Sharon Perry and I had a successful* overnight monitoring session at
Merced National Wildlife Refuge Saturday night. That refuge is
incredibly rich with species and well-designed for public access.
We recorded 12 hours of 4-channel material, 5:00 to 2:00 AM
(unattended), and 4:00 AM (when we were allowed back in by special
permission) to 7:00AM. Great stuff.
I promised the management a copy of the raw material, and my question
to the group is how to accomplish that without days of bouncing files.
I usually submit audio CDs of my raw footage to the hosting park and
to the California Library of Natural Sounds. In this case, making
separate front and rear CDs, we're talking 24 CDs! I could just give
the managers the files on 6 data DVDs, if they could play the 4-
channel (poly) WAV files.
I tried dropping one on Windows Media Player 9, but it wouldn't take
it. Will poly files play on a PC? Perhaps I could give them a copy of
a free DAW software.
-Dan Dugan
*Well, my 744T crashed when the Pro Digital gel cell battery got too
low--again failing to switch over to a fully-charged Li-ion battery on
the back and failing to shit down properly. Also, to minimize my
losses when that expected event happened, I had set the maximum file
size to 650 MB. Inexplicably, the 744 made 1.67 GB files instead.
Afterwards when I checked the menu item I found it set to "2G CF," and
I have no idea how that happened.
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