• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  extracting best audio from cd

  Posted by Sam Turner on February 12, 2006 at 9:59 am

  i am puting together a music video and am curious to know what the best way of getting audio from a cd into fcp is

  i am curently using an mp3 converted to aiff for the editing, but when i get it ready for broadcast im guessing i should get a better quality soundtrack in there

  any ideas?

  thanks

  ds

  Gunleik Groven replied 20 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Gunleik Groven

  February 12, 2006 at 1:13 pm

  Rip it with quicktime as an 44.1 khz AIFF (16-bit) (not iTunes) and upsample to 48k with QT if you don’t have any other tools.

  Peak is accordind to some tests I’ve seen the cleanest samplerateconverter as far as adding dithering noise etc. That is the newest Peak that does not come as a free version with earlier versions of FCP.
  Much cleaner than QT and even dedicated software like Wavelab (PC)

  Gunleik
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  Walter Biscardi

  February 12, 2006 at 1:26 pm

  [sam turner] “i am curently using an mp3 converted to aiff for the editing, but when i get it ready for broadcast im guessing i should get a better quality soundtrack in there”

  Yeah, you don’t want to use mp3 for broadcast.

  Open the audio file in Quicktime Pro. Export that as an AIFF 48khz. I’ve been using this method for years now and you get excellent results.

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  February 12, 2006 at 1:33 pm

  [Gunleik Groven] “Rip it with quicktime as an 44.1 khz AIFF (16-bit) (not iTunes) and upsample to 48k with QT if you don’t have any other tools.”

  Absolutely nothing wrong with using iTunes to upsample a 44.1 kHz CD track to 48 kHz.
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  Gunleik Groven

  February 12, 2006 at 2:17 pm

  Like with all transcoding questions. That depends.
  Quicktime adds a lot of dithering noise in the samplerateconversion, and iTunes will, too as it uses the same engine.

  That said: I happily use this route a lot myself for convenience. And I don’t say it is bad, just that there are better ways.

  But I guess that when it has been ok to work with an mp3, you’re right all the way.

  Cheers!

  Gunleik
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  Gunleik Groven

  February 12, 2006 at 2:20 pm

  … eh … and one more thing: -;)

  … it was the “musicvideo” aspect of things that made me suggest the othwer route.- But probably he can get a finished 48k mix directly from the producer from a 24 or 32 bit master. That’s gonna sound better than the CD rip in most cases.

  Cheers!

  Gunleik

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