Sound formats

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Sun Sep 25 05:16:26 EDT 2005


Pro-tools defaults to Broadcast WAV with options for SDII and AIFF. 
But they really want you to use the WAV format now, and broadcast 
audio requires it.

AAC, no matter how good it sounds, will never be considered a pro 
format anyway.

>
>Well, not for music. AIFFs and Sound Designer II still rule.
>
>I wish Apple would let (if that's the problem) other people use the 
>AAC (mp4) encoding. It's slightly more compact than mp3, and *much* 
>higher quality. My aged ears can rarely hear the difference between 
>AAC and 16-bit CD audio (24-bit is a different story), while mp3s 
>are noticeably inferior.
>



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