microsoft expressions enc 4 keeps attenuating audio

[aspry]

Hi all, new here.

I'm trying to capture a spectrum visualization along with a song I've recorded. The idea being to upload it to sites like youtube

Expresssions attenuates the audio volume unless I keep it too low for my liking.

Next up I decided to replace the poor quality captured audio with the higher quality original but again the volume gets dampened, is there a simple off switch to prevent this.

To replace the audio I reduced the existing audio track to 0
then added the original audio via the enhance/ audio overlay tab

Another thing is I only have the free version of expressions it doesn't export to mp4, is wmv ok for video upload sites?

[El Heggunte]

YouTube has no problem with WMVs — as long as the video is strictly constant-frame-rate, at least.

You should use Expression Encoder for video encoding only. With ffmpeg, or AsfBin, you can replace the bad audio generated by EE with a correctly-encoded WMA stream.

[aspry]

Thanks but you've lost me already, I'm a novice at this

asfbin's interface looks terrible and there isn't a guide listed on the videohelp page.

I have ffmpeg for audacity, but then what?

[aspry]

I came across this type of instruction for ffmpeg

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11779490/how-to-add-a-new-audio-not-mixing-into-a-v...o-using-ffmpeg

it's gobbledeegook to me

Can someone provide some step by step help please in an alternative user friendly software?

or tell me how to switching off audio dampening in expressions?

[aspry]

Let's scrap that then.

Are there different freeware capture softwares for windows 7 that are very light on resources.

Will record up to 10mins without watermarks and can save to mp4?

[raffriff42]

OBS Studio. You can ignore the streaming feature and just record to a file. Coming off Fraps, it's extremely lightweight.

[aspry]

Thanks, obs looked promising but I get a directx error when I try to record.

From reading around I don't think my gpu is supported, my notebook is too old ...2010