Compressor Job Annotations for the Keywords Field

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Compressor Job Annotations for the Keywords Field

hello

would someone be so kind as to please point me in the correct direction?

i am looking for Apple instructions, inputting Keywords in the Job Annotations field, it used to be in the Compressor Manual but i could not find this with the latest release Compressor 4.7

for example, which is correct in order to forensically/query after compression to locate the imbedded metadata tags?

Religion, Spirituality, Christmas, Jesus, YHWH, Elohim, HolySpirit, TarahPaige, victorfoto

or

Religion,Spirituality,Christmas,Jesus,YHWH,Elohim,HolySpirit,TarahPaige,victorfoto

or

religion, spirituality, christmas, jesus, yhwh, elohim, holyspirit, tarahpaige, victorfoto

or

religion,spirituality,christmas,jesus,yhwh,elohim,holyspirit,tarahpaige,victorfoto

thank you in advance! :)

v

#compressor #keywords #metadata

Posted on Feb 23, 2024 11:31 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 8, 2024 11:29 PM in response to victor maldonado

I have used GraphicConverter 12 or exiftool to edit movie metadata. Apple devices and apps currently favor "Keys" tags (support for "UserData" and "ItemList" tags is much more limited).

exiftool -a -G1 -s -n -Keys:All 2005-0505-1205-05.mp4
[Keys]          CreationDate                    : 2005:05:05 12:05:05+01:00
[Keys]          GPSCoordinates                  : -36.6101 -66.91515 119.9
[Keys]          Author                          : Keys:Author
[Keys]          Description                     : Keys:Description
[Keys]          Keywords                        : Keys:Keywords 1,Keys:Keywords 2
[Keys]          Title                           : Keys:Title
[Keys]          UserRating                      : 3
[Keys]          LocationName                    : Keys:LocationName
[Keys]          Make                            : Keys:Make
[Keys]          Model                           : Keys:Model
[Keys]          Software                        : Keys:Software

macOS 14 Sonoma QuickTime Player displays those tags like this (also Photos.app imports and displays these tags):

More details at:

Movie dates and Photos.app - Apple Community

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Answer 2

BenB

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Feb 24, 2024 4:28 PM in response to victor maldonado

Work with metadata annotations in Compressor - Apple Support

Not all file types support all metadata fields.

I've played with the keywords field, and it never has worked correctly for me, very flakey.

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Answer 3

Feb 25, 2024 7:36 PM in response to BenB

thank you for the link, ben :)

yes, i saw that. there used to be a Apple resource with instructions with the order, commas, spaces & the Return Key but cant find it

i agree, metadata was a little iffy there for a while especially with High Sierra but works on Sonoma 14.3

we rely on metadata to catalog all our movies & images especially with tags from studios, IPTC https://iptc.org/ conventions, the military has their own as well along with United States National Archive, we've been using since around 2007 & i've built my own that i share with clients

in the image below is an ‘Get Info’ (Command i) from QuickTime movie generated from Compressor

have a great night! :)

v :)

References:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-95.pdf

https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/bulletins/2015/2015-04.html