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Re: Cataloging Sounds

Subject: Re: Cataloging Sounds
From: "vickipowys" vpowys
Date: Thu Nov 4, 2010 3:35 pm ((PDT))
For anyone just starting out with recording and cataloging, it might  
be useful to note down all the things that you need to document, no  
matter what method of documenting you use:

e.g. for birds:
place, date, time, weather
name of species if known
whether male or female
behaviour e.g. perched, in flight, courting, in a flock
whether call or song

Many people tend to neglect noting down their observations of  
behaviour and if male or female, and these observations can be most  
useful for future researchers.

Vicki




On 04/11/2010, at 8:58 PM, Emanuele wrote:

> On 03/11/2010 16:35, Rick Munday wrote:
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>> How do you folks catalog your sounds?
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>> I can see that this quickly becomes a nightmare.
>>
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> Is a very long process indeed.
> I tend to save all of them in Broadcast Wave File if they are in
> different formats.
>
> I do usually write on the file name the most important infos:
>
> country where it has been recorded
> kind of sound: ambience, foley etc.
> name of the thing that is producing that sound
>
> then in the descriptrion field I try to put every other relevant info:
> location address, geo location, used mic techique, etc.
>
> Then I'm double check that every data field is correct: fps, stamped
> time code etc
> using  mixture of BWAVWriter, Wave agent and BWF metaedit.
>
>
> I use Nuendo as main DAW that has a brilliant file management, similar
> to Soundminer and Audiofinder.
>
>
>
> Emanuele
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> ------------------------------------
>
> "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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