Soapm Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 After making my live recording at Church I burn the sevice to CD. To do this I edit out everything I don't want and only leave just the stuff I want like the sermon, a few song etc...I make the recordings 16 bit, 44,1 khz stereo wave files. It never fails, I always end up with like 800 to 850 megs of stuff. This is not enough to waste a new CD but it is a little too much to fit on a single CD. I search for spots to edit here and there but I can never edit enough to fit it on one CD.What kind of tricks do you guys know of that might compress my 850 megs onto one cd? Even if I could burn it mono it would be ok but would the disc play in my car? I would drop the sampling one some of the tracks. Anything??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozpeter Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 CDs playable on normal CD players have to accord with the "Red Book" standards - stereo, 44.1kHz, 16 bits.There's plenty of lossless compression schemes out there which would enable you to burn about twice as much as normal onto a CD as data not music, then play it back on a PC, but as far as I am aware there is no such thing as a lossless hardware player for replaying them.You can burn about 7 hours of uncompressed PCM audio onto a DVD ("Audio DVD Creator" does this for instance) so if your car has a DVD player, there's your solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourist Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 (edited) 1) Be a more ruthless editor. Radio people take out pauses for breath, applause, "uh"s, redundancies. Cut to the bone, and then a little beyond. 2) Get a portable CD player that plays mp3s and convert the .wav files to high-bitrate mp3s. You'll have room to spare. 3) Burn two 400MB CDs, and call it a double album. Edited March 13, 2005 by Tourist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapm Posted March 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 3) Burn two 400MB CDs, and call it a double album.←This is what I usually end up doing plus I will include the good old faithful songs etc... that I like and have on most CD's. I am known around the Church as the guy with a copy of everything so I am always being asked for a copy. I give them away but would like to cut my cost and also my personal CD storage space. All my archived backup's are in MP3 and on DVD which I can play here at the house but not in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?eter_ Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 A trick I read elsewhere in this site you can try is to use software to slightly speed up the sermon etc.-just by a few percent-if you have enought sermon time,this can make a big difference to your total time- but if you speed up too much then things might start to sound strange...?eter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapm Posted March 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 A trick I read elsewhere in this site you can try is to use software to slightly speed up the sermon etc.-just by a few percent-if you have enought sermon time,this can make a big difference to your total time- but if you speed up too much then things might start to sound strange...?eter←Now you're cooking, Sound Forge has a time stretch feature. There is a preset reduction to 85% which speeds up the pace but doesn't change the pitch. It will take some time to do but I think I can selective speed up so less noticable less immpactive parts untill I get the size I need. This may be an option, THANX! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicBringer Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 After making my live recording at Church I burn the service to CD. To do this I edit out everything I don't want and only leave just the stuff I want like the sermon, a few songs...← Some weeks I do the sound at Church, when I pin the radio mike on the speaker, I tell 'em to keep it short as I've only got one tape!I think your only answer is to limit the minister to a certain amount of time, according to the space you have on your CD. That'll make you even more popular. PTL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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