[jasong]

Hi all, I've got some videos and other TV clips on my computer and I was using Quicktime 7s annotations to store the relevant meta data in instead in the file name. However it doesn't appear that Spotlight indexes the annotations, or does it and is something just going wrong?

[jasong]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quicktime/

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All your QuickTime movies and media are now just a Spotlight search away. Spotlight-friendly QuickTime 7 content offers a variety of searchable movie attributes including artist, author, copyright, track type, codec and more, making your media easier to find. You can even use QuickTime 7 Pro’s Movie Properties window to add these annotations to your own movies.

Well, Apple says it works. Does this work for anyone? I haven't had any spotlight issues yet.

[Diggory Laycock]

Just done a test - works here.

It seems a 'simple' search (from the magnifying glass) only finds the text in the 'comments' attribute.

You'll probably need to go to a custom query to search other attrs.

[jasong]

I thought of that. I couldn't find the annotation attributes in the Spotlight search attributes list. To reiterate, I can find a movie in Spotlight by the filename and by file comments, but I was trying to use the Movie Properties that Apple is showcasing on the Quicktime web site.

[Diggory Laycock]

I wasn't talking about the filesystem comment.

If you look at the attributes in QT player - you'll see that one of them is called "comments"

forget about them being QT annotations - think of them just being metadata.

Having said that - It appears not all of them are send to spotlight - e.g. 'description' and 'director' appear not to show in the metadata of my test file - even though they are set in the JInfo window.

Code:
$:~ diggory$ mdls /Users/diggory/Movies/hamlet1913-35645ghost-cabfi0.mov 
/Users/diggory/Movies/hamlet1913-35645ghost-cabfi0.mov -------------
kMDItemAttributeChangeDate     = 2005-06-01 20:51:51 +0100
kMDItemAudioBitRate            = 127704
kMDItemAudioChannelCount       = 2
kMDItemCodecs                  = ("Sorenson Video 3", "MPEG Layer 3")
kMDItemComment                 = "badger"
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2005-04-16 00:17:10 +0100
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2005-06-01 20:51:51 +0100
kMDItemContentType             = "com.apple.quicktime-movie"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "com.apple.quicktime-movie", 
    "public.movie", 
    "public.audiovisual-content", 
    "public.data", 
    "public.item", 
    "public.content"
)
kMDItemCopyright               = "British Film Institute"
kMDItemDisplayName             = "hamlet1913-35645ghost-cabfi0.mov"
kMDItemDurationSeconds         = 152.8
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2005-06-01 20:51:51 +0100
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2005-04-16 00:17:10 +0100
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = 1414942532
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 0
kMDItemFSName                  = "hamlet1913-35645ghost-cabfi0.mov"
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 501
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 501
kMDItemFSSize                  = 16354157
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = 1299148630
kMDItemID                      = 6867309
kMDItemKind                    = "QuickTime Movie"
kMDItemLastUsedDate            = 2005-06-01 20:49:56 +0100
kMDItemMediaTypes              = (Video, Sound)
kMDItemPixelHeight             = 288
kMDItemPixelWidth              = 384
kMDItemStreamable              = 0
kMDItemTitle                   = "Silent Hamlet - Ghost Scene"
kMDItemTotalBitRate            = 851528
kMDItemUsedDates               = (2005-04-16 00:17:11 +0100, 2005-06-01 01:00:00 +0100)
kMDItemVideoBitRate            = 723816

[jasong]

So it looks like only "comment" "copyright" and "title" are available to Spotlight. I wonder if this is a bug? Why would some be there and not others?