Can Apple fix the 12 bit audio problem once and for all?

I have had persistent audio problems from I Life V3 all the way up to I Life 06. Sometimes it is synch issues. Sometimes it is audio dropping out. I have been through the various forums and applied the various remedies with some successs, some failure. The basic problem is that I have an extensive quantity of Mini DV tapes dating back to 1997, most recorded with 12 bit sound (prior to 2002). Apple's basic stance has been, you must use 16 bit sound or I Movie and/or I DVD won't work and . And proposes awkward workarounds. Basically placing the onus on it's own consumers. Why can't 12 bit sound support be included in I DVD 06 and these persistent audio issues put to rest once and for all? Is there some overwhelming technical reason why it cannot be done?

I don't know about overwhelming, but the DVD specification (which was not developed by Apple) calls for the audio to be sampled at 16-bit/48KHz (I think you might also be able to use 96KHz as well). This is what the software expects. If you choose to use another sample rate then the software may or may not be able to "fix" it in post. The real problem is that many camcorder manufactures set the audio to 12-bit by default.
Mike

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Permissions repair complete

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⌘ Shift 4 and then pressing the space bar captures the frontmost window.
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Deleting audio file on device + Mac once and for all

Deleting audio file on device + Mac once and for all
Hi and good day,
I don't listen much to music, but mostly audio files (radio programmes etc.)
But there is still one big drawback with iTunes:
What I want to do is to be able to __delete__ an audio file (or song)
on my iPad/iPod/iPhone (the Mac Library is there via Home Sharing)
once and for all:
I don't want to have to go back to iTunes and delete them there.
I want to delete them on the device and forget about them!
Please Apple it's about time.
Any suggestions welcome!
with best regards,
Omar KN
Stockholm, Sweden

Hi
i would say use Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/macosx/
aMSN and Mercury only do video no audio, these are the only 2 progams that do video on the MSN network.

Fixing PATH (and MANPATH) once and for all

I think the list of directories in PATH should be:
/Users/cb/bin:
/opt/local/bin:
/opt/local/sbin:
/usr/local/bin:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/local/sbin:
/usr/sbin:
/sbin:
/usr/X11R6/bin:
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
Do you agree? Comments and suggestions welcome.
Background:
I am trying to sort thru the endless confusion and set up PATH (and MANPATH) right, once and for all. Every package I install seems to have its own idea of what these variables should be.
I could set up a wrapper script for every installed command - but some subsystems, like Aquamacs and Python, let you create and use subshells. If the PATH in your subshell isn't the same as the one you use every day in bash, you could create bugs which are nearly impossible to track down.
My solution is to create $HOME/.setShells.sh -- which sets a uniform set of paths (and which will probably rewrite man.conf in the bargain). But I want to make sure that I'm choosing the right baseline, which is what the list above is supposed to be.
I'd appreciate your thoughts and/or assistance.

Correct is what's correct for you. You have to consider and repect how the vanilla system sets up the environment, and realize that the software you install and configure to make the machine yours will be different for everybody.
Your list looks reasonable. Of course we all know that PATH is searched in the order listed, so your ~/bin takes precedence over everything, and stuff you install in /opt and /usr/local takes precedence over the vanilla system.
You don't need a wrapper for every command. Environment variables are inherited. You simply need to set this stuff up in your ~/.bashrc and everything you run from the shell will inherit the environment. I think PATH may be exported automatically, but it never hurts to do so explicitly. So set those variables with lines like ...
export PATH=
export MANPATH=
It's important to understand the subtle difference between executing a shell command file and sourceing it.
bash# ./file
... will run the file in a subshell, so any variables and environment changes will only be known to the subshell. Your interactive shell is the parent process of the subshell.
bash# . ./file
... will run the file in the current shell rather than forking a subshell, so any variables, functions, aliases, or environment changes will remain in effect.
When a shell starts, your ~/.bashrc is sourced, not executed.
Message was edited by: b3and88
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