Audio quality issues after conversion...

[rubblerubble]

This is my first post, so bare with me.

I did a concert capture from VHS using ATI TV wonder, VCD code book standard. Capture is very good. When trying to make use of the features in TMPGE (such as noise reduction, borders, etc.) the audio has a slight crackling effect to it after the re-encode. I tried some of the suggestions here, such as using an external decoder (toolame) to no avail.

I then read a suggestion to use Virtualdub to save the audio file as a wav, and then re-encode it as the source audio when I use TMPGE. However, the audio needs normalizing and an EQ adjustment, which is easily performed in SoundForge. However, when I try to load the adjusted audio file as the source for the re-encode in TMPGE, I get an unsupported file error. Am I doing something wrong when I save the file from SoundForge? Are there any other preferred methods to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.
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[KingJohn]

When you strip the WAV file in Vdub, did you save it uncompressed ?

Audio > Full processing
Audio > Conversion, Check 44.1Khz
Save WAV

You forgot ?

When you load into a WAV editor, you make your changes and click save to save changes, don't use save as to save a different file, unless you know how to set the output.

[rubblerubble]

Thanks for the input. I'm going to check and make sure I'm doing that.