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Bizarre audio from Zoom H4n in Vegas
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Joe,
I think this problem has something to do with using an external drive via USB. I put my WAV files on my C drive and they worked perfect. Try this out, if you find they play good then we need to concentrate on why the external drives play back all jumbled. Tell me about your findings-Tony -
Dave, thanx for your reply. I think I’ve narrowed the problem down to something connected to using the external drive. When I copy my WAV files to the c drive they work fine, but become jumbled when played on an external with my laptop. Any advice or settings I may be overlooking-Thanx Tony
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Hey there Tony,
I should have clarified that I actually copied the file to my local hard drive. I tried both USB transfer, and pulling out the card and putting it in the reader, but I always edit with all media on the local hard drive.
I did another experiment with a recording of over 2 1/2 hours lone on the H4n in Mp3 320kbps. No problem at all for Vegas.
Joe Mizera
Mizera Digital
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This isn’t an acceptable solution, I could edit WAV from a zoom that were over two hours on Vegas Pro 8.Sometimes I use multitrack from other sources that are WAV. MP3 is a lossy compression format, everytime you open the file it loses information. WAV is a professional format that Sony Vegas PRO!!!,needs to handle. I’m not having problems playing my wav on the local drive, I wrote Sony and I’ll report back when I hear their response-Tony
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Just to kind of wrap this up on my part, I have made a couple of discoveries. First, I generated a three hour 48/16 WAV file with Audacity, and brought that into Vegas. No detectable problem. I also recorded nearly three hours on the Zoom in mp3 320. Playback on the Vegas timeline was fine.
In this case, the problem is not with Vegas, but clearly with the H4n. At least I can still record in mp3. I would much rather use WAV of course. Guess that will have to wait until I can replace the recorder.
Joe Mizera
Mizera Digital
https://www.austexvideo.com -
Hi!
I was looking around the net since I have the same problem. I just wanted to add my two cents to clarify that the problem is not because of H4n, it is really the problem with an external drive. As suggested, I copied my wav onto system drive and now it plays back fine in Vegas 12. My wav is not recorder with H4n.
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Hmmm…. I wonder if the symptoms were the same as in my case. The file was imported from the internal system drive in my case. I have never quite figured out what to do about this, but would love to know a clear resolution.
An example of what I experience is below.
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One thing I can add is that in my case the problem occured after converting stereo to mono. I wanted to save some space while archiving my wavs, but after adding the converted file back to the project, those symptoms appeared, just as in your project. I thought first that maybe Vegas got messed up since I didn’t delete the peaks file, but doing that and building a new one didn’t help either.
So since copying the audio to another drive (maybe it doesn’t have to be a system drive, I don’t think so) solved the problem, it must be connceted how Vegas reads the file and seems like it saves some inital data about the wav in the project and copying the file to another drive forces Vegas to re-read the file from the scrach. Thats my guess in the dark.
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I have this same condition and have not found a solution. This applies to audio files from Zoom H2. My typical setup involves 2 cameras (Panasonic af100 and gh3) with 1-6 H2’s collecting audio throughout a room…I’m shooting professional development in a classroom environment. Typical workflow is place video and external audio tracks on a timeline and use the Pluraleyes app to sync everything via audio. If the project is on any external USB drive 2.0 or 3.0 the audio from the H2’s will have this condition. Only was to solve it is to put the H2 files on an internal drive. This a waste of my time Sony! It’s been a problem since Version 10, at least that’s when I discovered it.
I’d love to get this conversation active again.
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Yes, this can be a pain. Putting the files on the local drive (c/)will help. Also what I do is to re-render the file as a new wav file and this seems to work when I place it in the same folder with the other media. A little time consuming especially with files that are an hour or longer. Any other work arounds by other people? Let’s use this thread as a reference till the problem is addressed. Thanks for keeping this problem in the light-Tony
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