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January 24, 2023
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Custom metadata overlays or burn-ins

  • January 24, 2023
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It would be great to be able to add any metadata overlay with the overlay settings.

As it is now we are limited to Source Timecode, Sequence Timecode, Markers, Sequence Clip Name, Project Clip Name, File Name, Sound Timecode, and Sound Roll.

It would be great if you could choose any of the many fields in the Metadata Panel.

This could also be implemented as an effect similar to or integrated into the existing clip name effect. It could also be integrated into the simple text effect. You could pick a source track and it would overlay or burn in the chosen metadata field.

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    DaleTHX1138
    Participant
    August 18, 2025

    Agreed!  I personally would love to overlay Creation Date metadata in the sequence, so that for certain projects where I want to show everything shot in chronological order, no matter from which camera (which could come in handy for forensic situations, or even for more casual situations like the family vacation I'm editing), I can quickly find where to insert the B camera's footage chronologically with the A camera's clips on the timeline.

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    B Faris
    Participant
    January 24, 2023
    I will be switching to Resolve because of this. Adobe just F#$ked me over on a project because I couldn't burn-in audio timecode for an archival heavy documentary. I'm done. See you later Adobe.
    jpc6081875
    jpc6081875
    Participant
    January 24, 2023
    The simply fix for this is to allow overlays in the export menu. Not sure why this isn't a thing. Need this for conforms and VFX hand offs. All competitive NLE's have a solution for this including resolve. Not sure why Premiere is so behind in this regard. Seems like an easy and simple fix.
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    formosa
    Participant
    January 24, 2023
    Definitely need this. The amount of burn ins I need to manually create in my premiere projects is unbareable. Avid and resolve deal with this a lot better, but I can't always use those. So please please please let us do this Adobe!
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    david.r.jeffries
    Participant
    January 24, 2023
    This is certainly something still of interest. Maybe being able to select specific fields in a mogrt could help bridge a gap?
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    Trevor_Asq
    Legend
    January 24, 2023
    Still needed.... like Avid timecode burn in that will burn in all sorts of sequence & clip metadata
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    bobbih
    Inspiring
    January 24, 2023
    Ditto, how does Resolve have a better processing workflow than Prem?! Ideally, we would rather have edit assist working from Premiere from the get go, than starting in Resolve and moving back to Prem. Might just stay in Resolve one of these days...
    Rob@Jamestown
    Rob@Jamestown
    Participant
    January 24, 2023
    Repeating Alan. This has been requested for 6 years.
    It would also be nice to be able to burn the entire editing overlay in on export. It's so customizable you could get most configurations for burn in that you'd want.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 24, 2023
    It would also be nice to be able to burn the entire editing overlay in on export. It's so customizable you could get most configurations for burn in that you'd want.
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