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Best format of audio to use for animations

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I work for a video production company and need to import music into after effects to do some animation work. Does anyone know the best file type/codec of audio to use with AE. I need it to be lossless.

Thanks!

Re: Best format of audio to use for animations

Reply #1
Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I work for a video production company and need to import music into after effects to do some animation work. Does anyone know the best file type/codec of audio to use with AE. I need it to be lossless.

Thanks!

The list of audio formats supported by After Effects is here:

Supported-file-formats-effects

Of the audio file formats shown. the .WAV  file format is generally uncompressed while , the AIF and AIFF formats  can have uncompressed subformats.

 

Re: Best format of audio to use for animations

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Post production software generally transcodes everything imported to formats it can use for editing.  Since your music is most likely 16/44.1 from a CD (you're using rights-cleared music, right?), it'll be transcoded on import to 16/48 as that's the standard for video and film audio. That will happen at some point in your production chain regardless of what you import, except for original 16/48 audio, which will also likely be transcoded to a release format, usually Dolby Digital or DTS, though uncompressed PCM is possible. The options depend on your authoring software and release format/destination.