Test Sample fails ACX Check

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GlobalStoryteller
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Re: Test Sample fails ACX Check

Post by GlobalStoryteller » Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:54 am

Hi Koz,

Can I clarify, do I Export/Save as a .wav file and then edit that file in Audacity? Or do I edit the .aup file and the WAV is just a safe backup of the raw recording?

Thanks!

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Re: Test Sample fails ACX Check

Post by kozikowski » Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:01 am

There's a third variation. I make WAV files because I have to ship them to a client and goodness knows what they're using. Everybody can open and play WAV files.

Even Macs.

Export safety WAV files of all original work and keep them in a safe place. You can work in Audacity Projects keeping in mind that Projects do not save UNDO. Also, every so often save a Project with a different name. That guards against a failure taking out your whole show back to the first life on earth. It can only get destroyed back to your last name change.

And then, of course, you have the WAV's on thumb drives, cloud or separate hard drives if everything really goes into the dirt.

It's a very new user error to shoot something, edit it and then produce the final show, all in one Audacity Project. It Is Written that the computer is going to fall over just before you export the edit master taking the damage all the way back to performing the work on page one.

Koz

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Re: Test Sample fails ACX Check

Post by GlobalStoryteller » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:36 pm

Got it. Thanks!!

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