Some Mac applications will save high quality audio files as AIFFs. Mixes from audio post facilities, as well as audio files from digiatal field recorders, are often recorded as WAVs. Most stock music sites (such as Premiumbeat) will provide their music and sound effects as either WAVs or AIFFs…both formats that “play well” with Final Cut Pro. The most obvious fix to this problem is to use a higher-quality audio file format if avaliable. When placed on a Final Cut Pro timeline you may run into some of the following problems: MP3s by their very nature are a highly compressed format.
In this post, we’ll tackle a question commonly asked by video editors - what audio file format is best for use in my Final Cut Pro video editing software?
