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dmbrecords wrote on 3/2/2002, 3:40 PM
Take this for what it's worth, but cumpressing an audio signal too much makes it sound like it's in a tunnel. It also reduces the stereo affect of the sound to a minor or major degree. I find most movies that I download off the net are highly compressed and they sound likr that. I'm not familiar with quicktime's software, but maybe there is a setting on how much compression it uses on your video project. It would be cool if it had a setting for how much compression it applied to both video and audio somehow, but I doubt it.
What is your video project saved as anyways? AVI? MPEG? Etc...
Is your audio track rendered to mp3? Or microsoft wav file?...
maybe you would have to render the audio track by itself in veags ftom whatever you recorded it as to a file or (or sample rate) that quicktime uses...such as 44.1Hz.

This means that even if by default Quicktime autmatically compresses to a certain level....it doesnt have to do much (or any )work on the audio part of the final video project rendering process. Either way you look at it, if you compress any signal... you lose quality after a certain extent. If you're compressing it enough to go on the web, you're going to lose audio quality . And quicktime might be compressing it that much on a default setting. So my advice would be..
1. Check to make sure that your audio file is appropriate for Quicktime format so it can compress with the video. (such as a WAV. file, or an MP3 , or a wav64, or whatever it's comfotable using as a source of audio .I know it's confusing, but it may be the problem. Also , I've seen where some programs are designed to be used on Mac's , and some on PCI based machines. Not saying that they don't run on the other machines, they just use conversions that can sometimes compress as they convert.. In that case, I don't think )I could be wrong) there is anything you can do other than using a different program like Windows media player. (pci)

2. If that's not it....Check to see if there is an adjustment for how much compression is involved when rendering a track into quicktime format.

I hope this helps.. let me know. I've honestly never used it, but that seems kinda logical to me. Let's hope someone else can help ya out with a little more experience with Quicktime. Good luck. D.

swarrine wrote on 3/2/2002, 6:57 PM
Switch your QuickTime audio output to mono. It worked for me anyway.

This is just a wild guess, but I think in QT output "stereo" mode the left and right channels are just slightly out of sync. 20 years ago when I was a nightclub DJ we called it phasing (playing two of the same records just out of sync). Sounds like the same thing anyway. Only difference is back then I was paid to do it and now I will pay to stop it.

LOL.
Cheesehole wrote on 3/2/2002, 11:07 PM
are you serious, people actually dug that? 20 yrs would be 1982. okay, I can see that. :D LOL
SonyEPM wrote on 3/5/2002, 9:24 AM
Randy: What were your QT render settings?