There may be some other differences I haven't discerned too, of course, and I'm not sure if the padding in the chunk IDs is meaningful or just garbage, but that's the situation as it looks to me.) excluding the ID and size fields) as it does with the. (There are a few other differences too, like the fact that the some of the chunk IDs (RIFF, WAVE) are now in lower case (riff, wave), the chunk IDs all seem to be padded out to 16 bytes in length rather than just 4 bytes, and the fact that the size fields of each chunk now seem to include the total size of the chunk rather than the length of the chunk remaining (i.e. W64 file can store a much longer section of audio than. WAV format and modified it so that the size of each chunk is now given by a 64-bit value rather than the 32-bit value that the standard. The important part is that they have taken the standard. W64 you can pretty easily see what they have done, and it makes a good deal of sense. WAV with the same section of audio saved as a. WAV format.īut if you compare the headers of a section of audio saved as a. W64 as far as I can see - they just say that it is a proprietary format that gets round the maximum file size limitations inherent in the standard. Sonic Foundry don't seem to have published the file format of. > What is a Wave64, and how does it differ from a Microsoft wav? WaveLab allows me to set stop points (based on silence or session duration), and, of course, if I delete a section in WL and save, the deleted portion is destructively deleted.įor now, I'm selecting the 2-hour portion I want to save, rendering to MS Wav, then, deleting the original 6-hour file entirely. Is there a way to destructively trim portions of files recorded with Vegas (I generally set my computer to record over night and come back to a 6-hour file). Is there a way to record in Vegas so as to avoid the requirement to render as an MSwav? Is there more or less fidelity contained in the wave64 (or is there no difference)? What is a Wave64, and how does it differ from a Microsoft wav? In order to use the file outside of Vegas, I have to first render it to a Windows Wave file (no big deal, mind you, just an added step). Vegas names the resultant file a wav, but it won't open in WaveLab (invald format), and, when I vew the file via MS Explorer, it is described as a WAVE64. I opened a new project, inserted an audio track onto the timeline, armed it, recorded two hours worth of music. I decided to try VegasVideo 3.0 this morning. I have already dubbed these recordings from my turntable to DAT, and have usually used WaveLab 3.0 as my program of choice to capture them onto my computer. I am in the process of restoring some vinyl recordings.

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