If not normalizing prior to storing the files you have good reason to store your in-process work at 32bit FP, however if normalizing prior to storing, 24bit losses nothing.. except random noise in the least significant bits. Technically the editing software should dither as a first step whenever truncating to a shorter bit-length.
yeah... I was wanting to normalize/trim/24bit/flac to save space. but i can see the advantage of storing/archiving the original 32bit FP files as well, so I was wondering if there was a way to flac those so as to not have 17gb for one show (8 channels).
to the bold, i would hope so, but idk if audacity does.
i'm basically trying to figure out a whole new workflow with the new advantage of 32bit. and i'm not sure what to do yet.
what's everyone else do?
right now i'm doing this:
Adding a txt file to name the source for the polywave file (just in case i want to revisit for later). I ended up only using one pair of mics and the sbd for this mix. and naming the files as master with parts (p01, p02...)
https://imgur.com/a/Fard9Orbut that's almost 18gb...
if anyone has a better idea, i'm all ears.