1 Reply Latest reply: Oct 13, 2014 9:37 PM by michaelgoshey RSS

    How can i turn Prelude into a complex search criteria logging software

    Thanos_Kamaretsos Community Member
    Thanos_Kamaretsos Oct 11, 2014 2:29 PM

      Hellow to everybody...

       

      I need to set up Prelude so that it gets a video database of Thousands of quicktime videos and turn them into a video database by adding keywards on each of them

      For example ( City name, camera model, Day or Night, Close up etc...)

       

      The problems i got into are the following

       

      1) i cannot find a way ( either using markers,or metadata ) so that the Title (City) turns into a Prelude collumn ( idont mind the field to be editable but to be able to be sorted

       

      2) when i write on the bin's search field keywords such as 5d ( camera model ) it finds not only the clips that i have previously marked as 5d but also any other that contain the world or even part of it

       

      3) I find no way to make an advance (boolean tyoe) search like (City,Day) (not even doing a 2 pass search, (City - isolates the clips having the city name i search for) and with them sorted , to add a second search criteria - it resets the search to the second one)

       

       

      A) I understand that Prelude is not a database application but is there any cheat to the above scenario..?

      B) Please dont give me the use the Premiere new search bins feature. (it needs to be done inside Prelude)

       

      P.S wouldn't this be a good feature request ?

        • 1. Re: How can i turn Prelude into a complex search criteria logging software
          michaelgoshey Adobe Employee
          michaelgoshey Oct 13, 2014 9:37 PM (in response to Thanos_Kamaretsos)

          Hi -

           

          Thanks for the post.

           

          You can achieve what you are looking for with Prelude but you will need to write some custom code - which we call custom panels - that would connect to your database and populate the Prelude Project with the TITLE column. Custom Panels are written in HTML5/Javascript and have extensive access to Prelude's capabilities and are used to extend functionality and integrate to things like MAMs (Media Asset Managers) which is close to what you are looking to create.

           

          Prelude's current search mechanism does not support logical operations (AND, OR, etc.). This is something we have in our backlog to enable more advanced searching/filtering. We also have in our backlog the feature to allow the user to add additional columns in our project panel based on any metadata field or tag.

           

          And yes - good feature requests that we are currently reviewing.

           

          Thanks!

          Michael