About Metadata

RoadMovie supports iTunes/QuickTime metadata tagging. Metadata tags describe your movie's content in a fashion similar to id3 tags for mp3 music. The metadata is then used by iTunes, iPod, iPhone.

Adding Metadata to your Movie

Adding metadata is easy. Just navigate to the Metadata pane using the main toolbar.

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RoadMovie has already filled in some of the metadata fields by parsing the movies filename in a smart way. It can usually find the video kind and show and season and episode of a tv show automatically.

Then click "Add metadata to the exported movie"

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Now all metadata related controls will be enabled and it's time to start adding some data.

Genre

Genre will be automatically fetched for TV shows. You can enter whatever genre you like or select one from the pre-defined genres in the list. If you choose a genre from the list it will correlate with the genres in iTunes.

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This is what it will look like in iTunes.

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Video kind

First you will be presented with a popup where you can select which kind of video you are working with. You have 3 options, each will affect where the movie ends up in iTunes or on your portable device. There's Movie, TV Show and Music Video.

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If you select Movie your file will be found under the Movies section in your iTunes Library. TV Show will sort under TV Shows and Music Video ends up in Music.

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Movies

Movies will have the following metadata tags.

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Producer and Director will only be visible in QuickTime Player at this time.

TV Shows

TV Show has the following tags

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It will look like this in iTunes

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And like this on an iPhone/iPod Touch

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Music Videos

Music videos has the following tags

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It will look like this in iTunes

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More about Metadata

A movie with metadata may not be playable on all devices. It's known to work in iTunes, iPod, iPhone and on your Apple TV.

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