BWF MetaEdit, Open Source Tool for Metadata in BWF files
The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative has announced the release of BWF MetaEdit, a free, open source tool that supports embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files.
Users of BWF MetaEdit can:
- Import, edit, embed, and export specified metadata elements in WAVE audio files
- Export technical metadata from Format Chunks and minimal metadata from bext and INFO chunks as comma-separated values and/or XML, across a set of files or from individual files
- Evaluate, verify and embed MD5 checksums, as applied to the WAVE file’s data chunk (audio bitstream only)
- Enforce the guideline (above) developed by the Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group, as well as specifications from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Microsoft, and IBM
- Generate reports that show errors in the construction of WAVE files
- Choose from command line and GUI, for Windows/PC, Macintosh OS, Linux. See the list of options at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwfmetaedit/files/
BWF MetaEdit is available for download at SourceForge.
Thanks to Matteo Milani for the info.
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The demcuont management/virtual folder is a built in feature in Windows 7. So, you might need this if you stuck in XP or Vista.
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hello
October 9, 2010Warning: the Time Code reference shown by this application for 29.97ND and 23.976 files is wrong by .1%. So don’t trust the TC numbers shown by the metadata editor if you are recording in either of those Time code Modes.