4 Hour Project creates wave render headache

Cooldraft wrote on 12/30/2004, 8:10 AM

In attempting to render the entire timeline to a wav file to "sweeten" tha audio, I wuickly found out that there is some kind of size/length limitation for was files. w64 is cool but Autition doesn't know anout these files. What IS the limitation of a wav file? Is it size or length?

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Jay Gladwell wrote on 12/30/2004, 8:32 AM

Could it be a disk space issue? You said a 4-hour .wav file? That would be huge!

Jay

Sullivan wrote on 12/30/2004, 8:45 AM

The limit could be in the OS.
What version of Windows are you running on?
What is the format of the partition?

On FAT16, the max file size is 2GB.

Cooldraft wrote on 12/30/2004, 8:57 AM

Yes, it is huge. he he he he. That's what I keep telling her. :)

It seems that Vegas can only render a w64 with this length of wav file. I have plenty of space. "You have exceeded the maximum for this type of format."

Chienworks wrote on 12/30/2004, 9:19 AM

The maximum size for a WAV file (under any OS) is 2GB. W64 files can be several terabytes. 2GB of CD quality audio is about 202 minutes. At 48KHz it's only 186 minutes.

If you want to stick with WAV you'll probably have to render it parts. Select the first half (or find some convenient dividing point), render that to the first WAV file, then select the rest and render that to the second WAV file.