Is there an advantage to uncompressed audio?

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:53 pm

I mean, obviously there's the quality. But I'm starting with .wma files (I couldn't get my CD to copy as a wave), so is there an advantage (say, in the final quality) if I convert to .wav, then edit? My editing program (Windows Movie Maker) supports .wma files, and it's no trouble for me to convert the files, except that it takes up more space.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:13 pm

No. But I don't think you'll have much luck muxing a wma into anything (you might be able to get it into asf or matroska with graphedit..) so you'll have to recompress it eventually. You should really find a ripping program that lets you rip the uncompressed audio..

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:12 pm

i have found a program which usually works, but it didn't work in this case

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:24 pm

i have found a program which usually works, but it didn't work in this case

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:27 pm

whoops, i just found out that the program which came with our CD burner actually works better than my other program. Deleting time!

Ahhh, CD quality... actually I can't tell the difference most of the time

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:51 am

If you're just ripping things from CDs and working in MovieMaker, I'd suggest you go to your options and click on the "Copy Music" tab. From there you can change the format to MP3 if you want and crank the quality up, or you can set it to WMA (which you said is compatible with WMM) and take it all the way to the Best Quality marker, which will give it to you entirely lossless (3min = 10MB on this setting, roughly). It's a fairly good deal if you're just pulling what you need or if you have plenty of space to burn...Now, if I could find a freeware solution to convert said WMAs to high-bitrate MP3s I'd be set...There wouldn't happen to be a WMA plugin for Premiere like there is for AVISynth, would there?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:02 am

Graphedit is pretty free.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:26 am

Tab. wrote:Graphedit is pretty free.

Beer, not speech.