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The Video Edit Panel

The Video edit panel displays iTunes oriented video information which may be available in MPEG-4 files (particularly m4v). The video only fields are typically hidden when there is no video track in a file. If for any reason you want to set any of the video fields, even when there is no video track, you can enable the Settings-Audio-MPEG-4-Always display video fields setting.

Title
The same Title field as found on the Info panel. When associated with a video file, this field is the title of the movie or the name of the episode.

Episode
The episode number, if appropriate.

Show Name
The name of the show or series, if appropriate.

Season
The season number, if appropriate.

Network Name
The name of the network.

Video Definition
Note that while iTunes will set this value it may not read it. When setting the values in an action use the following: SD, HD 720, HD 1080 or empty.

Classification
The movie or TV show classification. The field's associated function button has a submenu to pick Classification Presets. The field's encoding is described in Video Classification Encoding.

Episode ID
The symbolic episode number often written as S##E##. The field's associated function button has a submenu item to Synthesize the value from the Season and Episode fields.

Description
The short often truncated description of a video.

Video Description
The description of the movie or the episode.

Show Description
The description of the show, if appropriate. The Show Description (or season description), can sometimes be found in TV shows purchased from the Apple.


Additional Information:

Opening files and the Open Mode ... Controlling what gets opened

The Main Window

The Current Selection, the Editing State, Red Light Green Light and What's With All Those Round Coloured Buttons

Multiple Items and Multiple Values

The Custom Panel Editor

Video Classification Encoding