After burning, volume is too loud/low?

[vieo]

After burning video(.AVI) or whatever else to a DVD so I can watch it in any standard DVD player, the volume is sometimes too low or too loud. Some parts like people talking will be too low to hear and then when I lower up the volume, some noises like trucks passing by will be extremely loud.

Is there a way to fix this? (like normalizing the audio?)

I used ConvertXtoDVD. It has an audio adjustment option, but it's pretty much useless.

[guns1inger]

I have never seen this as a problem, but then I prefer the audio to have some dynamic range, rather than sounding like it was played through the mud on a 1972 television speaker.

You could try FAVC instead. It has a volume normalise function, although having never seen the point of using it, I can't vouch for it's effectiveness.

Most automated solutions will tend to err on the more conservative side in order to preserve some audio quality. If you don't like they way they work then you other option is to demux the audio using virtualdubmod (Streams -> Streamlist -> Demux), normalise in an audio editor like audacity until you have the audio nice and flat and lifeless, then mux it back in to replace the original. You can then convert using ConvertXtoDVD or similar.

[vieo]

Thanks for the advice. I'll try updating CXTDVD first since I realized the version I was using was outdated.

[Midzuki]

guns1inger wrote:

I have never seen this as a problem, but then I prefer the audio to have some dynamic range, rather than sounding like it was played through the mud on a 1972 television speaker.

The comparison was funny

Anyway, some of us really "see this as a problem" because the audio tracks of the movies
are intended to be heard in a theater room --- or in an acoustically-similar environment
through a well-configured home-theater system, at least. People who own just an
outdated stereo TV-set and have to live in small houses or apartments do not see
(or rather, do not hear) the point of a more-realistic dynamic range.

[GideonK]

It's a broblem for me too -- sometimes, depending on the AVI.
I solve this problem by demuxing the AVI file into elemantary video and audio streams. I then open the audio file in Audacity.
Edit/Select/All to select entire file. Effect/Compressor brings up a window with different settings.

Experimenting, Trial & error was essntial for me to get the soundtrack more or less the way I like it.

Not "nice and flat and lifless" but it will modify the sound of say, cannon shots, from 'shake the foundation of the house' volume to very loud or just loud volume.


btw

I lower up the volume

is a very innovative use of the English language