Jeremiah Sheets Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 What software are you using to edit audio files while retaining its scene/take/notes etc… metadata? Logic is my standard for doing audio mixing and editing and I've been a user for about 10 years, but I'd like to do some audio cleanup on some location sound files and Logic strips that info. I simply want to edit using the noise reduction, EQ, and compression plugins that I typically use, then export to a new file with the same metadata as the original file. Haven't needed it until now. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resonate Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 TwistedWave (for mac) is a little gem i use. really capable sound editor. and it preserves metadata on every bwf it saves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundtrane Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 pro tools... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremiah Sheets Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Thanks, Resonate. I'll check that out. Soundtrane: I had a simple Pro Tools system when I did more music but mostly used Logic due to familiarity. I sold it when I started doing more film work because typically when I need Pro Tools I just used a local studio anyway. It's a future consideration if the need to edit location audio becomes more frequent, which might happen. For now it seems to be just the one client. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 When I want to edit or change a file without rendering/bouncing it to a new file I use Sound Forge. If you want to rename the edit you can do that too and metadata is retained, but the file having a new name may affect such things as the PT "field recorder" workflow later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremiah Sheets Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Thanks Phillip. So generally does that suggest that a destructive style editor might be the key? They edit the audio file directly as you work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Reineke Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 I use Sound Forge as well. Specifically Pro 10 and 11. I don't know about Sound Forge 'Audio Studio' (the low cost lite version). SF-Pro does have a non-destructive editing mode, but upon rendering, the BWF metadata would probably be wiped, as SF cannot create a BWF on it's own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremiah Sheets Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Thanks Rick. As I understand it, if it is destructive than there shouldn't be a need to render since you would simply apply changes directly to the source audio. Does it work differently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Reineke Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Out of curiousiy, I took a BWF file, did some EQing, cut off the end room tone, preformed an RF hit like repair, and replaced/overwite a few extrainious click noises, saved the flle as a <*.frg> 'SF Pro non-destutive project file', EQ'd some more and resaved again. I then rendered it to it's orginal WAVE format (24/48k). It retained the orignal BWF metadata. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremiah Sheets Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 That's great to know. Thanks, Rick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensF Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 RX also leaves the metadata in. Works great running standalone and it runs VST and AUs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VM Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 TwistedWave (for mac) is a little gem i use. really capable sound editor. and it preserves metadata on every bwf it saves. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindrop Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Reaper works with timecode ok import export but dumps tracknames etc. Are we such a niche market that software writers can't be bothered to implement metadata fully? Surely of all the complex things software is capable of implementing metadata is fairly simple one might have hoped? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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