Syntrillium Backup Forums :: View topic - Windows 2000 Woes/ Re-Arranged Audio

gpfault · Posted - Thu Oct 04, 2001 10:55 am

Here's the setup:

PreBuilt Dell System
Win2000 Professional
128 Ram
1 Ghz PIII
40 Gb 7200rpm hd
CEP 1.2a
Soundblaster Live! Value

Audio is primarily edited in 22k MONO.

Problem is this: Periodically, recorded audio is corrupted in a way that all audio is there, but re-arranged, and not the way it is supposed to be. All of a sudden the music is before the talking and the person talking is at the end of their sentance and then back at the beginning again.

I thought it was operator error but thats not it. The source material is on Minidisc and is recorded into the Live through a y-adapter. The source material is fine.

What I am wondering is if there are specific 2000 settings that I should be using that would prevent this from occuring or at least optimize CEP 1.2a performance in Windows 2000.

I have turned off the antivirus program and optimized my buffers as the help pages say to with the same results. Problem is, this doesn't happen all the time, just sometimes this re-arrangement happens. I'd say 1 out of 3 recordings it happens on and I am not doing anythign different when recording audio in (same track, three times, second time it re-arranged itself).

Any ideas Cool Edit Pro-fessionals? Really looking for 2000 Pro optimization steps mainly and possible solutions to re-arranged audio second.

-Gpfault

Syntrillium M.D. · Location: USA

Hello GP. The only thing that I can think of is that perhaps at some time, whilst working with audio in CEP, the system crashed. Perhaps upon restore, the temp file may have gotten corrupted and thus 're-arranged' the audio...Of course, I don't really see how this could have happened unless perhaps the audio was edited and spliced in multitrack...If it was one continuous file, then I'm rather stumped.

Maybe you could offer a little more description of exactly what is occurring. Are you in the Multitrack View? Edit View? Have you edited the file? Are you working from the playlist?

Give us some more details, and we can troubleshoot the problem better.

---Syntrillium, M.D.

gpfault · Posted - Fri Oct 05, 2001 1:59 pm

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

It is a single audio file, no multitrack, about 15 mins in length. We did a test today and found out the following:

Audio recorded in studio on one system. Saved to that system, then dragged file over Windows network to 2nd computer. Saved and edited on 2nd computer with no problems.

Corruption occurs when:

Audio recorded into one system. Edited across network on 2nd computer. Edited version then saved onto 2nd computer, and corruption occurs, sometimes. Our IT guy says network congestion and/or the different computers used (a 500 and a 1Ghz). He also thinks that possibly the Windows 2000 optimizations (for application or server) need to be, well optimized. Are there any specific settings in 2000 Pro that we should take into account or were there any previous posts on this topic that you are aware of? I couldn't find any using the search function. Thanks Alot!

-Gpfault

Syntrillium M.D. · Location: USA

Hi Gp. Well, since you're under 1.2a, that's probably the most essential part of the equation.

As a rule, you shouldn't really be working/editing/saving audio files across a network for the very reasons you experienced; potential file corruption, traffic/collisions in network, speed/sharing issues.

If you need some specific buffer/cache/optimization tips, please feel free to email , and they will provide you with a host of things to try. But from what you've just listed, it indeed sounds like 'across the network editing' is the source of the headache.

In the future, I'd probably just copy over the files that you plan to work on, save them locally (on machine 2) and then copy them back. Keep in mind, you only need to copy over the .WAV file. I'd probably get rid of the peak files, as an older peak file with an updated .WAV could potential cause problems.

---Syntrillium, M.D.