BWAV file format support?

Hi,

Can anyone confirm if LogicPro 9 can correctly import/edit/export .BWAV single/multi-channel files? I work in broadcast where this format is an industry standard (used in Final Cut Pro and AVID video editors) and would like to use Logic as a back up multi-track recorder but cannot if it doesn't support BWAV files.

I appreciate any help you can give.

Matt

Macbook Pro, Macbook & MacMini, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Mar 11, 2010 3:12 AM

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Mar 11, 2010 6:48 AM in response to mattbacon

Yes, the manual states quite clearly -

+Logic Pro also supports Broadcast Wave files, which can contain timestamp information. Files that provide timestamp information can be recognized by a clock symbol, shown alongside the audio region name in the Audio Bin.+

+The file extension of broadcast wave files is .wav, allowing them to be read by any application that supports the standard wave file format. In such programs, the additional Broadcast Wave file information is ignored.+

Mar 11, 2010 9:18 AM in response to mattbacon

If you're referring to poly, or MBWF files, used for location recording with Deva or Sound Devices, then no, Logic doesn't support them; only mono or stereo .wav(BWF)

But you can use a utility such as [BWFSplitter/Combiner|http://www.one-n.com/index.html] which will handle this for you. I think that Nuendo is the only DAW that can handle these file formats natively.

Mar 11, 2010 5:08 PM in response to Pancenter

Hi PC

I just looked in SP and v. 3 manuals and apparently not (unless I missed something). But with conversion utilities it would seem that the O.P. could use any DAW.

But as chorleyman noted, multi-channel BWF files, confusingly, seem to be named several different ways; poly-BWF, multi-channel BWF, MBWF or BWFP. But BWF-M are the split mono files from a BWFP.

That's the nice thing about 'standards': there are so many to choose from. 😕

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