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      • 40. Re: metadata from prelude to premiere
        MonkeyEatsMonkey Community Member

        I came across this thread with the same kind of concerns Neil and Rob seem to be having, and I have to say that you guys are hitting on some of the biggest reasons Prelude isn't being used in the vast majority of Premiere workflows I've seen.  While I'm VERY interested in using metadata to keep my footage organized, the current solutions from Adobe just aren't good enough.  The way Premiere handles search results for markers and subclips makes it nearly useless.

         

        Here's a "for instance":  I just tried making subclips from a master clip of concert footage and I named the subclips things like "bass", "guitar", "crowd shot", etc.  When I send the subclips to Premiere, then search in the project panel for "bass", I get every subclip that was made from that master clip.  Things that are totally unrelated to "bass", but are included in the search results because they are associated with the same master clip. 

         

        Fix the Premiere search issues and implement a database like the one Neil described, and you'll make Prelude an indispensable part of a lot of editor's workflows.

        • 41. Re: metadata from prelude to premiere
          R Neil Haugen Community Member

          Just giving the same searchability within PrPro that we have on clips in Prelude would be huge for me. It would suddenly make Prelude a worthwhile app.

           

          That second part ... a lot of what I do are talking-head interviews, but I create b-roll clips for them from a really wide range of sources of an amazing array of topics. There's a clip now & then of the talkies that might be useful later in another project, but a lot of the b-roll stuff I create would be dang handy to have cataloged for future fast finding. Sadly, Lightroom's got the database but won't allow one to store meta into any video files. It can kinda sorta almost be usable for cataloging my b-roll clips ... but what a bizarre and time-consuming workflow: ingest with Prelude, send a rickety-functioning rough cut to PrPro, then open up Lr & put some meta for finding the b-roll stuff later into the Lr database but without any ability to actually get it into the clips to ensure survivability of the work of storing the meta in the first place.

           

          Doesn't make a lot of sense but would take time I simply don't have. So ... no cataloging going on. VERY frustrated with that.

           

           

          Neil

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