Roxio Creator 9 - videowave audio is scratchy

[aydeet]

All of a sudden, while adding audio to soundtrack.. when I played it back.. its scratchy and horrible!! I have deleted it and added it back and it still is really bad!!!

 

also .. my music in timeline is gray without the blue dot.. I have checked the show/hide tracks and music is checked

[Beerman]

All of a sudden, while adding audio to soundtrack.. when I played it back.. its scratchy and horrible!! I have deleted it and added it back and it still is really bad!!!

 

also .. my music in timeline is gray without the blue dot.. I have checked the show/hide tracks and music is checked

What format is the audio file? Might be a codec problem. Does the audio play ok in Windows Media Player?

[aydeet]

What format is the audio file? Might be a codec problem. Does the audio play ok in Windows Media Player?

MP3 format.. and yes, it plays ok in windows media player

 

when I went to add another slide - it crashed - now its back to normal

[gi7omy]

Couple of things to watch for

Always defrag your hard drive regularly (fragmented files cause problems)

Run a good malware program to get rid of any nasties that are running in the background (I use Adaware SE and Spybot S&D)

Shut down any background apps (IMs and so on)

mute the microphone if you have one connected (it picks up and adds in background noise)