P: Read and write video metadata into video or sidecar

John,

Thanks for your extra information. Please press the "I have this problem too" button so that maybe Adobe employers see this problem.

Thanks!

I agree that it would be good for LR to store metadata for video files; without that ability, it's not the "single, robust workflow solution that can support all of your imaging needs regardless if they’re still images or video captures" that the Lightroom team aspires to (http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjourn....

LR could adopt an approach similar to what Adobe products have done with photos: If a metadata field (e.g. Keywords) has a slot in the particular video format, it will store it there. But it will also store all the metadata fields in an XMP sidecar. This is similar to how LR uses EXIF, IPTC, and XMP fields in photos. (Note that the XMP:DynamicMedia namespace is designed for video-specific metadata and appears to be the basis for the Video preset of the LR 4 Metadata panel.)

Many video container formats do support metadata; see for an overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis...

The Windows Imaging Architecture provides a mechanism for applications to modify arbitrary metadata of image and video files, provided there's codec for the file type.

With "it" you mean LR or Windows Photo thingy?

I think LR is not able to story anything in the file at the moment. And the Windows thingy is able to store tags and ratings. I don't know about the rest.

Can it store EXIF data, IPTC data and Develop settings?

Thanks for your reply. I don't think that this is the problem, for instance Windows Live Photo gallery is able to tag all the video's. and they are stored in the files. As can been seen in the details of the files.

Most video files don't have a specified spot for metadata, like still images do. The video folks apparently don't have their acts together that way.