About the Metadata panel in Adobe Premiere Pro

The Metadata panel shows both clip-instance metadata and XMP-based metadata for a selected asset. Fields under the Clip heading show clip-instance data, that is, information about a clip selected in a sequence. Fields under the File and the Speech Transcript headings show XMP metadata. You can choose which metadata fields are shown in the panel, and you can edit metadata in the panel.

In the Metadata panel, the Clip property value fields are internal. They reside in the Adobe Premiere Pro project file, and are readable by Adobe Premiere Pro alone. However, some of the property value fields in the Clip section have a link option box next to them. When the option is selected, Adobe Premiere Pro automatically enters the information that you enter into the Clip value field into a corresponding XMP field. This option allows applications outside Adobe Premiere Pro to access the clip-based metadata. The Speech Transcript section is for generating and monitoring a text transcript of the audio in the selected file. Each word in a transcript has a timecode value that links it to the place where that word is spoken in the clip. When one or more files containing audio are selected in a Project panel or Timeline, the Transcribe button becomes available. You can use the Find field in the Project panel to identify clips containing a certain word or phrase. You can use the Find field in the Metadata panel to highlight the exact place in the clips where those words were spoken. You can add custom schema and property value fields to the Metadata panel by using the Metadata Display dialog, accessible through the panel menu. You can add or edit metadata for multiple assets simultaneously. You can, for example, add the same scene name for a group of clips. Select the clips in the Project panel and type the name into the Scene property value field in the Metadata panel. Then, you could quickly locate all the clips for that scene by entering the scene name into the Find field in the Project panel.

Adobe Premiere Pro saves clip instance metadata in each Adobe Premiere Pro project file, but writes changes in XMP metadata back to the source files. Some file formats do not support metadata being written to them. Adobe Premiere Pro creates a sidecar file for these formats. The sidecar file carries the name of the original file, but with an XMP extension. Adobe Premiere Pro writes all the metadata into the sidecar file that it cannot write to the original file.

Adobe Bridge, Lightroom®, and Adobe Premiere Pro all access XMP metadata. XMP metadata written to a file by any one of these applications is readable and editable in the others.

For more information about XMP metadata, see the overview Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) here, www.adobe.com/go/learn_dv_tutorial_xmpwhat_en, and the whitepaper, Adobe XMP For Creative Professionals, here, www.adobe.com/go/learn_dv_tutorial_xmpcreative_en