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[acourpet]

Hello, sorry if this has been answered before but I keep getting errors when I do a search on this.  Anyways, my question is, I'm recording my LP's to CD Spin Doctor.  There's a choice between CD quality and DVD quality.  I'm going to burn to a CD.  Is there any benefits in selecting DVD quality or does it matter. Thanks

[tsantee]

Audio CDs are 44.1 khz. Video DVDs are 48 khz. If you plan to make an audio CD then you want 44.1 khz. If you are using this as a soundtrack for a movie or for making a Music DVD then 48 khz is preferred. However, any 44.1 khz audio will get resampled as 48 khz by a DVD authoring application (such as Toast) anyway, so sticking with CD quality is the most universal option.

[acourpet]

tsantee, on Feb 21 2006, 10:49 AM, said:

Audio CDs are 44.1 khz. Video DVDs are 48 khz. If you plan to make an audio CD then you want 44.1 khz. If you are using this as a soundtrack for a movie or for making a Music DVD then 48 khz is preferred. However, any 44.1 khz audio will get resampled as 48 khz by a DVD authoring application (such as Toast) anyway, so sticking with CD quality is the most universal option.

Thanks for the information.  So if I'm reading this right if I ony going to listen to these cd's in a cd player than I should sample at 44.1 khz, on the other hand if I was going to import the music from my cd sometime later say to a non linear editing program say Final Cut Pro, which I would later burn to a DVD,  I should sample at 48 khz even though it could be resampled up.

[tsantee]

acourpet, on Feb 21 2006, 03:32 PM, said:

Thanks for the information.  So if I'm reading this right if I ony going to listen to these cd's in a cd player than I should sample at 44.1 khz, on the other hand if I was going to import the music from my cd sometime later say to a non linear editing program say Final Cut Pro, which I would later burn to a DVD,  I should sample at 48 khz even though it could be resampled up.

You are correct. Also, Toast will downsample a 48 khz audio file to 44.1 khz when burning it to audio CD. So choose which one matters most to you. A problem with changing the frequency one way or the other is that it can result in a file that has the pitch, speed and length changed slightly unless it is resampled properly.