export mp3?

[Lorenzo137]

I'm new with Pro Tools and am running 2019.6.0 on a MacBook Pro, 16GB memory, macOS Mojave (10.14.6). Is there a way to export a project to an MP3 file? I can't find any information on how to do it. Export / Audio Mix opens a dialog with a File Type selection that only has WAV or AIFF as choices. I am very surprised that there is not an MP3 option. Is there some setting I am missing that would activate an MP3 choice?

[Top Jimmy]

There are still aspects of legitimate MP3 encoders that require licensing. Licensing costs money. Why would Avid pay money for an accessory to put in a free product?

[Netmania]

Licensing, ownership, and legislation
The basic MP3 decoding and encoding technology is patent-free in the European Union, all patents having expired there by 2012 at the latest. In the United States, the technology became substantially patent-free on 16 April 2017 (see below). MP3 patents expired in the US between 2007 and 2017.
(Taken from Wikipedia 5.2.2020 / 22.35 CET)

Since it is free about at least 3 years why not put it in a free Pro Tools First?

Stay healthy and safe

[Top Jimmy]

Free is not free.

Pro Tools is proprietary. The tools they choose to implement within it must also be proprietary. Proprietary is never free regardless of the status of a patent.

[Ben Jenssen]

Just bounce a wav and convert it with a 3rd party like Audacity:
https://www.audacityteam.org/

[PatJo]

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

Just bounce a wav and convert it with a 3rd party like Audacity:
https://www.audacityteam.org/

That’s exactly what I do!


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[Lorenzo137]

Originally Posted by Top Jimmy

Pro Tools is proprietary. The tools they choose to implement within it must also be proprietary.

So, Avid chose to implement WAV and AIFF, but not MP3? Just curious about the choice, but I lose interest if the explanation gets into some business decision. As I said, I am new to Pro Tools, I am liking it a lot, and I have found my workaround: I came from Garageband, so I just import a 16-bit AIFF into it to export my MP3. Kinda like the Audacity folks.

[Sardi]

MP3 is a compressed format. If a piece of software only allowed MP3 export and not WAV/AIFF I’d be running as fast as I could.

I don’t disagree with you that MP3 should be included, but it should NOT be in place of WAV/AIFF.


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[zwolf]

What am I missing here? I export mp3s all the time!


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[Sardi]

Originally Posted by zwolf

What am I missing here? I export mp3s all the time!


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Are you using PTF or regular PT?

That’s probably what you’re missing.


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