Poor Audio after Saving as Movie

During Story Board, the audio (*.wma @ 128kb/s) sounds great. It was dubbed from the original CD. However, when I save the Story Board as a movie (*.avi) with the best settings, the audio inherits popping noises and sometimes little speed changes (typically the music speeds up just for a second or so). I am using a UPS so I would think my signal would not be receiving RF interference. But I can't explain the randomly popping noises in the audio or the slight speed changes

Any ideas? Using MYDVD to burn to a DVD via Sony 4X burner doesn't help or hurt the audio snafu's already incurred when MM2 creates the Story Board as a movie

Hel

Zane

> I save the Story Board as a movie (*.avi) with the best
settings, the audio inherits popping noises and sometimes
little speed changes

I have seen this as well when saving to DV-AVI. Instead,
I save to "High Quality Video (NTSC)" which is a high-
quality Variable bit rate .wmv file.

Video quality is EXTREMELY good, file size is much
smaller than DV-AVI, and no sound goofs. My guess is the
DV-AVI implementation in WMM is not quite there, but
the .wmv encoding is great. give it a try...

Hi there,
I understand your comments OK, but if that explanation were try, every one
would have that problem, which is not the case. It is much more likely that
you either have an out of date file, or, you have a codec problem in
general. DV-AVI is not a standard unto itself. It is simply a wrapper for a
range of compression techniques. The codec's that are used to obtain that
particular technique could be out of date (with respects to version 9 of
Media Player and DirectX) or simply defective.

A possible solution would be to rename the codec's that are known to cause
problems and try again and afterwards return those codec's to their
original names. I would guess that there is a less than 50% chance that it
would help. There is a program on my website called "Rename Codecs" and
there is a short tutorial on the site on how to use it. The program is free
and does not install itself (it is completely self contained.. You can run
it from any directory) As you would loose nothing by giving it a try it
might be worth downloading it.

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