I remember Emagic was working on a loss-less audio compression. It was supposed to be quite nice but I think they gave up on it. Have you guys heard SACD yet? Friend has a set up.... Pure bliss... Better then vinyl... I swear! julz On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 06:42 PM, Brian Willoughby wrote:
[ I've just been busy again with all the Yello video's I captured [ last year. I've made a terrible mistake. The video quality is [ superb, but dumb ass me, converted the audio segment to 128k mp3. [ This should have been 160 or even higher. The los is a bit too [ much.
Rene,
Any time you capture something, always keep a backup of the original, uncompressed audio and video. Quality levels like 128k MP3 will sometimes become outdated, and eventually even MP3 will be replaced with MP4 or AAC. A lossless audio compression is fine, since you can get back the original exactly. I don't know as much about video, but I suppose there are some lossless video codecs as well, in case you don't have enough space for all your backups. Computer tape makes a great way to store original backups, so they don't take up hard disk space until you need to go back and bump up the compression quality for the publicly traded version.
128k mp3 wasn't a bad idea, I'm sure it was good enough for last year, but deleting your original capture was a mistake! ;-)
Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting
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