"Iain Churches" wrote in message

"David Looser" wrote in
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"Don Pearce" wrote

Probably the best thing you could do is move everything
into a more conducive environment for editing. Copy
your CD into a PC, then use virtually any DAW software
to perform all the manipulation you want. You can then
burn back to CD with any gaps (or no gaps) that you
want. You may want to release the final versions as MP3, but
don't let that format become a part of the production
process; you lose quality at every stage and it isn't
recoverable.

Actually re-reading the OP's post I think maybe his *is*
using a PC for editing. He talks about using "mixcraft"
and burning to CD. But these apparently add 3 seconds
and 2 seconds of silence respectively to the ends of the
files. Clearly he is using the wrong software. I use
CoolEdit to create and Nero to burn, neither necessarily
adds any silence.

Amen, brother! I use those very same tools for the very same purpose and
obtain exactly what I want.

The only thing I can add is that while I continue to do this with audio,
we've upped the ante at church, and do just about everything as video.


But I also wonder why he wants to burn to CD at all.
Direct playback from a lap-top seems to me to be far and
away the easiest and most satisfactory way of playing
out SFX during a performance. For the price he paid for
his dual CD player he could have bought a suitable
laptop.

Again, Amen.

A good CD player will cue and hold cue accurately, but not so with DVD
players. It was scripting video that forced us into using a PC.

There may be production grade DVD players that cue and hold cue, but for the
same money or less you can get a PC and do so much more with it.

We script our audio and video files using PowerPoint or similar software
that is more tailored for the needs of churches.

Yes. He needs a "park on a sixpence" player, with a rotary
cue control if he wants to play from CD.

One can cue well if one makes effective use of trackmarks or a collection of
separate files running under an A/V scripting program like Powerpoint.

As you say, playing out from a laptop with visual cueing would be
much better.

Exactly. It is what modern AV presenters do, whether corporate, artistic, or
evangelical. In the evangelical church we notice that the traditional and
liturgical churches are generally technically challenged.