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Exporting MP3s
My friend just got the Final Cut Studio set – FCP 5, Soundtrack Pro, compressor, etc. We have a need to convert some audio to MP3 format, and poked around all the tools, but couldn’t find a way to export to MP3. From what I’ve seen, the professional tool you have to use is- iTunes?!? Tell me it ain’t so…
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There’s not a single thing wrong with using iTunes.
It works perfectly, and is every bit as high-quality as a “high-priced” app.I make my house payments quite nicely as a video/audio professional with iTunes as one of my major tools.
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Sorry, I just think it’s a bit brain-dead to have to go outside your “studio” set of tools to generate an audio output format. I would have expected Soundtrack to have it at the least, maybe FCP too, or maybe even in Compressor. But I guess iTunes it is.
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If it makes you feel better, you can open up the Quicktime player to do it from there, too.
It’s the exact same stuff that’s running iTunes, but if you like the way it looks better you can certainly do it that way.
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shontz – I think you are soo right about having to leave FCP to create an mp3 – what gives?
You can create almost every other type of media using QT conversion – but not the most popular compressed audio format!?
And what about importing an mp3 – I put an mp3 on the timeline, render it and it sounds like **** – pops, dropouts, etc. Forgive me if I am missing something, but if I put a QT compatible audio file on the timeline and render it, why can’t it do as good of a job as QT or iTunes? If I take the same mp3, and export it as an AIFF in QT or iTunes or other conversion software, I get perfectly good results placing that AIFF on the timeline. Shouldn’t FCP’s render of my mp3 result in a similar file that plays back okay?
Okay thats my FCP rant for right now (more to follow)!
By the way, if you know how to fix the above issue, please let me know!Mike
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apple is a corporation(my favorite one). corporations do evil things- like leave something out of an application so that you’re forced to use another one of their applications to complete the job.
not logical, but profitable.
revolution.
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Seriously though, what I would love to hear is the technical reason why this doesn’t work.
Mike
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