View metadata

To view an asset’s metadata, open the asset in Detail View, and tap the Metadata panel. To select a set of metadata fields, choose an option on the Metadata View menu. Adobe Dynamic Media Classic offers these Metadata Views:

  • Compact View: A basic list of values.

  • IPTC: Values as defined by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

  • XMP: Values as defined by the extensible metadata program.

Administrators can create Metadata Views. These views also appear on the Metadata Views menu.

See Metadata Views for information about creating Metadata Views.

Manually enter metadata for an asset

  1. Open the asset in Detail View.

  2. Open the Metadata panel and do one or both of the following:

    • Choose a Metadata View to determine which metadata fields appear in the panel.
    • Choose a Preset Value, and then select Apply to populate metadata fields with preset values. Company administrators create these preset values.
  3. Enter the values in the Metadata panel.

NOTE
To edit the metadata of several assets at once, select the assets and go to File > Edit Info. Edits you made to metadata in the Edit Info window apply to all the assets you selected.

Add or edit keywords

In addition to metadata, you can use keywords to help with searching and managing your assets.

If you added keywords to other files during this session, or if you have removed keywords from your list, they appear in the Keyword Suggestions table.

  1. Open the file in Detail View.

  2. Select Keywords.

  3. To add keywords, do any of the following:

    • Type a keyword in the text box and select Add.
    • Select a keyword in the Keyword Suggestions table.
  4. To remove a keyword, select it and select Remove. It moves to the Keyword Suggestions table.

NOTE
You can add keywords to files as you upload them to Adobe Dynamic Media Classic. In the Upload Job Options dialog box, choose More Metadata and enter keywords.
See Upload options.

Import metadata

Rather than manually enter metadata one asset at a time, you can import metadata for many different assets from a tab-delimited or XML file. Entering the metadata in a tab-delimited or XML file and importing the file is less time-consuming than entering metadata in individual assets. In the first row of the tab-delimited file, enter the ID and the names of fields for which you want to record metadata. In each subsequent row, enter an asset ID name followed by metadata values. Fields that are not included in the tab-delimited or XML file are not modified. To import metadata from an XML file, make sure that you conform to the DTD.

NOTE
You can create a template for entering metadata so that it can be properly imported to Adobe Dynamic Media Classic. After you create the template, you can use it to enter the metadata.
See Create a template for entering metadata to upload.

You can find more information about standardized properties at the Adobe XMP Developer Center.

  1. In the Browse panel, select the images to which you want to add metadata from the tab-delimited or XML file.
  2. Go to File > Import Metadata.
  3. In the Upload Metadata dialog box, select Browse.
  4. In the Select files to upload dialog box, select the tab-delimited or XML file with the metadata.
  5. Enter a job name.
  6. Select Upload.

Identify different metadata types in the import

Keep the following in mind when identifying different metadata types to import:

  • Names of User-Defined fields are identified as created in Setup > Application Setup > Metadata > User-Defined fields. Use the Generate file functionality to get a list of all defined UDFs in the correct import format.
  • XMP Metadata properties must have the related XMP-prefix before the (property-) name. A colon separates the prefix and name. The XMP prefix can be found in Setup > Application Setup > Metadata > Metadata Schema editor. The technical names can be found in documentation of related XMP schema. XMP propert names do not appear in the Generate file feature.
  • Metadata Schema properties must have the related prefix before the (property-) name. A colon separates the prefix and name. The prefix and the property names are defined in the Metadata Schema Editor. Metadata Schema properties names do not appear in the Generate file feature.

For example: The XMP property for keywords is the XMP schema “Dublin Core” with the prefix dc and subject is the technical XMP name. The prefix and technical XMP name are combined into the dc:subject full property name. In the XML metadata import format, dc.subject must be the property name. In the tab-delimited import format, it must be the column header.

Import Keywords

Keywords can be imported as comma-separated list. If a comma appears in any of the individual values, escape it by using a backslash (). A literal backslash is the usual double-backslash (\).

For example, a metadata import file containing the value Hello\, World!,back\\slash,foo for dc:subject sets three XMP keywords on the asset: Hello, World!, back\slash, and foo.