Q: Attributing certain metadata fields from FCs to file exports

Hello
I am looking to encode predefined, personalised metadata fields that are in FCs into the header of exported FCs files. Example, I have hundreds of files from castings and I want to keep certain non-technical info that is in FCs DB, in the header of the file, like the name, age, date etc. H264 as it seems to be reasonably metadata friendly.
I can't seem to find anything that defines this in the exports.

Any ideas are very welcome.

Macintel, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Avid User, FCP, Lightworks etc

Posted on Oct 5, 2010 10:45 PM

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chlowden Oct 6, 2010 2:54 PM in response to chlowden
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Oct 6, 2010 2:54 PM in response to chlowden

Well it looks like I am going to have to wait until MPEG7 or later is implimented. It seems that H264 cannot use custom metadata fields. I hope I am wrong.
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by Nicholas Stokes,

Nicholas Stokes Oct 8, 2010 6:02 AM in response to chlowden
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Oct 8, 2010 6:02 AM in response to chlowden

Take a look at

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

it may be possible to programmatically write EXIF tags to the quicktime
files.

Hope this helps.

Nicholas Stokes
XPlatform Consulting
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chlowden Oct 9, 2010 10:23 PM in response to Nicholas Stokes
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Oct 9, 2010 10:23 PM in response to Nicholas Stokes

This looks very promising. Many thanks
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