[MacDV] Exporting audio only from iMovie to play on a PC

Michael Winter winter at mac.com
Wed Dec 3 08:18:54 PST 2003


On Dec 2, 2003, at 11:59 PM, Carl Flatow wrote:

> I'm trying to grab the sound off of a video to email to someone. 
> iMovie 3 on OS X 10.2.8.
> It's a long clip so I need max compression.
> I am exporting to aif with Qualcomm compression at max but Windows 
> Media Player wont open it.
> File size and sound quality are acceptable.

I don't know what "Qualcomm compression" does exaclty, but what I would 
do is just export the audio to aiff without any compression, then use 
iTunes to encode it as an mp3 file using whatever settings will make 
the file small enough for your use. Just about anything will play an 
mp3 file.

-Mike



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