Specifications

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Free Displays the unused space on volumes. This
field cannot be edited.
Waveform Displays a graphical overview of an au-
dio file. See “Waveforms” on page 307 for more
information.
Duration Displays the duration of a file in absolute
time (minutes and seconds), regardless of the time-
code format. For clip groups, MIDI, tick-based
Elastic Audio files, REX, and ACID files, Dura-
tion displays Bars and Beats. This field cannot be
edited.
File Comment Displays any embedded comments
associated with the file. File comments are sup-
ported with BWF and SD II files, but are not sup-
ported with AIFF files. File Comments always re-
main with the file when copied, converted, or
transferred. See “Comments Fields” on page 301
for more information.
Database Comment Displays user comments
stored with the database, with support for Finder
comments. Available in the Project browser and
Catalogs only. See “Comments Fields” on
page 301 for more information.
Date Modified Displays the last modified date for
the item. This field cannot be edited.
Date Created Displays the creation date of an
item. This field cannot be edited.
Number of Channels Displays the number of
channels in an audio file: mono, stereo, or 3–8 as
appropriate for supported multichannel files. This
field cannot be edited.
Format Displays the audio file format: WAV,
WAV (ACID) for ACID files, WAV (BWF),
AIFF, MP3, or ReCycle for REX files. This field
cannot be edited.
Sample Rate Displays an audio file’s sample rate.
This field can be edited in DigiBase browsers for
WAV and SDII files only. This can be useful when
dealing with audio that has been pulled up or
down, or to force a sample rate conversion to occur
if that is necessary before importing a file that oth-
erwise would not require conversion.
Bit Depth Displays an audio file’s bit depth. This
field cannot be edited.
Tempo Displays the tempo associated with clip
group, MIDI, tick-based Elastic Audio files, REX,
and ACID files, and session files. This field cannot
be edited.
Video Compression Displays the compression ra-
tio of video files where applicable.
Frame Rate Displays the frame rate of video files
where applicable.
Original Time Stamp Displays the original time
stamp (timecode location) of audio or video files.
User Time Stamp Displays the user time stamp, if
any, of audio files only.
Path Displays the directory path to the item.
Unique ID Displays the unique ID for a Pro Tools
file.
Tape This column displays the original Avid tape
name if the item is an OMF file (audio or video). If
an audio file was originally recorded in Pro Tools,
this field displays the name of the original session.
When importing SD II files into Pro Tools
8.0.3 sessions or higher, they must be con-
verted to a supported audio file format
(.WAV or .AIF).
Video files originally recorded in Pro Tools
with AVoption|XL do not display a tape
name.