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Honey, you didn't mux ALAC into MP4. You muxed in AAC, which is a lossy format.

 

ALAC, as far as I know, can't actually be muxed into mp4 files. Wherever I look, I see that it just isn't supported... (And note: ALAC ≠ AAC)

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Honey, you didn't mux ALAC into MP4. You muxed in AAC, which is a lossy format.

 

ALAC, as far as I know, can't actually be muxed into mp4 files. Wherever I look, I see that it just isn't supported... (And note: ALAC ≠ AAC)

 

Well, then it converted it in some process...because I definitely used G.U.Y..m4a (Apple Lossless) 

 

Apple Lossless shows up as .m4a, like AAC does. 

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dy2light

Well, then it converted it in some process...because I definitely used G.U.Y..m4a (Apple Lossless) 

 

Apple Lossless shows up as .m4a, like AAC does. 

Well, you CAN actually mux ALAC into a .MOV file :) and yeah that can be confusing...

 

Try muxing into a .mov file.

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Well, you CAN actually mux ALAC into a .MOV file :) and yeah that can be confusing...

 

Try muxing into a .mov file.

 

Well the thing is, how will I know if it's converted it down to a lossy format? The program didn't tell me that the audio file wasn't supported with the video file type. I know that I used the lossless format at first, so I'm not sure how it ended up being AAC..

 

I'll try that!

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Well, you CAN actually mux ALAC into a .MOV file :) and yeah that can be confusing...

 

Try muxing into a .mov file.

 

So, I tried mixing it to a .mov file and it seems to be working, only problem is it wants to make the entire project an .mp4. Will this result in the same thing?

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Now if you could remove the Andy Cohen parts you would turn it into the best music video ever made ♥

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So, I tried mixing it to a .mov file and it seems to be working, only problem is it wants to make the entire project an .mp4. Will this result in the same thing?

uhh no. .mp4 cannot hold ALAC audio. There's a couple of easy ways to ensure that what you're muxing in is ALAC and not AAC:

 

1) ALAC files will be significantly larger than AAC

 

2) You can always use some sort of program to identify the kind of audio file it is (and its codec).

 

Also, make sure that your program is set to NOT re-encode or transcode the audio. That could be an issue.

 

And I will say it again: mp4 files CANNOT hold ALAC audio streams.

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uhh no. .mp4 cannot hold ALAC audio. There's a couple of easy ways to ensure that what you're muxing in is ALAC and not AAC:

1) ALAC files will be significantly larger than AAC

2) You can always use some sort of program to identify the kind of audio file it is (and its codec).

Also, make sure that your program is set to NOT re-encode or transcode the audio. That could be an issue.

And I will say it again: mp4 files CANNOT hold ALAC audio streams.

Alright, I'll have to use another program then. It's really the program I'm using that's causing the issue, so I'll use Adobe's Video Editing software instead. I'll do it tomorrow.

Thank you for your help :)

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About the audio... decode the ALAC to PCM WAV and then recompress that to FLAC. Every part of this process is lossless so you will lose nothing. That FLAC will happily go into MKV easily. Or the WAV could go into MKV or MP4 as well. 

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