A problem with music in fast pace video

RobiePAX

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2013 16:15 Messages: 11 Offline

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May 23, 2013 07:01

I'm making a music video of one game. I want the visual footage to match the music beat so a lot of short clips at around 2-5 seconds each are being used. Shortly after I started I've noticed an odd issue with music.

Music keeps "spiking" so to speak. Every time clip ends and next one starts(areas where usually transitions can be placed) you can hear that something spiked in the background music. Either music becomes a bit louder, or a bit quieter, either tone or music quality changed, sometimes it makes an echo as if I use the same audio file at the same time in multiple tracks. It sounds like every time there's a transition between clips, there's a different equalizer setting in the music file.

I use only 2 tracks. 1st one for visual clips, this track is muted. 2nd one is .mp3 audio file which in un-edited. Any ideas how to fix this?

P.S. any ideas how to undo the "Render Preview"(Green Line)? This issue started after I've rendered a preview in my timeline, now there's a green line over my clips and I always getting this issue.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 23, 2013 09:04

If your video card is an Nvidia, then you should check the Patches.

http://www.cyberlink.com/support/powerdirector-ultra/patches_en_US.html
Cyberlink fixed the Nvidia 'rendering" problem in one of the patches. You just install the latest.

On the audio track, if you have it on the timeline and you are editing the video, you also put splits in the audio. (That is the way Powerdirector works).

The way around that is to drag the original Audio back to the track and Overwrite. (Replace the cutup audio track).
You really should add the audio track after you have done all of the video edits.

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RobiePAX

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2013 16:15 Messages: 11 Offline

May 23, 2013 23:24

My PD10 is up-to-date (2231 Build). I know what are you referring to, Nvidia had a serious issue that I indeed also had in the past. It was impossible to preview any videos.

Unfortunately the issue now is in sound and not video. Music file stands as a foundation for me. I experiment with different clips, which ones fit and which don't. I don't really care that sound gets screwed up during a preview at Editing Stage, I can deal with it. But final rendered video also gets these audio spikes

Sorry, but I couldn't really understand what did you advice me to do? Here's how my timeline looks. Are you telling me to drag the music file into timeline audio track and overwrite the old one with it? Or are you telling me to make splits somewhere in the audio?

Here, I uploaded 30secs video to show you exactly what's happening. You can hear that something is changing in sound every time a new clip starts playing.
For now I'll just keep on making the video, hopefully someone has a solution. If not, then I'll guess there will be no choice but to render the final video, and then re-render it again with the same song since PD will no longer know where clips start and end. Re-rendering will be the last resort of course due to quality concerns.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7qyQRYuCM[/youtube]

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Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 24, 2013 07:45

I'm sorry, I cannot hear any clicks at transitiion points in your video on Youtube.

I see from the timeline image, you have placed a unedited audio file on the timeline.
Does that audio file not play OK?
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RobiePAX

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2013 16:15 Messages: 11 Offline

May 24, 2013 15:53

I understand it may be a bit hard to see the issue when you are not familiar with the way the song is meant to be played. It's not meant to be a "click"ing sound, more like music file keeps receiving odd effects. I'll try to point out examples from the video.

0:04 - When the video switches to 2 Jeeps driving you can hear that sound has become slightly louder with some effect of "echo".
0:15 - Straight after the Helicopter scene audio got affected again.
0:16 - 0:21 Is a perfect example of my issue. Every single time video shows a new area something in the audio keep changing. That is not meant to happen on original music file.

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RobiePAX

Newbie Joined: Jan 13, 2013 16:15 Messages: 11 Offline

Jun 02, 2013 16:53

I guess there is no fix or shortcut method to avoid my issue... When I said that it doesn't really bother me during the editing stage, it seems I said it loosely. It is extremely frustrating.

Losing motivation completely when you have to work with this kind of issue -_-