And the good ones name the channels for the person the mic is attached to. When a sound recordist is working on a shoot and they have multiple mics they are capturing (it could easily be a boom plus a number of individual lavaliere mics) they often use their recording hardware to name those different channels they are capturing. Background – a good sound person will label these channels during the shoot
If you’ve ever dealt with those situations where you feel like you’re constantly muting and soloing, enabling and disabling audio channels to tell who is where you can appreciate how nice it would be to have those channels named in the timeline to correspond to what (and who) might be on those channels. Imagine a complex shoot where you have multiple mics being recorded into a broadcast WAV file that you have to track throughout the entire edit to create the best cut you can and keep organized in order to pass the proper audio channels to post-production sound mixing. Additional information stored in the iXML “chunk” include information such as track names (such as “boom,” “char-1 lav,” and “char-2 lav”) and notes on files taken on set. (What is iXML and this metadata for WAV audio files? Try here and here for some technical understanding). They are behind the engineering times when it comes to what is one of the most useful bits of metadata that can come from the shoot: iXML metadata set by the audio recorder that identifies audio channel names.
This post is just a gentle public shaming for my friends over at Avid and Adobe.
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