Audio file format

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

BWF files include a standardized timestamp reference which allows for easy synchronization with a separate picture element.

Stand-alone, file based, multi-track recorders from AETA,[1] Sound Devices,[2] Zaxcom,[3] HHB Communications Ltd,[4] Fostex, Nagra, Aaton,[5] and TASCAM all use BWF as their preferred format.

A lossless compressed audio format stores data in less space without losing any information.

Uncompressed audio formats encode both sound and silence with the same number of bits per unit of time.

Most formats offer a range of degrees of compression, generally measured in bit rate.