I GIVE UP!! Clicking sound errors...HELP

[stripnwild]

I've tried to join two avi's together. Both avis are the same everything...codec sound etc....both clips are Xvid 720x304 @23 fps and 158kbps. Everyone has told me to use VirtualDub-1.6.11 to join the two avis back together.
Now the problem is when i set the video and audio to direct stream (which I'm supposed to) where the two avi's join is a click noise and the audio is lower from there on...unless you click after the join area while playing the overall avi - then the audio is normal volume again. But if playing it straight through the volume drops and there is a loud click right at the join part.

I tried unchecking the direct stream in the audio portion and of course this works but the file size is HUGE.
Can someone please help me???

[redwudz]

If your final product is DVD, don't join them. Let your authoring program put them together.

One reason you would have a huge file with VD is if you didn't choose a codec. Then VD will save it in a somewhat uncompressed format and it will be huge. Select the same codec as your file if you need to re-encode. If you are doing that, then you would need to change the codec settings if you want to reduce the size or change it.

If you are getting a 'click' it may be on one of the audio tracks or it's not being joined properly as one of the files has a problem or is corrupted.

If you just wanted to get rid of the 'click' after you joined, save out the audio, either muxed out as a MP3, if that's what it is, or save out as a WAV and run it though an audio editor like the freeware Audacity and filter or cut out the 'click'. Then you can select that fixed file in VD and put it back in.

As you see, a lot of ways to resolve the problem, just depends on what you want to do with the file.

[mats.hogberg]

What if you uncheck the direct stream for audio, but also select an audio compression like MP3? What you've done is using uncompressed audio (wav) which naturally becomes huge.

/Mats

[Bjs]

whoa ... dont ever use the word cut .. never with audio or you get things becoming unsynced .. dont do it ..

Use vdub to demux the audio from both videos out as uncompressed wav .
Re-encode using besweet so both have matched frequency .

Load first audio file into audio city , and sellect last few second , here you simply use the fade out filter and save , the second file , choose the first few seconds again , and choose fade in , save .

Now in vdub , load first video , then the audio for it , the wav file , do the same thing for the other , then run the joining process , this will remove the annoying click sound .

[redwudz]

Sorry, cut was an unfortunate choice of words.

How about I meant filter or 'reduce the level of the sound to zero'

Fade in/out is probably the easiest.

If you use Audacity, you will be able to see the 'click' sound very clearly as a large spike in the audio display.

[stripnwild]

yes all i wanted to do is joing the two avi's together..thats all nothing special. Not to DVD or anything. Like I stated earlier.....theaudio on the second avi after joining is started by a loud click and a low volume. If for soem reason you click the time slider in hte overall joined avi...to a spot after the join section the audio is fine, but if you let it play from one into the other then you hear a loud click and low volume?
I don't wish to re-encode antyhing just simply join the two pieces back together, but no luck

Maybe the only way is convert it into a dvd and let the dvd authoring join it on its own??? beats me

[thecoalman]

I don't wish to re-encode antyhing just simply join the two pieces back together, but no luck :

The only way to fix is to reencode the audio track on at least one of the clips, at least as far as the volume is concerned. The volume levels differe, if you just join them they will retain there volume levels for each file. Ever watch TV and one of those loud annoying commercials come on, or you have to turn the volume up or down for different channels? It's the same thing essentially.

Try what Bjs suggested... that will fix both the volume and popping issue.