SM will allow batch editing of the description data across multiple files, find/replace, append, prepend, copy field etc. Shaun is correct about wave agent offering the highest intercompatibility, though if you plan on doing more than just a short run of sfx I'd strongly encourage the purchase of Soundminer because you can really wrangle metadata much more efficiently in that program - inclusive of embedding descriptions in the bwav header file that is read by wave agent, PT and all of the others. This is usually restricted to specialty mics (contact, eletrostatic), synth generated sounds, or stuff that can really go screechy (metal and explosions for ex) My default preference is 96k 24bit BWAV filess, unless there is actually interesting audio recorded up above 48kHz in which case I'll go with 192k. Sorry if this question is a little confusing.
#Audiofinder vs soundminer pro
Are these the standard things that get stored in WAV files and which would show up in Pro Tools, Soundminer, Basehead etc? I also own Ice Audio's AudioFinder which allows for meta tag editing.īasically, will I have a problem with not owning Protools, Soundminer, Basehead when it comes to preparing my metadata for these people? Do I need to own those mentioned software just to be able to prepare the metadata appropriately? All the sounds I'm preparing are the usual stuff you may find under the categories of sound libraries (ambience, foley, nature, machines etc)
#Audiofinder vs soundminer professional
Seeing I don't have the professional software (mentioned previously) is there still a way I can embed the appropriate meta data into these files? After looking at my software, especially Wave Editor, it has a Properties window, and under this WAVE Extensions properties, where I can seem to set such things as Archival Location, Comments, Copyright, Cropped, Engineers, Genre, Keywords, Original Artist, Name, Product, Software Package, Source Supplier, Subject. but are they? Are these the optimum outputs? Say I was giving these files to you, and you wanted the choice, what would you prefer (and possibly why? So I can get a better understanding?) What would these be? (After doing research on this, it seems 96khz 24bit, 48khz 24bit and 44.1khz 16bit are the best). Say I wanting to narrow my sound export options to three. I'm guessing 100% that these should be saved in. They have all been originally recorded at 96khz 24bit and are sitting on my hard drive ready for editing, preparing, tagging and exporting. I'm currently recording a lot of sounds which I will be passing on to various professional sound editors/designers and I want to make sure they're are prepared and tagged correctly for their use.įirstly, I'm looking into the different formats of which to save these files. though I do use Apple's Logic, Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor and Ice Audio's AudioFinder. I don't use ProTools, Basehead or Soundminer.
I have read this thread where other threads (especially on the subject of metadata) are linked, and they're not really appropriate to what I need. I have a question about embedding the correct sort of metadata and general professional preparation for my sound files so I can pass to others and it'll be appropriate for their professional uses.