I don’t often deal with post production but recently I have been organizing my sound library and do have quite a bit of (non-musical) sound design libraries.
What I’m kind of surprised by is that there are only 4 super broad Sound FX sub-categories (under Musical attributes). I looked at all the attributes and couldn’t find anything to catalog sounds in more detail. I’m surprised because Nuendo is designed for post production so I would expect it to have a more robust system of catalog sound design libraries.
Is this actually the case, or is there another place with more detailed categories/sub-categories for media that I just haven’t found?
Mediabay needs a serious overhaul, I asked for it in the recent Questionnaire posted here on the forum. It should at the very least support UCS. I posted about it here:
Yes, media bay need some love.
If i may add, it would be awsome if we could drag and drop clips (events) from timeline directly into media bay folders.
I like the idea (drag and drop from timeline to medially) but additionally we really need a better we to annotate/describe our sounds via metadata. The system as it is now is too old fashioned and limited.
If the drag and drop would be added now, what kind of metadata would it get? Would keep the original metadata? Add The track name automagically? Or would we have a pop up asking us to quickly select some categories.
If we won’t have that all your drag and drops would dissapear in a giant blackhole of files with basic names like ‘impact.wav’ or ‘track001.wav’.
All great suggestions. We also need a search dialog similar to when searching tracks, because scrolling through category menus just is so tedious, sometimes only to realize there’s no appropriate category for your sample.
Hi have worked extensively with the media bay over the past couple of years. I actually quite like using it over soundminer now. It’s really quite powerful if you know what you’re doing and have the patience to categorise you’re entire library.
To answer your original question. Yes, you can add unlimited amount of your own attributes to use for categorising files in your library/database. The metadata for these custom attributes are burnt into the file(s).
These user attributes are put in the “various” attributes amongst everything else. They can be used for columns in the logical and attribute sections of the mediabay.
To add user attributes, first open the right zone on the mediabay window for the “attribute inspector”, click the “defined” tab and then click the + (plus) icon.
I’ve attached a screenshot to illustrate. And as you can see I have a number of my own attributes in the various section.
Out of curiosity: which version of soundminer were you using? V6.1 is far superior in just about any way i can imagine. Workflows to automate metadata… search and replace… the list goes on.
Oh yeah, I know it’s superior for sure, simply due to the fact it’s a dedicated built software for the task. I’m not denying that at all. I think it was around version 5 I tried. Also tried basehead, more recently Explorer by SP (which is terrible).
Anyways, it’s just the price of SM seemed always too much for me, I was forever on the fence. I always had this thought that if I had the Mediabay already built into Nuendo, i’d better start figuring out how to make the most out of it. And, I think i’ve achieved that now, turns out that Mediabay is exactly what I need. That was what I was trying to convey in my previous post
Oh man, this is amazing. I had totally forgotten about that. I wish they would add a search dialog like the one for searching tracks or plugins but this will do well for now. Thanks!
