aiff woes

farss wrote on 6/20/2007, 7:09 AM
In the process of trying to fix yet another major stuff up by a FCP user I find I need to open the dump of the music tracks that the client supplied. Except the files are aiff.
Neither Vegas 7.0 or SF 9 can open or play them but thinks they might, Nero thinks it might but can't either.
The QT player does manage to play them so I can only assume they're not actually corrupted like everything else claims they are.
Anyone got any thoughts on how I might convert these files into something readable?
Bob.

Comments

Tech Diver wrote on 6/20/2007, 9:35 AM
If you have Nero, you could use their WaveEditor to import and convert to another format.
farss wrote on 6/20/2007, 1:48 PM
Have Nero, it cannot open the files.
rs170a wrote on 6/20/2007, 2:52 PM
How about Audacity or Reaper?

Mike
gordyboy wrote on 6/20/2007, 3:27 PM
Or Goldwave? It has a batch conversion utility and supports aiff.

gb
farss wrote on 6/20/2007, 4:26 PM
Thanks guys but I've tried several audio converters all of which can handle aiff just like Vegas and SF can. All report the same error!

QT and iTunes will play the files.

I could play out of QT and capture back through my sound card but here's the rub. I need to get this music as pristine as possible as I need to subtract the music from a mix. At the best of times doing this is highly problematic, might just give up and move on. I didn't create the problem and it's a very low rent project.
deusx wrote on 6/20/2007, 5:49 PM
Any program can oper aiff files. ( real aiff files )

This is just another example of FCP screwing with files.
gordyboy wrote on 6/21/2007, 12:04 AM
If QT will open the files, then all you have to do is use the 'export' option and save Sound to Wave, no?

Hope that works. Can't remember if that's a QT Pro only function but it's there on my QT.

gb
farss wrote on 6/21/2007, 12:54 AM
Only in QT Pro.

Thanks for all the ideas guys but my client's client had a much simpler solution "Cut the scene, the guy was dead boring anyway".

Bob.

Tech Diver wrote on 6/21/2007, 9:44 AM
This always works for me:

Start up any application that can record inputs (like Nero WaveEditor).
Put it into Recording mode and capture the "what-u-hear" channel.
Play the aiff files in QT (or whatever else works).
Stop the recording.
Edit your result to trim the start and end.
Save in whatever format you choose.
michaelshive wrote on 6/21/2007, 10:23 AM
Is it possible the files had DRM embedded in them? I feel like I've dragged .aiff files into Vegas many times.