On 21/04/2010 22:50, Charles Veasey wrote:
>
> Thanks for the iXML link Paul. I looked at Sound Devices implementation;
> it is geared for video/film production. Like you said, much of the data
> that nature recordists would want to record would be crammed into the
> notes section. I believe you can edit the metadata using a external
> keyboard that hooks up to the recorder, but carrying an extra device
> around and editing this way doesn't interest me very much. Last night I
> tried SD's free software Wave Agent 1.1. Among other things, it allows
> one to easily edit the metadata from a PC. This is cool, but again most
> relevant information would be in the notes section. I guess this is
> really the only option. Even if you completely customized the iXML tags
> to include things like biophony, geophony, etc, which seems very
> possible, and made a program to write and read that data, I don't think
> that any other program, such as an audio editor, would be able to read
> it (unless it was in the notes section :).
>
> Soundminer looks interesting, but it is also very expensive. Also, from
> looking at the screenshot the metadata options seem to be from pull down
> options, and it is not clear to me what those options are, or if they
> are customizable.
>
> I haven't been able to figure out how to edit metadata on Wave Editor.
>
> Sound Forge 10 (my favorite editor) has introduced extensive Metadating
> editing capabilities with similar categories to SD.
>
> All in all I think embedded metadata is not to serve as the only record,
> but a copy of the record, which at the very least points to the entry
> within the database.
>
On the other hand,
there's the Mediabay feature in Nuendo that is glorious in my point of wiew=
.
It can manage a huge preset of tags on the soundfile and the user can
also add its own
tags.
Anytime you look for a file, Nuendo reads the keyword on the name file
and all the tags.
You can select multiple files and change a tag in one go as well.
There are few things that it cannot manage to avoid the file wipeout:
Timecode, originator and few ohers.
I'm using BWAVwriter for those.
--
Emanuele Costantini
Sound, Media Engineer
Filmmaker
www.ecciproduzioni.com
www.imdb.com/name/nm1987084/
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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