Bit Rate Dumb Down

For better quality, I was downloading using higher bitrate. Realize now, battery burn on IPOD is too fast. Would like to dumb down from higher Bitrate to 128, without rebuilding Itunes Library. Anyway to convert already downloaded tunes from e.g. 320 to 128?
thanks in advance......

Thanks for all your help, David S, but the point is
that I have tried many different bit rates, from 4.0
to 7.0, and I don't have time to waste all day trying
different bit rates for an 8-minute project.
My main question is: Why would it work fine on all
of my other short projects, including the 8-minute
one, and then when I cut out 20 seconds of that same
project, it starts screwing up!?!
I am going to try trashing my preferences. It is
starting to seem like a corrupt pref file to me.
It turned out to be a corrupt pref file, as I thought. Thanks for your many, many questions, David S.

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Buy FCE? Mixed formats? Mixed bit-rates?

Hello All,
History:
I ran into a very depressing reality about a year ago in iMovie (9). I came to realize that the project I spent months on had dv video with mixed 12 & 16. I ended up with the most depressing sound issues. I don't want to get into the history now and here. I am very tired of people telling me that I needed to record at 16, etc. etc. I know that now but that doesn't do anything to the large number of video files I have, some in 12 and some in 16. I have way too many to export back to the dv and reimport at 16. I am not hung up on the sound quality... if its a little fuzzy, fine. I can deal with that much better that it utterly messing up my "art" and basically stopping me in my tracks from doing what I want to do.
To complicate things, I no longer use that camcorder that I bought a decade ago. I now have Canon Vixia HF S200 (Imovie 9 support says: Canon VIXIA HF S200 - AVCHD dile format - Issues w/ Memory Video stabilization limitations and Filming in Cinema or 24p mode more... ).
I have spent hours and hours perusing forums, blogs, etc trying to figure out how to deal with my dv files with mixed bit-rates. But I still have no idea what program could help me with that...
1. First I was looking for a video converter to convert all my dv in 12 bit to 16 bit. I don't want a lesson in what I should have done... Is this possible? Can I just take my 12 bit .dv file and convert to .mov in 16? Quicktime Pro? Roxio? In FCE? I really need confirmation on this.
2. Do I even need to do #1? Does FCE allow me to use video in Avchd, avi, mov, dv (IN 12 BIT AND 16 BIT) in one project? If not, what would one suggest? (that is for a hobbiest and doesn't need the highest quality but maybe simplest route?)
3. I can "make do" in iMovie, but would be excited to get at least FCE for more options and expand my hobby/desire in art. I'd like ideas on how to move forward in the most effective and logical way. We are pretty slow in our house to modernize. We just got a PS3, but don't plan on burning to blu-ray, at least not yet as a lot of our family doesn't have it and I will burn to standard DVD and youtube most often. I understand that my HD camcorder might have to be dumbed down in quality (still better than what I had)? So thoughts with that might be useful before I get too far ahead of myself but also leave myself room for growth.
I hope on spending $250 to get what I want need. But if there is a much more streamline way to deal with this for $500 or $1000, taxes are coming back, and I could make it work even if it stings, a lot. And although I don't really want to (or am I able to) spend money on this, this is my main hobby and my familiy depends on my renderings as well for preservation of family history, etc. Please advise.
Thanks in advance!

I am neuviemmefemme too...
When I wrote:
I don't want a lesson in what I should have done...
What I mean is each time I have gone searching and read blogs of others who have this same problem or when I have asked for help, all I had found was the response "well you should have recorded at 16 bit". Yes, gotcha. Noted. I am continually learning from my mistake because I am only learning from trial and error, self-direction, manuals, and people telling me what I have done wrong. But, if all one EVER says is "well you shuda recorded at 16 bit audio" and no constructive help on how to work with the error of having all this video with 12 bit audio and to move forward, I'm not going to get anywhere. I got it, I recorded at 12 and should have at 16. (I don't even have a camera that records in 12 bit anymore...) And yet, I am still stuck with hours and hours of digital video embedded with 12 bit audio and an extensive project that I spent months on that will be tossed in the trash if I can't figure out how to convert videos with 12 bit audio to 16 (or find out if it is even possible and with what software) so that all the video clips can co-exist in this project together (all in the 16 bit range).
So back to your constructive help - I'm finally getting somewhere. You are saying that QuickTime Pro will allow me to convert my .dv files with 12 bit audio to another video format that has 16 bit audio. (AIFF suggested?). Should I expect a loss in sound quality? (which is fine, just curious).
I do not understand when you say the iMovie captures as DV (.dv) stream and FCE cannot use that format w/o conversion. I thought that iMovie projects could go directly into FCE for further editing, etc? Will the project be prompted to be converted? I am not understanding this...
In your second point, you write that FCE works natively with DV (quicktime) and AIC. Does AIC=AIFF? In 1 you mention that I should convert to AIFF so that FCE can work with it natively?
It seems I need further understanding of the different file formats. I haven't been able to fully understand what makes the different formats names different other than some work in some and some work in others, but it doesn't make much sense to me and I'm not really sure what will work in one or the other? Is there a resource that explains this well?
And finally, FCE doesn't work with .mov or .avi? ("All other formats must be converted prior to importing into an FCE project"?)
Thank you very much for your help
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Can no longer change bit rate in AAC custom import settings

I've been re-ripping all my CDs at the new higher bit rate. My import settings were AAC Encoder -- custom, originally set to 256 kbps, VBR, and auto for the other two settings. However, some CDs I wanted at a lower setting, so I would go change the bit rate to either 192 or 224 (just so I'd have more room on my ipod) and there wouldn't be a problem. But now it's stuck -- the pop-up box no longer opens when I choose import settings, AAC Encoder, Custom, so I can't change the bit rate or anything else, and it's stuck on 224 kbps. I can still change bit rate and other settings in the custom menus for MP3, WAV, etc., just not AAC. A repair install of iTunes did not fix the problem.

Hi, Ed. I am running iTunes 9.0.3.15. When I click custom, the settings description in the details box display what they were before this thing happened = 112 kbps (mono)/224 kbps (stereo), VBR, optimized for MMX/SSE2. The pop-up dialogue box that used to appear (where you could choose the specific bit rate from the drop down menu) does not appear at all.
However, when I choose anything other than AAC Encoder, and then pick custom, the pop-up box appears and I can choose the bit rate and adjust the other settings as usual. It's just not happening for AAC Encoder anymore. Since the total un-install (following Apple's specified order) and reinstall didn't work, I'm baffled how to fix this .... (If it makes a difference, I changed the bit rate in the custom box while a CD was being burned...Apparently that was stupid, but I had done it previously without incident.) Thanks.

How can I download music from itunes store at a higher bit rate than 128k?

I have been able to import music from cd's at bit rates higher than 128kbs by clicking into the preferences item under the "edit" drop down menu. however, I have not been able to locate a similar command for itunes music downloads. is it possible to increase the bitrate of music downloads from itunes faster than 128kbps? if so, how?
gateway Windows XP AMD 64

No, store downloads have always been ONLY 128 kbps. With new deal between EMI & Apple, sometime next month you will be able to download EMI artists only at a higher bitrate without the DRM, for a slightly higher price. For now, though, all downloads are still 128 kbps. Your import settings only affect the CD's you rip your self. Hope this helps.

If I have converted my purchased iTunes songs to a lower bit rate what will happen when I join iTunes match? Will they match up or will these be stored as duplicates of the same song?

If I have converted my purchased iTunes songs to a lower bit rate what will happen when I join iTunes match? Will they match up or will these be stored as duplicates of the same song?
I ask because I primarily use my work laptop which has limited space so I usually convert my purchases to 160k from 256k in order to save space. I want to sign up for iTunes Match but I'd like to know before I do so I can understand how I will have to set up my library.

crichton007 wrote:
What I may do is start a brand new library there, copy my tracks from my work laptop using Home Share and then the script to get things in sync before starting over again there too.
Why create a new library? Just add the tracks from the laptop to the existing library on the Mac.
crichton007 wrote:
I was just hoping to hear definitively whether or not there was some sort of intelligence built into iTunes Match that would match these up...
How do you mean? If you down-convert purchased tracks you've fundamentally changed the files so iTunes can no longer recoginize them as "purchased." And, indeed, they no longer are since they are brand new files. Of course these new files will only be "matched" or "uploaded."

Bit Rate Viewer bad, but plays fine?

Hi there,
For people who have helped me in the past with this problem, i thank you.
I finaly got it to play fine on a DVD player in which i could not get it to work on before.
However when i look at it in Bit Rate viewer program, the needles drop like crazy but it plays fine should i be worried?

Someone here once thought they knew EFI and Open Firmware a little, and used some commands from OF library that an Intel EFI Apple system didn't like. New logicboard.
Of course to run or boot OS X and see video you need EFI based card. The presence of some PC cards can block OS X from booting.
The fact you get part way through SL DVD, pull all the drives, put in a new drive and format it from SL DVD.
Most of the things you tried are what are more common with PC hardware. Including where people have tried and failed to install OS X on unsupported hardware.
I suppose it is possible something tried and failed to modify the Mac's firmware.
If you have Windows running, and you have WD drives, WD just posted new Lifeguard utility which is what I use to do a good job of stripping a drive down and recertify it for reuse, works wonders. Maybe same for other makes with vendor utility.

Bit Rate Conversion

Okay so at the moment all my songs are at 256 kbps. They all sounds great never had any problems with that but i compressed them down to much smaller sizes even 96kbps and didn't notice a difference through headphones, my speakers on the iMac or my iPod touch speakers. Is there actually any difference in quality because i can't hear a thing different and it seems pretty pointless since i can half the size of all my tracks...

i'm just wondering if i play it loudly on large speakers if it will make a big difference
Again, it depends on your ears and the speakers. I can easily hear the difference between 96kps and 256kbps, even with earbuds, but your mileage may vary.
128kbps might be a good compromise. But if 96kbps works for you, why worry about it? You can always reimport the CDs at a higher bit rate if you find that at some point down the road you want better quality. If you're working with tracks purchased from the iTunes Store, you should be keeping backups of them at their original quality as well, so the same applies.

Unwanted automatic decrease in bit-rate upon saving. How do I fix this?

Hello all,
After a recent, unexpected computer crash, Audition seems to have lost all of my previously programmed presets and preferences causing one quirk in particular I wish to fix as soon as possible. Please help!!
When working with any MP3 file, as I make changes to the file in Edit view and simply hit ctrl+s, every time I do so a message prompt comes up saying "You may be saving to a compressed (lossy) format. Be sure to keep a backup of your original file if you wish to preserve full audio fidelity." After that, it proceeds to save the changes while at the same time decreases the bit-rate of the file to between 80-96kbps down from 128, 192, etc. It has never done this before, usually it would just make the save without altering the bit-rate also. I'm searching the menus everywhere to find a checkbox that I may have had un-checked before but has gone back to the default since the crash, but can find nothing. I really do not want this automatic downsampling to continue, in order to get around it I have to Save As every time, which makes for a lot more work having to delete the old copies and keep track of which are the edited versions I wish to keep. I work with tons of files, so this gets difficult.
I am using Adobe Audition 3.0 Build 7283.0 on a Vista PC.
I can't thank you enough for any help you might be able to offer. Here's a screenshot of the message itself: http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8558/ausc.jpg
Melissa R.

Hello SteveG,
Thank you for your prompt reply. Ah yes, I am aware of such a feature in the mp3 options menu, but do you know why my copy of Audition is behaving in this way and how I can get it back to the way it was? Saving As does save the file with the criteria I prefer, but it creates an extra copy that I'd like to avoid since cleaning up the previous versions of each file that are no longer needed can take a lot of work since the folders that contain them I work with are very large, having to be searched by hand to remove the unedited copies.
As where if I hit Save before it would just overwrite the file avoiding creating two of the same file (one with edits the other without), leaving its bit-rate intact instead of reducing it by as much as half at times. Having that aspect of Audition working again would be very helpful!
Thanks again,
Melissa R.

Encoding at different bit-rate that preset says?

Greetings,
I've run into a strange issue where Compressor 2 seems to be encoding at a different bit rate than that which I selected.
I have a 113min video sequence from FCP 5 that I am trying to encode to Mpeg-2 for a DVD5. I originally went in and selected the Best Quality 120min preset. I ended up with a 6.1GB .m2v file. I then went back in and customized a preset which brought the bit rate down to 3.9Mbps and max at 7.0Mbps, 2 pass VBR, best motion estimation. I then ended up with a 5.94GB file. THis was driving me nuts! When I pulled the m2v file up in an inspector window I noticed that it said it was actually encoded at 7.43Mbps not 3.9??
Has anyone seen this issue? This sequence takes 5hrs to encode on my G5 and I need to deliver this project on Wednesday. I'm running out of window's to test it out!
Many thanks!
Regards,
Dave Mungai
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Dual 2.7 GHX PowerPC G5, 3.5GB RAM

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Can no longer change bit rate in AAC custom import setting

I want to change personal settings of AAC, but I can't. Still only the last setting, that was 192 Kbps Stereo. My iTunes version is 10.7

Hi, Ed. I am running iTunes 9.0.3.15. When I click custom, the settings description in the details box display what they were before this thing happened = 112 kbps (mono)/224 kbps (stereo), VBR, optimized for MMX/SSE2. The pop-up dialogue box that used to appear (where you could choose the specific bit rate from the drop down menu) does not appear at all.
However, when I choose anything other than AAC Encoder, and then pick custom, the pop-up box appears and I can choose the bit rate and adjust the other settings as usual. It's just not happening for AAC Encoder anymore. Since the total un-install (following Apple's specified order) and reinstall didn't work, I'm baffled how to fix this .... (If it makes a difference, I changed the bit rate in the custom box while a CD was being burned...Apparently that was stupid, but I had done it previously without incident.) Thanks.

Export Settings - Minimum Bit Rate Question (MPEG2-DVD)

Hi,
Curious...just came over recently from FCP and I don't remember Compressor giving me an option to adjust the MINIMUM bit rate when exporting HD projects for DVD. I figured I'd just leave it where the preset has it (at 2.8mbps minimum)...BUT...then I hovered over it and saw an interesting popup/explanation of what it does which kind of confuses me. It says:
Higher values set a higher minimum quality, but reduce quality of more difficult scenes.
The first part makes sense so I figured I'd raise it...but then the second part makes me think I should keep it low. Sort of confuses me. Any thoughts??? FYI: My projects are Weddings with a fair amount of action, etc.
Normally, these are my settings depending unless I can't fit the project onto the disc in which case I adjust:
DVD
CBR at 7.5mbps
...or...
VBR 2pass
Target Bit Rate: About 6.8 or 7mbps
Max Bit Rate: Usually 8mbps
BLURAY
VBR 2pass
Target Bit Rate: 25mbps
Max Bit Rate: 30mbps
Unless someone tells me that I should raise these settings higher for better quality output (if the project size allows of course) these are what I've been using to get maximum quality out of my videos without jepordizing playback due to bit rate max for each media (which I think I read was 10mb and 40 or 50mbps respectively. I was just thrown by the minimum bit rate description above.
Thank you in advance for your help!

The whole notion of a minimum bitrate is crazy unless you have specific broadcast requirements that require you to pad out video to keep the connection alive.
If the encoder can express the image with zero loss in less than the minimum bitrate why would you pad it with zeros to get the bitrate high enough to meet the min?
The idea of a nominal/average bitrate is easy to understand.
The Maximum bitrate is often misunderstood though.
On some encoders the max rate sets the wiggle room (max - average) that can be used if there is a burst of required information.
On other encoders it sets the maximum rate at which the video buffer is allowed to fill as per the specifications. eg Blu-ray is capped at 40Mbps. The Video encode itself MAY EXCEED THAT 40Mbps for a split second but will only LOAD into the video buffer at up to 40Mbps.
For example, if you set constant bitrate at 20Mbps and no Maximum rate when the video first starts loading from the blu-ray disc to the video buffer it loads faster than the blu-ray maximum of 40Mbps. Thus you MUST have a maximum rate defined (for blu-ray compliance) even though it's a constant bitrate. Some encoders do this for you but some leave it up to the user to get right (and thus should provide a max slider and constant slider to set both).
Jeff- absolutely agree. It's very rare that you need to use all 40Mbps available to you. 20 and 30 can look great (depending on the detail in the sceen and how much motion there is).
VBR 2-pass does have value if you're trying to get down to lower rates like 10Mbps to fit a long title on a disc. If you don't action shots with sceen cuts will leave artifacts as they are bit starved.
I'm actually a big fan of Constant _Quality_ (CQ) vs CBR or VBR. You then know what quality you're going to get on every frame and from experience will know how big it will come out to be. CQ is also considerably faster to render because you have no rate control computations to do. x264pro has a CQ option for this very reason.
hope that helps.

Target & Max Bit Rate - A Little confusing Need file to be 15 GB Blu-Ray Help????

I have a 2 and a half hour project on PPro CS 5.5 that I want to encode in H.264 Blu-Ray. I want to get it to 15 GB.
What woud be the best settings to do so?
The Target Bit Rate and Max Bit Rate have a lot to do with it, but I am a little confused on what each of them really do.
I just want to get it to 15 GB and make sure the Estimated file size somewhat accurate.
Is 15 GB too big for a Blu-Ray?
Thanks in advance
PPro CS 5.5
Media Encoder 5.5.
Thanks in advance

Hi Jeff,
I just started to build just my menus with my QT files inside of them as a "Build to Folder."
I think I know why it's saying 7.1 GB used.
Since the menus in Encore stop and loop after 30 seconds, I did not like that.
I like to play a full song on each menu and then when the song ends, it starts again. If I did that on a standard 30 second menu in Encore, the song would stop every 30 seconds and start again. This was not acceptable to me.
This does not happen in DVD Studio Pro. In DVD Studio Pro, I can put in a full song with Videos in Video Zones, change the loop time to the length of that song, and the menu would play that song, and loop again when it was over.
I wanted to do this in Encore, so I had to make the menus a little longer than the song I wanted to put in them. I did that.
1) I went into After Effects with the background of the menu I wanted to use.
2) It comes in as a .psd file.
3) I then stretched it out to a length a little longer than the song. (For exaample, I'm using a song that is 4 minutes and 50 seconds, so I stretched out the background of that menu to 5 Minutes.)
4) I then rendered out that newly made 5 minute menu out of After Effects, using H.264 1440 x 1080i, 29.97 High Quality.
5) I then brought that newly made 5 minute background back into Encore and placed it over the original 30 second background in Encore.
6) Now the song and the videos inside the "Video Drop Zones" will loop until the song is over, stop, then the song will start again and the videos keep on looping. Just like in DVD Studio Pro
For this particular job I did this 6 times (1 for each sub-menu) depending on the length of the song I am using for each menu.
1) The first sub-menu is a 5 minute menu which, when rendered in After Effects, came out to be 1.5 GB Big
2) The second menu is a 4 minute menu which came out to be 1.2 GB
3) The third is a 4 and a half minute menu which is 1.35 GB
4) The fourth is a 3 and a half minute menu which is 1.05 GB
5) The fifth menu is another 4 minute menu which is 1.2.GB
6) The sixth menu is a 7 minute menu which is 2.1 GB.
When you add them up it actually comes out to be 8.4 GB just the menus without any videos in them.
So Encore has already compressed them down a little.
It's not the videos that are taking up much space, but these menus.
Since I am building my job in Encore to a folder, I want to see what the actual size comes out to be after it's compressd. This will give me an idea of how big I can make my 2 and a half hour wedding. The Target and Max Bit rate.
I hope that sheds some light on why Encore is saying that the menus and QT files are taking up 7.1 GB already.
I wish there was another way that I can have my menus play for the length of any song without having to go into After Effects and stretch each menu to accomodate the length of a particular song. This takes up a lot of space, but it's the way I like to make my menus.
Thanks again

Sample & bit rate

I have a two part question:
1) I have a Presonus Firebox that allows me to record up to 24 bit/96k. I am wonder if I should take advantage of this and use those settings in audio midi setup for when I record into GrarageBand? Is it worth the extra file size? Is there a noticeable quality gain? Will 96k work with GB?
2) I know GB is only 16 bit and that CD's that it will be mixed to are at 16 bit/44.1 kHz. But what about if I record a song in GB at 24 bit/96k, mix down to iTunes, and put it on my ipod as an AIFF will the increased quality show up there? What about on an Audio DVD made from itunes with iDVD.
Thanks for any info and/or opinions,
Paul

Not that it's relevant in the context of GarageBand, but it might be useful to clarify the effect of sample rate and bit depth.
The sample rate affects the frequency response. it is mathematically impossible for a sampling system to correctly render any frequency at or above half the sampling rate (trying to do so produces false frequencies - 'birdies ' - known as aliasing). 44.1kHz effectively limits your frequency response to about 21 kHz, 48kHz to about 23 kHz, and so on.
The bit depth affects the noise floor: 16-bit gives a theoretical noise floor of about -90dB below peak: 24-bit gives a theoretical noise floor of about -138dB below peak. -90 is pretty well inaudible: but remember that when adding tracks together the noise, being random, is added (3dB per track if they are the same level when mixed - of course the peak level increases too). The digital noise, if it becomes audible, is far more annoying in its sound than good old-fashioned tape hiss.
In practice, GB's restriction to 44.1/16-bit isn't really that much of a problem: of course 96/24 would be better, but you gets what you paid for!
Incidentally, don't confuse bit depth with bit-rate, which is a combination of the sampling rate and the bit depth, and is fixed for uncompressed files: but of course as you compress files with MP3 or similar you reduce the bit-rate by leaving out information, even though the sampling rate is the same.

Display file type, bit rate, sample rate in 12.0.1?

I just upgraded to 12.0.1 running on an old dual quad core running OS10.7.5
I used to be able to customize the ID3 tag fields when displaying my music library.
One important aspect was to view the file type, bit rate, and sample rate as I'm a band/audio producer.
I can now only view those things when I "get info" on each song. This is really painful as I'd like to see a list of all my songs and be able to easily see those 3 fields and sort by them.
Is there a way or did Apple remove this ability therefore making my experience of using iTunes be pretty much ruined?
any help would be much appreciated! thanks...
.k.

One important aspect was to view the file type, bit rate, and sample rate as I'm a band/audio producer.
I can now only view those things when I "get info" on each song. This is really painful as I'd like to see a list of all my songs and be able to easily see those 3 fields and sort by them.
Is there a way or did Apple remove this ability therefore making my experience of using iTunes be pretty much ruined?
Symbion,
The ability is still there, but it is enabled differently.
In Songs view, click the drop-down at the upper right Then click the next drop-down called "Show Columns," as shown below. There, you can pick the columns you want to display, including sample rate, etc.

Audio bit rate (kbps) and file size balance

I'm new to Flash, and I'm trying to decide how to set the bit
rate (kbps) for my audio files.
I'm creating PowperPoint-like presentations with voice audio.
You can see what I'm doing at
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Audio_Book.htm
I first decided on 16 kbps, but I'm not happy with how it
sounds, especially through headphones connected to the computer. My
presentations, of course, sound better with higher bit rates, but
file sizes roughly double for each doubling of the bit rate. At 16
kbps, my files range from 1-3 MB, so for 32 kbps (which I'm leaning
toward now), they are 2-6 MB. My questions are
What's the concensus on the best bit rate for Internet sound
files, especially voice?
How important is it to minimize files size? The files are
already large enough so that dial-up folks will probably not listen
to them, and even the larger files seem to download fast enough
with my cable connection.
Thanks for the help.
Mark

Chemistry guy wrote:
> I'm new to Flash, and I'm trying to decide how to set
the bit rate (kbps) for
> my audio files.
>
> I'm creating PowperPoint-like presentations with voice
audio. You can see what
> I'm doing at
>
>
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Audio_Book.htm
>
> I first decided on 16 kbps, but I'm not happy with how
it sounds, especially
> through headphones connected to the computer. My
presentations, of course,
> sound better with higher bit rates, but file sizes
roughly double for each
> doubling of the bit rate. At 16 kbps, my files range
from 1-3 MB, so for 32
> kbps (which I'm leaning toward now), they are 2-6 MB. My
questions are
>
> What's the concensus on the best bit rate for Internet
sound files, especially
> voice?
The best is the import high quality sound in wav format. Than
in library you can
play around with m3p compression changing the rates and all.
Checking the quality
versus the file size and find one that suit your needs. There
is no BEST format to
import. Every single fill have individual setting. It's all
depends on the sound.
Like, in case of voice. Very different to other sounds.
Save it as ADPCM (adaptive pulse code modulation) or Mp3
9kbps as your second choice.
Also take note that STREAM always lower down the quality , it
suppose to load fast so flash reduce
it enormously , usually sound like pure crap, go to library
(CTRL L to open) right click your sound
and go to properties, adjust the compression and type of
audio format to find best size and quality...
> How important is it to minimize files size? The files
are already large enough
> so that dial-up folks will probably not listen to them,
and even the larger
> files seem to download fast enough with my cable
connection.
You would be surprised. I was doing voice overs two or 3
weeks ago for a client.
Needed 5 sounds , up to two minutes each, for different
slides. Ranging from 2.5 MB
to 2.9 MB per file.
After compressing all of them, I had 5 sounds in very good
quality of total size 1.4 MB
Best Regards
Urami
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
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