Pro Week ‘25: Fireside in the Forum Question Submissions

Is there any plan to improve the metadata management ?

I find it to be really weak, in particular filters. For instance, I can add multiple tags to videos. But I can only search by a single tag, apparently. I cannot search for a video that has a combination of 2 tags.

An example of how to do this metadata filtering properly can be found in the Lightroom Classic metadata filter. You can add multiple filters and do combination of OR or AND operators. With a large collection of personal content, I really need this capability.

Lightroom Classic does the cataloging properly for both photos and videos, but unfortunately offers no facility for remote viewing or filtering.

Ideally, I would like to be able to edit the tags in LRc, and filter/view the photo and video content in Plex.

I believe for photo content, the tags are standard metadata, which can be written back by LRc into photo files themselves. For video metadata, unfortunately, it has to be stored in sidecar XMP files, and it is not well standardized, so this is more difficult. But the reality is that I mostly use Plex to view video content, either from DVR, or from my personal video collection. In the later case, it is just too difficult to find the content.


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Is there any plan to improve the metadata management ?