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You know, the more you use Premiere Pro and your project expands you'll realize you need a way of identifying your film's assets that involves more than just their name. I know and you know that we should tack and identify our assets as we introduce them to the project. For example, we could make a start at the Capture stage - I'll just open the Capture Panel now - and really, I should add as much information in these relevant categories as possible. Doing this helps, of course. This is one of the basic things we should do but it doesn't really add At this stage, any extra data that could help us track down an individual clip when we've collected hundreds of assets within our ever-expanding project. I'll just close down the Capture window. So, where do we go to add extra tagging information? Well, Metadata is our key and here's how to access it and use it to our advantage within Premiere Pro. We go up here to our Project Panel to see these clips in the project. Nothing new there, I agree, but let me just drag around these Panels so we can see much more of the information that is already attached to our assets. Most of the time it's hidden behind these Panels. As I mov across you can see these Categories. Here's the interesting bit, for now anyway, over here. I'll just click on the first AVI clip, Cartoon 01 and I'll just tick the Good Category tick box to remind me it's a good clip to use. And, to rate this further, I'll click here to choose what Star Rating I should amend this to. I know I'll use this clip later in the film, so I'll go for 5 stars. OK, to further that information that will help us find the exact clip required when we're at the busy complex stage of our project, just click up here on this drop-down arrow to choose Metadata Display. OK. This Metadata Display interface opens with all these schemas available for us to adjust. If we want, incidentally, to add a schema specific for this project it's simply a matter of clicking this new schema button. OK, I'll leave it for now. Did you notice this magnifying glass up here? It's our Search Field and allows us to type in a search term. There'll be more on this later. I'll just reveal this top schema, Premiere Project Metadata, right. All these settings to the left are the ones we saw available to us when we scrolled across the screen a moment or two ago. I'll just untick this Good tick box and close this down for now. Notice how the Good tick box I used earlier has now gone. I'll open the Metadata Display again and add a new Category: File Path. Now, I will look. Here it is. This is useful because it means I can identify where exactly on my hard drive a clip is. I'll open it again. I don't need the Advisory Category so I know it's in my basic schema so I can now untick it. By the way, notice that when a category is included across our Project Panel, then it's parent folder has this square box highlighted with white. I can click on it to remove all the ticks inside it if necessary. I'll revert back to where I was. Now, if you have a Category you want to add to a Schema just use this link to open this dialog box and type your new name here. I'll call this Cartoon. The settings are also available. OK. I'll have a look inside now. Yes. There it is. I'll just delete it by clicking here seeing as it was just an example. Right, I'll just put everything back to where we started. OK. That should do it. I'll close Premiere Pro for now and move over to Bridge. Right. Here in Bridge I've navigated to my relevant Project Folder. Notice how the two clips here have the 5-star Rating indicated that we entered earlier and once I click on this clip it gets previewed over here with our 5 stars underneath. I'll just go to Keywords for a moment and add inside Places a tick to Lymm Dam. OK. Close it up, or should be close it down? There are a number of ways to achieve the same goals within Bridge. For example, here's one way to only see the clips with 5 stars in the Content Window. I'll go to Ratings here and expand. Note we are told we have eleven clips with no rating and two with 5 stars. Clicking here leaves just these two clips in the Content Pane. I'll just put it back. What a huge help at the moment, I agree, but if this folder project was populated with hundreds of clips it would be really useful to only make viewable the 5-star clips, i.e., the ones we're only going to use. You know the Keyword, Lymm Dam, I just added over here? Well, it now shows up here under Keywords. Right. I'm just going to add something in here. I'll add Cheshire as the location, seeing as Lymm Dam is in the county of Cheshire in the U.K. OK, I've done this so I can show you something back in Premiere Pro, so I'll close Bridge. Oh, I'll just accept I want to add this Metadata, I just want to save it. Right. Back in Premiere Pro, remember the Search Field here I mentioned earlier? I'll make use of it now to track down our clip with Cheshire embedded in its Metadata. Remember, this isn't the file name. I'll just expand these Panels first, I need to drag them around, maybe too far here, so back to here will do. Now I'll just move this Slider here to get to our Metadata tab and open it, just reveal it, now I'll type in Cheshire. See? Instantly we're left with just this clip I attached the word Cheshire to as Metadata. Now if I look through the Metadata Panel here in this Category I'll find Cheshire embedded as the County. I'll just scroll down, yes. There it is, on the state where I filled it in. So, there's a useful use for Metadata and searching for assets. Obviously, this can be set to find any Metadata you require. A great tool and timesaver.