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3.4. Metadata Profile Management
3.4.1. Metadata, Profiles, User Fields and Automatic
Keywords
Metadata is customer-defined data which can be associated with clips, logsheets,
playlists, timelines and edits.
Metadata Profile
A Metadata profile corresponds to a set of user fields which are managed together.
Thereafter, a profile can be associated with elements such as clips, files, edits, playlists
and timelines, and metadata can be attributed to the element by entering specific values in
the user fields.
After assignment, metadata can be used in searches within the Database Explorer.
A profile can be created in IPDirector or can be imported into IPDirector in the form of an
.XML file. The same profile can be used for any element type.
Depending on the user rights defined, the users will be allowed to manage profiles, or to
choose a profile when creating or editing an element, or they will be forced to use to
default profile imposed by the administrator.
Logsheet Profile
Profiles defined for logsheets slightly differ from profiles defined for other elements in that
two profiles can be associated with a logsheet:
• one for the logsheet user's fields
• one for automatic keywords.
Refer to the chapter on the IPLogger module in the user's manual for a detailed description
of user's fields and automatic keywords.
Profiles for automatic keywords also consist of user fields. Values are entered for these
user fields at creation of logs and will persist through all new log entries made until the
automatic keyword is changed in the Automatic Keywords area of the IPLogger window.
Therefore, they behave as automatic keywords as they will be associated to a log such as
standard keywords, but do not need to be entered for each log separately.
For more information on how to use the metadata and automatic keywords in the
IPDirector applications, refer to:
• the Control Panel user manual
• the Database Explorer user manual
• the Playlist Panel user manual
• the Ingest Modules user manual
• the IPLogger user manual ("Step 1: Defining the Logsheet Characteristics")
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