burning 24 bit

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I'm taking some tracks to a different studio and I want them to stay in 24 bit. They're broadcast wav files, but my burning software, Roxio Easy CD Creator 5, won't work when I try to burn them as a music CD, it gives errors and won't even start to burn.

If I burn it as a data CD, it burns fine, but then when I try to load the files off the CD back into Nuendo, it says its not the right format. If I load the orignal files from the hard drive back into nuendo, it works fine. What gives? I need these for tomorrow, so any quick tips are appreciated a lot.
 
Hmm, I'm thinking that I'm missing the fact that Cds are 16-bit only. I had previously assumed that they could hold higher depth but that CD players could only read 16 bit. Probably a stupid assumption.

So if this is right, what I'm trying to do is impossible. How about DVDs? Are they 24 bit?
 
If you keep them as data, you should be able to open them up onto other computers, and they will still be 24-bit.

You won't be able to use them as "music" CD's that can be played in a music CD player unless they're 16 bit/ 44.1k.

-MD
 
corban said:
Hmm, I'm thinking that I'm missing the fact that Cds are 16-bit only. I had previously assumed that they could hold higher depth but that CD players could only read 16 bit. Probably a stupid assumption.

So if this is right, what I'm trying to do is impossible. How about DVDs? Are they 24 bit?
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Yeah, DVD's are 24 bit but what you are talking about is DVD audio and you have to have a player that plays back DVD audio. Then you have to have the capability to burn DVD disk's. I'm not doing it but there are some app's that can do that.
 
http://199.224.117.240/~scb/dvd-audiofile/DVD-Audiofile0.41win.zip
THis app is easy as it gets for 24 Bit files. Drag and drop the files into the window, and click "make iso image" then you have an .iso image that you burn with nero or dvd decrypter.........you need a DVD Player that is dvd a compatible. there are thousands..a cheap one is the toshiba 4960(rebranded as the samsung hd841)

http://199.224.117.240/~scb/DVD-Audiofile0.4.zip (this is the mac version)

doesnt get any easier than that.


therage! said:
Yeah, DVD's are 24 bit but what you are talking about is DVD audio and you have to have a player that plays back DVD audio. Then you have to have the capability to burn DVD disk's. I'm not doing it but there are some app's that can do that.
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How about using DVD-RW's and just taking your Nuendo folders and copying them off to DVD?
 
Yeah, that should work too, hey? Of course, data CDs should have worked too, but something's screwy there. Thanks for the suggestions all, I'll try them and let you know.
 
CDs, as in the listening product kind, to me, are end products. I try to stay away from anything other than data when working. Most likely I'll burn a copy of the entire project map, or else bounces of each mono or stereo track. Mono everything if I wanna be really save.
 
Yeah, I agree with you Halion, it's just for some reason the data was not working. It seems like my burning software is doing some kind of formatting or something that was crapping up the files. The Windows XP burner was doing the same thing, although it says it's licensed by Roxio, so it's probably more or less the same software.

Anyways, I tried the DVD thing but couldn't get it work b/c I think I had the wrong kind of DVDs. In the end I tried putting all the files in a zip file and burned it like that as a data CD. It worked fine. Does anybody know what the zip process actually does? Would it damage the audio files at all?
 
Any possaibility that you were either burning or trying to load the header files instead of the actual audio data files?
 
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