At the top of my list is a way of both loading or extracting the metadata from across multiple BWF files to a database structure. If fields can be long then CSV would not work, but dbf would. I guess XML would be the modern choice, but then we'd need a parser from XML to office-type apps. Cheers, Richard At 10:12 AM 3/23/2005, you wrote: > > >2 of the software developers I contacted have shown some real interest >in writing some decent BWF metadata editors. Functional / interface >desires, anyone? Send to me or better yet post them for discussion, and >I'll pass them on to the developers who seem interested. I have no >commercial interests myself here... Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Vignettes Media web: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/ Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX