Weird audio issue after save?

[atrautweiler]

I have saved a movie to my hard drive in dv-avi format. When playing back,
the music sounds tinny (like compressed or to much noise removal in
Audacity) and skips and jumps, usually when text is appearing or some
transition effect is going...or so it seems, maybe it's random. The overall
timeline seems fine. The tunes were ripped into .wma format and the movie
sounds great when played in MM before the save. Any ideas? I would like to
burn this movie eventually... Thanks!

 

[Graham Hughes]

Try saving it to wmv, or one of the lower spec file formats etc, as it may
be the system specs can't cope with the making of a dv-avi. What are the
specs? Did you turn everything else, inc anti-virus etc, off before saving?
Cleared lots of space and defragged?

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[atrautweiler]

3.0 GHz, 140 GB free, 1.5 GB memory.

I did manage to save it both to DVD and CD. It plays fine except the audio
has a large amount of sibilance which many people don't notice, but I do.
For example my wife cannot hear it. She asks me to explain it to her but I
won't, because if I do, then she'll hear it...Anyway, when I saved it as
DV-AVI, it was 4 GB and when I save it to DVD or CD it is about 140 MB, does
that sound right? The movie is 20 minutes long with five songs and about
100 images. I did turn everything off the second time I tried copying the
movie with the same result. The computer was defragged the day before.

 

[atrautweiler]

OK, the CD is 108 MB and the DVD is 1.1 GB, I just check the discs
themselves.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Lots of specs then!!!!
Is it all one drive? It may help to have it partitioned.
When previewing in Movie maker it shows you a real time preview, whereas
other apps will render first, and will play in real time, so if it has too
much information, it just drops some to carry on playing, like when you have
the text etc.
The sizes of the dvd and cd sound about right. Do these have the exact same
bad sound as well?

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[atrautweiler]

The DVD and CD have no annoying drop outs, just the tinny sound. I figure
if I'm going to use a DVD, I might as well use 4 GB and get the seemingly
lossless sound rather than 1 GB and the tinny, hissy sound. Well, I may
just have to live with it for now...Thanks for you comments or let me know
if I should try anything else while saving to my computer via DV-AVI.
Thanks!

 

[Graham Hughes]

try saving the file back to minidv tape and play this on the tv via the
camcorder.
Does this play well?
If so it's not the avi file.
What type of audio file and settings did you use on the dvd? Which app did
you use to compress and author it?

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com