Crap sound quality!! grrrrr

[bmwstylz]

Capturing sound okay

Editing films in Adobe premiere - the AVi files are awesome quality vidoe and sound

As soon as I encode in SVCD format using TMPGenc the video quality is crappy ( i've learned to deal with that), but the sound is also slightly scratchy/garbled... just enough to make it irritating.

how can I fix this?

frustratedly yours,

bmwstylz

[bugster]

Maybe it is the sample rate conversion (SVCD requires a sample rate of 44.1khz, what sample rate is your audio). Tmpgenc's sample rate conversion is known to be slightly 'below par'. Try using ssrc.exe, integrated within tmpgenc, as an external sample rate converter. You can also use toolame.exe as the audio encoder if you wish.

[vcdfreak]

It's the sampling frequency problem.

Took me a long time to figure this out.

Just to make sure you don't let Premiere to do the frequency conversion.

Ex. If you are to produce a DVD, make sure your source(AVI import) and target(AVI export etc.) sampling frequency are the same. If not, resample using soundforge or other apps.

Make sure your project settings show the same sampling frequency all around.

If you have a DV (48kHz Sam. Freq.) and you want to add in songs from CD (44.1kHz) and produce to DVD format (frameserve to TMPEnc etc.), I would suugest you resample your extracted song from CD to 48kHz using soundforge(use anti-alias filter). Also make sure you export as 48kHz in audio sampling frequency.

You you decide to go for VCD, make sure all set to 44.1khz.

As for TMPEnc (if you use the encoder), make sure you set the audio engine to high quality frequency sampling conversion (only available to newer versions of TMPEnc).



We need to do all this because Premiere and old version of TMPEnc sukx!


That's why!