That's true Nuendo does a fine job at allowing you to create and search
metatags. Though I'm not clear on its implementation on the file.
-charles
On 4/22/10 3:39 AM, Emanuele wrote:
>
> 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 dow=
n
> > 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
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