Sound Recording

[Ray Horsley]

on 9/2/02 1:04 PM, Scott Raney at raney at metacard.com wrote:

> On Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 tominjapan at excite.com wrote:
> 
>> I've wasted a lot of time in the past trying to get QuickTime sound
>> recording working. So before I try again with the latest version of
>> MetaCard, has anyone had any success with it?
> 
> Seems to work fine here now in 2.4.3.  It's a major hack internally,
> though, because of bugs in QT recording (we have to always record CD
> quality to a QT movie and then use a conversion function to output the
> type of file requested).
> 
>> I still get irritating squeeks on my mac and grabled garbage on my
>> windows.
> 
> Be sure you're recording to a format that "play audioClip"
> understands, which mostly rules out all of the compressed formats QT
> can produce.  If you must play those, use "play videoClip <file>"
> instead.  That uses QT, which although much slower and more memory
> intensive can play many more formats than the default play command
> which uses low-level sound routines in Win32 and MacOS which don't
> support compression.
> Regards
> Scott

I'm using Metacard 2.4.3, System 8.6 on a Mac Powerbook G3 and I'm still
getting chipmunks when I play back the sounds I record.  The easiest
solution I've found is to simply record sounds in AudioShop or something and
save them as WAVE files which play at normal speed.

Ray Horsley