Help with importing audio...

Hi, i've been doing some foley work and using Garage Band to capture my sounds. I'm recording in and exporting in 24 bit and saving as uncompressed to maintain highest clarirty. Now I need to import it into final cut. The files are already saved from Garage Band as AIFF files. But I've been told i need to adjust the bit rate to match my sequence in FCE.
Does changing the bit rate effect quality? and why does it need to be adjusted?
Can someone please tell me how to convert the bit rate? I'm surprised you can't simply do all this via exporting from Garage Band to save another step of converting.
Thanks

I've been told i need to adjust the bit rate to match my sequence in FCE.
Whomever told you that probably meant SAMPLING RATE and/or BIT DEPTH. The sampling rate should be 48khz and the bit depth should be 16 to work best in FCE or FCP as Michel has indicated.
-DH

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Hi! I recently took a video which I then put on my computer (Mac OS X) and I just want the audio from it for my iPod (it has some music on it which I can't find in the iTunes store). I've tried extracting the audio from it using iMovie, but it won't import it with sound for that. It won't play the sound with GarageBand either. It won't let me share it with QuickTime either and I'm not allowed to buy QT Pro (I'm still a teenager and my parents say no) So does anybody know how I can get the sound from my video for my iTunes library and iPod? Thank you if you can help!

Well, I have never tried to do this, but I have an idea. Keep in mind I really don't know if it will work, I am just suggesting it.
I am not sure, but I would think that Adobe Premiere would have this functionality. Obviously you aren't going to buy the whole app (few hundred bucks), but they do offer a 30-day trial, which you might be able to take advantage of.
You also might want to Google something like "extract sound from movie OSX" (or something like that).
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Hello again! So early on into a course, after a couple intro slides, I have a sorting slide to direct users to other parts of a course (self-led learning in a way). However, I have an audio narration that plays on entry to that slide (not slide audio, it plays via advanced actions). I'm trying to figure out a way so that once they have viewed that slide once and heard that audio the first time, any time they get sent back to this sorting slide, they don't hear the audio again. How might this be done?
What I have already tried: I've tried two things, first I set up a variable called Sort_Audio. On exit of the slide previous, Sort_Audio would be assigned a value of 10. On entry to the sorting slide, an advanced action would check if Sort_Audio is equal to 10. If it is, it plays audio (and clears another variable that is unrelated, I just needed to do both things, so I combined them). I have On Exit from the sorting slide an advanced action that resets Sort_Audio to 0 so that when a user gets sent back to that sorting slide, it would theoretically not star the audio. Problem with this in the first place is for some reason it won't even play the audio the first time.
The other thing I tried was quite similar, but instead of assigning values to slides I tried cpInfoLastSlideViewed and equalled it to the name of the previous slide, as well as doing the same thing for cpInfoPreviousSlide. Neither seemed to work.
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

The problem is resolved. Using TTS, the audio went onto the slide. I had not removed it from the slide audio so that the Advanced Action could work. Lieve, I got it to work by being extra careful to get each step correct and complete and assuring that the slide didn't have audio attached to it. Rod, I could not get the test project to work with audio attached to a smart shape. I believe it is because I am not controlling visibility of the smart shape--a logic test for another project and another day.
Here is what I finally got to work:
I created a project to get the procedure working before I put it into the big project. Here is a description of the test project.
Slide one has a smart shape (not used as a button) and a button which goes to the next slide. There is slide audio that plays when the slide is viewed.
Slide two has a smart shape that is used as a button to go back to slide one.
First Test with simple Advanced Action (no increment of variable):
Variable used is called "v_visit"
Conditional advanced action is called "checker"
If v_visit is equal to 0
Then Play Audio "text to audio X" (created with TTS. I also tested it with recorded voice in a second test, "RecordingX.wav")Assign v_visit with 1
Else Continue
Slide one, on enter, execute Advanced Action "checker"
on exit, No Action
Second Test with different Advanced Action (variable increments):
Variable called "v_counter"
Advanced Action (conditional) called "menuAudioChecker"
First condition ("setCounter")
If 1 is equal to 1
Then Expression v_counter = v_counter + 1
(Else not used)
Second condition ("checkCounter")
If v_counter is equal to 1
Then Play Audio "Text to AudioX" or "RecordingX.wav"
(Else not used)
Slide one, On Enter Execute Advanced Action "menuAudioChecker"
On Exit, No Action
On this "Second Test" I added a smart shape to display the contents of v_counter and it counts as expected. As Lieve has indicated in other posts, if one desired a different audio to play based on the value of v_counter this would allow that to happen. In my case in the production project I could play audio associated with section 6 when they return to the menu after completing section 6.
Thank you for patiently working with me to resolve this issue (mostly due to my own oversights).
Most importantly, thank you for the excellent Advanced Action model to use for the project.
Michael

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