Sony PDWHD1500 User Manual (PDW-HD1500 / PDW-F1600 Operation Manual for Firmwa - Page 155

Planning Metadata 8 Chapter 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 (see page 95). 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 (see page 94). File creation rules File location File name Professional Disc: • Format that can be used General/Sony/Planning in the General directory directory a) (see page 109) • Extension: XML USB memory: General/ Sony/Planning directory • ASCII characters (up to 63 characters including the extension) • Extension: XML a) General/Sony/Planning directory is created automatically when a disc is formatted. Automatically when a disc is formatted. Note 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 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). Chapter 8 Planning Metadata Overview 155