MP3 or AAC in FCE 3.5?

Hello,
Does the 3.5 version of FCE support the direct use of audio AAC (*.m4a) unprotected files and MP3 files?
Thanks,
Mace

As far as I'm aware the licence for AAC does not allow for inclusion in movie project.You'll find that AAC (m4a) simply will not convert into FCE at all. There's no way to crack it either, with workarounds, renaming, re-rendering or any of the other myths for that matter... unless you take it out to the analogue domain and then re-digitize, you're screwed.
From my perspective in the music industry it gets dogs of abuse from users, but from an artist's perspective it's wonderful. Long may it continue and may Apple dig its' heels in to everyone else. It's the only way to beat piracy.
Only way to do use music in FCE is get the original AIFF files from the artist's CD, or upsample an existing MP3, or save it out to analogue and re-digitise (but you'll need high-end kit to do that justice).

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Converting creates a second file in the format you are converting to. The original file is not changed so you end up with two copies of the song, once in each format. However it's always preferable to re-rip from the original uncompressed format rather than converting from one lossy format to another.
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Amy,
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http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3part2.shtml

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MPEG1 layer 3
9452 frames
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38.281250 frames per second
246.909388 seconds
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Converting 320kbps files into 128kbps will reduce the size by around 60%, but at the same time reducing audio quality. How much so can only be determined by you after several sid-by-side tests. You may or may not be able to hear the difference with your ears and equipment (iPod/headphones).
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CD Driver 2.0.4.3
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IDE\DiskMaxtor7B300S0_________________________BANC1WE0, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskAFT____CF__PRO-9XP____9144, Bus Type USB
USBSTOR\DiskAFT____MS__PRO-9XP____9144, Bus Type USB
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Track 3, start time 08:47:12
Track 4, start time 14:05:05
Track 5, start time 18:25:50
Track 6, start time 24:02:37
Track 7, start time 31:29:37
Track 8, start time 37:14:10
Track 9, start time 44:21:50
Track 10, start time 48:11:72
Track 11, start time 53:40:12
Track 12, start time 58:02:65
Track 13, start time 64:10:55
Track 14, start time 68:23:02
Track 15, start time 74:02:25
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Track 4, start time 13:18:70
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Track 6, start time 23:02:05
Track 7, start time 27:47:38
Track 8, start time 33:56:45
Track 9, start time 40:02:60
Track 10, start time 44:02:50
Track 11, start time 48:38:60
Track 12, start time 53:21:60
Track 13, start time 56:48:25
Track 14, start time 61:52:38
Track 15, start time 66:12:05
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Port
Protocol
Notes
Clients
67/68
DHCP
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Clients
443
TCP (TLS)
Used for client-to-server SIP traffic for external user access.
Clients
443
TCP (PSOM/TLS)
Used for external user access to web conferencing sessions.
Clients
443
TCP (STUN/MSTURN)
Used for external user access to A/V sessions and media (TCP)
Clients
3478
UDP (STUN/MSTURN)
Used for external user access to A/V sessions and media (UDP)
Clients
5061
TCP (MTLS)
Used for client-to-server SIP traffic for external user access.
Clients
6891-6901
TCP
Used for file transfer between Lync clients and previous clients (clients of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Office Communications
Server 2007, and Live Communications Server 2005).
Clients
1024-65535 *
TCP/UDP
Audio port range (minimum of 20 ports required)
Clients
1024-65535 *
TCP/UDP
Video port range (minimum of 20 ports required).
Clients
1024-65535 *
TCP
Peer-to-peer file transfer (for conferencing file transfer, clients use PSOM).
Clients
1024-65535 *
TCP
Application sharing.
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