if you using a song for your soundtrack which format?

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Paunch

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Can one get away with an mp3 to use in the film's soundtrack? I'm shooting for tv airplay here and wonder if I really need a 16bit 44khz .wav or .aiff version??
 
Can you do a sample rate conversion to 48k before placing the song in your project??
Please do.
 
You can "get away" with just about anything. It's up to you if it sounds good enough for your film.
 
Sure, you can use an MP3 in your mix. I'm not quite sure why you'd want to, though. You can play a paper plate on a Victrola and use it in your mix. For best results, though, you should work from the highest-quality sound assets that you can get your mitts on. If an MP3 is the best you can do, then I guess that's what you're going to have to work with.

Depending on your video format, you're probably mastering everything to 16-bit, 48 kHz uncompressed audio. Nevertheless, 16-bit 44.1 kHz audio (as found on audio CD's) should be fine to work with. MP3... not so much.
 
To expand on Michael's point, many NLE's have troubles working with any audio that doesn't match the specifications of the editing project. When adding sound assets that don't match the project in question, its prudent to convert them to the destination format before importing them into the project.

In other words, if you're cutting the project at 16-bit 48 kHz, then you should make sure that all the audio elements you're importing are first converted to 16-bit 48 kHz audio files. That includes any 12-bit 32 kHz DV camera audio, Minidisc tracks, CD audio, 22 kHz multimedia effects, MPEG audio from an HD camcorder, and MP3's. Higher resolution audio (eg. 24-bit 96 kHz) should also be converted to the native format of the project.
 
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