8. iXML Production Recorder Metadata
8.1. Notes
iXML allows an XML document to be embedded in a WAV file.
The iXML website recommends a schema for recorder information but there is no official DTD and vendors mostly do their own thing, apart from hitting a few key xpaths. iXML is used by most location/production recorders to save slating information, timecode and sync points in a reliable way.
iXML is also used to link “families” of WAV files together, so WAV files recorded simultaneously or contiguously can be related by a receiving client.
print("iXML Project:", info.ixml.project)
print("iXML Scene:", info.ixml.scene)
print("iXML Take:", info.ixml.take)
print("iXML Tape:", info.ixml.tape)
print("iXML File Family Name:", info.ixml.family_name)
print("iXML File Family UID:", info.ixml.family_uid)
Result:
iXML Project: BMH
iXML Scene: A101
iXML Take: 1
iXML Tape: 18Y12M31
iXML File Family Name: None
iXML File Family UID: USSDVGR1112089007124001008206300
8.2. Class Reference
- class wavinfo.wave_ixml_reader.WavIXMLFormat(xml)
iXML recorder metadata.
- property family_name: str | None
The name of this file’s file family.
- property family_uid: str | None
The globally-unique ID for this file family. This may be in the format of a GUID, or an EBU Rec 9 source identifier, or some other dumb number.
- property project: str | None
The project/film name entered for the recording.
- property raw_xml: ElementTree
The root entity of the iXML document.
- property scene: str | None
Scene/slate.
- property steinberg: SteinbergMetadata | None
Steinberg vendor iXML metadata if present.
- property take: str | None
Take number.
- property tape: str | None
Tape name.
- property track_list
A description of each track.
- Yields:
IXMLTrack for each track.
8.3. Steinberg-Specific iXML Metadata
- class wavinfo.wave_ixml_reader.SteinbergMetadata(xml: ElementTree)
Vendor-specific Steinberg metadata.
- class AudioSpeakerArrangement(value)
Steinberg speaker format enumeration.
- property audio_speaker_arrangement: AudioSpeakerArrangement | None
AudioSpeakerArrangement property
- property media_company: str | None
MediaCompany
- property media_drop_frames: bool | None
MediaDropFrames
- property media_duration: float | None
MediaDuration
- property media_start_time: float | None
MediaStartTime
- property media_track_title: str | None
MediaTrackTitle
- classmethod present(xml: ElementTree) bool
Test if xml has Steinberg metadata. :param xml: an iXML ElementTree
- property program_name: str | None
ProgramName
- property program_version: str | None
ProgramVersion
- property sample_format_size: int | None
AudioSampleFormatSize