Also, If you are doing this in Sonar, there's a fast bounce to track. If this is not checked, then it will take a long time to export a track. I'm not sure if this is the case in Sound Forge. James _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:05 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: exporting to sound forge The file I'm exporting is only about a minute long, but it's taking about 15 minutes to mix down. Omar Binno ----- Original Message ----- From: Luis <mailto:luiselorza@xxxxxxxxx> Elorza To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:45 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: exporting to sound forge to export the mix select file, export , audio. and from the dialog select the preset titled all. type a filename and select file type then go to the export button and hit enter. a wave file must be hours long to use gigabytes. ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar <mailto:omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx> Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: [ddots-l] exporting to sound forge Hi All: I'm trying to export a cwp file over to sound forge. After the mix down, the file becomes a wav file, but it's an enormous file, (over 3 gigs.) I'm sure I'm doing something wrong when exporting. Then, when I go to open it in sound forge, I'm getting an error message that says something like "make sure the read only is enabled for this file, (I do have wav checked in the file types.) Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks. Omar Binno