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WAV Goodbye
Maybe you recall my posts in the past about this, but I’m just at a total loss about what to do, and at this point would really like to at least find a good workaround…
My SVP10 hates WAV files. Period. SVP12 hates them, too. They become absolute Frankensteins on my timeline.
I ask audio houses and VO talent to give me AIFs, which work flawlessly, but everybody seems to forget and I have to keep reminding them to give crippled-old-me AIFs instead, ‘cuz, oh yeah, Kelly’s “The Guy Who Can’t Take WAV Files”.
I don’t know of a way to find whatever needle in my system haystack is causing this. This didn’t use to be an issue, either– it just started happening, and I can’t think of ANYTHING I changed about my system setup that would cause it to start happening.
Anyway, I still use my HVX as an audio recording device when I shoot DSLR stuff, because my new-and-never-used Zoom H4N only outputs WAV files.
I suppose if someone can recommend a cheap-and-reliable WAV-to-AIF converter (that will do batch conversions easily and simply), I at least won’t have to answer anymore client questions about what my other camera is doing on the floor sitting on its lens cap during a shoot.
Any other suggestions as to how I should think differently about this would be welcome.
–Kelly
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WAV files work just fine on many hundreds of Vegas installations, so if it doesn’t work on YOUR PC, then it’s Sony’s fault?
Upload one of those big bad wav files and let us have a shot at loading them.
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Something went wrong with your system Kelly, Vegas has
nothing to do with that, but its hard to tell you exactly
what to do to resolve it without knowing all the details.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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there was a guy here, he said “stop complaining about sony vegas, if it crashes – fix your pc”. i disagree with that in full. SV 11 and SV 12 are nothing but crashes for so many users. There are many equally complex applications that can run smooth on any computer. If SV crashes and all other applications work perfect I expect sony to produce tough enough application that wouldn’t crush at any tiniest system error or incompatibility.
BUT after that too long starter i got to say that i disagree with you now. If your vegas doesn’t accept WAV files, try to reinstal it and if that continues – your system is in mess. all editing programs accept wavs. it is a rock firm base. this time – sorry – check your system.
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and of course zoom recorders output also other formats like mp3, so check your zoom manual too. -
I don’t know how anyone got the impression I think “Vegas sucks”. I never said/meant anything of the sort.
I simply said that WAVs don’t work on my SVP10 and 12, for whatever reason, and that I’m nervous about meddling too much with all the rest of what DOES work, and might there be a convenient workaround (?)
I’m not complaining. I’m wondering if there’s a convenient workaround because I don’t know how else to troubleshoot something so obscure as why a WAV file wouldn’t work on my system.
–Kelly
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you seem not to read what people write.
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as good as i see it nobody implied that you were saying that vegas sucked.
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if you are unable to comprehend this i’ll try to make it simpler: if your heart is aching continuously, you don’t look for workarounds. you need medical attention immediately.
which means
if your vegas doesn’t accepts wavs, and reinstalling gives no help, you don’t look for other ways. you fix your system instead.
EOT for me
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This has rarely happened to me, but I evidently responded in some way that garnered responses for which I didn’t intend.
I never want to bite hands that help me, so I’m sorry if any of you felt a bite!
I’ll try a re-install and see if anything happens.
–Kelly
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no worries mate, no offense taken. just listen to pro guys here which really know what they say (and i don’t feel being good enough to include myself in that group).
With that change of attitude I can change my approach too.
I am not gonna lokk for a workaround because I don’t know TO WHAT that workaround should apply. We need to know what is the real problem.
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take any media that you can import into your vegas, no matter audio or video and try to render it as wav (Waves Microsoft) template. After you do so, try to import into Vegas that wav which you just created. try to play it in media player. tell us what happened then.2
where does your wavs come from. maybe the problem comes with your wav files. there are wavs and wavs. what device has created your problematic wavs?3
take that wav file which you cannot import into vegas and try to play it on your system. does yoyr windows media player or winamp or any other program apart from SV can play them?that is all for now.
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If this started happening on its own, there’s a possibility that either a) you installed another program related to audio that introduced updates to codecs, etc. or maybe b) Windows updates did same with an upgrade to Windows Media Player.
Do you know if you added any new audio software around the time this started happening? What exactly is happening to your WAVs on the timeline that’s making them “frankensteins”?
Win7 Pro – Sony Vegas Pro 12
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(Paul & Vincent) Here’s my best try at answering your questions (I’m in an airport right now):
> Any WAV file I have plays fine in Windows Media Player.
> I have discovered that WAV files from stock audio sites (like PremiumBeat.com, Music Bakery) seem to be okay.
> Any WAV files I get from local audio post houses, from VO talent or from my Zoom H4N are Frankensteins.
> By “Frankenstein” I mean this: If I lay a WAV on my timeline, in most cases it’s just audio “snow” sound and the volume is about a million dB– completely off the meter. If it’s not that, it’ll be kind of “pulsed breaks”, as if you were listening to something and turned mute on and off every second or so. Other times (let’s say I’ve got a VO track) it’ll be a couple words of VO, then cuts to some music from who-knows-where, then some bogus audio of something else from some other project.
> By the way, another issue I’ve had since before this one is that I would open a saved VEG and there’d be portions of the timeline where whole chunks of audio were from some other unused audio elsewhere on my computer. Even when an MXF video event had its matching audio event (right out of the camera), it might play something completely different than what should have been there. This issue seems to be a lot more rare now, but, as I think of it, it might have started becoming rare about when the psycho WAV issue started.
> The only thing I can think of that was MAYBE installed before the WAV issue started was Sorenson Squeeze 7. I use this system for Vegas, Fusion and Photoshop ONLY, and it’s also not connected to the internet unless I need to download something specific.
> As far as I can tell, Vegas seems perfectly happy with probably every other filetype Sony says it can handle.
That’s about all I can think of sitting here in my airport… thanks again, fellers!
–Kelly
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If some WAVs are fine and others not, could also be the properties of the file itself as far as bit rate and specific WAV format, frequency, etc.
Have you compared the properties of the ones you get from VO versus ones that work? Maybe a pattern?
Otherwise, the other solution is to simply convert the WAV files in something like Sony Soundforge to a different format that won’t be a problem.
Win7 Pro – Sony Vegas Pro 12
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