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Planning Metadata
Overview
Planning metadata is a file that contains metadata about the
clips to be shot and recorded.
To use planning metadata, you will need to save a file in
advance in one of the locations shown below, and insert
the media into this unit. (Up to 99 planning metadata files
can be saved on one Professional Disc or USB Flash
drive.)
Professional Disc:
General/Sony/Planning directory
1)
USB Flash drive:
General/Sony/Planning directory
1) Created automatically when a disc is formatted.
Manipulating planning metadata
This unit allows you to perform the following operations
on planning metadata using the GUI screen.
• To load planning metadata files
• To sort planning metadata
• To check planning metadata properties
• To clear planning metadata
• To switch the title display in the video monitor screen
See “Using planning metadata” (page 94) for details.
Setting clip names by using
planning metadata
The following two types of clip name strings can be
written in a planning metadata file.
• The ASCII format name that appears in the video
monitor screen
1)
• The UTF-8 format name that is actually registered as the
clip name
2)
1) It is also possible to display the UTF-8 format name, or no name
.
2) When no UTF-8 format name string is specified, the ASCII format name
string is registered as the actual clip name.
By loading a file from one of the following locations into
the unit’s memory before starting to record, you can
register the names in the file as clip names.
There are two ways to load files.
• Automatically load a file that has been written to the
following directory on a Professional Disc via an FTP or
FAM connection.
• Use a GUI screen to load a file that has been written to
the following directories on a Professional Disc or a
USB flash drive
File creation rules
a) General/Sony/Planning directory is created automatically when a disc is
formatted. Automatically when a disc is formatted.
Do not save more than 100 planning metadata files in the
above save locations. The unit may fail to load the files
correctly if more than 100 are saved.
Clip name string format
In a text editor, modify the two fields in the <Title> tag that
contain the clip name strings (the shaded fields in the
example below).
Enter a name in the first field in ASCII format (up to 13
characters), and enter another name in the second field in
UTF-8 format (up to 52 characters).
File location
File name
Professional Disc:
General/Sony/Planning
directory
a)
• Format that can be used
in the General directory
• Extension: XML
USB memory:
General/
Sony/Planning
directory
• ASCII characters (up to
63 characters including
the extension)
• Extension: XML
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