Audio distortion when saving to AVI or back to camcorder

[Guest]

This problem has popped up on both my computers. When I go to save a movie
back to my camera or to an AVI file the audio sounds distorted and robotic.
I've switched my camera to 16 bit recording mode... no change. I've tried
turning off the codecs... no change. If I save the file as a WMV, it will
sound fine on the computer... but even if I import that to MovieMaker and try
to kick it out to the camcorder, it goes robotic again.

I've got a Sony DCR-TRV120 and I'm using firewire for the transfer. I'm on
the verge of tossing this computer out the window. Please help me. I'm losing
sleep.

 

[Guest]

Experiencing the same. Have read that converting audio file to .wav may help,
but haven't tried it myself yet.

 

[Wojo]

That is good advice. What is the audio filetype right now?

 

[Guest]

I used an MP3 file. Tried converting the file to .wav but problem persisted.
Also tried using a different video editing package (DVB plus); exactly the
same problem. Also tried rendering the project as High Quality Video (PAL)
(no screeching with that but don't think you can convert it to MPEG2) as
someone else suggested and then imported that as a WMM project and then tried
rendering that as DV-AVI but the screeching returned. Beginning to think
there is no way around this problem.

 

[Wojo]

I see.
I don't practice what your doing as far as transferring to and from camera
so I am not sure what else to advise except that maybe a firewire problem?
Do you have more than one firewire cable so you can try another and see if
it makes a difference?

 

[Guest]

Finally, a solution. Save the video/slide show alone as a DV-AVI movie file.
Then, still in WMM, save the audio alone as a movie file. It will be a .wma
file. Then convert both these files to mpegs. I used TMPGEnc software (free
download) to convert. You can then use the same software to merge these two
files into one mpeg2 file.

 

[Wojo]

Glad you solved the problem although I am still not sure why it was a
problem to begin with since the audio obviously imported correctly.