Yes.I see what you are saying. And when compressed they are then not .wav files but have a different extension i.e. .mp3 depending on the codec used. Which makes you wonder why say uncompressed wave files. When compressed it is not a wave file but an mp3 file or what ever. The sound file I`ve used is a .wav file.It is imported by carrara,so it is of the correct type for carrara. It still looks like carrara only saves sound in Quicktime. As you said a bit gimmicky. Back to the long way round.