Protools WAV into PPro2

[Steven L. gotz]

It is audio that is manipulated into 32 bit, not the video.

[Victorypoint]

Okay, that’s really disturbing. I went through a careful process of dithering the audio from 24-bit to 16-bit in Protools to avoid truncation and round-off. Then PPro2 will increase the bit depth from 16 to 32 on import and then decrease it from 32 to 16 on export? I’m not doing an audio editing in PPro2! Why am I forced to screw around with the bit depth? This is dangerous as the whole 16-32-16 conversion could introduce distortion and interpretation errors. Is PPro2 dithering on export?

-AJ

[Steven L. gotz]

Too deep a discussion for me. Perhaps an audio guru will chime in. To my knowledge there is no harm in going to 32 and back to 16. I could be wrong.

[Mark Palmos]

I dont know the answer to your question, but i am curious, why are you doing a mix in protools anyway? PP’s audio tools are superb – certainly do more than what I have ever demanded of a mix.

Mark.

[Victorypoint]

Well, for starters, Protools in an industry standard in professional recording and movie studios. I really don’t think PPro2 can come close in that regard. I use Protools to record and mix bands at 24-bit 95kHz, then dither their songs down to DVD specs (48kHz, 16-bit).

-AJ

-Alan

[Lei Jing]

I understand what you feel,but i think you’re using Premiere the wrong way.
You chose a DV format the export,then you must follow the DV rules,
Most of the DV playback device doesn’t support sample rate higher than 48KHz,and bitrate hight than 16bits
so if you export your project this way,it’s the FORMAT cut your rate down,not Premiere.

My suggestion is to export the video/audio seperatly,you will see the right setting when export audio.

Then you might sych them back together using your DVD authorizing software.

[Victorypoint]

That didn’t make any sense. But thanks anyway.

-AJ

-Alan

[Mark Palmos]

i guess I ask becauce the audio tools in PP seem to be highly under-rated.
mark

[Curtoid]

” I’ve importing some WAV files into a PPro NTSC DV project.” From your original post did not make sense either, but thanks anyway! Did you mean “you’ve been importing”?

[Victorypoint]

I agree Mark, PPro and Audition’s audio tools are improving dramatically. However, Protools is the industry standard and it’s what I use in my recording studio. I’ll do some tests to see if PPro is messing with my Protools audio. My hope is that PPro’s 16-32-16-bit conversion keeps my audio prestine and unaffected. If anyone else has experience with this issue, I’d sure like to hear from you.

-AJ