http://iit.bloomu.edu/pam/blog/index.cfm Blog by Pam Berman about eLearning issues en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:07 -0500 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:56:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss pberman@bloomu.edu pberman@bloomu.edu http://iit.bloomu.edu/pam/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/25/erightsoft-SUPER-Audio-and-Video-Converter We bought a hard drive camcorder to use for events that we would like to vodcast. It is easy to use and we can save the video files right from the camcorder to the computer without having to capture the video. However, I discovered that the audio compression used on the camcorder is Dolby Digital. The audio quality is wonderful. Dolby Digital also is proprietary and I have found that many video editing software programs do not recognize the format. It will not work in the QuickTime Player. So far I have only been able to play it in Windows Media Player. None of the video editing software (iVideo, Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro) on our Mac can open the audio portion of the file. On the Windows side, Audacity does not recognize it and neither does Adobe Audition. I do not currently have video editing software on my laptop so I am not sure about the Windows version of Adobe Premier. Thankfully, a person on the Audacity forum mentioned a free converter tool called SUPER© from <a href="http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html">erightsoft.com</a> (http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html). I downloaded and installed it. I am very happy to say it works great and it will convert a batch of files. Did I mention it is free? Podcasting Video and Audio Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:56:00 -0500 http://iit.bloomu.edu/pam/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/25/erightsoft-SUPER-Audio-and-Video-Converter