Changing audio recording depth and sample rate in QuickTime Pro?

Last week, I set up QuickTime Pro 7.4.5 to record audio in 24-bit, 48 KHz format -- only now, I can't remember how I did that. I think that I may have used some other software to change the settings of my Mac Pro's built-in sound card. Does anyone know how to do this?

I made several such recordings, just last week, as a test, simply using a microphone plugged directly into my Mac Pro, and using QuickTime Pro as the recording application. During playback of such QuickTime audio files, I can hit <command-i> to see that the recordings are indeed 24-bit, 48 KHz. But now, when I repeat the same process, my QuickTime audio recordings are made with 16-bit resolution, at 44.1 KHz. I remember putting the settings back to those values after my recording session of last week. But I can't remember how I adjusted those settings. Does anyone know how to do that?

Thanks.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Apr 24, 2008 12:30 PM

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Apr 25, 2008 1:12 PM in response to The Dougfather

Thanks for your response.

I will use Apple MIDI Setup, as you suggest.

I want to change the sample rate to 48 KHz, as the final destination is DVD and I don't want to convert from 44.1 to 48 and thus suffer a possible loss in quality.

As for bit depth, I want to sample at 24-bit, since I'll be processing the sound afterwards and don't want audible rounding errors during the number "crunching". Afterwards, I'll just drop the eight least significant bits, or perhaps round them up or down (to zero or 256).

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