Audio is very low after burning with Nero?

[Lothar1974]

Hello,

I have captured some TV shows using a ATI TV Wonder Elite card and Beyond TV 4.0. I then edit out the commercials and then burn it at the highest quality on a DVD. When its done the video is great but the sound is super low? I have went into Nero and adjusted the audio, (AC-3) 2.0 is what its set at. Any idea why this is happening? Help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Jason

[mats.hogberg]

When its done the video is great but the sound is super low?

...when you play it back on what? If on your computer, it may well be up to configuring the AC3 filter.

/Mats

[Lothar1974]

The video quality is good on both amy PC and my DVD player hooked to my TV. And both play the audio real low. I have a Audigy 2 ZS card and have it set to use the SPDIF pass through. Should I be using Audigy's built in decoder? Sorry some what of a noob with sound and audio stuff!

Thanks!!

Jason

[Lothar1974]

Anyone?

[guns1inger]

It will be something to do with the way Nero is encoding the audio, and the normalisation settings it is using. You can confirm if this is the case by encoding with a different application and testing. If this is the case, and you cannot adjust the settings in Nero, then you wil have to find another way to encode, or turn up the volume.

[Lothar1974]

guns1inger: I am almost positive that it worked fine before. I recently reformatted my PC and believe this happening as a result? I also noticed that when playing the video clip via MS Media player the sound is fine but when playing it with Nero Show time the audio is way low again. You know, I was just thinking, there was an option in Beyond TV I believe that let me use Nero's MPEG-2 decoder instead of Beyond TV's. I think I'll try that. Any thoughts??

Thanks!

Jason

[redwudz]

It still sounds like Nero is at least part of your problem. I would try a different program. If you want to encode the audio to AC3, you could try ffmpeggui for one. Nero is likely re-encoding, which it tends to do, whether you want it to or not. If it played fine before Nero processed it, that could be the problem.

Or basically what guns1inger said.

[Lothar1974]

Being a noob at this will I be able to edit out commercials and everything with Nero and then convert the audio files with ffmpeggui and burnwith Nero? Or is theresomething better to use and just as easy? Thanks so much for the help everyone!!

Jason

[redwudz]

I only use Nero for burning. There are programs like VideoReDo that are 'made' for that type of editing.
Others are MPEG-VCR. There are a few freeware MPEG editors also, like Cuttermaran.

If you don't need to encode the video after editing, (Meaning it's DVD compliant.) you just need to author and maybe convert the audio, then burn. That's where a program like ffmpeggui would come in. You can see what a DVD compliant format is by looking up to the left for 'WHAT IS' DVD.

A good freeware authoring program is GUI for dvdauthor.

For all in ones that work similar to Nero, but better, there's ConvertXToDVD. You would still need to edit out the commercials, but ConvertX would do the rest.

[Lothar1974]

Well I finally fixed the issue! After searching the net for a while I found a post that explained how to fix this issue. And its so easy it really pi$$es me off! When in the editing screen, all you have to do is double click the clip and a volume screen option comes up. By default the sound is only at like 25%. I put it up to 100% and then burnt my show to DVD and it was normal again. Just thought I'd share in case anyone runs into this! Thanks for all the help everyone!!!!!!


Jason