Field Recorder File Import

Nuendo offers a dedicated audio import function that supports dialog editors to find, import, and align original production set recordings that match the audio events in the project.

In the Field Recorder Audio Import window, you can organize the folders where your field recorder audio files are stored. The specified folders are automatically scanned for audio files in Broadcast Wave Format (BWF). The files are analyzed for iXML metadata, for example, the scene and take name, the duration, and the recording date. You can use this metadata to search for files that match the files of the audio events in your project.

Audio clips in your project that came from imported AAF files often do not contain metadata information that you need to identify matching field recorder audio files, for example, the scene number. In this case, the Metadata Retrieval section allows you to retrieve metadata for the attributes Scene, Take, or Tape by interpreting the file name or the event description.

Field recorder audio can contain monophonic or polyphonic WAV files. On import, monophonic files remain in their original location and are only referenced in the Pool. When working with polyphonic files, the following applies:

• The single channels of polyphonic files are displayed as single items in the Matching Field Recorder Files section. The Channel Number and Total Number of Channels columns allow you to distinguish them from mono files.

• The Track Info attribute shows the channel name of a polyphonic file.

• You can audition the channels of polyphonic files individually.

• On import, polyphonic files are split and added as single monophonic files to the audio folder of your project. Their BWF and iXML metadata is preserved. The Track Info attribute is appended to the file name.

The Field Recorder Audio Import window allows you to preview both the files of your events and the field recorder files to find out which one to use in your project.

When importing the field recorder files to your project, you can choose to add them as new events on lanes of the corresponding tracks, or only to add them to the Pool for later use.