Custom Metadata Panel in Premiere Pro - adobe-dmeservices/custom-metadata GitHub Wiki

Overview

The Custom Metadata Panel is now compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, and it offers all the features of the Custom Metadata Panel in Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. For an overview of the base functionality of the Custom Metadata Panel, please review the documentation here.

In addition to all custom metadata fields available in other applications, there is a metadata field concept exclusive to Premiere Pro called Clips. A Clip metadata field is intended to be used with source files (clips). These fields are part of the Premiere Pro Project, so they can only be seen and modified in Premiere Pro. Therefore, any edits made to a clip metadata field cannot be viewed in other applications.

Clips

Setting a value to a Clip field will inject metadata about the clip into the Premiere Pro Project, but not the file from which the clip comes. This allows for more granular customization of multiple clips pertaining to the same file, while maintaining the integrity of the initial file metadata. All Clip fields will have Clip: prepended to the name of the field.

Adding A Clip Field in the Configurator

Adding a Clip field is simple. Simply toggle the Clip option to Yes when adding your custom metadata field in the configurator. Give it a Display Name and XMP Property Name accordingly. A clip field requires a Clip Data Type: String, Integer, Real, or Boolean.

  • String -A string of ASCII characters. Can be used for properties such as descriptions or location.

  • Integer -Negative or positive whole numbers. Creates a box that can be clicked or dragged to increment or decrement.

  • Boolean -A Binary value, representing True or False. Creates a radio that can be toggled on or off.

  • Real -Negative or positive fractional number. Like integer, creates a box that can be clicked or dragged to increment or decrement. Allows for more precision-accurate numbers.

Once you fill out the required fields here, click Save. Your Clip field should now be editable in the Panel View. For additional information regarding creating and saving metadata field types, please visit the original documentation for using the View Editor here.

Linking Clips

You can also Link Clip fields with XMP fields. Linking a Clip field to an XMP field will make it so that whatever value is stored in the Clip field will always match the metadata value stored in the XMP field, and vice versa. This is useful for ensuring that Clip metadata is discoverable in Media Asset Management systems and other storage solutions.

How to Link Clips: Configurator

While editing a Clip field, click the Advanced tab to select an existing XMP property to link to the Clip metadata field value. The XMP field must already be configured in the metadata preset, so you must create XMP fields before linking them to Clip fields.

One Clip field can be linked to one and only one XMP field and vice versa. If an XMP field is already linked to another Clip field, the XMP field will be disabled here and not available for linking.

How to Link Clips: Panel

After successfully linking a Clip field and an XMP field in the Configurator, switch over to the Panel view, and you should see this icon next to the two fields. You can click this icon to toggle the linking functionality on or off for a particular clip.