BWF MetaEdit was developed by the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) supported by AudioVisual Preservation Solutions.

Installation Steps:

  1. Open Terminal using Spotlight search by pressing  <command+space>.
    Type terminal and hit  Enter key.
  2. Now, run
    ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  3. Install bwfmetaedit using brew
    brew install bwfmetaedit

bwfmetaedit is ready to use now!

This tool permits embedding, editing, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files. This tool can also enforce metadata guidelines developed by the Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group, as well as recommendations and specifications from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Microsoft, and IBM.