Waveform on external audio

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First time with a question and I don't know if this has been looked at before.

I recorded with an external audio device (Zoom F1) and the vid was made with my Canon 5D4. The Zoom track (audio 2) doesn't show a waveform for about 27-30 seconds despite being able to hear it. The waveform does show when loaded into an audio program.
Does anyone know how this could be fixed.

[Peter Chamberlain]

The waveform needs to be generated so if your cache drive is slow, that will take longer than if its on a fast, i.e. SSD drive.
What is the first drive listed in your preferences? It should be a permanently attached very fast drive.

Thanks for the reply, Peter.

All HDs are internal SSD.
I changed the format of the audio from MP3 to WAV and I can now see the entire waveform on the track. I find this rather odd because the last video I made, I didn't have this issue. Mind you, it was also edited on Resolve 14, so I'm thinking it may be a glitch with Resolve 16.

I'll record in the WAV format from now on and see how that works out for me.

Thanks again.