touche itunes music store! no importing to fcp?!

evolvnyc

evolvnyc

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Are they for real? It's not bad enough I paid $0.99 for a song that I very easily could have, err, shared for free, but I can't import it into FCP for an innocent, non-commercial piece?! Seriously, this must be a joke... Am I missing something? The song appears red at the top of the sequence, as if it's unrendered, but it will not render, and when I double click it onto the Viewer window, it shows no audio signal... ideas?
 
Prodigi said:
Burn the song on a CD, then import it into FCP. Now it's a $1.24 song.
.99 download
.25 CD
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I don't believe it. All this time I believed you couldn't convert the files because they're protected. I just burned some to a CD to see if it could be done and voila, there it was on my desktop...an AIFF file. I then opened it with QT to export it as a 48.000 kHz rate as opposed to the 44.000 kHz CD rate. I don't know if I needed to do that, though.

Thanks for the tip. I just never occurred to me to use this as a workaround. :thumbsup:
 
You used to be able to bring them into Compressor and export an aiff w/o having to waste a CD..... alas, Apple must have been reading our posts...

dedicated to find a way around burning CD's,
Jared
 
You can also download a piece of software called WIRETAP PRO. Its free unless you want to upgrade to the Pro version which unlocks some more user functionality. If you go to the links section on my website its the second to last link on the page.

You won't then have to burn CD's.

Here's my web site:

www.steadicams.com
 
Blaine said:
I don't believe it. All this time I believed you couldn't convert the files because they're protected. I just burned some to a CD to see if it could be done and voila, there it was on my desktop...an AIFF file. I then opened it with QT to export it as a 48.000 kHz rate as opposed to the 44.000 kHz CD rate. I don't know if I needed to do that, though.
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This reminds me of another issue... I have footage from a live show with questionable audio, and I have a cd from the sound board, but it is marked "44 khz" rate. What does this mean exactly? Does it need to be converted to 48? Is quicktime the best way to do that?
 
evolvnyc said:
This reminds me of another issue... I have footage from a live show with questionable audio, and I have a cd from the sound board, but it is marked "44 khz" rate. What does this mean exactly? Does it need to be converted to 48? Is quicktime the best way to do that?
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That is your sampling rate and the "rule of thumb is to choose a sampling rate that matches the sampling rate of your sequence. Because most video projects use a sampling rate of 48 kHz, that is the default sampling rate and the one you'll most often shoose when" using "AIFF." I do all my converting with Quicktime Pro.

You can verify what sampling rate FCP is using by going to Audio/Video Settings and checking there. Ex. Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz.

It can also be done with DVDSP. Basically, anything Quicktime can play, DVD Studio can import and convert. To do it with DVDSP, drag the files into the Assets then go to the new MPEG folder and harvest the converted audio files. (By default, DVDSP encodes new files to the same folder as the source file but you can change the Destination in the Preferences>Destination.
 
Man this sounds like a bunch of HS kid crap. You mean to tell me that you spent $1200 on a professional editing software suite and you're crapping your pants over a .99 download that you shouldn't be using anyway?

Sheesh! Sounds to me that you Torrented the software and now you expect EVERYTHING to be for free.

Get over it and pay the fees you should be paying or don't come here and ***** about it. OR -- use iMovie... sounds a bit more your speed.

CaptM
 
You can convert the song to an AIFF file right in itunes. I think its in the ADVANCED drop down menu. I would make a copy of the song so you have one that is AAC or whatever format the original is in then change it to AIFF.
 
DVX100Shooter said:
You can convert the song to an AIFF file right in itunes. I think its in the ADVANCED drop down menu. I would make a copy of the song so you have one that is AAC or whatever format the original is in then change it to AIFF.
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Yes, it is true you can convert AAC into AIFF in iTunes. However, the problem here was converting a song bought from iTunes Store. They are Protected AAC files and as such cannot be directly converted within iTunes. Instead, as Prodiji stated earlier in this thread, they must be burned to a CD first using the Audio CD format. This unlocks the protection and allows it to be converted into AIFF which can then be imported into FCP.
 
I agree with CaptM.....check out iMovie seems like a better fit bud. Plus you can use itunes music and put that .99 cents to work.
 
I would hope that any legitimate person is only using these for their personal use, and not to make money. In that case, using them without paying the artist/music company is no different than "ripping" portions of movies to use in commercial purposes. Stealing is stealing. But for personal use it would be no different than pulling the song off a CD, except in this case you don't need to buy the whole CD for that one song.
 
Thank you Blaine, that was exactly my point, itunes is for personal use, it's the principal, not the 99 cents... but I apologize for not thinking as big time as some here would have me do... I had always found this a friendly forum, and I am surprised and disappointed by some of the negative comments above, my outrage was in jest, I am sorry that sarcasm was lost on you, "Captain" and I'm sorry that your sense of self is based on the price you pay for your editing software... can't we all just get along?
 
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