H.264 + Annotations/Metadata = No go

I am using QuickTime 7 Pro to convert some DV footage into MPEG-4 H.264 encoded files. I use the Movie Properties menu to add metadata (or "annotations") such as Artist, Author, Comments, etc. The problem I'm having is, once the video is exported out to the MP4 file, all of the metadata save Copyright is gone.
I refuse to believe that MPEG-4 files cannot handle metadata tags, so what is the problem here? It is a problem with QuickTime 7? Any advice for getting full metadata tags in there?

That doesn't work. I'm having the same problem. In my case I'm exporting to iPod format (.m4v).
The original .mov movie has all the annotations added as the last thing before saving it.
When I export it to an .m4v file for ipod all the annotations save the copyright are lost.
If I open the .m4v file and add the annotations again, a "Save" or "Save As" tries to save it as a .mov file again. The only way to get a .m4v file is to do the export again, and that doesn't preserve the annotations.
I'm trying to add a second episode to a video podcast. In the case of the first episode iTunes got the title and other annotations from the RSS feed. I'm guessing if the second episode doesn't have its own annotations it will end up showing the same description on iTunes. Not a good thing.
Can any Apple engineers confirm if this is a bug or othewise?
TIA

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Annotation (metadata) working...

At least the @Overrides is working OK in beta-1. Pretty cool. Probably Mr. J. Bloch would update his book "Effective Java" to advise to add "@Overrides" to all methods that are intended to override a concrete method declaration in a superclass.
import java.util.*;
public class Test {
     @Overrides public boolean equals(Test that) {
          return true;
     public static int myMethod(List<?> value) {
          return value.size();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          System.out.println (myMethod(new ArrayList<Integer>()));
}The expected compilation error (equals must have a parameter of type Object, not Test)
C>javac -source 1.5 Test.java
Test.java:4: method does not override a method from its superclass
        @Overrides public boolean equals(Test that) {
         ^

It requires using RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME to properties to be read reflectively. The default is "CLASS" (only present in class file), and @Overrides is "SOURCE" (only present in source file - it is a pragma or an instruction to the compiler).
import java.lang.annotation.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import java.util.*;
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@interface Copyright {
     String value();
@Copyright ("�2004 edsonw") public class Test {
     @Copyright ("�2003 edsonw") @Overrides public boolean equals(Object that) {
          return true;
     @Copyright ("�2002 edsonw") public static void main(String[] args) {
          for (Annotation ann : Test.class.getAnnotations()) {
               System.out.println ("Class :" + ann);
          for (Method meth : Test.class.getMethods()) {
               for (Annotation ann : meth.getAnnotations()) {
                    System.out.println ("Method " + meth + ": " + ann);
Class :@Copyright(value=�2004 edsonw)
Method public static void Test.main(java.lang.String[]): @Copyright(value=�2002 edsonw)
Method public boolean Test.equals(java.lang.Object): @Copyright(value=�2003 edsonw)

APT tool

Is this the right forum for the annotation processing tool (APT).
I will assume it is, since it has to do with meta data, which is related to reflection.
As I understand it, one of the purposes of the new annotations/metadata mechanism is to allow third party tools which can process java program which are annotated with meta data, see for example the @remote example in 1.5 in a nutshell.
However, I can not see how the @remote example can be brought to work, since the tool should translate
public class Ping {
   public @remote void ping() {
into
public interface PingIF extends Remote {
  public void ping() throws RemoteException;
public class Ping implements PingIF {
  public void ping() {
This means that the class Ping should be transformed into one which has an extra implements.
The APT explicitly states that it is a read only tool. That is fine. And I can see how I can write a new file, which contains the new Ping class.
But I can not see how that should be done if there was any code in the body of the original ping, I cannot using the current APT tool get hold of the method body (or the initializers of fields). This seems to be necessary for a long range of interesting tools.
-- Kasper

The only way that I can see to do what you need to do with apt is to use the Proxy design pattern. That is, your "annotation processor" can output the source for a Java class that wraps the one you're processing, and your wrapper class can throw RemoteExceptions and the like.
The only advantage of using apt over a doclet is that apt is more tightly integrated with javac. In particular, it will spawn off instances of the compiler to handle your machine-generated code. The real issue is that neither apt nor doclets solve the real problem---that you need to modify, not wrap, the source code based on the annotation. Apt does not provide access to the parse or abstract-syntax tree, so the only solution is to write a small compiler, yourself.
-Allen

Is there a way to easily batch convert hundreds of video files to h.264, while retaining the original dimensions, metadata, etc.?

I am organizing my library of stock video footage so is easily view (show to clients) and access. I need advice for two things:
First: What is a good program to catalog footage in? I am considering using iTunes because I already have it and I could setup smart folders to easily organize footage.
Second: I would like to encode all the footage to h.264 so I can preview it in Quicktime and add it to an iTunes library. My problem is all the footage is in a wide variety of dimensions, formats, framerates, strange codecs etc. I have access to Adobe Media Encoder and Apple Compressor. Is there a way to easily batch convert hundreds of video files to h.264, while retaining the original dimensions, metadata, etc.?
I have tried using a watch folder in AME but it freezes every time I add the folder...
Thanks for any help!

"including library and music folders) from my computer"
Did you move the entire iTunes folder the hold Option, select Choose library and select the iTunes folder you moved?

JPA: Translating Annotations to Metadata (orm.xml)

I'm trying to translate the commented annotations in the next two classes to metadata:
package pfc.model;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;
//import javax.persistence.*;
//@Entity
public class DadesComentari implements Serializable {
    //@Id
    //@Column(name = "id", nullable = false)
    private Integer id;
    //@Column(name = "accio")
    private Integer accio;
    //@Column(name = "idAutor", nullable = false)
    private String idAutor;
    //@Column(name = "perfilAutor", nullable = false)
    private Integer perfilAutor;
    //@Column(name = "dataCreacio", nullable = false)
    //@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Date dataCreacio;
    //@Column(name = "text", nullable = false)
    private String text;
    //@Column(name = "idIncidencia", nullable = false)
    private Integer idIncidencia;
     ...(Setters and getters)...
package pfc.model;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
//import javax.persistence.*;
//@Entity
public class DadesIncidencia implements Serializable {
    //@Id
    //@Column(name = "id", nullable = false)
    private Integer id;
    //@Column(name = "servAfectats", nullable = false)
    private Integer servAfectats;
    //@Column(name = "idCreador", nullable = false)
    private String idCreador;
    //@Column(name = "idTecnic")
    private String idTecnic;
    //@Column(name = "idTD")
    private String idTD;
    //@Column(name = "visitaSolicitada", nullable = false)
    private Boolean visitaSolicitada;
    //@Column(name = "dataCreacio", nullable = false)
    //@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Date dataCreacio;
    //@Column(name = "dataTancament")
    //@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Date dataTancament;
    //@Column(name = "nomClient")
    private String nomClient;
    //@Column(name = "cognomsClient")
    private String cognomsClient;
    //@Transient
    private ArrayList comentaris;
     ...(Setters and getters)...
}To do it I have created the next file orm.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<entity-mappings xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm"
                 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm_1_0.xsd"
                 version="1.0">
    <package>pfc</package>
    <entity class="pfc.model.DadesIncidencia" name="incidencia">
        <attributes>
            <id name="id">
                <column name="id" nullable="false"/>
            </id>
            <basic name="servAfectats">
                <column name="servAfectats" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="dataCreacio">
                <column name="dataCreacio" nullable="false"/>
                <temporal>TIMESTAMP</temporal>
            </basic>
            <basic name="dataTancament">
                <column name="dataTancament"/>
                <temporal>TIMESTAMP</temporal>
            </basic>
            <basic name="idCreador">
                <column name="idCreador" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="idTecnic">
                <column name="idTecnic"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="idTD">
                <column name="idTD"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="visitaSolicitada">
                <column name="visitaSolicitada" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="nomClient">
                <column name="nomClient"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="cognomsClient">
                <column name="cognomsClient"/>
            </basic>
            <transient name="comentaris"/>
        </attributes>
    </entity>
    <entity class="pfc.model.DadesComentari" name="comentari">
        <attributes>
            <id name="id">
                <column name="id" nullable="false"/>
            </id>
            <basic name="idIncidencia">
                <column name="idIncidencia" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="perfilAutor">
                <column name="perfilAutor" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="idAutor">
                <column name="idAutor" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
            <basic name="dataCreacio">
                <column name="dataCreacio" nullable="false"/>
                <temporal>TIMESTAMP</temporal>
            </basic>
            <basic name="accio">
                <column name="accio" />
            </basic>
            <basic name="text">
                <column name="text" nullable="false"/>
            </basic>
        </attributes>
    </entity>
</entity-mappings>Which I reference from the persistence.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="pfc" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
        <provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.PersistenceProvider</provider>
        <mapping-file>pfc/model/orm.xml</mapping-file>
        
        <properties>
            <property name="toplink.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
            <property name="toplink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/pfc"/>
            <property name="toplink.jdbc.password" value=""/>
            <property name="toplink.jdbc.user" value="root"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>Having done only these modifications, the next exception appears when trying to execute the application:
Exception [TOPLINK-30005] (Oracle TopLink Essentials - 2.0 (Build b58g-fcs (09/07/2007))): oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.PersistenceUnitLoadingException
Exception Description: An exception was thrown while searching for persistence archives with ClassLoader: WebappClassLoader
delegate: false
repositories:
    /WEB-INF/classes/
----------> Parent Classloader:
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader@f4f44a
Internal Exception: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Exception [TOPLINK-28018] (Oracle TopLink Essentials - 2.0 (Build b58g-fcs (09/07/2007))): oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.EntityManagerSetupException
Exception Description: predeploy for PersistenceUnit [pfc] failed.
Internal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
     at oracle.toplink.essentials.exceptions.PersistenceUnitLoadingException.exceptionSearchingForPersistenceResources(PersistenceUnitLoadingException.java:143)
     at oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider.createEntityManagerFactory(EntityManagerFactoryProvider.java:169)
     at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:110)
     at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:83)
     at pfc.model.DAOFactory.connectarBD(DAOFactory.java:15)
     at pfc.model.FaçanaDelModel.obtenirDadesIncidencia(FaçanaDelModel.java:33)
     at pfc.IncidenciaController.handleRequest(IncidenciaController.java:18)Anybody can see what I'm not doing properly?
Thank you in advance, and sorry for my "still in progress" English

There is not yet any built in support for this.
What I have been doing is configuring JDev to understand the orm.xml schema so that when editing the file with JDeveloper it can assist me on the available elements and attributes as well as a default structure.
JDeveloper :: Tools -> Preferences -> XML Schema -> Add
jar:file:/C:/oracle/10.1.3.1/preview/jdev/toplink/jlib/toplink-essentials.jar!/orm_1_0.xsd
Now when you wish to create an orm XML instance document in your project you can use:
New -> General -> XML -> XML Document from Schema
Select "Use Registered Schema"
Select the ORM target namespace: http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm
This will give you a basic orm.xml file properly configured which you can then use to define your mappings.
Doug

Servlet 3.0: Annotation-Scanning although "metadata-complete=true" allowed?

Hello,
according Servlet 3.0 spec a "metadata-complete=true" in web.xml MUST deactivate the annotation scanning in deployment phase. That is EXTREMELY important for huge web applications. Is annotation scanning also forbidden while application STARTUP? Is the application startup part of the deployment phase in terms of the specification?
Background - The following scenario does NOT work anymore for Websphere Application Server 8.5:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21381764
Therefore IMHO WAS 8.5 isn't completely JEE6 conform. Do you agree?
Regards
Christian Bittner

Hello,
according Servlet 3.0 spec a "metadata-complete=true" in web.xml MUST deactivate the annotation scanning in deployment phase. That is EXTREMELY important for huge web applications. Is annotation scanning also forbidden while application STARTUP? Is the application startup part of the deployment phase in terms of the specification?
Background - The following scenario does NOT work anymore for Websphere Application Server 8.5:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21381764
Therefore IMHO WAS 8.5 isn't completely JEE6 conform. Do you agree?
Regards
Christian Bittner

Metadata annotations processing?

When are metadata annotations processing? Just when the applications starts or during the runtime also?

why do you need to know how this happens? Because I want to know how the matedata mapping process goes?
I want to know when for some persistence class appropriate object ( or group of objects) that is responsible for making mapping is created (object that e.g moves attributes value from and to database etc.). Is this object created only once for persistence class or e.g each time when some persistence operation is done?
could You explain me this?

Advantage(s) of using Metadata(Annotations)

What are the advantages of using Metadata(Annotations) and why????
Help me to understand PLZ.

g o o g l e

Metadata annotation facility - does it work?

This might not be the right forum ... if it is not, does anybody know which forum would be better?
I'm using the beta release of the compiler and tried to define an annotation type, annotate a class and read the annotation. Pretty simple and straightforward, but my innocent attempt made the compiler crash with an uncaught AssertionError.
Since compilers usually do not crash and this is my first attempt with annotations I am wondering whether the annotation facility is supposed to work in the beta release. Does anybody know? Has anybody successfully done anything with annotations?
Perhaps it's my fault and I have been doing something really, really malicious. Can anybody tell? My example looks like this:
public interface SortingOrder<T> {
    boolean isLess(T t1, T t2);
public final class Name {
    // ... stuff ...
public final class LastNameLess implements SortingOrder<Name> {
     public boolean isLess(Name n1, Name n2) {
                      // ... whatever ...
                      return false;
public @interface SortingOrderAnnotation {
    Class<? extends SortingOrder> value();
@SortingOrderAnnotation(LastNameLess.class)
public final class AnnotationReader {
   // ... I intended using the SortingOrder class here but I didn't get that far, hence this is empty ...
public final class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
                           AnnotationReader ref = new AnnotationReader(); // <<< kills the compiler
}

Yeah I see the same thing with beta 1, by compiling *.java followed by Test.java
The simplest I've got it down to, with an identical stack trace, is this:
SomeAnnotation.java:    @interface SomeAnnotation {
        Class<?> value();
    }Annotated.java:
    @SomeAnnotation(Object.class)
    class Annotated { }Foo.java:
    class Foo {
            public static void main(String[] args) {
                    Annotated a;
    }If you save those three files in an empty directory, cd into that directory and, using beta 1, issue:
javac -source 1.5 *.java
javac -source 1.5 Foo.java... you get this:
java.lang.AssertionError
        at com.sun.tools.javac.jvm.ClassReader$AnnotationDeproxy.deproxy(ClassReader.java:994)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.jvm.ClassReader$AnnotationDeproxy.deproxyCompound(ClassReader.java:967)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.jvm.ClassReader$AnnotationDeproxy.deproxyCompoundList(ClassReader.java:955)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.jvm.ClassReader$AnnotationCompleter.enterAnnotation(ClassReader.java:1107)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Annotate.flush(Annotate.java:92)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.visitVarDef(Attr.java:509)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$VarDef.accept(Tree.java:511)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribTree(Attr.java:256)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribStat(Attr.java:291)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribStats(Attr.java:307)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.visitBlock(Attr.java:562)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$Block.accept(Tree.java:540)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribTree(Attr.java:256)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribStat(Attr.java:291)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.visitMethodDef(Attr.java:498)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$MethodDef.accept(Tree.java:482)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribTree(Attr.java:256)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribStat(Attr.java:291)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribClassBody(Attr.java:2301)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribClass(Attr.java:2235)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribClass(Attr.java:2188)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:412)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:593)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:545)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:44)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java:35)langer: is that what you're seeing?
I can't reproduce it with the latest CAP build (42) in either case.
Mark

Printing in paper Annotation information inside the Asset Metadata.

Hi guys,
I'd like to know if someone knows, whether it's possible or not to make a scprit ou something to print the information that was written inside the annotation field, that one you can find inside a movie clip (asset), cause a need to print that in paper, 'cause sometimes i need to edit the movies outside the office and i don't have access to FCServer, to read the description.
Tks in advance !!!
Regards,

Olá Pessoal!
Hi Rafael,
You`ve tried the command?
With just this command you`ll retrieve all annotations! The "only" problem is that instead of clip name there`ll be a Asset ID. If this is not a problem for you, or you manage to use fcsvr_client (as recommended by Jamie Hodge) to retrieve Asset names with IDs then you`ll have a neat printable version!
Some tips:
the main command is:
/Library/Application\ Support/Final\ Cut\ Server/Final\ Cut\ Server.bundle/Contents/Resources/sbin/fcsvr_run psql px pxdb -c "select * from pxtcmdvalue;"
If you put a "> pathto_afile.txt" (without quotes) in the end all output will be in this TXT file like a nice printable table.
If you want just annotations from a specific asset you can use in the end (before >) "| grep ID" (without quotes and ID is the asset ID number)
Try it yourself and you`ll see that`s it`s almost what you want.
If you want a more powerful way of doing this I`d recommend to dig into the FinalCutServerIntegrationSample ( http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FinalCutServerIntegrationSample/index.html )
that has a web annotations (that exports XML, than FCSRV reads it and vice-versa).
FCSrv it`s an amazing product but it`s recent born, maybe in the future it`ll do all that and more! (I hope so!)
Abraços!

Outgrowing iPhoto? I want more metadata options

I use PSE 8 for my external editing program and iPhoto '09. This setup is great for what I do. At least until now, as I feel I may be outgrowing iPhoto. I'm wanting to add more information to metadata file info. I have keywords, but I would like to input additional info such as copyright, author, email, etc information. When I choose "view extended file info" in iPhoto, it is still limited in what it shows you and what you can input.
I have used demo's of LR3 and Aperture and am comfortable with both in regards to their organization and metadata info. I have just started experimenting in RAW, so this is another reason I feel LR or AP might be what I need. If I had to choose, I think I prefer the setup and ease of use of LR3 vs. AP.
I guess my main question is: am I simply missing something in iPhoto that allows the additional metadata information that I'm looking for?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Take a look atMedia Expression. It's a DAM (digital asset management) application that lets the user write keywords, titles, categories, and the other annotations fields shown in this screenshot to the files.
Other DAM applications with similar extensive metadata control can be read about at The DAM Forum.

Metadata issue in PPro - UserClipName populates in Metadata and won't go away

I have P2 footage that is behaving oddly in PP - PPro CS6. I am on a PC, using Windows 7 Professional.
Footage was shot and archived onto our PC last summer - as is our typical process - and a PP project was started. It was left dormant till now - 6 months later. I am the new editor tasked with finishing this edit.
I began by organizing assets in the project and then reviewing all files to identify what I have to work with - this step includes logging info into the metadata (as I typically do). I noticed that the UserClipName was appearing in the SHOT metadata item - I wanted to use SHOT for the Shot number, so I replaced the UserClipName that was in that field with the Shot Number, and I made other additions to the Metadata in the appropriate fields. I saved the project often during this process. I closed the project. I then tried to open another project in PP and nothing opened. I tried to open just the program, and nothing opened. I then logged out of my user account, and then re-logged in. I tried to open PP and it opened fine.
I opened other PP projects to see if I could see the UserClipName in the SHOT item (or anywhere) in the Metadata window - and I did not see it. I also did some test changes to the metadata to see if I could replicate the same issue with the program not opening - changed metadata, save, close - and no problems with opening PP. I created a new project in PP for the above footage in question, imported it, and there was the UserClipNames in the SHOT metadata field. I did not change any metadata - just saved and closed, and was able to reopen PP. I then tried to add data to the Metadata, save and close - I was not able to reopen PP.
I have imported this footage in various ways - thru the media browser; click and drag from finder window; double click from within the Projects panel then browse to the files; using cntrl-I - and each of these methods was with a clean (new) project. No love.
I also tried to convert this footage directly in Encoder as well as through Prelude (which just takes it to Encoder) into three different formats - P2; Quicktime; H.264 - then created new projects in PP. No love.
What I know is that I can work in the project fine (as far as I can tell so far) as long as I do not touch any metadata. That is a bummer for me - but, oh well. But the fact that this issue exists concerns me -I have no assurances that I will I be able to complete this edit successfully. Fortunately it is only a short PSA, ... and for extra help, I will make my offerings to the Edit-Gods to help get me through to the end without any further issues.
I would love to hear if anyone out here has any suggestions on what might be going on - and ideally a solution. I am okay with appeasing the Edit-Gods - but I would prefer to have more solid solution.
Sali

Hi Sali,
I began by organizing assets in the project and then reviewing all files to identify what I have to work with - this step includes logging info into the metadata (as I typically do). I noticed that the UserClipName was appearing in the SHOT metadata item - I wanted to use SHOT for the Shot number, so I replaced the UserClipName that was in that field with the Shot Number, and I made other additions to the Metadata in the appropriate fields. I saved the project often during this process. I closed the project. I then tried to open another project in PP and nothing opened. I tried to open just the program, and nothing opened. I then logged out of my user account, and then re-logged in. I tried to open PP and it opened fine.
Thanks for your post.
Let me see if I understand you. You say that the text string, "UserClipName" was in the "Shot" metadata field. By replacing that text string with the a shot number in the Shot metadata you began to have unexpected behavior, such as, not being able to reopen a project. Logging out of your user account, then logging back in allowed you to then open the project. Is that correct? That's pretty odd, for sure.
I opened other PP projects to see if I could see the UserClipName in the SHOT item (or anywhere) in the Metadata window - and I did not see it. I also did some test changes to the metadata to see if I could replicate the same issue with the program not opening - changed metadata, save, close - and no problems with opening PP.
Sounds like you have hit a bug with P2 footage and Premiere Pro CS6. There is a closed bug in our database, but the state may been triggered with subsequent changes to your system, or the like. The bug also may not have been completely fixed with your particular kind of P2 media.
As I understand it, the issue has to do with how XMP metadata is interpreted by Premiere Pro. I do not believe there is a workaround for this issue other than not changing that particular metadata field. Perhaps you can use a different field, like Comment or Description, for shot number.
What I know is that I can work in the project fine (as far as I can tell so far) as long as I do not touch any metadata. That is a bummer for me - but, oh well. But the fact that this issue exists concerns me -I have no assurances that I will I be able to complete this edit successfully.
I really hope you can get through this project. Let us know if you hit any more issues along the way.
Thanks,
Kevin

Error while creating jco connection for metadata?

Hi all,
we are using ep 6 sp 16.
I could create the JCO connection for application data but i am not able to create the jco connection for metadata for the same r3 server .
while creating the the connection
system name and logon group and disable
and when i click finish
it is giving following error
Failed to create new JCO client connection testmetadata: com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.sal.sl.api.WDSystemLandscapeException: Error while obtaining JCO connection. at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.SystemLandscapeFactory.getJCOClientConnection(SystemLandscapeFactory.java:150) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.SystemLandscapeFactory.createJCOClientConnection(SystemLandscapeFactory.java:356) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.sal.sl.api.WDSystemLandscape.createJCOClientConnection(WDSystemLandscape.java:107) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.tools.sld.ButtonBar.onActionFinish(ButtonBar.java:224) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.tools.sld.wdp.InternalButtonBar.wdInvokeEventHandler(InternalButtonBar.java:265) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.invokeEventHandler(DelegatingView.java:87) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Action.fire(Action.java:67) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.handleAction(WebDynproMainTask.java:101) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.handleActionEvent(WebDynproMainTask.java:304) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.execute(WebDynproMainTask.java:659) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.AbstractClient.executeTasks(AbstractClient.java:59) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.ClientManager.doProcessing(ClientManager.java:251) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doWebDynproProcessing(DispatcherServlet.java:154) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doContent(DispatcherServlet.java:116) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doPost(DispatcherServlet.java:55) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:390) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:264) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:347) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:325) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:887) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:241) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:92) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:148) at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33) at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:180) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:100) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:170) Caused by: com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.exceptions.WDRuntimeException: Failed to resolve connection parameter for testmetadata at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.JCOClientConnection.resolveConnectionParameter4MsgServerJCODestination(JCOClientConnection.java:670) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.JCOClientConnection.resolveConnectionParameter(JCOClientConnection.java:486) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.core.sl.AbstractJCOClientConnection.init(AbstractJCOClientConnection.java:252) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.core.sl.AbstractJCOClientConnection.<init>(AbstractJCOClientConnection.java:226) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.SystemLandscapeFactory.getJCOClientConnection(SystemLandscapeFactory.java:148) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.SystemLandscapeFactory.createJCOClientConnection(SystemLandscapeFactory.java:356) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.sal.sl.api.WDSystemLandscape.createJCOClientConnection(WDSystemLandscape.java:107) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.tools.sld.ButtonBar.onActionFinish(ButtonBar.java:224) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.tools.sld.wdp.InternalButtonBar.wdInvokeEventHandler(InternalButtonBar.java:265) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.invokeEventHandler(DelegatingView.java:87) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Action.fire(Action.java:67) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.handleAction(WebDynproMainTask.java:101) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.handleActionEvent(WebDynproMainTask.java:304) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.execute(WebDynproMainTask.java:659) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.AbstractClient.executeTasks(AbstractClient.java:59) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.ClientManager.doProcessing(ClientManager.java:251) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doWebDynproProcessing(DispatcherServlet.java:154) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doContent(DispatcherServlet.java:116) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doPost(DispatcherServlet.java:55) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:390) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:264) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:347) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:325) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:887) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:241) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:92) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:148) at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33) at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:180) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:100) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:170) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:606) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.JCOClientConnection.resolveConnectionParameter4MsgServerJCODestination(JCOClientConnection.java:564) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.JCOClientConnection.resolveConnectionParameter(JCOClientConnection.java:486) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.core.sl.AbstractJCOClientConnection.init(AbstractJCOClientConnection.java:252) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.core.sl.AbstractJCOClientConnection.<init>(AbstractJCOClientConnection.java:226) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.SystemLandscapeFactory.getJCOClientConnection(SystemLandscapeFactory.java:148) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.wdc.sl.SystemLandscapeFactory.createJCOClientConnection(SystemLandscapeFactory.java:356) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.services.sal.sl.api.WDSystemLandscape.createJCOClientConnection(WDSystemLandscape.java:107) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.tools.sld.ButtonBar.onActionFinish(ButtonBar.java:224) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.tools.sld.wdp.InternalButtonBar.wdInvokeEventHandler(InternalButtonBar.java:265) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.invokeEventHandler(DelegatingView.java:87) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Action.fire(Action.java:67) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.handleAction(WebDynproMainTask.java:101) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.handleActionEvent(WebDynproMainTask.java:304) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.task.WebDynproMainTask.execute(WebDynproMainTask.java:659) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.AbstractClient.executeTasks(AbstractClient.java:59) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.ClientManager.doProcessing(ClientManager.java:251) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doWebDynproProcessing(DispatcherServlet.java:154) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doContent(DispatcherServlet.java:116) at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doPost(DispatcherServlet.java:55) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:390) at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:264) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:347) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:325) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:887) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:241) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:92) at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:148) at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33) at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:180) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:100) at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:170)
Thanking.
Rajendra

Hello Rajendra,
Good to hear from u. Let me try to give a soln for this problem of yours.
I think probably the logon group has not been specified in the backend.If thats the case then do the following:
Connect to the backend server for which you are trying to create the JCO. Run the transaction SMLG. It will show u the existing logon groups. carry out the following steps if the 'PUBLIC' group is not present in the list of logon groups.
Click on the create button. In the pop-up, type the logon as 'PUBLIC'. For the instance, select the F4 help and choose the existing instance number. Click on copy and click save. Try running the transaction /nsmlg and now it should show the logon group 'PUBLIC'.
When you create the JCO connection, it should now show the logon group 'PUBLIC'.
Regards,
Prathamesh.

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