Chapter III (Part 3 – The Metadata) July 201041THE METADATAMetadata is the term that has been given to the additional information recorded in connection with aparticular file, in conformity with the iXML agreed standard. Generally metadata is used in cinemaproductions and allows a whole host of additional information such as the Production name, Scenenumber/name, take number….. and a lot more to be recorded. (See Annex II at the end of this manual for alist of the implemented iXML features).Each portion of this data (Scene, names etc) can be edited using the main display of the Nagra VI. Thisadditional information is recorded at the “head” of each file which is an additional “Chunk” of information andis interpreted along with the audio file. It should be noted that post production systems or digitalworkstations that cannot read the BWF file format will simply ignore this additional metadata information.This sub-menu is used to enter all the metadata for a project. By using the up / down / left / right keys,highlight the desired area and press the centre key to show the editing window. Use the up / down keys toselect a character or number. Pressing the centre key will make the “Choose action” drop-down appearwhen in the editing window.Metadata entryThe Metadata can be entered either using a USB keyboard connected to the host USB port or using thekeys on the front panel of the machine.Key (on Nagra) FunctionRight Move to the next position in character chainLeft Move to the previous position in the character chainRight + Left Insert a space/character in the chainUp + Down Delete the highlighted character from the chainCentre Confirm data entryThe following Metadata items can be user accessed:Project name: Up to 32 alpha-numeric charactersScene number: Up to 12 alpha-numeric characters (in yellow on Cinema and status screen)Take number: 3 digits, auto-resets for new scene (in yellow on Cinema and status screen)Track name: Up to 8 alpha-numeric characters for each trackFalse start: Will show “-F” following the scene number of the previous takePick-up scene: When activated will show “-P” following the scene numberWild track: When active will show “-W” following the scene numberNote: Up to 64 alpha-numeric characters (Edit metadata mode from directory)Accepted charactersThe Nagra VI includes the following character set for file, project, directory, folder and template naming:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!”#$%'()*+-=,./:;?0123456789Other characters are not permitted.