Soundfile quirks

[JK Kestler]

I found some curious things out recently working on my PC at home verses my Mac TDM system at work... I took a .Aif session home to chop up some Sound Effects and create seperate soundfiles for each sound. I started with a stereo interleaved AIF file. When I imported it into a session it split it into dual mono files with the .L and .R - which is normal. However, when I used "strip silence" and went to "consolidate" each region, it gave me a Access Denied warning and created a bogus file of full scale digital noise. After a bit of struggling, I realized it was naming things *.L.Aif and *.R.Aif which is ILLEGAL in PC land! You have to first rename the original soundfile within the session to *L.aif and *R.aif before you "consolidate" or "duplicate"

[DigiTechSupt]

.L.aif or .R.aif are in fact permissible in PC land...Windows only looks at the last . mark to determine the file type.

So what is going on? I am not sure...

How long is the filename?

Do you get the same results when processing other files with AudioSuite?

Brent

[JK Kestler]

It was actually using "duplicate" where I had the problem. I didn't try anything else. I wanted to strip silence then select all the regions in the track and "duplicate" making "individual files" from "region to region". everytime I got the "ACCESS Denied" warning. Once I changed the name of the source soundfile and then re seperated the regions it worked. The soundfile was about 35 minutes long.
I do this same proceedure on a TDM Mac
I need to start logging my problems better and systematically ruling out things huh?

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[JK Kestler]

Good Point, but yes. I discovered that one right away. That wasn't it. It'll be a few days before I have time to get on my home system to re check my findings to confirm them again.
Thanks

[Mr_Seven]

Did you change the read only attribute to off after moving from the CD to HD? This will give you the same error because read only get marked automaticly when moving to CD.