I've had this problem for a few years now & because I've never seen it crop up here & no search resulted with anything, I've just used a workaround. It's only just now I thought I'd give it a shot here.

Avid seems to always default to using AIFF audio when starting a new project. This is a big pain in my situation, because unless I remember to change the settings to WAV, any capturing with AIFF selected will hang for a few minutes after it's done... and even then if those clips are in a sequence, they will hang a few minutes before playing. After a certain clip goes through this "hang time", it will work as normal, provided it's within the same edit session (meaning no powering down or rebooting, etc.)

With Avid closed, even at a desktop level, using Explorer for example, simply clicking on one of these files will hang before it highlights showing it's selected.

Like I said earlier, my only workaround has been to simply change the settings to WAV as soon as I start a new project... but sometimes I just forget.

Any ACSR's out there gotta clue? Or at the very least... know how to change the default audio to use WAV instead?

edit: I should also add something I forgot about since it's been so long ago. Opening these files in QT for playback tests result in the same delayed behavior and Windows shows CPU pegged to 100% when this delay happens. Also I'm reasonably sure I re-installed QT & XDV way back then, but am not absolute. The first thing to go ya know :-\

Bill,

After you change your audio type, save those settings in the site settings window and you won't have to recreate them each time.

You know, I tried that years ago when I discovered the culprit of this problem & it didn't work (can't recall what the particulars were), but I just tried that again & now it works for some reason. Go figure. I'm now on "autowav" :D

I'm still hoping someone can shed some light on what's caused this aiff mess to begin with. Something... may be a corrupt .dll file somewhere. A complete re-install of OS & everything else would probably cure it, but that ain't gonna happen, it's not worth the trouble :)