EX1 footage: text-searchable? at DVinfo.net

Alex Raskin · October 3rd, 2008, 11:42 AM

So you have a lot of EX1 footage.

How do you make it text-searchable?

I'd like to somehow tag each clip on my hard drive with keywords, and then be able to find all clips that match my search. Like, "new york night", "helicopter" etc.

(Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this post, all my footage is mostly from EX1...)

Eli Schmukler · October 3rd, 2008, 05:16 PM

[QUOTE=Alex Raskin;946483]So you have a lot of EX1 footage.

How do you make it text-searchable?

While not exactly what you were looking for, Adobe Premiere cs4 will convert all speech to text and will allow searches. See:

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: Features

In many ways, not just for the use you desired - to locate assets, I believe that this is going to have a profound impact on many aspects of video -

Alex Raskin · October 3rd, 2008, 06:00 PM

At this point, though, I'm mostly interested in tagging the video myself, since the clips have either no sound or just noise, not speech, in them...

Erwin van Dijck · October 4th, 2008, 01:28 AM

I don't know on which platform you work, but Final Cut Server could do just that because it is made for the purpose of managing your footage and projects (and much more).

FCP can also work with tagging and searching tags but I never tried that myself.

regards,
Erwin

Alex Raskin · October 4th, 2008, 02:31 AM

I'm in Wintel land :)

Piotr Wozniacki · October 4th, 2008, 05:06 AM

Vegas Pro has the Media Manager, which can help in what you're after, Alex.

Very powerfull tool, never really appreciated enough, IMHO.

Alex Raskin · October 4th, 2008, 05:48 AM

I've discovered that Adobe Bridge and Picasa do that.

Picasa seems slow when adding a keyword to the video, delaying for up to 10 seconds on my PC for some reason.

Bridge seems almost instantaneous, and I think it has better search options...

October 3rd, 2008, 11:42 AM	#1
Alex Raskin Trustee Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,435	EX1 footage: text-searchable? So you have a lot of EX1 footage. How do you make it text-searchable? I'd like to somehow tag each clip on my hard drive with keywords, and then be able to find all clips that match my search. Like, "new york night", "helicopter" etc. (Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this post, all my footage is mostly from EX1...)

October 3rd, 2008, 05:16 PM	#2
Eli Schmukler Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Posts: 25	speechless [QUOTE=Alex Raskin;946483]So you have a lot of EX1 footage. How do you make it text-searchable? While not exactly what you were looking for, Adobe Premiere cs4 will convert all speech to text and will allow searches. See: Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: Features In many ways, not just for the use you desired - to locate assets, I believe that this is going to have a profound impact on many aspects of video -

October 4th, 2008, 05:06 AM	#6
Piotr Wozniacki Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Poland Posts: 4,086	Vegas Pro has the Media Manager, which can help in what you're after, Alex. Very powerfull tool, never really appreciated enough, IMHO. __________________ Sony PXW-FS7 \| DaVinci Resolve Studio; Magix Vegas Pro; i7-5960X CPU; 64 GB RAM; 2x GTX 1080 8GB GPU; Decklink 4K Extreme 12G; 4x 3TB WD Black in RAID 0; 1TB M.2 NVMe cache drive

October 3rd, 2008, 06:00 PM	#3
Alex Raskin Trustee Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,435	At this point, though, I'm mostly interested in tagging the video myself, since the clips have either no sound or just noise, not speech, in them...

October 4th, 2008, 01:28 AM	#4
Erwin van Dijck Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Posts: 75	I don't know on which platform you work, but Final Cut Server could do just that because it is made for the purpose of managing your footage and projects (and much more). FCP can also work with tagging and searching tags but I never tried that myself. regards, Erwin

October 4th, 2008, 02:31 AM	#5
Alex Raskin Trustee Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,435	I'm in Wintel land :)

October 4th, 2008, 05:48 AM	#7
Alex Raskin Trustee Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,435	I've discovered that Adobe Bridge and Picasa do that. Picasa seems slow when adding a keyword to the video, delaying for up to 10 seconds on my PC for some reason. Bridge seems almost instantaneous, and I think it has better search options...