Thanks Pat

The crash report shows it crashing deep in the guts of quicktime apparently because it can't load a quicktime symbol from your system files--

Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _ValidateAudioChannelLayout
Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeComponents.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeComponents
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime

That is many calls deep into quicktime after MacBB has called a quicktime file function.

MacBB has already finished rendering AIFF files, and is beginning to normalize them.

So MacBB tries to open the AIFF file just created (in order to normalize and re-write). It crashes after calling into quicktime when opening and loading the file.

MacBB has already verified that the AIFF file exists on your hard drive before it gets this far. So it isn't some simple "file not exists" issue masquerading as a quicktime fault.

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A first-stab at a workaround would be to un-check the normalize box in the render dialog. When you drag-drop files, MacBB also respects the setting of the normalize box in the render dialog. So if the box is not checked, it will never try to normalize any files.

Hopefully it will render without crashing with normalize disabled.

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The second question is how to determine what is wrong with your quicktime. I believe the Lion systems which PG Music owns, do not have any customized quicktime installed.

The rendering works on those systems. I don't know if they have tested Render with Normalize turned-on in Lion. I will ask.

Have you installed QuickTime Pro or some other mod/upgrade to QuickTime?

If some previously available entry points in QuickTime are now dead, I'm surprised that MacBB works at all because it calls those same functions to load all the realtracks and realdrums.

Thanks

James Chandler Jr
http://www.errnum.com/