chris, i think i know what you mean
please have a look @ gappies post here http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44769.0
^This post deals with tagging images only, and is not really related to my concern of videos sharing tag field values.
Look, I understand whats going on, I'm just asking if anyone knows if there is a suitable work around for this? Is there a setting I have missed in options, is there a fix? Otherwise, I'm requesting the the
MC TEAM look into this!
I, like most of you, want MC to be the best Media software it can be, because I use it for so much now!When I tag images, everything is perfect, I normally use "New <tag type>" option and then select one of the values in the drop down (see below). But when I select the "New <tag type>" option for a video, the list values don't show applied to images don't show, only the values applied to videos.
It limits functionality with tagging videos, because most videos will
share common field values with images! i.e. images and videos from "Christmas Party 2008" [album]="Christmas Party 2008" [people]=x,y,z [place]="New York", etc.
If you don't tag the same identical values you'll end up with duplicate values in the list pane filters!
Selecting existing options from a list prevents this to a large degree!
See examples below:
IMAGE [group] tag field, only the 'Groups' for assigned to image show, which are all the groups, because I tagged my images first:
http://www.wayke.com/MediaCenter/imagetagdropdown.jpgVIDEO [group] tag field, only the 'Groups' for assigned to videos show:
http://www.wayke.com/MediaCenter/videotagdropdown.jpgBasically, I want videos and images to share the same field values, so that if I add a bunch of photos and tag them, then I can use those same tags for my videos, i.e. [album] [group] [country] [town] [place] [people] etc... whats the harm in sharing the values?
Otherwise, there could be a setting,
[] show all field values for this tag field, or something like that.
In the meantime, my work around is to tag videos without filtering my library at all, and using the pane to tag. But I have 10 main tag fields that i tag every photo and video with, so the panes are a bit squashed for now... not to mention that it is hard to find the tags.
I could also create different views and tag in category.d
http://www.wayke.com/MediaCenter/tagginginpane.jpgp.s. I use [group] & [sub group] instead of albums. that's another story...
Another example, shows how the tagging field area on the left is much easier to work with than the panes.
http://www.wayke.com/MediaCenter/tagpaneleft.jpg