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– Enter metadata starting with groups of clips and then moving to individual clips.

Since the Metadata Editor lets you add metadata for multiple selected clips at once,

it becomes easy to select groups of clips based on their thumbnails for entering

information such as Scene designations, Interior or Exterior keywords, Character

keywords, and Framing keywords. You’ll be surprised how fast this goes, and how

useful this information is later on, for both editing and grading.

– After you’ve entered all the metadata you can in groups of clips, then switch to

entering clip-specific metadata such as Shot designations, Take numbers,

descriptions of action, and other clip-specific keywords.

– There’s no right or wrong way to edit or use metadata, but a lack of consistency will

make it less useful. For example, if you’re identifying each clip that takes place at the

same diner, try to use the same keyword or descriptive text. If you call half the shots

“diner” and the other half “restaurant,” your ability to easily search for all the diner

shots will be compromised.

Face Detection to Generate

People Keywords

You can select multiple clips in the Media Pool, then right-click the selection and choose

“Analyze clips for people” from the contextual menu to automatically analyze all selected clips

using the DaVinci Neural Engine, identifying faces that can be used to help organize the media.

A progress dialog shows you how long until the analysis is finished (you can cancel the

operation if necessary).

Afterwards, the People Management window appears that shows you the results, automatically

organized into a number of bins in a sidebar.

 A “People” bin shows each face that has been recognized as an individual person.

Click, pause, then click again underneath any thumbnail to edit the name or role

of that person. You must assign a name if you want a keyword to appear for that

individual in the People field of the Metadata Editor. Assigning names renames

the bins corresponding to each found person and enables retagging to fix

mistaken identification.

The Face Recognition window seen immediately after a Face Recognition operation

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