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Best Option settign for Podcasting
I’m wanting to get the best possible file quality for speech, but yet compress it for download on-line, and having that file hold tags out of iTunes.
Any recommendations on what program to do this with? I have AIFF files that I edit in FCP, export and clean up some things in Soundtrack, and from there save it once again as a .aiff, take it into iTunes, and “convert to aac” adding in information, including “album artwork”
Is this a poor workflow in the mind of any of you? What program is the fastest that any of you use to edit sound files? I use FCP becaue of familiarity.
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You might be able to save yourself the bounce to AIF out of Soundtrack by just exporting to Compressor and choosing an AAC preset. You can then tag the file in iTunes.
You would be able to have more power over the editing if you could use an audio app to edit, but I totally hear you about using FCP since you know it. Could you do everything in Soundtrack? That again would save you an “export to Soundtrack” and shave off a little time and disk space.
I just find Soundtrack a little lacking in a few basic features, things I know FCP can do easily (or at least I know how to do them in FCP…)
Have you looked at Audacity for what you’re doing? It’s free and has the great LAME mp3 encoder. Plus, you can add basic text tags within the program. It might take you an afternoon to figure it out, but it’s pretty intuitive.
https://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Good luck!
Jon
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Fort Collins, CO USACurrently producing these popular podcasts:
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