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Export Audio Mixdown
The available file formats
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When you select “Windows Media Audio File” as the file format, you can click the
“Codec Settings…” button to open the “Windows Media Audio File Settings”
window.
Note that the configuration options may vary, depending on the chosen output
channels.
General Tab
In the Input Stream section, you set the sample rate (44.1, 48 or 96 kHz) and the bit
resolution (16 bit or 24
bit) of the encoded file. Set these to match the sample rate
and bit resolution of the source material. If no value matches that of your source
material, use the closest available value that is higher than the actual value. For
example, if you are using 20
bit source material, set the bit resolution to 24 bit rather
than 16
bit.
• The setting in the Channels field depends on the chosen output and cannot
be changed manually.
The settings in the Encoding Scheme section are used for defining the
desired output from the encoder.
Make settings appropriate for the intended use of the file. If the file will be
downloaded or streamed on the internet, you might not want too high bit rates,
for example. See below for descriptions of the options.
• Mode pop-up menu
The WMA encoder can use either a constant bit rate or a variable bit rate, or
it can use lossless encoding for encoding to stereo.
The options on this menu are as follows:
Constant Bitrate
This will encode to a file with a constant bit rate (set in the Bit Rate/Channels
menu, see below).
Constant bit rate is preferably used if you want to limit the size of the final file.
The size of a file encoded with a constant bit rate is always the bit rate times
the duration of the file.