There you can correct the title to search for (press Enter to start the search). MetaZ will use the filename as a guess to what the title of the movie could be, which you can see in the “ Search” box. Next click the file (on the right) that you’d like to work on. Start MetaZ and drop files in the “Files to Write” areaĪdding files is easy: either press COMMAND + O to select files, or drag the file(s) to the “ Files to write” list on the right side of the MetaZ window (as illustrated above) or drop the files on the MetaZ icon in the dock. Just an illustration (based on iTunes) what the difference with and without metadata can look like: Sometimes they do require a different applications to do this though.īelow a short list of possible tools, based on Operating System: Note : Other so called “container” files like AVI, WMV, MOV, WMV and MKV have comparable options to add metadata. The same way we can add the so called Metadata – we just need the right tools for it. Audio, Video, Subtitles and a list of chapters. Adding Metadata to an MP4Īs you might already know, an MP4 file is in fact a so called container that can contain multiple “files” (as a figure of speech). You probably have seen it with music as well – where metadata is being used as well.

A picture, poster or thumbnail of the movie.

OK how about this – a list of possible Metadata you could add to a movie file: Metadata, or data about content, for a movie file like an MP4 or M4V, is information about the movie (data) stored in the file.

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