on 9/4/07 9:28 PM US/Central, Konrad Strauss at
konrad.strauss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
When we did our tests, about a year ago, RF64 was supported only
by Wavelab,
Cubase, Nuendo, and Pro Tools would not recognize the file as
audio. We did
not test Adobe Audition and Soundforge. This may have changed
since then.
While it's quite true that not all applications today support
broadcast wave
files greater than 4GB, I would suggest that the above list is not
complete,
and some of the limitations today may even be imposed by the operating
system itself.
It's pretty clear to me that this limitation will be history very
soon, so
if your application can handle it, then it makes no sense to force
edits on
future generations. IMHO, of course.
If you have to distribute files today for 100% compatibility, then
certainly
it makes sense to find out what the limitations of the particular
client are
today - but if I'm not mistaken, SADiE, Sequoia, and Pyramix can
handle BWF
4GB now.
With multichannel sound becoming more common place, the 4GB barrier
can't be
defended much longer. See http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?
elib=13092
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF64
--
Parker Dinkins
MasterDigital Corporation
Audio Restoration + CD Mastering
http://masterdigital.com