Reorganizing with Metadata

This feature allows you to reorganize video files in directories according to metadata.

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Let’s give an example; suppose you have a video collection that you’d like to organize by Genre and Director. You just add a Genre and Director metadata tag to each clip. This can be applied to more than one video at a time:

Once all of the videos have been tagged, we can re-organize. We need to tell Videux how you want it organized; this is done with a very simple little script. In this example, we’ll use

“ClassicFilms/&meta:Genre;/&meta:Director;”
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Let’s break this down. This is a simple script that Videux matches against each video during the re-org. The first part is just simple text, and it will be the same for each video. In this case the top level directory will be “ClassicFilms”. The ”/” signifies that the next part will be a subdirectory. Next, “&meta:Genre;” tells Videux to look for a metadata tag named “Genre”. When it finds it, it will substitute the value for Genre - which you might have set to “Western” for example. Following Genre, there is another “/”, meaning we want another subdirectory. And finally, “&meta:Director;” would be replaced by whatever you have set the “Director” metadata to, for example “Huston”. So, the directory would look like this:

“ClassicFilms/Western/Huston"

And since each video will have different tags, Videux will create the applicable directories for each and thus organize in the manner you’ve specified.

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The script language used here is very simple. Here are the elements:

A simple tag: &tag:value; [an ampersand, the tag type, a colon, tag value and a semicolon]

  • meta: When the tag type is “meta”, the value indicates the particular metadata tag to substitute

  • other: Not other tags right now (2.0.0), but in the future we may add some more options to let you use other parameters.

A forward slash “/”: Indicates a new sub-directory.

Anything else is considered simple text. Avoid using any characters that might interfere with directory/file creation.