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Export Audio Mixdown
The available file formats
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Wave files support the same options as AIFF files and have one additional option:
• Don’t Use Wave Extensible Format
The Wave Extensible format contains additional metadata, such as the
speaker configuration. It is an extension to the normal Wave format that some
applications may not be able to handle.
If you get problems using the Wave file in another application, activate this
option and re-export.
Wave 64 files
Wave 64 is a proprietary format developed by Sonic Foundry Inc. In terms of audio
quality, Wave 64 files are identical to standard Wave files, but in the file headers
Wave 64
files use 64- bit values for addressing where Wave files use 32-bit values.
The consequence of this is that Wave 64
files can be considerably larger than
standard Wave files. Wave 64 is therefore a good file format choice for really long
recordings (file sizes over 2
GB). Wave 64 files have the extension “.w64”.
Wave 64 files support the same options as AIFF files.
Broadcast Wave files
Broadcast Wave files are Wave files with additional meta data. To create a
Broadcast Wave file, select either Wave or Wave 64 as the file format and activate
the Insert Broadcast Wave Chunk option. Click Edit if you wish to edit the chunk
information, otherwise the defaults as specified in the Preferences dialog
(Record–Audio–Broadcast Wave page) will be used.
Broadcast Wave files have the extension “.wav”.
Broadcast Wave files support the same options as Wave files.
FLAC files
Free Lossless Audio Codec files are audio files that are typically 50 to 60 % smaller
than regular Wave files, for example. FLAC is an open source format.
Use the Compression Level fader to select the compression level for the FLAC file.
Since FLAC is a lossless format, the level has more influence on the encoding
speed than on the file size.