Avid Error of the Day: File is not in the header-specified format
As usual with these error message posts, if you're a casual reader here, just skip ahead to other content. I post these so a) I can find them again when I get stuck and b) to help other people who are stuck.
I got this "Exception: File is not in the header-specified format" error when importing a large batch of .mp3 files in Avid MediaComposer. Some didn't import -- the ones that caused this error to pop up. (I wish you could walk away from batch imports like this, certain that the files that didn't cause errors would still continue to go in. But you can't, you have to babysit the import and clear these errors as they come.)
Once my batch of .mp3 files was (partially) done, I cross-referenced the bin contents with the contents of the folder I was importing from and pulled out the files that didn't import. These I opened in Quicktime and exported (Sound file to AIFF with my project's settings of 48k 16bit). The new .aif files I was able to import into Avid no problem.
posted by J. Ott @ 6/16/2009 11:05:00 AM
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This is often caused by a bug in the Avid MP3 import function. It doesn't like certain ID3 tag sizes in the 112kB to 128kB range.
ID3 tags usually don't get that big unless they contain a cover art image file. Next time try deleting the cover from the file - if it exists - or yeah, just convert to AIFF.
Other software can embed a large amount of metadata in the tag e.g. Soundminer. This also has the potential to put the tag size in the problematic range.
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