P: Read and write video metadata into video or sidecar

I would like to have the ability to Automatically write metadata to video files. There lots of digital cameras which have the ability to capture video files.

Brian, as you can see from the merged thread, LR has never been able to write video metadata since video was introduced in LR 3. In general, LR's support for video is minimal at best.

Why conversations get merged:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-auto-import-to-folders-organized-by-date/5f5f44f14b561a3d422ab0ba?commentId=5f5f48984b561a3d422bdf45 

I can happily geotag any video in my LrC 10.3 library but exporting it (quality max, not original file) does not actually include the geotags in the exported file.  Confirmed with exiftool and Apple Photos.

If this is unexpected, what info do you need from me?  Happy to follow up with example files, debug logs, and such, if this is actually unexpected behavior and not a previously-known problem.

Thanks!

The goal of Classic Lightroom has always been to offer a single environment covering the typical photographic workflow instead of being forced to string together a workflow from a menagerie of best of breed apps. Since DSLRs produce videos, it has included video support. Since photographers sometimes do slideshows, it includes a slideshow feature. Etc. Since keywords are supposed to be for analysing and categorising, and ratings are an important tool for evaluating and quickly filtering photos, it doesn't confuse the two industry-standard features. Of course Lightroom should save/read metadata back to video.

Why conversations get merged: https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-auto-import-to-folders-organized-by-date/5f5f44f14b561a3d422ab0ba?commentId=5f5f48984b561a3d422bdf45 

5 features each in 2 separate applications has many fewer defects than 10 features in a single application. Orders of magnitude fewer bugs. If you want to do the math:

2 apps with 5 features is 2*((4^5)-(2^5)) level of complexity = 1,984 

1 app with 10 features is (4^10)-(2^10) level of complexity = 1,047,552 

In scientific notation replace ^ with **. 

The ratio is the increase in complexity = 528 or the increased likelihood of defects. 

This is one of the reasons that traditional monolithic COBOL programs are full of bugs while modular code is cleaner. Not perfect but much cleaner. 

You are right that complexity is every software big enemy but think that if you have to use 5 different software instead of one you are not getting rid of complexity but instead increase it even more. 

So people that shoot video and photos should manage their files with two different applications. don't know if this would be successful. Another competitor would come and make it all at once possible and users of both assets would say goodbye to Adobe. No easy way out to the complexity conundrum

People on this forum sure love bugs, requesting more all the time. Increased complexity = increased bugs, just a fact of life. If we want Lightroom to become more reliable, we need to ask Adobe to remove all the features that have no business in a photo editor (e.g. video support, book creation, slide shows, web support...) and multiple ways of doing the same thing (color, numeric and star ratings which can be handled better with keywords). 

Perl, the programming language, eventually became unusable. As Larry Wall, the creator of the language, said; Perl is bad because people wanted it bad. They featured it to death. 

Lightroom users are doing the same thing. 

If we are not going to start helping Adobe reduce complexity then all bug reports should be automatically deleted. 

It would be great that at some point Adobe creates a systematic approach to embbed metadata in video the same way it does with images.  It is so easy with images . You can enter the metadata in dozen of programs and each can read was written by other. In video this is not possible and you have the create CSV files but after trying different option I have seen this is a complicated route and not standardized at all. I really hope that at some point IPTC data that can be read by any program can be done in video the same way it is done with still images.