>To: Webcinema@lists.ironclad.net.au
>Subject: Re: Producer Course Q - FCP and importing audio tracks from a cd
>Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2000, 6:10 PM>Why don't you just import right into fcp? Is there a difference in quality?
> I just use the file pull down in fcp, go to import, I think cd is an
>option, otherwise its the harddrive, it opens the cd, you can select tracks,
>or just part of a track, you can hear it. Then just import it... It shows
>up in the bin with a `speaker' symbol instead of a frame. Maybe theres an
>extra click or two, but its easy and it seems fine, is this other way
>supposed to be better?
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When you do this, you cannot set the sample rate of the audio file to
that of your FCP sequence, which means FCP will have to render it to 32k
or 48k in the sequence. The import "save" dialog will not have options
for 32k or 48k, but the "export" dialog in QT Player, for example, will.
When you import audio files that have been exported at 32k or 48k from
QT Player, you can import them right into FCP with MUCH less likelihood
of sample rate problems, because "rendering" them to 32 or 48 in the FCP
timeline can screw up in many ways that a mere sample rate conversion
export from QT Player won't. You "can" work with 44.1 audio in a 32k or
48k sequence, but I wouldn't do it without expecting problems, and I
would never do it on a really long project.
Plus, grabbing them outside of FCP allows simpler access to them for any
other editing, effects, web versions, or whatever, you may also want to
do with them. This isn't so much of an issue for people who only want to
slap a song off a CD as-is into a video project.
Steve Bennett
www.ifmp.net
