Sound Distortion

[Rayi]

I have various Music Videos and they sound good but occasionally I run into some videos that has some distortion in VideoWave where parts of the song sounds like the speaker is ripped; although, they sound fine in Windows Media Player. I have tried right clicking the video in VideoWave and edit the sound but it does not seem to help. I've tried playing around with lowering the base. It has clean sound but it only allows you clean portions of it; I find this difficult to only select portions of it to clean. Any suggestions to improve the sound would be appreciated. thanks

[FwFdfireman]

This did not seem to help and I turned it all the way off; ; although, the problem does not seem to be in the system, as Window Media Player plays it fine. It's just within Roxio that the distortion amplifies. When I burn a DVD, the sound also ends up being distored when I play it in a DVD player. thanks

 

So far all my sound has sounded fine in Videowave or within any Roxio component. I did notice however, that when I burnt a disc I would get some audio distortion here and there. I did find what I think has cured that for me and you might try it. I don't promise anything, but my logic is sound.

 

Open Roxio and under Tools select "Disc Info". Make sure your burner that you use is the on selected. Now look down in the lower right hand corner of the Disc Info interface. There you see an "Options" icon. Click on that. Look in the menu tree and under "Audio" click on "Conversion". There you can select what you want the files converted to ( I leave mine on MP3 as that is what I was working with) but I did lower the bitrate down to 128, default for me was 256.

 

I think that possibly the bitrate selected 256, was causing some problems as most of the MP3s I was working with were bitrates of 128 or lower.

 

After that, all my audio in on my burnt discs sound great! See if this helps in the burn outcome and let us know if it did or did not. If it did not, then at least we eliminated one more "possible".

[Rayi]

I have finally been able to get Roxio 7.5 to work properly on my other computer and the particular videos that do sound bad in Roxio 9 sound fine when I used Roxio 7.5 to create the DVD. This seems odd to me. I wonder why this is so? Because it does it with certain videos, luckily not most. As I mentioned the sound distortion does not occur when you play it through any video player but only in Roxio 9. I couldn't be sure about this till I was able to actually burn a DVD in Roxio 7.5, even though it sounded fine in Videowave and MyDVD. Also, I realized it sure is quicker to create an iso in Roxio 7.5, compared to Roxio 9 which takes over 5 hours. But Roxio 9 does make certain things easier. So I would not want to go back to Roxio 7.5, though this sound problem is annoying.

[hawkeyes]

I fought this problem. And I won! In VW 9, and probably the other CD/DVD/other plastic media programs in the Roxio family, the usable (safe) data sampling rate appears to be a maximum of 192kbps for wav files and 128kbps for MP3. What has seemed to work the best for me is to run MP3 files through 'Audacity' to make wav files. The default is 192kbps. MP3 files above 128kbps end up being distorted on my version of VW 9 and wav files above 192kbps...same thing.

 

Audacity is free......give it a shot!

 

BTW.....as hokey as Windoze media player is it does play an amazing range of audio bit rates, compressions, and even companded files! So, don't really depend on WMP to ascertain if a file will 'play' since WMP seems to play almost everything.

[FwFdfireman]

Unfortunately, FwFdfireman setting the birate to 128 did not do anything for me. And as far as using something like Audacity, I am just using completed mpeg(s), so as far as I know, I cannot separate the sound from the video. thanks

 

ALso, I also wondered, after doing quite a few of these music mpeg videos, I did one where there was no music at all; particuarly after I did the same one with minor modifications; i.e, setting a default chapter; although, others were modified also and the music worked. The only thing I did was play with some settings in the DirectX Diagnostic tool for another video to try to work out some distortion. I don't know if setting it for no acceleration would mute the music. Not sure what I did other than that. I have also noticed that occasionally a music video will not play music and I have to delete it and drop it back in to get it to play music again, occasionally. thanks

 

Sorry the one suggestion I made didn't help you. You can seperate the sound from the video through a process of recording it. I have used Creatives Wave tool to do that. Record, edit if needed and then save the sound file to whatever format I want. You could then mute the "Native" track of you mpeg and insert your NEW, recorded sound track. That's theory as I haven't done this in Roxio yet, but have recorded sound, music from some vid files and kept them. In VideoWave you can mute native tract sound and insert another sound track. You might have a problem syncing the sound to the video though. Like I said, I haven't attempted this but in theory should work.

 

I have problems with some videos I have gotten from the internet, funny stuff and such, that I have audio sync problems when I burn them to disc. I am still researching this problem and believe it is in the bitrate of the audio portion or in the conversion of the video format. I might try my own advice of recording the sound and then doing what I described to you and see if I can sync it well enough and get a good final burn.

 

As far as your second problem of a "music video not playing music". If that's in VideoWave, then try this:

 

Show the "Native Track" of the video. Click on THAT sound track to select it (highlight it) and then on the speaker icon in the VideoWave tool bar just above the timeline, click on it to open, then just close it.

 

See if that magically brings back the sound to your video. I have encountered this in my projects but with audio tracts that I inserted and at first did as you, removed file and replaced with same file and sound came back. I thought, it's the same dang file, why did it all of a sudden quit playing the sound. STUMBLED upon this solution so appears to be a bug. The bug may be peculiar to only a select few as I don't see a ton of posts about it.

[Rayi]

Unfortunately, FwFdfireman setting the birate to 128 did not do anything for me. And as far as using something like Audacity, I am just using completed mpeg(s), so as far as I know, I cannot separate the sound from the video. thanks

 

ALso, I also wondered, after doing quite a few of these music mpeg videos, I did one where there was no music at all; particuarly after I did the same one with minor modifications; i.e, setting a default chapter; although, others were modified also and the music worked. The only thing I did was play with some settings in the DirectX Diagnostic tool for another video to try to work out some distortion. I don't know if setting it for no acceleration would mute the music. Not sure what I did other than that. I have also noticed that occasionally a music video will not play music and I have to delete it and drop it back in to get it to play music again, occasionally. thanks

[Rayi]

Does your son have the same computer as you? Did you try rolling back to WMP 10?

 

Yes, I did roll back to WMP 10. I have been trying to burn a DVD in Roxio 7.5 on another computer but I am having problems for some reason. I am going to do a clean reinstall when I get the time. IE 7 seemed to cause some problems. It seems Roxio 7.5 does not have these sound distortions but I would have to burn a DVD to be sure. I do not want to uninstall Roxio 9, on my main computer, as it has many more features that I need. I would like to get to the bottom of this annoying problem.

[jeanrosenfeld]

I have various Music Videos and they sound good but occasionally I run into some videos that has some distortion in VideoWave where parts of the song sounds like the speaker is ripped; although, they sound fine in Windows Media Player. I have tried right clicking the video in VideoWave and edit the sound but it does not seem to help. I've tried playing around with lowering the base. It has clean sound but it only allows you clean portions of it; I find this difficult to only select portions of it to clean. Any suggestions to improve the sound would be appreciated. thanks

I find Sound Editor a very good app to clean up sound files, vey flexible. I also use it to convert. I have not experienced any sound distortion with files edited/converted in Sound Editor. I just tried with a wav file converted to mp3 at 320kbps. No distortions in Videowave. Maybe you could try Sound Editor (extract the audio in Videowave, edit in Sound Editor, add the edited track in Videowave, muting corresponding internal track of the video)..

[sknis]

I once had a problem with an echo or more specifically the vocal seemed to almost be in the background. I think this was with an earlier version of Sound Editor. I think that what I was recording or how I was recording had a wide stereo sound so the "center audio" was not present. I used a different program to double the vocal and it sounded OK.

[Rayi]

It seems like the sound doesn't get distorted in Roxio 7.5. I haven't burnt a DVD to be sure but it immediately sounds better in Videowave 7.5. I have a few video's that just sounds awful in Roxio Videowave 9 and the distorted sound carries over to the DVD I burn. I have this Black/White Jimi Hendrix and The doors that sounds like a ripped speaker, yet it seems too sound fine in Roxio 7.5 and in Windows Media Player 11. I have found Roxio 9 to be very buggy. It does have better features but I hope there is an update coming. Although, the only other problem I am having with Roxio 7.5, is that certain mpeg's are not recognized but Media Player 11 doesn't recognize them either on my other computer that has Roxio 7.5 installed. It says certain codecs are missing in order to play them. Yet on the computer with Roxio 9, all the mpegs play. this is my better computer. So, I don't understand that either. I didn't know there were different requirements for various mpeg video clips.

[Rayi]

>Open Roxio and under Tools select "Disc Info".

 

I can't find a "Disc Info" under tools in Video wave or MY DVD. Also, my Music Videos are integrated with the sound. Essentially I am just using a Music Video that was already produced with popular artists. thanks

[grandpabruce]

It seems like the sound doesn't get distorted in Roxio 7.5. I haven't burnt a DVD to be sure but it immediately sounds better in Videowave 7.5. I have a few video's that just sounds awful in Roxio Videowave 9 and the distorted sound carries over to the DVD I burn. I have this Black/White Jimi Hendrix and The doors that sounds like a ripped speaker, yet it seems too sound fine in Roxio 7.5 and in Windows Media Player 11. I have found Roxio 9 to be very buggy. It does have better features but I hope there is an update coming. Although, the only other problem I am having with Roxio 7.5, is that certain mpeg's are not recognized but Media Player 11 doesn't recognize them either on my other computer that has Roxio 7.5 installed. It says certain codecs are missing in order to play them. Yet on the computer with Roxio 9, all the mpegs play. this is my better computer. So, I don't understand that either. I didn't know there were different requirements for various mpeg video clips.

 

Roll back to Windows Media Player 10 or 9. WMP 11 has been know to foul up more than one program, even if the audio file plays in WMP 11, itself.

[grandpabruce]

>Open Roxio and under Tools select "Disc Info".

 

I can't find a "Disc Info" under tools in Video wave or MY DVD. Also, my Music Videos are integrated with the sound. Essentially I am just using a Music Video that was already produced with popular artists. thanks

 

You can't find it in VideoWave, because it isn't there. It's under tools on the main EMC 9 Home page, where Fw told you to look.

[sknis]

I have various Music Videos and they sound good but occasionally I run into some videos that has some distortion in VideoWave where parts of the song sounds like the speaker is ripped; although, they sound fine in Windows Media Player. I have tried right clicking the video in VideoWave and edit the sound but it does not seem to help. I've tried playing around with lowering the base. It has clean sound but it only allows you clean portions of it; I find this difficult to only select portions of it to clean. Any suggestions to improve the sound would be appreciated. thanks

 

Go into Windows Start run dxdiag and turn down the audio acceleration. This has been seen before and usually solves the issue. WHY? I don't know or care as long as it works.

 

 

 

I have a program that requires me to turn off the video acceleration to get higher frame rates when capturing? I don't know why but it works.

[Rayi]

Roll back to Windows Media Player 10 or 9. WMP 11 has been know to foul up more than one program, even if the audio file plays in WMP 11, itself.

 

I don't think Windows Media Player 11 is the problem, as my son has WMP 10 and Roxio 9 and the sound is distorted. I just wondered why the sound plays fine in Roxio 7.5. Unfortunately, I am unable to burn a DVD on that computer to see if the sound actually is better. Everytime I load DVD builder, it gives me an error message and quits but that's another problem. It has an Athlon 1900+ (512mb) that worked before on another board but has a different video card (64mb) which is probably causing this. It does have DirectX 9 installed. I've heard of this problem on other computers. All computers that I have mentioned run WinXP Pro.

[Rayi]

>mute the "Native" track of you mpeg and insert your NEW, recorded sound track

 

I have actually done this successfully with some music videos. It almost seems as if they are using the original popular recording and lip syncing. I just kept playing around with it till it lined up almost perfectly. But when it comes to live performances, it seems impossible to insert a sound track because probably no 2 songs are the same when they are live, unless you can find that exact live recording. Some of these older live performances like the Animals, Doors, Jimi Hendrix are unique which are unlike the newer polished videos.

[Rayi]

This did not seem to help and I turned it all the way off; ; although, the problem does not seem to be in the system, as Window Media Player plays it fine. It's just within Roxio that the distortion amplifies. When I burn a DVD, the sound also ends up being distored when I play it in a DVD player. thanks

[grandpabruce]

I don't think Windows Media Player 11 is the problem, as my son has WMP 10 and Roxio 9 and the sound is distorted. I just wondered why the sound plays fine in Roxio 7.5. Unfortunately, I am unable to burn a DVD on that computer to see if the sound actually is better. Everytime I load DVD builder, it gives me an error message and quits but that's another problem. It has an Athlon 1900+ (512mb) that worked before on another board but has a different video card (64mb) which is probably causing this. It does have DirectX 9 installed. I've heard of this problem on other computers. All computers that I have mentioned run WinXP Pro.

 

Does your son have the same computer as you? Did you try rolling back to WMP 10?