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mp3 on FCP 5
Does FCP 5 support mp3 files like aiff files ??
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15 Replies
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No but you can convert them in QuckTime Pro to aiffs…
Jerry
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Are you saying that you can’t import an MP3 directly into FCP and have FCP convert it to a usable QT file? I think even avid’s DV Express does that.
How could five versions of Final Cut be created without a freakin’ import option for one of the most popular audio storage formats? That has to be wrong.
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You can import them, it just doesn’t like them very much and there is some distortion. However, as has been pointed out, it’s a simple matter to convert the files in iTunes.
Arthur Vibert
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That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
I have the whole noise generator series (licensed!) backed up on (256mbps) MP3 because it would do a super-fast import on any avid I work on (Avid thinks Mp3’s are like quicktimes). I’d been thinking about making the move to FCP, but really, distortion? Not when I have 9000 sound effects to import….
Where was Apple’s brain when they decided we didn’t need MP3’s to play correctly?
That’s really funny.
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Their brain was on the iPod and the iTunes Music Store. MP3’s are specifically made not to work by dissallowing them to use RT-Extreme. It’s 100% political. MPEG2 video now works with RT-Extreme, but no MPEG audio.
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[John Davidson] “I have the whole noise generator series (licensed!) backed up on (256mbps) MP3”
What is the original source format for your effects?
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MP3 is a highly compressed format for consumers. It generally sucks as a pro format. FCP is a pro tool and only handles pro formats. No sound library I know of ever comes stock with MP3, no matter the compression. So I’m sure you still have the uncompressed files, don’t you?
The fact that you ripped it into a format that’s not useful ain’t Apple’s fault.
O&O-Gunner Productions
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Of course I have the CD’s, and of course a 256k mp3’s are completely fine for sound effects. It’s stupid not to be able to handle MP3’s correctly. As far as ‘pro’ is concerned, audio cd’s are samples as well – built at 44k, not the pro-level of 48k or higher. MP3’s are just better math. Perhaps we should all be digitizing straight from a record album just to ‘keep it real’.
I’m booked in Avid all over LA and don’t have time to spend 4 hours of my first session at each place digitizing in 7 cd’s of sound effects at $150 an hr. I dumped everything over to a dvd filled with all the sound effects into one pretty disc that loads everything in minutes. How I produce my ‘pro’ network elements is irrelevant to the real issue, though. The point is, what other limitations is apple building into it’s products in order to prop up other Apple applications? FCP is supposed to be the solution to another product with built-in limitations (Avid).
You are correct that FPC is a pro system though. Only pros could make a mistake like this.
I really still can’t believe they did that. HDV? Let’s start with MP3 first and work our way up. Sheesh!
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Keep your SFX in mp3. I’m assuming you don’t need to ever use all of them in one project. So keep it portable and if the mac has FCP it’s got quicktime as well, open the one’s you want in QT and export them as waves or another format. It takes all of 10 sec. I’m sure your workflow can handle that.
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Wow, you sound very angry over your mp3’s.
I can hear the difference in mp3 over aif files. Maybe sfx don’t matter as much, but music sure loses something (unless it’s britney spears or something, of course).
But, to be honest, I’d hate for Apple to make mp3’s an issue over many other possible things to work on.
Just get the mp3’s you need and do a batch export over a coffee break, if that’s easier than grabbing them off the original CD. Just an idea.
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