Could be better sound quality?

Shadow Wolf · Post by **Shadow Wolf** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:28 pm

I've had a few people tell me they like my video but it could be better sound quality. They said the same thing on my wifes video that it was good quality, some things here and there but they said the sound quality could be better.

No one has gone into what do they mean by the sound quality can be better. What determines good sound quality and how is this being figured out?

When the sound is turned up at home, its half way up and is fairly loud and clear I had thought. Granted I don't have a high end sound card, since I spent most of my money on the video aspect and I'm only using two speakers not surround sound but what is lowering the quality of the sound. Is it because it doesn't work well with surround sound systems or something else?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:42 pm

You may have used a bad source, or maybe you're compressing the audio too much.

The ideal sources for audio are CDs and DVDs. How to get audio from each is discussed in <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... >EADFAG</a>.

MP3s are not recommended as source; no matter how high the bitrate, it still won't be as good as taking from a CD (especially after you compress it again for distro), and some people can tell the difference.

Usually, using the MP3 codec and a bitrate of 160Kbps or higher produces pretty good sound for distribution purposes (it's what I always use, and I get generally high marks in sound).

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:43 pm

I'm guessing that they are refering to the battle noises.

In terms of audio quality it sounds clear to me.

Shadow Wolf · Post by **Shadow Wolf** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:12 pm

Well my wifes was a taken directly from a CD as an Mp3 and was converted over to wave. Not sure if was done using a mp3 codec but it was done at a bitrate of 160, tried to do 192 but it wouldn't compress properly.

The one I used in my video yeah it did have battle scenes since it was taken from the PS2 Game Final Fantasy. So I worked the sounds into the video and thought I did a decent job doing it.

I was just talking about it with my wife and she says it might be because its at 32 Mhz when encoded or something, would that effect it?

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:09 pm

I've noticed people give very odd scores for sound sometimes. I've been complimented for sound when the source was an mp3 before and I've been bashed for CD rips. I've given up caring about it anyway, I realized that I don't have control over one of the most important aspects of sound reproduction, the end users speaker quality and positioning. If I don't hear pops, hisses, or skips when I play the video then I'm happy with the sound (and in some cases even if I do hear those I'll release the video anyway).