Audio formats

LEEPETER · Post by **LEEPETER** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:03 am

Hi
Just moved to Video Studio Pro, from Premier 6.5, due to upgrading to HD.

Due to turning down the gain on camcorder to avoid peaking at Our firms Karting evening, and forgetting to turn it up for the presentation(Senior moment)the last 2 clips levels are very low.

I can alter the levels in Audtion 3, after converting, but cant bring back into VStudio.

I cant find the formats that will load back into VS, anyone can help point the way?

I would be very gratefull , everyone is waiting for the finished DVD.

Test ones are fine, but the low levels are noticeably low.

Regards.

Peter.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:54 am

Welcome to the forums,

VS seems to work best with WAV audio files, or video that uses either Dolby Digital, or LPCM audio. MP3 audio is hit and miss at best. Is your video file an MPEG-2 (DVD) or some form of AVI, such as DV Type-2? If you're working with HD, VS Pro is able to edit AVCHD, which is MPEG-2. There is a trick to getting through VS with AVCHD and Ken Berry is our resident expert on those. So you can do a search for AVCHD and Ken Berry, and you should find several posts to help.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:27 am

First we need to know exactly what high def camera you have so we will know exactly what format we are talking about here.

LEEPETER · Post by **LEEPETER** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:21 pm

Hi
Should have mentioned it.

Panasonic SD1, AVCHD format.

If I try to load the Clip audio into Audition it says "raw pcm"

So I have to convert with procoder to wav, import into Audition, bring up the volume, then try to reimport to VS, on the music track under the clip so it plays the low version underneath.

"File mismatch"

Hope you understand My explanation.

Regards.

Peter

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:32 pm

That' strange since wav is wav is wav... it is the basic audio format and is certainly accepted by VS.

Do you have another audio editor? If not, you could do a Google search for a free one called Audacity which is quite powerful. Then you could split the audio in VS, import the split audio into Audacity and increase the volume there. Then reimport into VS. That would also be in wav format and lots of us here do that all the time...

LEEPETER · Post by **LEEPETER** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:42 pm

Thank You very much for the info.

I was trying to do the audio, from just the clip, had to do the whole audio track.

Exported out & into Audition, made the changes, brought it back in on the voice track.

Made the disc.

Brilliant!! Thanks again.

Audacity is coming as the software, when My so far out of stock USB turntable arrives.

Just copies, labels, covers to do.

Only 7, thats a relief.

Regards.

Peter

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:05 am

Glad it worked!

Coincidentally, my first experience of Audacity was also with a USB turntable. I had seen lots of people hear sing its praises but had never bothered with it as I was (and still am) happy to use Nero Wave Editor. But when I tried Audacity, I was impressed with its versatility and ease of use.

And as you will find with your USB turntable, it has handy little filters that easily get rid of hiss and pops from your old LPs...