The Just Live Lite NDI application generates automatically an advanced metadata .xml sidecar file for every video inside a Video Repository. For more information on how this feature works, please refer to the following details:
The sidecar file has the same name as the video file but with the file extension .xml.
It is automatically generated for each video file, independent of the video file extension.
The sidecar file contains all metadata related to the video file.
The sidecar file also includes the In/Outpoint as well as the poster frame information defined in the Library.
If a sidecar file already exists, the In/Outpoint as well as the poster frame is saved in the new sidecar file.
In case a new feature has been added to the Just Live Lite NDI application which requires additional information to be added to the sidecar file, a new version of the sidecar file will be made automatically.
The sidecar file is automatically generated for every new video file. If this is not the case, the “Refresh” button in the Library can be used to force this.
Clicking the Refresh button of the Library does NOT refresh already existing XML sidecar files, and instead, the existing sidecar files have to be deleted at the Finder level to regenerate them.
In case the sidecar file cannot be generated, no metadata will be shown in the Library and the video file remains red.
We recommend deleting/copying the sidecar file alongside the video file.
No video file will be shown in the Library in case the video file is missing, and only the sidecar file is available.
Generating the sidecar file can take some seconds. Keep this in mind in case you have several thousand video files in your repositories, and you open the Just Live Lite NDI application for the first time.
Once the sidecar files are made, accessing the Library will be much faster.
The sidecar file should work with every file system, but we recommend testing it with your system before using it in production.
Search for any kind of metadata (except Name) in the Library, to force generate the sidecar file in all (sub)folders of your repositories.