Broadcast Wave Information

From the View menu, choose Metadata, and then choose Broadcast Wave from the submenu to display the Broadcast Wave Information window, where you can view and edit information about a Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) file.

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Tips:

  • If you want to sort the contents of a metadata window, you can click a column heading to sort in ascending or descending order.

  • If you want to sort iXML and BEXT BWF metadata objects, click the Type column to sort by metadata type. If you want to delete the iXML chunk select all iXML objects, right-click a selected row, and choose Delete.

  • For iXML and BEXT metadata objects that support multiline data, press Ctrl+Enter to add a line break.

  • If you copy data from a BWF file to a file that does not contain BWF metadata, the source metadata is updated as necessary and added to the destination file.

  • If you copy data from a BWF file to a file that contains BWF metadata, the metadata in the destination file is not overwritten. The time stamp and date will be updated if sound data is inserted or removed before other data in the file. You can use the Autoupdate BWF Origination Time Reference setting on the General Preferences tab to choose whether the OriginationTimeRef metadata is updated when adding or deleting sound data at the beginning of a Broadcast Wave Format file.

  • If you want to copy metadata to the clipboard, right-click the window and choose Copy to Clipboard from the shortcut menu.

  • If you want to customize the format for copying metadata to the clipboard, right-click the window and choose Custom Copy to Clipboard from the shortcut menu. The Copy Metadata dialog is displayed to let you choose whether you want to copy the data as formatted text or delimited text, set a delimiter, and choose whether you want to include a header row. Click OK to copy the metadata to the clipboard, and you can then paste the information wherever you need it.

Edit metadataClosed

You can double-click values in the Broadcast Wave Information window to edit them.

Autopopulate metadata valuesClosed

If you want to populate metadata automatically, right-click the Broadcast Wave Information window, choose Autopopulate from the shortcut menu, and then choose BEXT or iXML from the submenu.

Sound Forge Pro will create metadata values based on file properties where possible and will create blank metadata entries for the Description, Originator, OriginatorRef, and CodingHistory items.

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If an object's metadata is not valid, the Value column is displayed in blue in the Broadcast Wave Information window, and a warning is displayed in the Description column:

If you right-click the row in the Broadcast Wave Information window, you can choose a command from the shortcut menu:

  • Set to: if Sound Forge Pro can suggest a compliant metadata value, you can choose Set to <suggested value> to correct the value.

  • Hide Warnings: hides warnings for all objects. You can right-click again and choose Show Warnings to restore warning messages.

  • Hide This Object's Warnings: hides warnings for the current object. You can right-click again and choose Show This Object's Warnings to restore warning messages for the current object, or choose Stop Hiding of All Object-Specific Warnings to restore warning messages.

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If the data you want to edit is not displayed in the window, you can right-click the window, choose Insert from the submenu, and then choose a metadata object from the submenus.

You can choose to add all BWF/BEXT/iXML objects at once, or you can choose commands from the submenus to insert individual objects.

Delete metadata objectsClosed

Right-click the window, choose Delete from the submenu, and then choose a metadata object from the submenu.

You can choose to delete selected objects, all BWF/BEXT/iXML objects, or you can choose commands from the submenus to delete individual objects.

Change the BWF version for saved metadataClosed

If you want to change the version of BWF metadata that is saved in your file, click the Value column in the BWF Version row and choose Version 0, Version 1, or Version 2 from the menu.

  • Version 1 expands on the Version 0 metadata set by adding SMPTE UMID.

  • Version 2 expands on the Version 1 metadata set by adding loudness metadata.