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TomTheDestroyer
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Apr 26, 2024 1:54 PM UTC
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Metadata Creation Date

I work a lot on historical video projects (Year in review), working with dozens or hundreds of clips in a timeline. I would like to display the date that a video file was created in my finished product, but to look up the date that each clip was created adn then create a title for each would take an extraordinary amount of time. Can the Metadata & Timeline burn in effect include a "clip creation date" display option? Also, since the title would be part of a finished video project, I would liekt ohave the option of creating titles that are appealing: being able to edit the font, stoke, drop shadow, leading and kearning etc. Is that possible to add to the metadata & timeline burn in effect, or is there already a mean to create my desired effect? Thanks

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DRob2591
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Jul 9, 2024 7:55 PM UTC

Upvoted. It's silly you can't pull that metadata and display it in a title, when I can so clearly see that it's there in the clip's metadata. This would be a great solution for imitating the old date-stamped functionality of old home videos. Instead, we have to manually look at the date and put the title in.

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Stan Jones
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Apr 27, 2024 12:56 PM UTC

I explored a bit further, but no time to do this justice. BTW, my conclusion is that the best feature request is for adding a "custom" field that you can select from ANY of the metadata options that can be added to a column. If format is a limitation, add a DATE custom/selectable field, a TEXT one, etc.

 

My exploring results:

 

Is there is a plugin that will copy/manipulate metadata in PR so that you can get the date into a field that you can display?

Try this plugin search: https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/browse/cc?locale=no_NO&page=1&pp=PPRO&ppv=24.0&product=PPRO&q=metadata&sort=RELEVANCE

 

Can you modify a file's metadata outside PR so PR can see a field that it will display? I looked briefly at exiftool, but it is limited for video file support. Others have looked for adding custom tags to exiftool. But the video limitations are relevant.

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=74d7eacc91bf3357&sca_upv=1&q=exiftool+add+custom+tag+"premiere"+pro

 

Stan

 

 

 

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
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Apr 26, 2024 9:14 PM UTC

Upvoted.

 

The options seem limited; and i didn't see any other option if using any of the overlay effects on export.

 

I'll use such metadata fields as "Scene" or "Shot" or "Log Notes" and add the info I want to show. Does anyone make a script that will copy metadata in PR from one field to another?

 

Stan

 

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