BillyBoy - .Mid < .Mp3 < .wav?

GrizzlyIke wrote on 3/29/2003, 11:16 AM

BillyBoy:
Visited the "Midi Songs" site linked to your website. I see several interesting files that could be useful as music beds, etc in future home video projects. However, all the files are in ".mid" format. I know these can be rendered into
".Mp3" and/or ".wav" formats, but, ignoring the file size differential, is there any advantage to doing so as far as use in Vegas 4.0 is concerned? This from someone who doesn't know a decibel from a barbell! Thanks to you and anyone else who chooses to respond.
Grizzly Ike
P.S. By the way, you have a great website; crammed with useful information.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/29/2003, 12:43 PM

Always go for less compression. WAV isn't compressed so it will be easier and faster to work with than MP3. Theoretically it could be better quality too.

BillyBoy wrote on 3/29/2003, 1:37 PM

I agree with Chienworks, except maybe for background music you may want to include for a DVD menu stuff like that where quality isn't that important. Generally you want to avoid compressing a file that is already compressed when possible since you'll lose quailty for sure. While some will disagree I think the overall quality of audio is less important than the video quality unless of course the focus is the music itself. However when you have music as a background, remember it IS in the background. :-)