How Can I export a h264 file with wav audio?

In Compressor select one of the Video Sharing Presets, whichever one you want for your media, and duplicate it. Select the duplicate in the sidebar and click the Audio inspector. In the QuickTime settings next to AAC click Change. Set the popup to Linear PCM stereo 48K, Best, 24 bit.

Export master file. Set the codec to H.264. The audio will be uncompressed Linear PCM 48k.

So you imported the music into FCP. You did nothing to it. You exported a master file? Or exported using a Compressor setting? Or Send to Compressor? If you want to export using H.264 and uncompressed audio, you have to use Compressor in some way.

Musicians are like dogs; they hear things humans can't.

You're right. My mistake. You'd need Compressor or some other app like Streamclip to do this.

I have no idea if this anecdote is relevant:

For many years we have been providing our training people WAV files (using FCP7, FCPX, or Compressor) for their PC software. Beginning with an obscure update for FCPX from 2014, the WAVs we export form FCPX sound great on our Macs but play as static on their PCs. Our solution is to push the FCPX WAVs through iTunes, of all things (not Compressor), and save them as WAVs—again. Those WAV files will play on their PCs.

It's not something any of us pretend to understand but the WAV conversion engine in FCPX/Compressor is different from the WAV engine used in iTunes (although, come to think of it, that may have changed with the last totally unnecessary and bloated update to iTunes). or the signature of the file is just different enough that PCs like it.

We stumbled onto this iTunes process by accident and it's a complete pain in the butt.

These are the available options

You can output a separate file that's MP3, but not one embedded in video.

Hi, I'm having this same issue but noticed it never got resolved in this thread. I have Compressor version 4.1.3. Could anyone give me advice on how to export my video h264 but with the original uncompressed WAV file? So much thanks in advance.

Right, thank you, I should have mentioned that's the format I've been using, because I know they're very similar. But the person on the other end watching the exported and uploaded video insists there's a huge loss of quality from the master WAV file he sent me. Any idea why this loss could be happening?

I don't hear a loss in quality but the gentleman on the other end is the musician, so I guess he would know?

And sorry, what do you mean by "what are you doing to the file"? As in how I am exporting from FCPX?

Haha excellent analogy! I never knew how unrefined my hearing was until this project.

I have been using a compressor setting from final cut, the custom "h264 for blue ray" setting. I'm wondering if maybe I messed up the audio settings from there and am not actually exporting Linear PCM, hence the loss in quality. If it's not too much trouble, could you walk me through how you would set that up?

Ok update I went back to my settings and clearly haven't been using compressor right at all. Been compressing without any audio adjustments on my H.264 for *apple devices setting. So hopefully my question is far more basic now: how can I customize both audio and video in a single file?

You're saving my life, and sorry for my utter helplessness. The more I get into these programs I realize how little I know!

Hello again,

So it sounded wonderful on my computer but the musician still claims it sounds too compressed. I'm really out of ideas.

I noticed the picture above- can I select "copy audio tracks from source"? Will that let me use the original WAV file?

Thank you so much.

Maybe I can ask you- my guy has given up on asking for the WAV audio but instead wants it as an mp3 as he thinks the quality will be better than the LPCM version I sent. I've converted my wav into mp3 in my fc project, but does Compressor 4 even have an audio pass-through option?

SSorry, but that's just completely ridiculous. MP3 is never on any planet going to be better than PCM or even high data rate AAC. Jeez even I can I hear how bad MP3 is in comparison to AIFF, and I'm not even a musician.

Haha thanks, no wonder I'm all sorts of confused! Didn't think mp3 was an ideal format, at least not compared to the other options...

So even though it won't be better, is there a way to do it anyway so I can't say I didn't try?