AVI to MPEG Help: Audio

[NightStriker]

Hello,

I seem to have a problem. I am doing a music video for school but I am having trouble.

I have edited the video in Adobe Premiere 6.0 and when I exported it, it was a 800 MB avi file. The video also had an mp3 for the music

Now when I convert the video to MPEG format it compresses the size to about 30-35 MB but my problem is that the audio is screwed up now. Instead of clear audio I get, for lack of a better term, crackling when the artist starts singing.

Is there anyway to fix this and if so how?

Thanks

EDIT: I've used TMPGEnc and bbMpeg with the same result

[bugster]

What sample rate is the audio in the avi. If it is 48khz (common) and you use a standard TmpGenc template to convert to mpeg it will downsample to 44.1khz and convert to .mp2 format. TmpGencs audio performance is not the best in the world so this could cause your problem. Have a look in the guides section of this site on how to use toolame for audio conversion with TmpGenc, it might help.