Metadata export & lineage
Metadata export & lineage
Every creation you make in Magnific carries metadata, the recipe behind it: the prompt, the AI model, any reference images, the style modifiers, and who made it and when. Metadata Export lets you pull that recipe out as a CSV spreadsheet, and per creation as a PDF you can share or archive. You can also open a creation's Lineage: a visual map of everything it was built from.
Use it to hand off prompts and settings to a teammate, keep an audit trail of what was generated, prove where an asset came from, feed your own tools and reports, or reproduce a look later.
In this article
Who can use it
Metadata Export and Lineage are available on Pro and Enterprise plans. On other plans you'll still see the option: choosing it opens an upgrade prompt.
Export a single creation
Open a creation (detail view), or hover its thumbnail and open the ⋯ more menu.
Click Metadata.
Choose your format:
Export CSV: the creation's metadata as a spreadsheet.
Export PDF: a shareable document with the creation's details and how it was made.
The file downloads to your device.
CSV or PDF, which one?
Format | Best for |
|---|---|
CSV | Opening in Excel or Google Sheets. Machine-readable, easy to feed into your own tools, reports, or automations. |
A clean, self-contained document to hand to a teammate, a client, or Legal. |
Export a whole project or folder (bulk)
Go to the project or folder you want.
Open its ⋯ actions menu, or select multiple creations and use the bulk actions bar.
Click Export metadata.
The export is prepared in the background as a CSV. You can keep working and download it when it's ready.
Good to know about bulk exports
They run in the background, so large projects won't keep you waiting on the screen.
The finished file stays available for 7 days.
You can run up to 3 bulk exports at the same time.
Very large projects are prepared up to a safety limit; extremely large ones may be capped.
You can cancel a bulk export while it's still preparing.
In a shared project, a bulk export includes the creations you own. Creations added by other members aren't included yet: export from your own view, or ask each owner to export their part.
Understand a creation's Lineage
Lineage is the visual family tree of a creation: a graph that traces it back through every step and input it came from: the original upload or stock asset, each edit, and each AI generation, along with the prompts and models used at each stage. If the exported metadata is the recipe for a single creation, Lineage is the full history of how that creation came to exist.
What the graph shows
The final creation and every ancestor that led to it.
How they connect: what was generated from what, and what was edited into what.
At each step: the prompt, model, reference images, and modifiers used.
Why it's useful
Verify where an asset came from. See whether it started from an upload, a stock resource, or another generation, and every transformation since: your proof of provenance.
Recreate or iterate on it. Because Lineage exposes the recipe at every step, you or a teammate can reproduce a result, branch from an intermediate step, or rebuild a creation without guessing how it was originally made.
Justify how it was made. Hand over an auditable trail: which AI models were used, what inputs fed them, and what human edits were applied. Export it as a PDF and attach it to a compliance review, a rights check, a client sign-off, or a legal approval.
How to open and export it
Open a creation's Metadata menu → View Lineage.
Explore the graph and select any node to inspect that step's details.
Export the Lineage as a PDF to share or archive, or share the Lineage page via a link.
What's inside the exported file
Field | What it means |
Creation link | Direct URL to open the creation |
Prompt | The text prompt used to generate it |
Model | The AI model (e.g. FLUX, Kling) |
References / keyframes | Input images or frames used |
Modifiers | Style, lighting, framing, and other applied options |
Tool | Which tool made it (e.g. text-to-image) |
Status | Generation status |
Created at | When it was made |
Generated by | Username / email of the creator |
Lineage link | URL to open the Lineage graph |
FAQ & troubleshooting
I don't see the Metadata option. It's a Pro and Enterprise feature. On other plans you'll be prompted to upgrade.
How is Lineage different from the exported metadata? Metadata describes one creation (its recipe). Lineage shows the whole chain of creations and inputs behind it: the full origin story, end to end.
My bulk export of a shared project came back empty or with fewer files than expected. A bulk export includes the creations you own within that project. Creations added by other members may not be included yet. Export from your own view, or ask each owner to export their part.
My export is taking a while. Bulk exports are prepared in the background, so larger projects take longer. You don't need to stay on the page: the file will be ready to download and stays available for 7 days.
Which should I pick, CSV or PDF? CSV for spreadsheets and feeding other tools; PDF for a shareable, self-contained document.