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Re: how to submit 12 hours of 4-channel material

Subject: Re: how to submit 12 hours of 4-channel material
From: "Danny Meltzer" dannymeltzer
Date: Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:29 pm ((PST))

Wave Agent by Sound Devices will allow polyphonic channel editing and it's =
free:

http://sounddevices.com/download/waveagent.html

Then I'd just put the files on a small portable drive that they can just se=
nd back to you:

http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=3Dfamily&id=3D23

That's what I use, but there are probably other options...or you can use th=
e
aforementioned [by others] flash drive if the files fit.

Danny



--- In  Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> 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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