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Editing Audio in Final Cut Studio, Exporting for Web, iTunes
In terms of usability and quickness of editing, Final Cut Pro is my most comfortable and quick editor of audio, I navigate in it and find it much easier to use than Soundtrack Pro, I edit out commercials from local radio to be archived.
I like to put these out as “podcasts” and in compressing the audio, I have many options. Right now, putting the recordings down to 64 mbps I get good quality for what I’m doing, and a small file size.
Here are some questions dealing with 10 minutes of audio
1) Selecting “Quicktime Conversion”
and select mp4. Then, in the settings, I disable video, and only export the audio, at 64 kbps mono.
after exporting this I get a file size of 330 KB.If I then take this file into iTunes, and add a piece of artwork to it and some tags, iTunes then saves it as a file size of 5+ MB, which is unfortunate. How can I avoid this?
2) I export the same audio track out of FCP by using “Compressor” and select an audio setting essentially equivalent, 64 mpbs mono. I then get an error in the batch Monitor saying: “Failed 3x file service down.” Any idea why this is?
I wish to be able to edit this audio quickly, taking out commercials, and given it’s talk radio, voice, I don’t need huge files, but want to compress them as much as possible, and not have iTunes expand their size when I add tags and artwork to the file. Any recommendations? I hate the thought that the Best Audio/Video package Apple puts out doesn’t put out audio for such a thing as I desire as much as some Podcasting program (of which I’m not aware) might do.
I’d love to hear any ideas and comments on the best audio program for the mac on which to quickly edit out commercials, then export the whole file in a compressed format that includes tags and artwork. iTunes would do this for me, but it increases the file size remarkably, and I wish to avoid this.
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