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Subject:Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0 Posted by: walterh Date:2/8/2010 9:04:16 AM I had a 24 bit 44.1K file that I forgot to convert to 16 bit before burning it to a CD. The CD that SF produced was in 16 bit format. I have since burned CDs from files that were saved in flac format. Again the CD is in 16 wav format. I haven't found anything in the help files that mention this. It is a great feature. With SF 9.x one had to convert the files to 16 wav before exporting them to CD Architect. I do have two questions. 1) How is SF converting the 24 bit files to 16? What options does it chose for dithering and noise shaping? 2) Can SF convert all other formats to CD format via Burn Disc at Once? Thank you, Walter Hamilton
Subject:RE: Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0 Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:2/8/2010 4:16:10 PM Dunno , but CD Architect certainly can, from most formats. Have you tried it - it's included with SF and much easier to use for laying out CDs ! geoff
Subject:RE: Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0 Reply by: walterh Date:2/8/2010 7:21:13 PM I tried exporting flac files from SF 9 to CDA and it would not accept them. I haven't tried exporting anything but 16 bit wav files in more than a year. Was this added after that? (I just checked the CDA download site. Flac was added in 5.2c. I had 5.2b until today. ) Thanks for mentioning this. Message last edited on2/9/2010 7:57:17 PM bywalterh.
Subject:RE: Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0 Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:2/9/2010 2:08:22 AM Save a FLAC and you can load it directly into CDA 5.2d, which has been around for yonks. You can then trim, slide, fade, crossfade, master FX or per-event/track FX, and tracks, indexes, and your choice of internal or external DX plugin dither. All very very easily and graphically. SF CD burning from SF event editing seems a cludge in comparison, to my mind. But might suit some people better. However CDA has some limitations which I would love to see addressed, even if the whole of CDA GUI and functionality was imported into SF, a la Wavelab CD-Montage. But I personally prefer it separate.... geoff geoff

Subject:Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0

Posted by: walterh

Date:2/8/2010 9:04:16 AM

I had a 24 bit 44.1K file that I forgot to convert to 16 bit before burning it to a CD. The CD that SF produced was in 16 bit format. I have since burned CDs from files that were saved in flac format. Again the CD is in 16 wav format. I haven't found anything in the help files that mention this. It is a great feature. With SF 9.x one had to convert the files to 16 wav before exporting them to CD Architect. I do have two questions. 1) How is SF converting the 24 bit files to 16? What options does it chose for dithering and noise shaping? 2) Can SF convert all other formats to CD format via Burn Disc at Once?

Thank you,

Walter Hamilton

Subject:RE: Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:2/8/2010 4:16:10 PM

Dunno , but CD Architect certainly can, from most formats. Have you tried it - it's included with SF and much easier to use for laying out CDs !

geoff

Subject:RE: Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0

Reply by: walterh

Date:2/8/2010 7:21:13 PM

I tried exporting flac files from SF 9 to CDA and it would not accept them. I haven't tried exporting anything but 16 bit wav files in more than a year. Was this added after that? (I just checked the CDA download site. Flac was added in 5.2c. I had 5.2b until today. ) Thanks for mentioning this.

Message last edited on2/9/2010 7:57:17 PM bywalterh.

Subject:RE: Burning Disc at Once with SF10.0

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:2/9/2010 2:08:22 AM

Save a FLAC and you can load it directly into CDA 5.2d, which has been around for yonks.

You can then trim, slide, fade, crossfade, master FX or per-event/track FX, and tracks, indexes, and your choice of internal or external DX plugin dither. All very very easily and graphically. SF CD burning from SF event editing seems a cludge in comparison, to my mind. But might suit some people better.

However CDA has some limitations which I would love to see addressed, even if the whole of CDA GUI and functionality was imported into SF, a la Wavelab CD-Montage. But I personally prefer it separate....

geoff

geoff