Select an image or a video

You can filter thumbnails by specific keywords in their name or their metadata:

When you assign a background image or video to a style level, VideoPsalm helps you into this task in two ways:

1. VideoPsalm displays thumbnails in a gallery.
   This enables you to visually select the right item.
2. You can filter the list with keywords into the image or video name, or in their metadata.
   This reduces the amount of thumbnails that are included into the gallery, so that you only get presented elements that fit your need.

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List of video thumbnails in the VideoPsalm video gallery:

​Method 1. Search in the image file names

Video thumbnails filtered on the word "Red"

​Method 2. Search in the image file metadata

VideoPsalm will also search for keywords in the image file metadata, when there is some.

How to add image metadata (= image "category", or image "tag")

To add metadata (for example specific keywords) to a media file, use the Windows File Explorer, for example by clicking the "Explore video folder" menu:

This opens a Windows File Explorer in the folder where VideoPsalm looks for video files:

Windows File Explorer in the VideoPsalm video folder

To add metadata, for example specific keywords, to an image or video file, right-click on it and select "Properties" -> "Details" tab:

Type-in keywords in the right metadata field.
Use preferably:

• For images, the "Keywords" property or any other property.
  
• For videos,  the "Title" property. Other properties may not work.
  

Once your files have metadata, you can easily locate them in the VideoPsalm gallery, by typing-in keywords:

Notes:

• Use the "Title" metadata property fro videos. This is an actual limitation for videos only.
  
• Other video metadata properties are not recognized by VideoPsalm, notably the "Keywords" metadata field is not taken into account. Metadata in image files is recognize properly.
  
• You may need to restart VideoPsalm after you edited metadata.