Studio 7 DV-AVI -> MPEG w. TMPGEnc distorts audio

[sorenlk]

Hi there
I have captured some video/audio using Studio 7 and my DC10plus. After editing I save as a DV AVI file and use TMPGEnc to convert to a VCD MPEG-file (using the template in TMPGEnc).

The sound I get in the MPEG-file is distorted (or overdriven) like it was recorded with too high volume. But the source DV-AVI sounds perfect.

I have tried using TooLame as external encoder in TMPGEnc - makes no difference.

Does anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks a lot in advance
Soren[/b]

[ToddB]

Try using scmpx or tooLame in the 'external tools' under 'environment setting' in the menu of TMPGenc. I've been using scmpx as the sample frequency converter and it seems to be working pretty good. TMPGenc doesn't convert audio very well.

Hope this help.

[leebo]

Try using tooLame

I could swear the original poster said he had.
Does your original and converted audio specs match (44.1, 16bit, etc.?

[bryanL]

Try using Studio 7 to convert the avi down to mpeg2. Maximum PC magazine gave Studio 7 a "9" because they felt its codec was the equivalant of ones cost upwards of $100. Not buggy either...........

Bryan

[ric499]

Does tooLame work with DV1 audio? May be the answer to my problem. I get an error when I try to directly encode DV1 and according to the TMPEGenc site it's a problem with the DV1 audio handling. I used to use tooLame as the external encoder with TMPEGenc before they improved their audio coder. I haven't used it lately because the TMPEGenc audio has been fixed pretty well and it's faster not to use the external encoder, but if it works with DV1.......

I can't recommend MPEG encoding with Studio 7. In my hands at least there is no comparison to the quality you get with TMPEGenc (or I presume CinemaCraft). There are too many settings you really need to play with to get good encodes and none of these are available with Studio 7. Studio 7 is a good program. I do use it to edit my DV1 files. I also tried saving directly to a standard AVI file with Studio 7 then encoding with TMPEGenc, but this results in an unacceptable video quality loss for some reason. I guess I could then deMUX the audio from that file encode the DV1 directly and then reMUX the audio to the DV1 file but that seems like way too much work, there has to be a better solution.