Metadata: How to display video length in Bridge

2025 now ADOBE .... what the heck ?????????

Hello .... Adobe ? 2024 ????? Seriously ... what is going on over there ?

Chiming in too! Why the heck isn't this piece of data easily shown!? This seems so basic. Too bad. Hopefully someone will get going on this.  

Hello Adobe?  Are you listening?  Where is the most basic form of file information?  VIDEO FILE LENGTH!  What is the challenge?    Bridge offers a ton of usuless metadata fields but misses the most basic form of file comunication, a video file's length.  When can we expect this to appear?

Just adding my (inconsequential) voice; how is this not native? I mean really, I can find out the Intellectual Genre of a clip; the ages of models and the Lat/Long of a clip in the metadata, but I can't see the CLIP DURATION? Seriously Adobe?

I just updated the latest version of Bridge, and it STILL does not include length of videos two years after I raised the issue.

There are nearly 100 pieces of metadata when I click on a video file, but not the two most useful pieces of information: the length and the format (i.e., 4K, 1080p, 720p etc).

This makes Bridge basically useless for my needs, since I want to manage thousands of video clips as a bridge to Premiere Pro. I like the ranking and color coding, but cannot use Bridge without these key pieces of information.

Windows Explorer is more useful than Bridge. That info and more is right up front on the file details pane:

Dave

I'm going to add a polished-up version of the script palette below to my Utility Script Pack. In-progress now.

EDIT: Better (still unpolished) script. Only displays properties that are present and fixes error when changing folders.

I cobbled together a script which is VERY unpolished and incomplete but should help. It displays a palette with video file info. Each time you click on a single video file, it will show updated metadata.
To add media types, edit line 47. I may work on it some more, testing to see if properties are present in the file and adding more properties.
You can continue development if you want, incorporating more properties (I copied some of the raw data from an mp4 and its commented out at the end.)

Copy/paste this into a PLAIN TEXT EDITOR (not RTF!) and save with a file extension of ".jsx" then copy into Bridge Startup Scripts (Preferences-Startup Scripts->Reveal button.) Relaunch Bridge and select from Tools menu.

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#target bridge
if(BridgeTalk.appName == 'bridge'){
try{
var VideoInfoPalette = new Object; //id object for this script
VideoInfoPalette.built = false;
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');

var VIPcmd = MenuElement.create('command', 'Video Info Palette...', 'at the end of Tools');

VIPcmd.onSelect = function(){
viPalette();
}

function viPalette(){
this.paletteRefs = new Array();
var viWrapper = this;

function addviPalette(doc){
if(VideoInfoPalette.built == false){ //first run
var viScriptPalette = new TabbedPalette(doc, 'Video Info', 'vInfo', 'script', 'center', 'top'); //place in center temporarily
viScriptPalette.setLocation('right'); //move to final position, works around Bridge bug
viWrapper.paletteRefs.push(viScriptPalette);
viPanel = viScriptPalette.content.add('panel', undefined, '');
viPanel.alignment = ['fill', 'fill'];
viPanel.alignChildren = ['fill', 'fill'];
viPanel.txtField = viPanel.add('edittext', undefined, 'Select a video file', {multiline:true, readonly:true}); //default text
viScriptPalette.content.layout.layout(true);
VideoInfoPalette.built = true;
}

viScriptPalette.content.onResize = function(){ //dynamic resizing
var v = this.bounds;
viPanel.bounds = v;
viPanel.txtField.bounds = [v[0] - 10, v[1] - 10, v[2] - 25, v[3] - 35];
this.layout.resize(true);
viScriptPalette.content.layout.layout(true);
}
}

app.eventHandlers.push({handler: viOpenDocument}); //runs on `change in selections

function viOpenDocument(event){
if(event.object instanceof Document && event.type == 'selectionsChanged'){
try{
if(app.document.selectionLength == 1){ //can only show one file at a time
//add new video file extensions to preview those file types
var viList = app.document.getSelection('mp4, mov, avi, mpeg');
}
else{
viPanel.txtField.text = 'Please select a video file to display.';
var viList = [];
}
if(viList.length == 1){ //valid video file
viPanel.txtField.text = 'Video File';
if(viList[0].hasMetadata){ //only process files with metadata
var vfr = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'videoFrameRate');
var vfo = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'videoFieldOrder');
var vpar = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'videoPixelAspectRatio');
var vfs = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'xmpDM:videoFrameSize/stDim:w');
var vfh = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'xmpDM:videoFrameSize/stDim:h');
var vfd = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'xmpDM:duration/xmpDM:value');
var vfsc = viList[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/', 'xmpDM:duration/xmpDM:scale');
var vfdur = (eval(vfd) * eval(vfsc));
vfdur = (vfdur/60);
var vfdurmin = Math.floor(vfdur);
var vfdursec = (vfdur - vfdurmin);
vfdursec = (vfdursec * 60);
vfdursec = Math.round(vfdursec);
var viText = '';
if(vfs){
viText = vfs + ' px x ' + vfh + ' px\r';
}
if(vfr){
viText = viText + vfr.toString() + ' fps\r'
}
if(vfo){
viText = viText + vfo.toString() + '\r';
}
if(vpar){
viText = viText + vpar + ' aspect ratio\r';
}
if(vfdurmin || vfdursec){
viText = viText + vfdurmin.toString() + ' min ' + vfdursec.toString() + ' sec';
}
viPanel.txtField.text = viText;
}
}
else{
viPanel.txtField.text = 'Please select a video file to display.';
}
}
catch(e){
alert(e + e.line);
}
return{handled:false};
}
}
for(var i = 0;i < app.documents.length;i++){
addviPalette(app.documents[i]);
}
}
}
catch(e){
alert(e + e.line);
}
}

//~ xmlns:xmpDM="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/1.0/DynamicMedia/"
//~ <xmpDM:videoFrameRate>29.970030</xmpDM:videoFrameRate>
//~ <xmpDM:videoFieldOrder>Progressive</xmpDM:videoFieldOrder>
//~ <xmpDM:videoPixelAspectRatio>1/1</xmpDM:videoPixelAspectRatio>
//~ <xmpDM:audioSampleRate>44100</xmpDM:audioSampleRate>
//~ <xmpDM:audioSampleType>16Int</xmpDM:audioSampleType>
//~ <xmpDM:audioChannelType>Stereo</xmpDM:audioChannelType>
//~ <xmpDM:startTimeScale>30000</xmpDM:startTimeScale>
//~ <xmpDM:startTimeSampleSize>1001</xmpDM:startTimeSampleSize>
//~ <xmpDM:videoFrameSize rdf:parseType="Resource">
//~ <stDim:w>854</stDim:w>
//~ <stDim:h>480</stDim:h>
//~ <stDim:unit>pixel</stDim:unit>
//~ </xmpDM:videoFrameSize>
//~ <xmpDM:startTimecode rdf:parseType="Resource">
//~ <xmpDM:timeFormat>2997NonDropTimecode</xmpDM:timeFormat>
//~ <xmpDM:timeValue>00:00:00:00</xmpDM:timeValue>
//~ </xmpDM:startTimecode>
//~ <xmpDM:altTimecode rdf:parseType="Resource">
//~ <xmpDM:timeValue>00:00:00:00</xmpDM:timeValue>
//~ <xmpDM:timeFormat>2997NonDropTimecode</xmpDM:timeFormat>
//~ </xmpDM:altTimecode>
//~ <xmpDM:duration rdf:parseType="Resource">
//~ <xmpDM:value>53116218</xmpDM:value>
//~ <xmpDM:scale>1/90000</xmpDM:scale>
//~ </xmpDM:duration>

Excellant suggestion.

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