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[Learn - The How To series from Adobe] [video2brain - World-Class Training] Managing metadata, like "Take Specific Comment," can save hours during editing. And with Adobe OnLocation CS5 you can gather this data even if your camera isn't connected to your computer while shooting. This tutorial will detail the work flow for capturing metadata while shooting and later matching the metadata and the actual clips. One of OnLocation's strengths is that it can store critical script and camera-related metadata, whether you enter it manually or import it from Adobe Story, a collaborative online script development tool that's a new CS Live online service available separately from Adobe Creative Suite 5 and complimentary for a limited time. When you're shooting with a camera that's connected to the computer, matching the clip with the metadata is easy; you just click the shot and start recording. If you're shooting with an untethered camera, the work flow is slightly different. Since the synchronization technique is time-based, start by entering the camera's time and date into OnLocation. Click "Edit,""Camera Date Time,"and enter your camera's time and date, and click "Set Time." Click "OK" to close the dialogue. Ideally, you should do this each day before shooting, though you can also enter the time and date while matching the clips. If you're working with multiple cameras, we recommend that you synchronize their clocks as closely as possible. When you're actually shooting with the unattached camera, click to select the appropriate shot, and then click the "Create Timestamped Placeholder" icon, or press "Control" and "T" on your keyboard. You can do this at any point while recording the clip. The little clock icon tells you that the shot is timestamped. If you're working with multiple cameras, note that you need to identify the camera for each shot in the "Camera Label" field. Otherwise, OnLocation might assign a clip to the wrong placeholder if two clips from different cameras contain similar creation date and time stamps. Of course, you don't have to work from an Adobe Story script to use these features. If you don't have a shot list prepared or shoot a shot that you hadn't planned, you can quickly add a shot placeholder with some basic descriptive information. When you're ready to shoot, click "Create Timestamped Placeholder," and then start adding your comments. Note that you can add comments manually by clicking the plus sign and then entering the comment, or insert one of the comments from the "Turbo Comments" area. After the shoot, copy the clips to your hard drive. If you're working with multiple cameras you might consider copying the clips to different folders to simplify importing the clips into OnLocation. Then, in the Media Browser, navigate to where you stored the files. I'm going to switch over to a special project that will help illustrate some of the issues that you may encounter when trying to sync your clips. First, I'm going to select some clips that have matching timestamped placeholders and where all the comments were added to OnLocation while the clip was being shot. In practice, note that if you're capturing from a folder that contains clips that you've already imported into OnLocation, click the "Hide Media in Project" check box. Then, click the "Import in Auto-Match" icon. If you were working with multiple cameras, here's where you would choose a camera. If you didn't enter your camera date and time while shooting, you could do it here. You can tell which clips get matched, because the thumbnails appear here. Now let's see what would happen if you added comments after you stop recording the clip. Say the clip was 30 seconds long, and you added comments a minute after you stopped shooting. You'll see this error message telling you that the comments will be added to the end and alerting you to check the clip to make sure that it's an accurate match. Here are the comments added to the end of the clip. Check the comments to make sure you are matching the right clip to the right placeholder, and if not, click "Edit," "Undo Auto Match Clips" to undo the match. Now let's see what happens if the clip you choose has no matching placeholder. You'll see this error message. If this happens to a lot of clips, make sure that the camera time is accurate. If this doesn't fix the problem, and you're sure that the clip matches the placeholder, you can link it manually via drag and drop. Now let's see what happens if a single clip matches multiple placeholders. Typically, this occurs when you're working on a multi-camera shoot, and you've either not selected a camera on the placeholder or forgot to choose a camera in the import dialogue. You can either fix these problems or just match the clips manually. These are the most common error messages that you'll see. If you encounter others, check to make sure that you've inserted the camera's date and time; or if you're shooting with multiple cameras, identified the camera in the placeholder and during import. And remember if auto matching doesn't work, you can always just manually match your clips via drag and drop. By using the timestamped-based matching operation, OnLocation makes it easy to link metadata with the clip, so you can easily transfer both to Adobe Premier Pro CS5 for editing.
