Hi Ivan -

There's no separate Screen Recorder forum, so you've landed your issue in the "right" spot.

I've used SR3 fairly extensively, recording up to ~30min, & never had the issue of distorted or garbled sound. Have you applied the latest 4287 patch? It adds some better options. Whether it'll make any difference to your issue is anyone's guess.

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Ivan,

Not sure if this will help, but maybe something else to try. I am in fact have a similar problem right now with producing some complex videos in PD16. Many of my segments, the audio was getting garbled. I am recording at full HD (1920x1080) and running the completed video on my laptop where it was garbling the audio. I would go back down to my monster workstation where I produce the video and the same final video runs just fine. I tried it on another laptop and had the same garbling audio.

My conclusion was that my lower-powered laptops were struggling with playing the HD video for some reason. I am just now experimenting with producing my final video using a different codec to see if that resolves the problem.

Maybe this gives you an idea or two to try? Do you have a more powerful PC or laptop you could try running your video on? I would try that before going too far.

Quote Hi Ivan -

There's no separate Screen Recorder forum, so you've landed your issue in the "right" spot.

I've used SR3 fairly extensively, recording up to ~30min, & never had the issue of distorted or garbled sound. Have you applied the latest 4287 patch? It adds some better options. Whether it'll make any difference to your issue is anyone's guess.

Cheers - Tony

Always a good place to start: update to the latest version.

I did just apply that patch and no joy. Still doing it. I also loaded up the screen recorder that comes with Power Director. I had never used it, and it does the same thing.

Thanks for trying!
Ivan

Quote Hi Ivan,

Not sure if this will help, but maybe something else to try. I am in fact have a similar problem right now with producing some complex videos in PD16. Many of my segments, the audio was getting garbled. I am recording at full HD (1920x1080) and running the completed video on my laptop where it was garbling the audio. I would go back down to my monster workstation where I produce the video and the same final video runs just fine. I tried it on another laptop and had the same garbling audio.

My conclusion was that my lower-powered laptops were struggling with playing the HD video for some reason. I am just now experimenting with producing my final video using a different codec to see if that resolves the problem.

Maybe this gives you an idea or two to try? Do you have a more powerful PC or laptop you could try running your video on? I would try that before going too far.

Good thought, but I am using my "monster" machine". Quad i7 with 32 gb of ram, SSD hard drive. It is my music and video production machine. I also have a screen recorder by Articulate, and it works fine.

Thanks for the input!

Ivan

I have SR16 which came bundled with PowerDirector Suite 16, and it has the same issues, which started after a few Windows 10 updates, it didn't do this originally. I suspect it's some kind of Window-ish problem.

I have discovered a workaround for this issue on MY MACHINE. The issue was due to using the built-in mic in the laptop along with SR16 recording full screen video 1920 x 1080. After about a minute of flawless video/audio capture, the quality degrades significantly and the audio gets completely garbled, and lost, with a few video frame drops as well. The result is that the capture is bogus and unusable.

My workaround was to change the audio device from built-in laptop mic to external audio device (Zoom H4n headphone jack) wired into the laptop Line In port. Zoom was set to Record Pause mode which functions as an audio pass-through, so the audio gets mixed directly with the video capture in SR16, avoiding a separate transcoding process. This produced a flawless video/audio capture at full laptop resolution, with absolutely NO dropped frames anywhere.

Audio out and audio in should match impedance. There are 2 options, MIC and LINE OUT. If your mic or device has LINE OUT and your computer has LINE IN, you're good wiring directly. If your mic does NOT match your computer port type, use a LINE OUT to MIC cable to match impedance or the gain will be undesirable and need to be adjusted.

For me, this was a case of "You must be smarter than the tool."

Cheers and good luck.