-part series on metadata and MXF. First, we will look at the importance of metadata to the professional media facility. Then, we will look at some of the specifics of metadata as applied to file interchange via MXF.

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Exchanging Video Information with XML | Video

Exchanging Video Information with XML | Video:
I show you how to take information about your nonlinear editing project from one NLE application to another using XML.

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VIDEO: Using metadata for color correction with RAW video

VIDEO: Using metadata for color correction with RAW video:
Blain Brown, Los Angeles based DP as well as educator and author, shares with his audience how to use metadata for color correction with RAW video


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Why is temporal XMP metadata so exciting?

Why is temporal XMP metadata so exciting?
There are, in fact, two things that excite me greatly about Adobe’s CS6 Production Premium: temporal XML metadata, and time associated metadata (which Adobe calls “disassociated metadata”). Together they are an exciting combination that has sent my head spinning with possibilities.

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DIGGING UP CANON DSLR METADATA - Little Frog in High Def

DIGGING UP CANON DSLR METADATA - Little Frog in High Def
Today I found out a neat trick…thanks to the Twitter-verse. That’s what I love about Twitter. I can post a quick thought, or some observation…OR…I can ask quick advice about a random topic and get an answer rather quickly. I don’t have to go looking for some specific forum and then post the question there, and hope someone knows the answer. I just throw the answer out there, and wait for someone to post the solution. Typically I get more than one answer, and I get the answer within minutes.

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Export asset metadata from Final Cut Server using builtin tools only

Export asset metadata from Final Cut Server using builtin tools only:
If you want to export each asset’s metadata from Final Cut Server, the easiest way to do that looks like this:


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What are the different types of metadata we can use in production and post production?

What are the different types of metadata we can use in production and post production?
I’ve been thinking a lot about metadata – data about the video and audio assets – particularly since we use metadata extensively in our Intelligent Assistance software products and for media items for sale in Open TV Network. And the new “Faces” and “Places” features in iPhoto ’09 show just how useful metadata can be.

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