This is probably ho hum stuff for the audio guys but I wonder how many of us video guys know that Vegas cames with the very useful pca codec from Sony.
PCA is a lossless codec that'll compress audio files to around 50% of the original size. That may not be that exciting if all you do is vanilla video stuff but I edit huge amount of audio for my client and I like to keep copies of all the source, this client has a bad habit of loosing masters!
I typically back up the .wav files to DVD-ROM but space is pretty limited and as a typical project is 10 hour s of 16/44.1 that can add up to several DVDs. With pca I can hlave the number of DVDs I need for an archive and hence double my shelf space.
Very handy stuff. Now I'm wondering if there's a hardware device that'll play pca, seems to me with this encoding system I could fit the same amount of audio onto a CD at 24/48 as can be fitted as 16/44.1 cda.
Bob.
PCA is a lossless codec that'll compress audio files to around 50% of the original size. That may not be that exciting if all you do is vanilla video stuff but I edit huge amount of audio for my client and I like to keep copies of all the source, this client has a bad habit of loosing masters!
I typically back up the .wav files to DVD-ROM but space is pretty limited and as a typical project is 10 hour s of 16/44.1 that can add up to several DVDs. With pca I can hlave the number of DVDs I need for an archive and hence double my shelf space.
Very handy stuff. Now I'm wondering if there's a hardware device that'll play pca, seems to me with this encoding system I could fit the same amount of audio onto a CD at 24/48 as can be fitted as 16/44.1 cda.
Bob.