Metadata… BORING!
But wait! It’s useful and important if you use samples/foley sounds/sound effects in your project. If you make and sell sounds it’s essential to include metadata in the files or you’ll really annoy professional sound editors and designers.
In this video we’re looking at a few ways to view and write metadata in REAPER, Finder, BWF MetaEdit, and Soundly.
Summary:
– Metadata describes a sound file to aid in keyword searching. Who made the file, category/genre, title of file if different from filename, descriptions,
– use descriptive words, Not just “door” instead “Heavy, squeaky, creak, wooden, door”
– Finder/Explorer: Limited metadata viewing
– REAPER: Reads all BWF Metadata, can’t write, has internal database tags
– BWF MetaEdit: Full read and write of metadata, scary interface
– Soundly: Basic Read and Write, nice interface, thesaurus in search
Links:
BWF MetaEdit
Creative Field Recording’s Guide to Metadata
Cambridge Dictionary Sound Thesaurus
Thomas Rex Beverly Sound Libraries
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Comments
3 responses to “Sound Library Metadata in REAPER, BWF MetaEdit, and Soundly”
You have also the free wave agent by sound devices : https://www.sounddevices.com/products/accessories/software/wave-agent
My Media explorer doesn’t look like that, I only have file, size, date and type and no options to add anything else. Any ideas how to fix that? Thanks,
Will
Hi Will
You see those columns in search results or when looking at a database.