Audio question....

[tWoSour]

I have concert footage that I recorded on my TRV950, and I want to know the best way to get the audio off it, to turn into mp3's. If I capture audio only in FCP4, it saves it as a quicktime movie file, and mAC3dec won't convert it to mp3. Could someone please help me out?

[galactica]

quicktime files can be exported as .aiff and you can then use iTunes to convert those babies to .mp3 or even .aac

[tWoSour]

thank you for the quick answer as always galactica.

I found this out 10 minutes after I posted, but forgot to come back here and say so. I was gonna keep the files as aiff, untill I saw the file size is like 45MB for a 5 minute song.....to mp3 they go!

[galactica]

not a problem...
yea store as mp3 or aac to save file space

[deadsierra]

If you want to keep the quality, (in other words, if you are a massive loser) you could change them to FLAC or something like that, much smaller size, no quality loss, but then iTunes won't like you, and neither will your iPod, if you have one. If you don't [have an iPod], then my iPod won't like you. But really, AAC @ 128-192 should be close enough to perfect.