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WAVE File not importing or recognized by FCP
I have an audio file unworkable with FCP (5.0.4) on a PowerBook G4 Laptop Mac OS 10.4.11. A error messages appears upon Importing (File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown). iTunes wont allow input. Toast wont recognize it as an audio file either and opens a message “…was not added, because it is not a sound file, or is not in supported format”. I know it was recorded by a digital audio recorder—I was there. The guy who created it and sent it to me on DVD with some video files uses PC systems, so perhaps it is in a PC format, but when I hit INFORMATION to identify it it shows it is WAVE, audio file. What suggestions do you have to convert it or work with it?
DanDaniel Monskey
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6 Replies
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Sounds line a bad data burn. Have him resend or reburn.
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does it have the extension .cda?
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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My guess is that it is a multi channel broadcast wav which older versions of FCP won’t understand, nor will Toast and iTunes.
You might need to get the files split into stereo wavs either from the recordist or you will need to find a computer with software that can read and then break down the files into something FCP can read.
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No. It had the extension “.WAV”. I changed it to lowercase “.wav” and had no effect.
It sounds difficult to deal with from the other responses. I’m going to have him reformat it and resend it if he can.
Thanks for the help.
DanDaniel Monskey
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Did you try sound track pro? to convert to .aiff?
That’s what we use for non- .aiff files to convert.Chris Tompkins
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When dealing with fussy Wav files, having Sound Devices’ WaveAgent handy has always helped me.
https://www.sounddevices.com/products/waveagent.htm
It’s free, easy to use and lets you split/combine multichannel files and reads all metadata. If you can’t get it to work with that, you probably have a corrupt file and should get another delivery. Or let your sound guy do the conversion. We sound guys always prefer doing conversions ourselves.
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
http://www.audioz.com
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