Movie Studio ITunes music files?

Big Ed wrote on 3/16/2009, 12:37 PM
Ive been on Movie Studio for only a week and am a green puppy to the world of video.I have I Tunes for Apple IPOD on my PC and was not able to attach some of my store bought purchased music to my video. Does anybody know if it possible to attach I Tunes music to Vegas Movie Studio9 Platinum eddition??

I ended up using a CD music track to attch the file. This whole experience is some fun stuff! Thanks; Big Ed!

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Chienworks wrote on 3/16/2009, 1:20 PM
Most of us burn iTunes downloads to an Audio CD and then rip them back in other software.
Sonata wrote on 3/17/2009, 7:05 AM
Unless the songs from iTunes were purchased very recently, they are protected by DRM and you will not be able to use them as they come from iTunes. iTunes has recently removed DRM from their music, though, but only a few weeks ago.

So, some people burn the tracks to an audio CD and import them back as an unprotected file. I happent to have a paid-for audio recorder that I use, and I just re-record the tracks or portions of the tracks as I need them.
Big Ed wrote on 3/17/2009, 1:30 PM
Thank You all. Excellent advice!

I have all of my ITunes library backed up onto an audio CD. I plan on copying the tracks to an audio CD for those songs that i plan on using vor music overlays to my movie studio.

Can i pull those tracks directly from my rom drive or do they have to be saved somewhere in a file to use them in movie studio?

Thanks again; Big Ed! el.cazares@verizon.net
Chienworks wrote on 3/17/2009, 1:40 PM
Are they Audio CDs? If so you'll have to rip them to .wav or .mp3 files to use them in Vegas. If they are data CDs with .wav or .mp3 files then you could theoretically use them straight from the CD-ROM drive. However, that means that any time you're editing, previewing, or rendering you would have to have that CD mounted in the drive. That would become a bit of a pain sooner or later, not to mention slowing down the process. And, if you need files stored on more CDs than you have drives, you wouldn't be able to accomplish it. Far better to copy them to the hard drive and work from there.