How to Record Internet Stream without loss of Quality

There is a radio station that streams content as AAC, 320 kbps. If I record this with Audio Hijack, it converts it to aif. Is there a way to record this preserving the ACC format and 320 bitrate?

Well, you can bring it up with Apple since they control this web site and what we can discuss here and not:
https://discussions.apple.com/___sbsstatic___/apple/tutorial/tou.html

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What is the best procedure for this in iMovie 09? Indeed, can it be done?
My understanding is that ANY re-compression will result in artefacts and loss in quality.
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I've managed to import the clips ok (making sure any options to 'optimise' anything are turned off) and edit them together in iMovie. This way, the import is fast and the images seems untouched, so I assumed no conversion has been done on the video (I think I'm wrong here?)
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When I export with lossless compression, of course I get a 150G file - owch. The sum total size of the originals are 2.63G
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iMovie will re-compress. To me this is a small price to pay for having an edited movie. Personally, I would optimize, but if you keep your movies simple, you will be OK without. If you decide to apply image stabilization or speed changes, you will definitely need to optimize. Optimization resolves the highly compressed h.264 frames into full frames in Apple Intermediate Codec.
While the quality loss you may experience is not likely to be visible to the naked eye, if that is your only criterion, then avoid iMovie and follow QuickTime Kirk's advice.
Here is a [sample video|http://vimeo.com/7093442] that I made in a Dentist Office. You can see what the re-compression looks like. In this case, I did not optimize.
Editing in iMovie is non-destructive, so you can try it both ways (imovie and QuickTime Pro) and see if you can tell the difference.
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Could I place an image inside an icml document without loss of quality

Could I place an image inside an icml document without loss of quality?

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Does anyone know a free converter .mov to iMovie without loss of quality?
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It is suggested to output MOV with AIC codec to keep the raw video quality at max.
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Recording internet streams using Vi

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I don't think it's about Gates or some Microsoft conspiracy,? it's just an issue with Vista because it works ok with XP. As I had said,? it just might be the quality of my sound card.
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Hi, i am looking to record an internet stream in logic, is this possible? I have searched high and low to find out how it is done but i can't find anything.
All i want to do is record 'what you hear thru the speakers' when the audio stream is playing.
How would i go about doing this?
Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks

Elastic: Audio Hijack works bit differently, actually, easier: You don't record an URL for a radio station, you record instead the "output" of the application that streams it. In other words:
If you go into iTunes, you can see on the left "Radio Stations" if you double click on one of them, you will hear that radio station playing, right? Audio Hijack records THAT, i.e. iTunes. You just have to select "iTunes" to be recorded. This is how you do it: There are four buttons on Audio Hijack Pro's (AHP) window: Input, Recording, Tags, Effects. Click on "Input" tab. Select "Application" where it says "Source Type". On the right there's a "Select..." button. Click it and navigate to iTunes. That's it. Now have iTunes play a radio station. Click on the top-left "Hijack" button. The meters should move. That means that audio is getting through AHP. If you click on the "Record" button, whatever you hear will be recorded. Where? Click on one of the four buttons mentioned earlier, on the "recording" button, which is next to "Input" on AHP's main window. Once you have clicked on "recording" it says "Save recording to...". Choose where you want you recording to go.
Next question: save stream as what? Under the same "recording" window (i.e. after you have clicked the "recording" button next to the "input" button), you will see "Format", with a drop down menu. Select the format you want and the quality desired. You're done.
And, in the same way you have chosen iTunes to be recorded, you can choose other applications. One to have also is your browser itself. This will enable you to record whatever sound comes out when you surf. Say, sound from YouTube. I often go to the website of a great DJ I like and when I click on one of his mixes, it will play through, of course, my browser. So that's what I will record with AHP. Basically, wherever the sound comes from, this is what AHP will record, but you'll have to select it, like I told you about iTunes.
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Have there been sufficient improvements in the encoder to allow significantly more minutes at high quality? I use iDVD for archiving and don't want to come back years later and realize that the quality was compromised. On the other hand, I don't want to waste discs with over-kill (some misguided individuals think that 60 minutes is the limit).
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iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)
Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced technology to encode your video, resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned abo
In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

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Editing Canon 7D footage without without loss of quality

First time poster, long time reader, so please go easy – you guys all started somewhere, now its time for me J
I’ve done video editing for a while now, only as a hobby though, with consumer camcorders and basic editing software. I absolutely love doing it and now I’ve taken the step up to a 7D and been asked to do a music clip for a band (call it timing). By the way I am using Adobe CS4 and CS5.
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My questions is what should I shoot it in? 60fps or 25fps? NTSC or PAL?.
That's way too broad a question for a forum about NLE software. The simple answer is, "whatever you want." The less-simple answer is, "it depends." Whether you shoot 60fps or 30fps or 25fps or 24fps or XXfps is all about the look you want, so experiment. NTSC and PAL don't have any application to HD video (despite their regular use to label certain HD formats as such).
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Playing recorded internet streams

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It is suggested to output MOV with AIC codec to keep the raw video quality at max.
Output like this: Share->Export Using QuickTime..
In pop-up windows, click Options->in Moive Settings pop-up window, click Settings button->In Compression Type box, choose Apple Intermediate Codec
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Hi folks,
Can anyone give me help? Here is the deal:
1. I have a nice Keynote with all of my actions and transitions. I want to record it (or whatever) and send it to iMovie where I can manipulate multiple songs (from iTunes) as a soundtrack.
2. After that, either make a dvd of it, or save it as a quicktime movie to play direct from the mac.
3. The best quality is desired.
I saw that someone recommended Snapz ProX to record..can that then play nicely with iMovie/soundtrack development?
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