I'm using Adobe Media Encoder to compress my video files down to something I have room to store but at a quality worth editing. I've read that MP4 video can hold metadata but mine can't. I've tried Adobe Bridge, VLC, and a few other applications that can write metadata. None of them are able to write to these MP4 files.
The metadata software I've tried can write to MOV files but Adobe Media Encoder can't write a compressed MOV file, no h.264 MOVs.
I'd love to be able to write metadata into my clips for archival purposes but I don't have space enough for uncompressed video clips.
Any tips?
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MOV and MP4 are essentially the same container. Renaming the MOV file to MP4 might be enough to get your software working with them. Then rename back to MOV if necessary.
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Use mp3tag as a GUI , you can give it a thumbnail as well.
Or if you want to do it programmatically you can use Python and module mutagen:
Code:import mutagen #pip install mutagen from mutagen.mp4 import MP4 import os for path, subdirs, names in os.walk(r"V:\directory_with_mp4_videos"): for name in names: filepath = os.path.join(path, name) mutagen_file = MP4(filepath) mutagen_file['Šnam'] = name[:-4] #Title is filename without extension mutagen_file['ŠART'] = 'Artist Name' mutagen_file.pprint() mutagen_file.save()
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I'm surprised the AME's XMP Metadata export doesn't work w MP4, especially since MOV has been supported by Adobe products the longest of all media container formats, and MP4 is just a minor variation.
Is the export giving you an error message? or is it graying out when MP4 or MOV is chosen?
ScottLast edited by Cornucopia; 17th Mar 2021 at 22:33.
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mp4tags from mp4v2
Code:usage mp4tags OPTION... FILE... Adds or modifies iTunes-compatible tags on MP4 files. -help Display this help text and exit -version Display version information and exit -A, -album STR Set the album title -a, -artist STR Set the artist information -b, -tempo NUM Set the tempo (beats per minute) -c, -comment STR Set a general comment -C, -copyright STR Set the copyright information -d, -disk NUM Set the disk number -D, -disks NUM Set the number of disks -e, -encodedby STR Set the name of the person or company who encoded the file -E, -tool STR Set the software used for encoding -g, -genre STR Set the genre name -G, -grouping STR Set the grouping name -H, -hdvideo NUM Set the HD flag (1\0) -i, -type STR Set the Media Type("Movie", "TV Show", "Music Video", ...) -I, -contentid NUM Set the content ID -j, -genreid NUM Set the genre ID -l, -longdesc NUM Set the long description -L, -lyrics NUM Set the lyrics -m, -description STR Set the short description -M, -episode NUM Set the episode number -n, -season NUM Set the season number -N, -network STR Set the TV network -o, -episodeid STR Set the TV episode ID -p, -playlistid NUM Set the playlist ID -P, -picture PTH Set the picture as a .png -B, -podcast NUM Set the podcast flag. -R, -albumartist STR Set the album artist -s, -song STR Set the title of the song, movie, tv show,... -S -show STR Set the TV show -t, -track NUM Set the track number -T, -tracks NUM Set the number of tracks -x, -xid STR Set the globally-unique xid (vendor:scheme:id) -w, -writer STR Set the composer information -y, -year NUM Set the release date -z, -artistid NUM Set the artist ID -Z, -composerid NUM Set the composer ID -W, -cast STR Set the cast|actors tag (AppleTV) -F, -director STR Set the director tag (AppleTV) -J, -codirector STR Set the codirector tag (AppleTV) -K, -producers STR Set the producers tag (AppleTV) -O, -swriters STR Set the screen writers tag (AppleTV) -Q, -copywarning STR Add copy warning (AppleTV) -U, -studio STR Add film studio (AppleTV) -Y, -rating STR Add film ratings (AppleTV) -V -rannotation STR Add rating annotation to the ratings, ie rated r for violence -X -crating STR Add content rating tag. "Inoffensive", "Clean", "Explicit" -r, -remove STR Remove tags by code (e.g. "-r cs" removes the comment and song tags)
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Try Cine Encoder, with option "From source" in codec options (to perform overwriting without transcoding the video). In the new version of the program, you can change the metadata.
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