[christor]

I was, unsurprisingly, unable to use an itms purchase in fcp 3. Does 4 support these files? iMovie? I hope that the answer is yes. The workaround is to convert to aiff and then import, but that's not ideal.

[King Bob On The Cob]

It SHOULD work nativly as both those use Quicktime to decode the files. (You have the latest QuickTime correct?)

[Raining Down in Texas]

They definitely work in iMovie 3. I recently made several videos that incorporated music that I had purchased from the iTunes Music Store.

[fat mac moron]

Originally posted by Raining Down in Texas:
They definitely work in iMovie 3. I recently made several videos that incorporated music that I had purchased from the iTunes Music Store.

Yep, worked for me last night in iMovie 3/Quicktime 6.3... I made a quick movie and imported a song I purchased thru the iTMS.

[christor]

Yes - these responses make sense. Thanks for clearing that up. I haven't tried such a file in imovie. I think my trouble came in trying to convert, in peak dv, the 44.1khz sample to 48khz for use in fcp3. I don't remember now whether I was able to import the itms file into fcp3, though. Of course, if I did, it would hiccup because of the sampling rate difference. I guess imovie does this internally. Maybe fcp does as well, but I just haven't discovered how yet.

So I guess I'm wondering what options there are to convert the sampling rate of an itms file.

[JLFanboy]

As far as I know, protected AAC files will work in iMovie simply because Apple wants total cooperation between all of the iApps. That being said, you cannot use those AAC files in any other programs. Even if you have Quicktime Pro, there is no way to convert those files to AIFFs or anything else readable by FCP.

What you can do is burn a music CD of those files, and simpy drag the AIFFs off of the completed CD. Supposedly, there's a quality loss, but I honestly haven't noticed any problems.

[christor]

Thanks JLFanboy. Do you (or does anyone else) know whether this is true of fcp4 as well? Somewhat surprising if so. I was hoping that fcp4 both made it easier to convert 44.1khz to 48khz and allowed the use of protected aac files.

As you say, one can convert to aiff by burning an audio cd, but, in addition to minor quality loss, it's kind of a pain. Oh well.

[AU_student_iceBook]

What's really weird is that in DVD Studio Pro 2, you can use aac like it is your job.
It works the way iMovie does. (right from your audio playlists into the program)

It is really annoying to burn cd's just to add movies to my FCE projects.

ah well.