Fast Video Resizing Affect Audio in AVI Render???

Slovenial wrote on 1/15/2003, 5:57 PM
Hello Everyone,

I am a new user of VF so *please be gentle* :)

Anyways, I've been playing with VF the past few days and succesfully made my first movie. Then I made some changes to my project and noticed that there was no audio in the rendered Windows .AVI file. The main changes to the project are:

- added some mp3's onto the music track
- added a voice narration onto the sound effects (?) track (whichever track is just under the music track)
- un-checked the fast video resizing
- scene editting: adding/changing events, transitions, etc

The preview of the project when played within VF plays the audio fine, but the resulting .AVI file from the Make Movie render has no audio (as checked in Windows Media Player). My first project's .AVI played audio fine in Win Media Player.

I have made sure the INCLUDE AUDIO setting is checked (in Advanced Render/Custom/Audio tab).

So after discovering this problem, I would render very small parts of my new project and check the .AVI file, and it was fine, no audio problems. So I thought maybe it was a glitch.

Then I tried rendering the entire project and it had the same problem.

Next I tried checking/enabling the Fast Video Resizing - and VOILA! The audio came back in the .AVI file!!!

Anyone heard of this? Could the FVR setting affect the audio?

Do I have a codec problem since I added in those mp3's or the voice narration?

I would like to leave FVR unchecked if possible if it would mean better quality video. (output will be VHS, SVCD and maybe VCD)

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Al

Comments

ralphied wrote on 1/16/2003, 3:00 PM
I never really played with the FVR setting, but if your final format is VHS, SVCD or VCD, I can't imagine the quality suffering by any perceivable amount. These formats are so inferior to DV quality, that checking or checking FVR is a non-issue.
IanG wrote on 1/16/2003, 4:26 PM
That said, losing the audio altogether is a bit extreme :-)

Ian G.
Slovenial wrote on 1/17/2003, 12:02 AM
he he :)
thanks for the replies, guys
haven't played with it any more at the moment, but I think I'll just leave FVR checked from now on.

AL