I'm trying to generate DNXHD clips using AMT but want to create some custom metadata fields of my own. The XML examples imply that doing

<extendedAttributes>
    <User1>my metadata</User1>
    <User2>more metadata</User2>
  </extendedAttributes>

in the supplied output XML would do the trick, so User1 and User2 would be my custom bin column headings.

But it isn't working as far as I can tell. Should I be doing something else?

Thanks

Nick

mentaur,

extendedAttributes is not the right tag to use; it sets metadata in a restricted area in the AAF that does not show up as custom property and will be deprecated. Use the <UserComments> tag to set custom properties instead. This capability was introduced in AMT 2.8.0.

From the change log:

Extended support for reading back UserComments that were inserted into files.
o The support for writing UserComments has been re-factored, in order to make it consistent with the symbols it represents. It also enables the creation of name and value pairs without any type of restriction in the comment name. The Media Composer and Interplay restrictions on property names and values apply.
o Please have a look in the XML Schema in order to understand how this field is used.

Andy

Ok thanks I have that working now.

I have some more questions, but I'll post them under a new topic.

Nick

Another question on this topic:

When would I use <userBinAttributes> tags vs <UserComments> ?

Thanks

Nick

I know this is an old thread but since the question came up again, we are not aware of a 'userBinAttributes'
 tag either in the AMT XSD schema or in the sources. To my knowledge, this tag does not exist. For creating and dealing with custom bin columns, <UserComments> is the correct node to use.

Andy

Andy

Thanks for the help the other day regrding this issue.

However, although we got Labroll, Camroll and Soundroll to work using the <UserComments> node, we are unable to get attributes like Name and Project to pass through.

Regards

Patrick Morgan

Digital Vision