Premiere Pro and itunes question

[Rxbandit3385]

Hey everyone, i have a little problem. I recently loaded alot of my friends music from his ipod onto my itunes, however, the files of the songs are .m4a format. Can adobe play these file types, and if not, is their a converter out there than can convert all my m4a files, to mp3? thanks

 

[Filmosity]

iTunes will convert the files to .wav which is what Premiere will accept for editing. Just go into iTunes preferences, click on the Advanced tab, then in there click on the Importing tab. Change the "Import using..." menu to WAV encoder. Click OK.

Then in iTunes, go ahead and select your song, and in the Advanced menu, click on "convert selection to wav." There ya go!

 

[Rxbandit3385]

excellentttt, hahah glad to hear that, thanks for your help

 

[Filmosity]

no problem. Just make sure you convert the songs to .wav or some other uncompressed format. The compression does funky things when you try to import into a NLE like Premiere. (NB: mp3 is a compressed format; .wav is uncompressed [usually]).

 

[DBXMe2]

also if you can read these files, then you have the codec on your computer. So you dont really have to convert the files, because your computer already reads them. Premiere sees that you have the codec, and it will read/open the files, if it doesnt, then convert the files. Besides that, if you need, convert them to Aif File format, thats a better quality audio file, what pros use.

Good LUCK!

Mike!

 

[riskproductions]

Wow thats pretty cool. What ive done is use Adobe Audition to convert the songs. It takes a while, but I set my sound card as my recording device and then record while playing the song in iTunes. This way I can save them as mp3's. You can also do this with sound effects online if you can preview them. This isnt exactly moral though, if you do it to avoid paying to get the file. I, ugh, heard this method from a friend, yeah.