AVI files problems with sound

[jt]

My AVI videos will have perfect sound until I drop them in
the storyboard and try to play them. There is either no
sound or a metallic piercing sound. I can import a music
file, and change the functions to have zero video audio
and all music, and that will play fine.

But if I want to creat movies that use my video's sound it
won't work. Please HELP me ... I have no idea why it is
doing this.

Thank you in advance.
-jt

 

[Jake]

My AVI videos will have perfect sound until I drop them in
the storyboard and try to play them. There is either no
sound or a metallic piercing sound. I can import a music
file, and change the functions to have zero video audio
and all music, and that will play fine.

But if I want to creat movies that use my video's sound it
won't work. Please HELP me ... I have no idea why it is
doing this.

Thank you in advance.
-jt

I had the same problem.

Sounds to me like you have your camera set to record in 12-bit (32KHz)
sound. If you set it to record in 16-bit (48KHz) sound then you will
probably find that your problem is solved.

Of course, it won't help with any video/audio that you've already captured.
It caught me out with all 6 hours of my honeymoon footage.

If the sound quality is an extremely important issue to you then you should
consider resampling the audio track from 32KHz to 48KHz using a third party
application. I can't make any recommendations unfortunately (I used Adobe
Premiere 6.5, which does a good job of resampling the audio, but is at the
opposite end of the scale for home movie production to WMM2).

Jake

 

[Guest]

Thank you Jake. Unfortunately for me I am using the canon
A80 camera and it only captures video in one format 12 bit
and I can't change it.

How would I go about "resampling the audio track from
32KHz to 48KHz" Is there software online or would I have
to purchase it? Otherwise I guess I can look into other
software products that don't have this glitch. Anyone
know a good basic program like Movie Maker?

Thanks.

 

[Jake]

Thank you Jake. Unfortunately for me I am using the canon
A80 camera and it only captures video in one format 12 bit
and I can't change it.

That's a shame - obviously it means that you're always going to have this
problem.

How would I go about "resampling the audio track from
32KHz to 48KHz" Is there software online or would I have
to purchase it? Otherwise I guess I can look into other
software products that don't have this glitch. Anyone
know a good basic program like Movie Maker?

As I said before I can't make any recommendations for resampling audio as I
have no experience of it outside of Premiere.

I once downloaded a freebie from Avid (http://www.avid.com/freeDV/index.asp)
but never actually used it, so I can't comment on it. I just happen to know
that you don't have to pay for it!

I would imagine that several other posters here will be able to help you
better than I can in this respect.

Best of luck,

Jake