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Edgar15A7
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February 10, 2025
Question

XMP Metadata for Videos not showing

  • February 10, 2025
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When selecting a Video File, it doesn't show the XMP Metadata, which comes with the File. It only shows some Dates, the size and the Filename:

 

When selecting a Photo (JPG), the Metadata is shown:

 

Tried different things:

  • Extract Metadata from Video with exiftool as a xmp File, Import the XMP-File with "File Info..." - "Import" - nothing
  • Tried the Metadata Extension which is Part of the "XMP Metadata UI SDK", which worked for some Tags (tiff:Make, tiff:Model, xmpDM:videoCompressor, ...), but for the rest no values are shown
  • Tried to bring the xmp-Information within the xmp-File in a different order, but no result.

 

My environment is Adobe Bridge 15.0.2 on Windows 11

 

Has anyone a solution for this? Spent at least three days investigating, but no result.

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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February 10, 2025

If you search the forum, you'll find that video metadata has little to no support and depends on the file format and the encoding options (as video formats are similar to a "wrapper"). I seem to recall that could also depend on the version of Bridge, however, I'm not 100% sure of that recollection.

john beardsworth
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john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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February 15, 2025

I think your recollection is correct, Stephen, and I have some notes from 2019 about routinely using Bridge to write metadata into videos before importing them into Lightroom Classic. That would have been with Bridge 2017, so the black and gold icon which for some now-forgotten reason I carried on using after the update which had the black icon (it would have been some metadata feature Adobe screwed up).

 

Now with Bridge 2025 (15.0.2) on Mac the File Info is disabled, just as Edgar5A7 has found on Windows.

 

As for a solution, I'm not sure there's a better one in the Adobe world. Exiftool will extract the metadata, but maybe not in the form that's helpful.

 

By the way, we're probably looking for EXIF and IPTC metadata, not XMP as in the thread title.

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