URGENT HELP NEEDED NOW!!

Lewis 97 wrote on 12/7/2008, 1:41 AM

Hi, I have managed to fix all of my previous problems thanks to help from people... But now I have made my video (which just so happens to be a lego animation). I did direct upload to youtube, It uploaded, that was fine. Although when I watched it some of the voices I had made louder were really quiet, some sounds were louder than what I set, it lost all of its quality, and another annoying thing is: in the bottom left hand corner I set the rate to 1.35, (that sounded and looked best), but whenever I exit or re-enter the rate changes back to 0.00 and the same happens when I process the video. NOTE: this also happens when I process it to my hard drive, and the reason it is urgent is that I am in a competiton with a freind and I NEED the video up by monday. Please, please, please help!

A huge thankyou in advance,

Lewis97.

P.S. This isn't so urgent, and I should be able to find this out without any of your help, but it would be very helpful if you could also tell me how to do credits, titles, apply title effects, and another thing is moving THE WHOLE video forward. Thankyou again.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:08 PM

Didn't you backup your project? That's bad. Perhaps you can recover the original by clicking 'undo' a couple of times (or CTRL+Z)?

Lewis 97 wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:08 PM

I can't place attachments on the emails you send via your profile.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:14 PM

Check your mail. I replied, so now you have my email address and you can send me an attachment.

Lewis 97 wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:18 PM

here is the link for the youtube video... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4r4q_Ocd4to

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:32 PM

Ok, I compared the Youtube version with the wmv file you sent me. Youtube is indeed problematic and unusable. The wmv file you sent me is much better, but there I also notice a slight drop in volume. I guess the Youtube conversion does a really bad job on the audio.

As it happens, Youtube does more than one conversion (they do 4, actually).
Check this link below. It accesses your same movie, but another conversion, and there the sound is perfect! (it is like the wmv file).
Send this link to your friend or you'll have to tell the people to add '&fmt=18' to the youtube url
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4r4q_Ocd4to&fmt=18
You may want to consider creating a vimeo account (www.vimeo.com), which is free, and post your video there. Vimeo won't have this issue.

Problem solved?

Eugenia wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:34 PM

Lewis, the audio sync seems to be fine on that youtube video. Only your dialog is problematic. Just make your dialog in the timeline stronger in volume.

Lewis 97 wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:43 PM

But on the preview it is fine, it is just whe i upload it to utube. Shall I increase the volume of the audio despite the fact that on the preview it goes all funny. I am going to bed now, still write replies, but i won't be reading or replying till tommorow.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:44 PM

Read my previous post. I SOLVED YOUR PROBLEM.

Lewis 97 wrote on 12/7/2008, 2:45 PM

is it possible that it could automatically be the good one?

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/7/2008, 9:29 PM

Try this: in your Youtube account settings, click playback setup and select "always play higher quality". I'm not 100% sure it will work, though.

MarkWWWW wrote on 12/8/2008, 5:42 AM

If the sound on the low quality Youtube version is bad and the sound on the high quality (fmt=18) version is good then it is quite likely that the problem is one of mono compatibility. If I remember correctly the low quality Youtube encode has mono audio and the high quality version has stereo audio.

On the full Pro version of Vegas you can quickly check if there are any mono compatibility problems by clicking on the downmix button which will immediately give you a mono downmix of the stereo audio. I don't think the Studio versions of Vegas have the Downmix button so you may need to find another way to check the mono compatibility of your stereo mix, perhaps via a mono button on your playback amp. In any case, if listening to your audio in mono reveals the same problems you are hearing in the low quality Youtube version then the solution is to adjust your audio to make it more mono-compatible, or to only let people hear the higher quality, stereo, version.

Mark