Conversion quality

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

The only reason being I can't seem to shorten the songs on pro tools and therefore when I have them in wav version the tracks don't run smoothly together because of space before and after songs.... Sad

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Also, for some reason my Nero won't let me burn .Wav onto a CD. I know that makes no sense, but it totally will not do it.....(But it has no problem burning mp3s......)

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

If the wav is anything but 16bit 44khz, Nero throws fits. If Windows Media Player can play it, and if Nero hasn't completely disabled the use of it, using Windows Media Player to burn the tracks to a disc actually works pretty good--the key is that Windows Media Player is able to play the files. It's not QUITE as picky as Nero is. Nero 7 is much better than Nero 6 at doing this.

When it comes to you saying that the space before and after the songs--I need to understand more about what you're doing:

Are you making a bunch of songs out of one huge sequence/recording?

If so, I'm actually not sure what to offer you as far as advice.

If not, you may want to make sure that you've set the start/end markers.

Either way, it still doesn't make any sense that it would export it as an mp3 as a different length of time than if it gets exported as a wav.

Another way to do it might be to bounce/export as a wav (stereo interleaved, remember that whether you're exporting as a wav or mp3 or ogg or whatever or it will actually be mono), then import that exported file into a program like Audacity (which is free) or Sound Forge and just cut the beginning and end off.

That's the one drawback of ProTools (at least 6.7 anyway) is that it doesn't seem to have a REAL built-in sample editor, which is really odd to me, but it seems to be the case.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Okay....maybe I can take care of this problem WITHIN pro tools after all. I wasn't aware that it had start/end markers.... Surprised

When it come to Pro Tools, I never read a manual or anything. I just started recording and messing around and seeing what happened..........and anyway, I wasn't aware I could do that........so I will give that a try.

Also, does audacity lower the quality of a .wav does it retain full quality?

THanks

Razz

Kizzume · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

Wav is an uncompressed format. Whatever program you use to edit it is NOT going to lower the quality. If you were working with a compressed format, like mp3, you WOULD have the potential of lowering the quality every time you edit it.

No worries about lowering the quality of a wav or aif.