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Audio made worse after multiplexing

Discussion in 'Audio' started by vincevega12, Mar 28, 2012.

  1. vincevega12

    vincevega12 Member

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    Ok there is a lot of background information but I will try to say everything as straightforward as possible.



    Long story short: When I take my old Video file and my new audio file with NR and create a new file the audio gets all hissy again...




    Alright, I shot a "tutorial"/"advert" on a Canon 5D mark ii, I used my external boom/shotgun (3.5mm jack) electret condenser super unidirectional mic for audio.

    That always gives me a terrible hissing sound in the footage. I've used every program out there and for my specific problem Adobe Audition works best. I can put headphones in and have the voice at a comfortable level and if I didn't know there was a hiss before I wouldn't have been the wiser.

    Perfect? Yes? NO...

    I have my original .mov video/audio file and my new, clean sounding, audio file I exported from Audition (.mp3 or .wav)

    So I decide to mux them together as opposed to loading them into premiere pro or sony vegas to replace the audio and then go ahead and render a new whole video.

    Long story short: When I take my old Video file and my new audio file with NR and create a new file the audio gets all hissy again...

    If someone knows a good alternative program or a better suggestion..anything, please give me a hand. I just want something easy, should I just go with using premiere or vegas and just render a clean video every time?

    I have samples of all of this if it may help to hear what is exactly going on.



    Thank you everyone.
     
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  2. Mez

    Mez Active member

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    You probably created artifacts. You will need to convert the files differently. Different tools, convert to some other file type. Did the wav and mp3 sound the same?
     
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    Yes before I muxed them together they sounded identical and after I did the muxing they sounded awful.
     
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    I don't pretend to know how artifacts are made. I do know from experience good tools rarely make artifacts poor tools make artifacts more often. Even with the best tools, artifacts can be made. I discovered for instance, splitting an album into tracks in an ape format then converting the tracks to mp3 produced artifacts but if I converted the album to mp3 then cut the tracks no artifacts were made. The splitting should not have affected the sound at all because it was a simple cut and the audio was 'not effected'.

    Artifacts can be so loud they hurt your ears.
     

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