Can Premiere Access Lightroom Keyword Metadata for Search Bins?

Lightroom keywords use three XMP properties: dc:subject, lr:hierarchicalSubject and lr:weightedFlatSubject These work together to provide Lightroom and Bridge with what they need to deliver hierarchical keywords, but depending on how you have set up preferences, these hierarchical keywords may not be accessible outside of Bridge or Lightroom.

For instance, if you create Keywords in Bridge and use the sub-keyword feature, then your selected keyword will appear at the top level of dc:subject, but the selected item will appear with its parent and the keyword separated by |. Here’s a real example from an asset with a few keywords (some with hierarchy) applied:
 

<lr:weightedFlatSubject>
	<rdf:Bag>
		<rdf:li>James Lockman</rdf:li>
		<rdf:li>Scouting</rdf:li>
		<rdf:li>Baxter State Park</rdf:li>
	</rdf:Bag>
</lr:weightedFlatSubject>
<lr:hierarchicalSubject>
    <rdf:Bag>
        <rdf:li>Baxter State Park</rdf:li>
        <rdf:li>James Lockman</rdf:li>
        <rdf:li>Scouting</rdf:li>
        <rdf:li>Places|Maine|Baxter State Park</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Bag>
</lr:hierarchicalSubject>
<dc:subject>
	<rdf:Bag>
		<rdf:li>Baxter State Park</rdf:li>
		<rdf:li>James Lockman</rdf:li>
		<rdf:li>Scouting</rdf:li>
	</rdf:Bag>
</dc:subject>

It is also critical that you write the metadata to the assets you want to search from Premiere. Lightroom Classic keeps metadata in the catalog until you explicitly write it to your asset(s). Premiere won’t be able to search these assets unless the keywords (or any other LR metadata) is written to the asset’s XMP.

In Premiere, we see this, so I could find this asset in my bin if I search for any of the applied keywords. Notice that Places and Maine are not part of this, as they are hidden in lr:hierarchicalSubject.

​@Jeena22389650a1ho,

I generally agree with Ann’s response. But using such metadata may be possible. I explored this a few months back, and noted employee ​@jlockman’s post regarding the “Custom Metadata Panel.” It is still listed as a plugin on the exchange, but appears to be a built-in plugin now.

In Lightroom, I added an EXIF “User Comment” to a jpg, saved the Metadata to the file, and I can see it in the custom panel under “Exif schema for Exif-Specific Properties” and “User Comment.” But if I edit the Project panel “Metadata Display” columns to include that same metadata field, it shows “User Comment” as a column, but does not show that file’s value. This was true if I added the column and then imported the file.

You can search for files in the Custom Metadata Panel, but I did not see a way to create a search bin.

Lots of potential options. I did not try creating a custom metadata set.

Stan

Alas, no. You will have to make a feature request.