Audacity Forum

First, the tech: MacMini on El Capitan 10.11.4 (2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 w/8GB RAM). Audacity 2.1.1 I installed FFMPEG-mac-2.2.2 a while ago and haven't had issues until recently. The problem: Drag-and-drop .mov files into a new Audacity project are taking an extremely long time ...

... and I am know trying to get some of the stories recorded. Here is the last view of the log: 11:25:23: Audacity 2.1.2 11:25:23: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 11:25:23: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 11:25:23: Looking up PATH environment ...

... then the project should open. Thanks for the log. That looks normal for the project error you state and normal assuming you have not installed FFmpeg. Gale

... from recent files - the file was still devoid of the soundtrack but the log was populated with: 09:30:09: Audacity 2.1.2 09:30:09: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 09:30:09: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 09:30:09: Looking up PATH environment ...

Thanks Steve, Gale et.al, I think the FFMPEG stuff is probably the culprit here, as well as the functionality for Undo's. I recognize that we are using Audacity in a different way (as in our input files are being force fed into Audacity), and ...

From version 2.0.6 onwards when we updated Audacity to use a later version of FFmpeg, Audacity keeps a handle open on files imported using the FFmpeg importer. FFmpeg is not the reason for your issue if you see the warning about importing uncompressed files when ...

... instead . However I have no idea how or where to find the actual project file . Audacity Log 09:42:53: Audacity 2.0.5 9:42:59 AM: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 9:42:59 AM: mLibAVFormatPath ('C:\Program Files (x86)\Ffmpeg For Audacity\avformat-52.dll') is not empty. Loading from it. 9:42:59 ...

The latest Zeranoe builds listed at https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ are too recent for loading from Audacity's Libraries Preferences. You can export 5.1 AC3 from Audacity if you choose (external program) and point the export command to the ffmpeg.exe ...

... Apple support and ask for help. I do have the show log, but all it has are errors with it when it loads up. If they are errors about LAME and FFmpeg they are not relevant. Feel free to attach the log if you want, but if the files are silenced there is nothing you can do. Gale

No-one except you is reporting issues. You should not have added entries to PATH. You should remove all paths to FFmpeg from PATH unless other software put them there. As I already said twice now, you can use your ffmpeg.exe and export at the command-line using (external program) ...