Editing with .flac?

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:19 pm

Alright!

So I found a .flac file on the net. I made a small google search and...
Free Lossless Audio Codec

Sounds nice and sounds good. What about editing with it? We know that we always should work with loosless stuff or DVD stuff in our editing studio, but what about looseless audio?

I know that there is no big filesize difference between a .flac and a PCM .wav. I´m just curious and excited about this audio codec ^^ I want to find out what´s up with it in an editing software =D

My experience today:
.flac doesn´t work in Premiere Pro 1.5 (No importer found that supports this file)

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:37 pm

it would not of mattered if it did work - any audio you import into premiere will just "conform" to the premiere standard.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:49 pm

Ah... That´s why I have this "Confirmed Audio Files-Something" folder in my project right?

But I´m still interessted in it.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:34 am

I wouldn't call a 30% reduction in filesize on average (when working with 16bit 44.1kHz stereo) not a big difference.

I could imagine that open source programs would be more apt to have built-in support for FLAC, although a cursory glance didn't reveal anything to me. Possibly for editors built on gstreamer or Quicktime paired with the appropriate FLAC playback decoder.

Generally, I store my audio as FLAC in both the source archives and in the lossless master copy I make after each video is finished. Lagarith-FLAC in MKV.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:02 am

Sounds interessting.
Some programs like Cinerlla might can handle with it. Let´s try.

I wouldn't call a 30% reduction in filesize on average (when working with 16bit 44.1kHz stereo) not a big difference.

xD Yeah... I thought in small amv dimensions.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:38 pm

Bauzi wrote:
I wouldn't call a 30% reduction in filesize on average (when working with 16bit 44.1kHz stereo) not a big difference.
xD Yeah... I thought in small amv dimensions.

Yeah, well trying to do 48kHz 24-bit audio doesn't compress much at all - I got maybe 10% shaved off at the most - usually it was between 4% and 5.6% (the material was the stereo version of Bon Jovi's Have A Nice Day on the DVD-Audio part of the DualDisc edition - the process of actually getting it into wave in the first place is a pain in the ass; and by DVD-Audio, I don't mean the audio stream of the normal DVD, but the contents of the AUDIO_TS folder). I have no idea how it performed on the Surround copy from the same disk, as I wasn't monitoring it while it was encoding. Needless to say it didn't compress as much either based on the resulting filesize. In both cases the original MLP streams were more efficiently packed, and I use FLAC on level 8.

DayWalker B. · Post by **DayWalker B.** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:08 pm

This might be a little off topic, but is it possible to use .flac files in AE CS3?

DayWalker B. · Post by **DayWalker B.** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:26 pm

gokussj4527 wrote:This might be a little off topic, but is it possible to use .flac files in AE CS3?

Never mind, I figured there is no need for .flac audio anyway, .wma will definitely do as well...