What audio format to insert for quality audio?

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First time music video commission. Questioning my export settings as well as clients request

Ask for clarification. Generally, a full res version can be uploaded to YouTube to get max quality. YouTube even accepts ProRes files. I don’t know why a separate version would be necessary. Synthetic music (like electronic, dance, synthesizers, etc) can often benefit from using AC-3 with at least 384k bitrate instead of AAC. AAC can introduce excess distortion on synthetic sources that sometimes doesn’t sound good. Good call. Unless you absolutely need constant bitrate mode (which is…