Video Equivalent Of ID3 Tags

Started by Darius1968, February 23, 2018, 05:34:30 AM

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Darius1968

Just as mp3s utilize ID3 tags of Artist, Album, Track#, Song, Year, Genre, etc., to describe the musical content, what is the equivalent for video files, DVDs, and Blu-ray?  For example to fully describe in metadata, Night Gallery; "The Ring With The Red Velvet Ropes"; Season 3, Episode 6, November 5, 1972.  Thanks. 

Mario

We've discussed this recently here in the community. Give the search engine a spin.

There is no common metadata standard for video files.
Some video formats support a few tags (like the old QuickTime metadata tags) other video files have no data at all. The state of metadata for video files is much worse than for images. The big players are more interesting in pushing patent-ridden video formats into the market (so everybody even touching a video file has to pay license fees) than in doing what's good for the customer and establishing a common metadata standard for video files.

Your best best is to use XMP metadata. IMatch manages that perfectly for all file types, including video. IMatch stores XMP metadata for videos in sidecar files.
To see if and which metadata is already in your videos, switch the Metadata Panel to Browser layout. This all depends on the file format you use, which recording device was used, which software process was used etc.
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