Hello fellow Sonarians,
 
I screwed up something. I wanted to touch up an older tune of mine, a wave file, and so I imported it into Sonar. After some treatment, (normalization and sparse EQ, I mixed and exported it (for use in a video editor).
 
BUT, it now is a "VLC media file (wav) and has a 2,822 bit rate (DVD)" A four minute wave file at about 98 MB (twice as big, I guess, because of the doubled bit rate).
 
Any ideas on where I screwed up? 
Any help is appreciated,
Ray

VLC media player is an application for playing audio and video files. I assume that your Windows installation is telling you that it is a "VLC media file." That would indicate that you probably have installed VLC player and set the actual file type to be played by VLC player as a default. Uninstalling a program will not automatically break the file type association in Windows. 
 
So what you really have is not a VLC file but probably a video file. if it is an audio file, I doubt that you have a bit rate of 2,822, and that is based primarily on the fact that bit rate only applies to compressed audio files like MP3. A wave file has a bit depth (sometimes called width) and a sample rate, and 2822 is an impossibly large number for any combination of bit rate (compressed files) or sample rate or bit depth in any standard audio format. Look at the file in Windows explorer and see what the file extension is .wav .mp3, .avi, .wmv, MPEG-2 etc. I can't come up with any simple arithmetic relationship that would give you 2822 if a wave file were being mislabeled as an MP3, so most likely it is being interpreted as a video file like mpeg. If so you probably inadvertently exported as video: file>export>video.