Reorganizing with Metadata
This feature allows you to reorganize video files in directories according to metadata.
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;”
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.
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.