Adobe Audition 3 Compressed?

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Hi,
when I finished my final piecing of MIxing/Mastering on AA 3.0, and I go to Save as..' why does it automatically compress my whole mix again?
I forgot what it said. There was a pop up about 'Compressed (lossy) format' or something. I just checked the box not to open next time and clicked [OK] (my bad ..)

But does anyone know? I just upgraded from my 1.5, but my 1.5 doesn't even do that. it sounded more better with the 1.5.
 
Grafolicious said:
it sounded more better with the 1.5.
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first off, fix that lol.
secondly, mine dose that too. i fixed this by running a usb mixer into my computer. using the Multitrack session, i selected my usb mixer for recording, and AFTER everything was mixed and ready to go, i hit record (the a Stereo USB mixer selected as my audio source.) the thing is, it records the audio in this new stereo track, and the audio it records is the EXACT same as you hear it in your mulititrack session. it basically dose a live mix down in real time. and that's great because i can ride my faders and effects as its recording. the only down side it it records ALL the audio coming from the computer... so if your MSN window pops us you hear a really lame "bee boop!" in the mix hahaha. i did this my hitting "stereo/monitor" button on my mixer. when its pushed in , it only records the mix inputs and that's all... but when the button isn't pushed in... well, it'll record every sound your computer makes.. include the audio playing in your Mulititrack Session. its deff worth looking into. ive done mix downs of 64 tracks with no drop in quality. its perfect :) its a Yamaha MW10c. pick on up and this should help fix everything. :)
 
Soo... how did you fix the 'lossy compressed format' popup?
 
Oh, lol xD
thanks I'll try that then.

Do I save as mp3 on another program or something? Or just keep it as .wav?
 
that box will appear because your working in 24bit and you chose to save in (16bit mp3) so do as he said and save as a .wav

if you wanted to save as mp3 in another program then why is it a problem to do it in AA3?


huh huh
 
adamangler said:
that box will appear because your working in 24bit and you chose to save in (16bit mp3) so do as he said and save as a .wav

if you wanted to save as mp3 in another program then why is it a problem to do it in AA3?


huh huh
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because 1.5 i can save it as MP3 without it self compressing like AA 3.0 did..
So, I didn't know that AA 3.0 would compress itself if I saved as MP3.
 
Grafolicious said:
because 1.5 i can save it as MP3 without it self compressing like AA 3.0 did..
So, I didn't know that AA 3.0 would compress itself if I saved as MP3.
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The MP3 format is a compressed format. No matter what version of any program you use, it will be compressed. Most likely, AA 1.5 didn't tell you this and you think it's something new with 3.0 when it actually isn't. If you saved it to an MP3 in AA 1.5, it was compressed.

Save a song to a .wav file then save it to an MP3 and look at the difference in file size. You'll see how much it is compressed.
 
Grafolicious said:
because 1.5 i can save it as MP3 without it self compressing like AA 3.0 did..
So, I didn't know that AA 3.0 would compress itself if I saved as MP3.
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mp3 is a compressed format, so you mustve been working in 16bit before
so you didnt compress when you saved as you were already in 16bit mp3...you now must be working in 24bit or higher if when you go to save it prompts that you are abut to compress the file
 
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