itunes music on audio track

[Jeremy Lee]

go into your preferences in itunes and set the encoding option to “aiff”. Then control click on the song in your library and go down to convert song to “aiff”. This will get rid of the popping.
-jeremy

[Jeremy Lee]

by the way…
the encoding options are located in the “importing” tab in itunes…

[Bret Williams]

You have to convert it to an aiff. The only way to lose the protection is to burn a cd, then import the file from the cd. I don’t believe itnues will simply let you export an aiff file.

So for that tidbit I get my disclaimer….
As far as copyright goes, I’m not accusing you individually, but your criteria for usage of copywritten material is incorrect. By your criteria IBM could use copywritten mateial for internal company communication videos. They cannot. Even though it’s not for public consumption or broadcast. In fact, they’d be the first to get sued because they’d be worth going after due to their wallet. It also doesn’t matter if you don’t profit from it. If you created a thousand demo reels with copywritten music you might think you took a loss from all the printing costs. But if you get one new client because they enjoyed your demo reel then you’ve profited. Not to meniton broken all sorts of synchronization laws. Even tv stations with blanket licenses don’t usually have synchronization rights.

Not saying I’m a saint or anything. Copyright law is always a good topic. We all fudge things here and there. But we should know WHEN we’re breaking the law so we can evaluate the risks.

[Bret Williams]

Oh, yeah, sorry the CD burn thing is only going to be applicable to stuff bought on the itunes music store. But I just assume that if you’re trying to use a .m4a in your sequence then you don’t have the actual CD available. Otherwise you’d be copying and importing the file right off the CD as is the correct way to import music into FCP.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bret Williams] “So for that tidbit I get my disclaimer….
As far as copyright goes, I’m not accusing you individually, but your criteria for usage of copywritten material is incorrect. By your criteria IBM could use copywritten mateial for internal company communication videos. They cannot. Even though it’s not for public consumption or broadcast. In fact, they’d be the first to get sued because they’d be worth going after due to their wallet. It also doesn’t matter if you don’t profit from it. If you created a thousand demo reels with copywritten music you might think you took a loss from all the printing costs. But if you get one new client because they enjoyed your demo reel then you’ve profited. Not to meniton broken all sorts of synchronization laws. Even tv stations with blanket licenses don’t usually have synchronization rights.”

Good post Bret. Our own Ron Lindeboom as started a fantastic series on Copyright which should be required reading for everyone.

https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=%3CFORUMID%3E&page=/articles/lindeboom_ron/basics_of_copyrights_pt1/index.html

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

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“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Jeffrey Weiser]

No guys. You’re jumping the gun. This is for my own enjoyment. In my own office. I was curious to see HOW it was done.

[Walter Biscardi]

[jeff weiser] “No guys. You’re jumping the gun. This is for my own enjoyment. In my own office. I was curious to see HOW it was done.”

if it’s for your own enjoyment, just play the music in itunes.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Jeffrey Weiser]

Great. How do you play against picture in itunes? If you want to show a composer how a track should feel for his inspiration, against picture, you would do this in FCP and not be breaking break a single law. End of thread.

[Michael Peele]

Jeez…so you want to know how to use an .mp3 or an .m4a in FCP?
Go to dougscripts.com and get the convert and export script.

https://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=convertandexport

Install script.

Now go to preferences and set your import option to AIFF, 48KHz, 16Bit. Get out of preferences and then go back in and change your import back to what you like – m4a or mp3 or whatever. Get out of preferences.

Choose the file, run the script, choose AIFF in the popup window, hit okay, choose the destination of your file.

Bam – the script uses the iTunes conversion engine, pumps out an AIFF, moves it to your selected destination and deletes the AIFF from your library.

This has worked wonderfully for us. I am not sure if it will work on a an .m4p (DRM protected file). If it does not, follow earlier instructions to burn to CD and then re-import. Then proceed with above instructions.

Mike Peele

[Bret Williams]

If you computer speakers are separate from your FCP speakers you can press play in itunes, then switch over to FCP and hit play. Not perfect, but it’s a great way to quickly test out music. iTunes will happily play along while FCP plays.

Waaaay OT – I remember having a video cube setup where we didn’t have a CD player in the room. There wasn’t any way to convert cd tracks back then or import aiffs, so we would run the speaker out from the mac into the audio in port on the video cube card. We’d hit play in the mac CD player, then switch over to the digitize tool in the cube and hit capture.

So that was 1993! Yikes!