when capturing audio, do you use line in or mic?

[markiz2001]

When I try to capture video, I get low volume. Everything is turned all the way up (line in under recording properties, master recording...). I have a whole bunch of video files that I downloaded from the net, and they have good quality audio, but when I try to encode something, the volume is way lower then in those files and lower then the volume level that exists and that I can hear when recording.

What do you do to have good quality audio? does anybody get loud audio using the Line In?

thanks

[crahak]

IF you've split your audio signal, it'll get weaker, I have an amp on mine... You can also normalize it later.

[markiz2001]

thank you for responding.

how do you normalize the volume in a captured avi, and/or how to you capture to video and audio seperatly, so that you can later normalize the wav file, and join it together in TMPGEnc?

thanks

[Nelson37]

Always use line-in rather than Mic, Mic amplifies the signal and usually distorts it.

I set line-in volume very low and input sound volume high, I have my sound out of the cable box split but have tried it both ways, no real difference.

What software/soundcard/connection methods are you using, this seems like an unusual problem?