I recorded an all day conference using Nuendo 2.0.1. The wav file is
4.7 Gig 1411 Kbs mono at 44 KHz sample rate.

The problem: Only 54 minutes of audio appears when I open the wav in
Nuendo, Audition, Win amp, and many others. The wav does not flat
line at 54 min, it ends. The wav should be 6+ hours. I did other
multi hour/track recordings using the same template and they turned
out fine. I greatly appreciate any suggestions or recommendations to
recover the entire recording from this file. Thanks.

Yikes!

Don't use Nuendo but it sounds like you ran out of disc space.
If that's what happened, you're SOL.
Usually when I'm expecting to record long files, I make sure I have
lots of disc space available and i always limit my chunks to 30
minutes.
Simply stop and re-start at the 30 minute mark.
Does the file appear to be the proper size otherwise (for that long a
recording in .wav) or does it only show the 60 minutes worth?
And if it's a once in a lifetime event, always run a backup on
minidisc, DAT or even compact cassette.
Hope you can salvage something though.

On 5 Apr 2004 16:26:09 -0700, (Geoff)
wrote:

I recorded an all day conference using Nuendo 2.0.1. The wav file is
4.7 Gig 1411 Kbs mono at 44 KHz sample rate.

The problem: Only 54 minutes of audio appears when I open the wav in
Nuendo, Audition, Win amp, and many others. The wav does not flat
line at 54 min, it ends. The wav should be 6+ hours. I did other
multi hour/track recordings using the same template and they turned
out fine. I greatly appreciate any suggestions or recommendations to
recover the entire recording from this file. Thanks.

Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services
Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting
Vancouver, BC, Canada

"Geoff" wrote in message
om...
I recorded an all day conference using Nuendo 2.0.1. The wav file is
4.7 Gig 1411 Kbs mono at 44 KHz sample rate.


Some OS's won't allow files over a certain size. I think it was 2GB before
Windows XP and is 4GB with XP. I might be wrong though. The DAW might not be
able to handle it either. Whatever you do make a copy of the file and work
on the copy. You could try a file splitting program like the OP said but do
it on the copy.

Geoff wrote:

I recorded an all day conference using Nuendo 2.0.1.
The wav file is 4.7 Gig 1411 Kbs mono at 44 KHz sample rate.

Largest file possible in Win9x and probably in all the software you
mention, no matter what OS, is 4 GB.

The problem: Only 54 minutes of audio appears ...

The file may be OK as it is sequentially written, but you need a
filesplitter that can handle that filesize. Preferably one that is
intended to split audiofiles, you will have to google rec.audio.tech,
such a program was mentioned recently, probably this year. Jonesoft
filesplitter may also do, but it may ruin the fileformat. "Open as"
_should_ allow you to open the file anyway, you know what type audio it
is.

You don't "see" the entire file because all "location pointers" will
wrap to a modulo function, as obvious from that you see its size in the
software as being what it exceeds 4 GB with.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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