importing songs to FCP5

[Captain Mench]

FCP doesn’t want to handle the compression you have on your audio. Yes, the sample rate might be 44.1, but I’ll be they’re acc or mp3.

Change to aif and export back out of iTunes… set your itunes preferences to encode at AIFF (might as well go for 48k 16 bit because that’s what DV is anyway.

Then let it encode. I use the show in finder feature and then drag that file directly into my browser window inside FCP.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Shane Ross]

#5 Imported music from CD or iTunes

Shane’s Stock Answer #5:

To get music into FCP, it needs to be an AIFF file at 48khz, 16 bit stereo. So if you want a song from a CD, you go into the iTunes Preferences and set this up under the IMPORTING tab:

File > preferences > importing > import using – AIFF encoder > Setting – Custom
Sample Rate – 48.000 kHz
Sample size – 16 bit
Channels – Stereo

If you have an mp3 that you want to use, then you can convert it thru iTunes as well.

If the piece of music you want to use is something you purchased thru iTunes, I’m afraid I can’t help you there. There are copywrite issues that prevent files from being converted into the format that FCP can recognize.

Shane

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Enzo Tedeschi]

You can also convert using Quicktime.

There is a very simple workaround for getting DRM stuff into FCP, but I don’t know what the legalities are over there, so I will refrain from listing it here.

Legally no different to ripping something from CD?? Anyone?

[Sergio Deustua]

you can also import the song directly from the cd, without using itunes. That is copying the song to desktop or somwhere else and from there you imported from fc.

[Tom Wolsky]

Don’t do this. The song will be either in the wrong format and/or the wrong the sample rate.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD