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Chapter 59: Working with Field Recorders in Pro Tools 1337
To show or hide field recorder metadata in
Workspace browsers:
 Right-click the column header and select or de-
select any of the Recorder Metadata types.
About Tape and Sound Roll
Metadata
Avid video editing applications and field recorders
use Tape to represent different kinds of metadata:
Avid uses Tape to store the telecine videotape
name, while a BWF file with a BEXT chunk or
iXML chunk uses Tape to store the name of the
sound roll.
To avoid this overlap, Pro Tools preserves Tape
metadata from the Avid video editing application
and maintains the Sound Roll and Tape metadata
from BWF audio files in their respective metadata
fields.
About Shoot Date Metadata
Many field recorders do not populate the Shoot
Date field, relying instead on the file's Creation
Date to indicate date of production. When
Pro Tools imports a field recorder file, it checks to
see if the Shoot Date field is populated. If it is
empty, Pro Tools copies the Creation Date of the
original file to the Shoot Date field of the new files.
Editing the Channel Name
The Channel Names field in the Workspace dis-
plays the channel name, followed the by channel
number in parentheses. You can edit the Channel
name for BWF files. When editing the channel
name, anything you enter in parentheses will be
discarded. However, the channel number will al-
ways be preserved.
Field Recorder Workflows
Using Pro Tools Ultimate to work with field re-
corder files from a film, video, or digital shoot in-
volves the following steps:
1 Before receiving source files, ensure that meta-
data have been preserved (“Ensuring Metadata
of Source Files Have Been Preserved” on
page 1337).
2 Receive source files (“Receiving Source Files”
on page 1338).
3 Import source files into Pro Tools (“Importing
Source Files into Pro Tools” on page 1339).
4 Replace edits from the production sound mix
with audio from different takes of the same
scene (“Selecting a Matching Field Recorder
Channel to Replace a Clip” on page 1342).
Ensuring Metadata of Source
Files Have Been Preserved
Before you receive source files, it is important to
ensure that the files have been prepared properly at
each phase of the production process so that their
original metadata is preserved.
If the original metadata has not been preserved,
you can use other types of data (such as File Cre-
ation Date or File Name) to find related channels.
However, the matching process will be easier if
metadata has been preserved.