issues with homemade music

Cosy Pete wrote on 5/31/2010, 1:59 PM

Hi Guys,

a newbie here so bare with me.

I have been making some video using video from my camcorder, photos, music ripped from CD's and some of my own music that I have written in Ableton Live. I have put it all into Movie studio 9 platinum edition.
When I had finished my piece I exported it as an mpeg. Wonderful everything was great. A friend then asked could they have a DVD copy so I transferred it into DVD architect and burnt it. All the visual side was great. The audio from video camera was great. The ripped CD was great. The music that I had created myself where allover the place. The sound fluctuated up and down and was unuseable.
Any ideas why that would be. It was recorded in 44100 16 bit standard CD quality. There is obviously an issue just with my homemade music. Any ideas why that might be.

I am using Windows 7 and Ableton Live 8

Any suggestions gratefully received as I need to produce some video that will be going to DVD and I need this sorting.

Many thanks

Cosy Pete

Comments

chulaivet1966 wrote on 6/7/2010, 9:59 AM

Well....I'm a new kid (about 2 weeks) with this movie making stuff too.
I'm a long time musician and have successfully added my own songs
to my current DVD project without problems.

1) are they huge wave files vs. MP3 (not that it should matter that much)?
2) did you put the music you imported on the proper track (I've made this error)?

For music I use Sonar do don't know anything about Ableton Live or if there is an
export issue there.

Sorry I'm not much help but maybe this will give you a bump for someone who
actually knows something.

Good luck......
we

eightyeightkeys wrote on 6/7/2010, 12:10 PM

I am a professional musician with a pro recording studio. I'd like to help you out, but, it's difficult to diagnose from what you said.

As long as you rendered the mp3 at decent quality - anything 192kbytes per sec or better - and the volume was "normalized" to 0 dbFS - maximum digital volume before clipping...and you didn't accidentally change sample rate (Cubase, for example, allows mp3's to be rendered at 48kHz) the music should have played "normally."

When you say "all over the place" and the "sound fluctuated up and down" do you mean up and down in volume or pitch or both ?