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AIFF/Windows??
I have a project involving digitizing a large amount of important
historical archival material from cassette and reel. I use a Mac and generally use aiff or SDII file formats. For long term archiving, not knowing what platform someone will use years from now, will these formats be as useful as .wav files? Do today's Windows users have any problem with these Mac formats? I can convert everything to WAV when I'm done, but if it's not neccesary, I'd just as soon not. thanks, Albert |
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AIFF/Windows??
Albert wrote:
I have a project involving digitizing a large amount of important historical archival material from cassette and reel. I use a Mac and generally use aiff or SDII file formats. For long term archiving, not knowing what platform someone will use years from now, will these formats be as useful as .wav files? Do today's Windows users have any problem with these Mac formats? SDII is pretty much dead. AIFF can be imported into my Windows ProTools system. In general, I think WAV is the way to go. Can you just create your files in WAV originally? -- Eric Practice Your Mixing Skills Download Our Multi-Track Masters www.Raw-Tracks.com www.Mad-Host.com |
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AIFF/Windows??
"Albert" wrote:
I have a project involving digitizing a large amount of important historical archival material from cassette and reel. I use a Mac and generally use aiff or SDII file formats. For long term archiving, not knowing what platform someone will use years from now, will these formats be as useful as .wav files? Do today's Windows users have any problem with these Mac formats? A large number of Windows program support AIFF files. I use a hard disk recorder and always get AIFF files from that machine. To edit those files I use Adobe Audition and it lets me save them as AIFF or WAV. The main difference is that WAV files conserve documentation that Audition allows me to add to the file. Documentation is lost when saving in AIFF format so I assume I need an extra file for non-audio information when using AIFF. For a long term consideration: Comparing AIFF with WAV, the audio information is identical, bit for bit - except that the byte order is different. Unless you don't need some extra features of WAV you may use AIFF as well. Norbert |
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AIFF/Windows??
Albert wrote:
I have a project involving digitizing a large amount of important historical archival material from cassette and reel. I use a Mac and generally use aiff or SDII file formats. For long term archiving, not knowing what platform someone will use years from now, will these formats be as useful as .wav files? Do today's Windows users have any problem with these Mac formats? Do NOT use SDII. Windows users won't be able to open them. AIFF is probably fine. The Windows version of iTunes will play them. The question though is why you would choose not to use the most widely supported format available? WAV is the de facto "standard" for audio files, so why bother with anything else? -- "It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!" - Lorin David Schultz in the control room making even bad news sound good (Remove spamblock to reply) |
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AIFF/Windows??
In article zfuVg.12539$N4.2320@clgrps12,
"Lorin David Schultz" wrote: Albert wrote: I have a project involving digitizing a large amount of important historical archival material from cassette and reel. I use a Mac and generally use aiff or SDII file formats. For long term archiving, not knowing what platform someone will use years from now, will these formats be as useful as .wav files? Do today's Windows users have any problem with these Mac formats? Do NOT use SDII. Windows users won't be able to open them. AIFF is probably fine. The Windows version of iTunes will play them. The question though is why you would choose not to use the most widely supported format available? WAV is the de facto "standard" for audio files, so why bother with anything else? Sessions done at my place that are gonna travel elsewhere are 95% of the time asked to be AIFF files, whether they are traveling to a Hollywood or Boston video house for network TV or to another audio facility. Everything we do staying in house is AIFF. David Correia www.Celebrationsound.com |
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AIFF/Windows??
On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:43:01 -0400, david correia
wrote: In article zfuVg.12539$N4.2320@clgrps12, "Lorin David Schultz" wrote: Albert wrote: I have a project involving digitizing a large amount of important historical archival material from cassette and reel. I use a Mac and generally use aiff or SDII file formats. For long term archiving, not knowing what platform someone will use years from now, will these formats be as useful as .wav files? Do today's Windows users have any problem with these Mac formats? Do NOT use SDII. Windows users won't be able to open them. AIFF is probably fine. The Windows version of iTunes will play them. The question though is why you would choose not to use the most widely supported format available? WAV is the de facto "standard" for audio files, so why bother with anything else? Sessions done at my place that are gonna travel elsewhere are 95% of the time asked to be AIFF files, whether they are traveling to a Hollywood or Boston video house for network TV or to another audio facility. Everything we do staying in house is AIFF. Compressed or full size? d -- Pearce Consulting http://www.pearce.uk.com |
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AIFF/Windows??
david correia wrote:
Sessions done at my place that are gonna travel elsewhere are 95% of the time asked to be AIFF files, whether they are traveling to a Hollywood or Boston video house for network TV or to another audio facility. Yeah, I encounter a lot of people who are afraid of change too. Once they realize that wav files won't eat their Mac, they eventually warm up to the advantages (trivial as they may be). -- "It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!" - Lorin David Schultz in the control room making even bad news sound good (Remove spamblock to reply) |
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AIFF/Windows??
"Lorin David Schultz" wrote in message
news:2tMVg.13016$N4.4254@clgrps12... david correia wrote: Sessions done at my place that are gonna travel elsewhere are 95% of the time asked to be AIFF files, whether they are traveling to a Hollywood or Boston video house for network TV or to another audio facility. Yeah, I encounter a lot of people who are afraid of change too. Once they realize that wav files won't eat their Mac, they eventually warm up to the advantages (trivial as they may be). My clients must be on the leading edge, then. Once in awhile someone is very specific about getting AIFF. Most of the time I'm sending my stuff to smaller production houses using FCP, AVID Express, or Pro Tools, which seem to use the WAVE files as easily as AIFF. I have a Comcast High Speed Cable connection, so I send the uncompressed files most of the time. Uploads take some time. On the client's end the downloads go very fast. Steve King |
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AIFF/Windows??
Norbert Hahn wrote:
For a long term consideration: Comparing AIFF with WAV, the audio information is identical, bit for bit - except that the byte order is different. Unless you don't need some extra features of WAV you may use AIFF as well. FYI, WAV and AIFF are both implementations of RIFF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIFF |
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AIFF/Windows??
Kurt Albershardt wrote:
Norbert Hahn wrote: For a long term consideration: Comparing AIFF with WAV, the audio information is identical, bit for bit - except that the byte order is different. Unless you don't need some extra features of WAV you may use AIFF as well. FYI, WAV and AIFF are both implementations of RIFF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIFF Thank you for pointing to Wikipedia. There is a section about AIFF as well. More about long term storage as AIFF can be found at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/f...dd000005.shtml Norbert |
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AIFF/Windows??
In article 2tMVg.13016$N4.4254@clgrps12,
"Lorin David Schultz" wrote: david correia wrote: Sessions done at my place that are gonna travel elsewhere are 95% of the time asked to be AIFF files, whether they are traveling to a Hollywood or Boston video house for network TV or to another audio facility. Yeah, I encounter a lot of people who are afraid of change too. Once they realize that wav files won't eat their Mac, they eventually warm up to the advantages (trivial as they may be). I have no idea what you're talking about "afraid of change". We send stuff to some pretty big names and they specify AIFF. Nor do I expect this to change anytime soon. David Correia www.Celebrationsound.com |
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AIFF/Windows??
david correia wrote:
I have no idea what you're talking about "afraid of change". We send stuff to some pretty big names and they specify AIFF. It was tongue-in-cheek. I should have included a little smiley or something. Being serious for a moment though, our clients really don't seem to care anymore. "Yeah, wav, aif, whatever... it's all good." I usually wind up sending broadcast wave, just because it includes the time-stamp. -- "It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!" - Lorin David Schultz in the control room making even bad news sound good (Remove spamblock to reply) |
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AIFF/Windows??
Norbert Hahn wrote:
Kurt Albershardt wrote: FYI, WAV and AIFF are both implementations of RIFF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIFF Thank you for pointing to Wikipedia. There is a section about AIFF as well. More about long term storage as AIFF can be found at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/f...dd000005.shtml On which I noticed: LC preference General preference for recorded sound is WAVE_LCPM. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000002.shtml |
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