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Extracting Audio from CD
I’m using Vegas Movie Studio 9. I’ve extracted some music from a CD. Just a personal use video. After 4 songs the extracting slows way down. Am I trying to extract more than I can, whether limited by my computer or the program. Is there a limit on how much audio from CD I can use?
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David, you’re only limited by your computer.
I’ve stuck in production music CDs and told it to extract 30 or more tracks and it does it without any problems so I’m not sure what’s going on with your computer.
When was the last time you did a good cleaning?
Dust buildup inside of a computer can cause things t heat up which will slow most operations down, sometimes significantly.
DO you have enough room on your hard drive?
Where are you capturing the files to?
If it’s C:\My Documents, I recommend changing it to a different folder, preferably on a different hard drive.
Keep background applications (eg. internet and anti-virus, especially if it’s Norton) to a minimum during tasks such as this. -
Mike, Thanks for your response. I think there’s enough room on the harddrive. I’ve changed to an external harddrive. I’m not sure yet about the dust. I’m going to try another way to add audio… I notice that MP4 format is a lot smaller in size than wav. Can I use MP4 or will that screw up the playback on DVD players? David
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David, unfortunately WAV is the only format that the “Extract Audio from CD” option lets you save it in.
You can always use another tool to do this as Vegas will import almost any audio format there is 🙂
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I’m making a video from a trip I took. I’m adding music with parts of the video. I’m sure the file is getting pretty large especially with WAV format music. If I use MP3 music, or MP4 music that will save room, which I assume helps fit the file on a DVD. Is it possible that MP3 music will not play on a regular DVD player? Addressing your last question. Why would one want to make DVD with just audio clips? Couldn’t those only be played on a DVD player?
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You can use MP3 or MP4s if that’s what you want.
When you encode your DVD files, it all gets converted to AC-3 format anyway.
There is a small quality hit (AC-3 re-compresses to save file space) doing it this way so most folks prefer to start with WAV format.
Odds are you won’t notice it so don’t worry about it.Some folks like to create a DVD audio disc as it’ll hold a LOT more songs than a DVD will.
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