Compressing Audio

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:04 pm

Well I have a problem, I'm not sure how to compress the audio of my amvs and it makes my videos huge. If anyone knows how to compress audio by using Adobe Premier 6.0 or Virtual Dub Mod it would truly help a lot.

My videos usually come out at about 90 megs and it seems to me that that is a little bt too big.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:06 pm

Don't compress your audio in your primary editing prog. You should do this in VDub/VDubMod instead by clicking Audio, then selecting Compression from the drop-down menu. This will give you a box similar to the video compression interface where you can select from the audio codecs installed on your system.

This is probably covered better in the guides.

--K

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:18 pm

Kai Stromler wrote:You should do this in VDub/VDubMod instead by clicking Audio, then selecting Compression from the drop-down menu.

Problem...mine doesn't have a tab for audio, and now I'm wondering if i have some sort of strange version that isn't as good.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:45 pm

Weird, I have Virtual Dub 1.5.10, and this functionality has been in VDub ever since I started using it back in '01 (at least). VDubMod may not have it (never used this util), but VDub is still free.

--K

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:57 pm

MomochiZabuza wrote:
Kai Stromler wrote:You should do this in VDub/VDubMod instead by clicking Audio, then selecting Compression from the drop-down menu.
Problem...mine doesn't have a tab for audio, and now I'm wondering if i have some sort of strange version that isn't as good.

In VDubMod 1.5.x:

Streams->Stream List->Right-click on the gray-shaded audio file->select 'Full Processing Mode' and then select 'Compression' from the right-click menu.

VDubMod 1.4.x has the same audio interface as VDub, IIRC. And as far as I know, VDubMod only came in 1.4.x and 1.5.x. There are other modified versions of VDub, but those projects were mostly (if not completely) combined into VDubMod.

KaneDragon · Post by **KaneDragon** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:28 pm

VirtualDub compresses audio to mp3 at too low a rate, though. I can't go above about 55 kbs. How can I get at least 128?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:34 pm

Get the LAME MP3 codec instead of using Frauenhofer's:
http://mitiok.cjb.net/

KaneDragon · Post by **KaneDragon** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:25 pm

Your link didn't help, but it did give me the hint I needed. This is all you really need to do:

In the Registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]

Under the entry "msacm.l3acm", change the file from l3codeca.acm to l3codecp.acm

Thanks to the VirtualDub archives for this information.