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September 16, 2024
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Issue transferring content within metadata between Premiere Pro Users.

  • September 16, 2024
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My editing partner and I are currently trying to efficiently comb through hours of footage from a wedding we shot by using metadata to tag things about our clips such as the names of people within them. We successfully figured out how to transfer the schema between our computers (because that proved to be tricky at first until we found the correct pathway for locating those presets) but now we are not able to tick a box, for instance, the bride, on one machine, and transfer the updated project file to another and see that same box ticked. 

 

Is there a way to export just the individual metadata from each clip without exporting the video and audio along with it? We want to be able to send the clip metadata files across two computers and relink that data back to the same footage. Example: if a video contains the bride at first, and then the camera pans to see the maid of honor, how can I export my edited metadata so that she can see at a glance who is in that video? Currently when we share the project file we don't see the checked/unchecked boolean, we just see that they exist.

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
September 17, 2024

Paul beat me to it this time! 

 

Totally you should be using Productions, and if you are not 'co-located', I would suggest looking into LucidLinks 'transport service' if not full online project operation.

 

For personal example ... my partner is in Cape Town, SA. I'm in Oregon, US west coast, our shared projects and media live on Amazon S3 servers in London. He's total Mac, I've never owned an Apple device in 30+ years of computer work.

 

Mo calls via Whatsapp, that he's uploading a folder of media for me to start editing. Including some incredible graphics, as he's an Ae whiz of the First Order.

 

I go to my PCs file manager, to my 'virtual' drive that both the PC and Premiere think is a local attached drive ... and see the folders start appearing. Then instantly media files begin to pop up. While Mo is still talking.

 

So I go to Premiere, the Productions project file for our work, and create a new project to 'house' those assets. Right-click in the new project panel, Import ... and select that folder on the L-L virtual drive.

 

Immediately, Premiere starts loading the files ... so I select several, drag to blank timeline, creating a sequence, and start playing it.

 

Yet ... that folder isn't done uploading from Cape Town to London ... and I'm getting playback in Premiere!

 

Yea ... the way they know how to transfer video files for actual use is so amazing as to be near Harry Potter level. And for 'smallish' projects, not that high a monthly fee.

 

Bewtween Productions and LucidLink, I've got a high-end production partner almost exactly halfway around the world, and we collaborate in real time. Which ... is freaking amazing. At times we even get giggly about it. It's that .... wowza.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Community Expert
September 17, 2024

I recommend using Productions in Premiere Pro to collaborate and share media, metadata, and updates across multiple projects seamlessly. This will automatically sync metadata changes between all projects without manual updates.

For more details, you can refer to the chapter on Productions in this guide.


For a non-Production workflow, you can export metadata with File > Export > Avid Log Exchange and update media in another project using Clip > Update Metadata, though this method doesn't support custom metadata. Using the Description field for tagging may be more effective.


Productions will be the more efficient solution.