Does FCP convert WAVs to AIFs?

[Michael Alberts]

This issue has been settled, but in the event you ever wanted to do large batch conversions from one audio format to another just create a simple droplet in Compressor and place it on the desktop. Whenever you have a batch of files just drop them on the droplet and voila. All done.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
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[Bret Williams]

FCP is going to convert anything you place in its sequence into whatever flavor of qt the sequence is set to, either upon render, item level render, audio mixdown, or during real time playback. That includes sample rate. As I mentioned before, only real time playback will benefit from converting before ingest, but if you going to do that, you might as well do an item level render instead. Its simpler and more convenient.

[Nayeli Garci-crespo]

OK, but sequence flavors don’t include being able to choose between WAV or AIF, do they? I mean, all you get to choose is the bit depth and the sample rate. And in film sound we work with 48KHz WAVs. So the question was if any conversion is going on, not of sample rate, but of the sound format (or as someone else put it, “wrapper”, as both are PCM files).

-Nayeli

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Nayeli,
Whatever audio you bring to FC time-line is converted to PCM. When you export a .mov, the audio is PCM.
So if you bring an AIFF or a WAV or a .mov, with the samebit depth and sample rate of your sequence the audio don’t need any kind of rendering at all.
Notice that the most of the Sequence and Capture presets are based on 16b/48Khz.because camcorders works with those standards.
There are some based in 24b/48Khz. Normally those are setting for capturing through video card.
Don’t waist your time in changing a AIFF to WAV or a WAV to AIFF.

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