Music file cutting off, but very odd behavior

ModemMisuser

Newbie Joined: Feb 07, 2015 15:23 Messages: 4 Offline

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Feb 07, 2015 15:31

(PD version 13.0.2408.0)

So I'm working on a 4 second intro for videos we're going to make. Everything was going great until we picked music, cut out the 4 second passage we wanted (using Audacity; saved as default 44.1k WAV), and dropped it into the nearly done intro. It cuts off after about 2 seconds. Just drops out hard.

Odd. So, placed the full (3m 50s) uncut source music file. Works fine. Delete that, put back cut down 4s piece. No worky.

Ok, recreate the 4s passage. Nope.

Try to create it as a 48k WAV... Nope.

Use the CyberLink WaveEditor directly from PD to cut out the 4s piece we want... Nope.

Start new blank project, place (any of!) the 4s piece... works fine. Every time.

Ok, so the intro project is wrecked; no biggie. Recreate it from scratch. Place 4s music passage. NOPE.

So... what is (or could be) causing this odd behavior?

(Note: this is all in preview mode, too!)

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ModemMisuser

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Feb 07, 2015 16:27

Even odder - I just generated the video, and the audio is fine. O_o

But in preview mode the audio always dies oddly after about 2 seconds.

BarryTheCrab

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Feb 07, 2015 17:13

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ModemMisuser

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Feb 07, 2015 17:17

Which part of it? It's stacked such that all of it does not fit on the screen at once.

Or, heck, I'll just post 2 shots, one of each "half."

(Going to take those...)

ModemMisuser

Newbie Joined: Feb 07, 2015 15:23 Messages: 4 Offline

Feb 07, 2015 17:21

Here, took 2 shots, one of the top of the timeline and one of the bottom.

(And as I said, this is only a problem when previewing. If I Produce the video, the produced file works fine. Very very odd.)

Filename	broken-audio-bottom.png	Download
Description
Filesize	102 Kbytes
Downloaded:	43 time(s)

Filename	broken-audio-top.png	Download
Description
Filesize	111 Kbytes
Downloaded:	44 time(s)

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Feb 07, 2015 20:46

Quote: (PD version 13.0.2408.0)

So I'm working on a 4 second intro for videos we're going to make. Everything was going great until we picked music, cut out the 4 second passage we wanted (using Audacity; saved as default 44.1k WAV), and dropped it into the nearly done intro. It cuts off after about 2 seconds. Just drops out hard.

Odd. So, placed the full (3m 50s) uncut source music file. Works fine. Delete that, put back cut down 4s piece. No worky.

Ok, recreate the 4s passage. Nope.

Try to create it as a 48k WAV... Nope.

Use the CyberLink WaveEditor directly from PD to cut out the 4s piece we want... Nope.

Start new blank project, place (any of!) the 4s piece... works fine. Every time.

Ok, so the intro project is wrecked; no biggie. Recreate it from scratch. Place 4s music passage. NOPE.

So... what is (or could be) causing this odd behavior?

(Note: this is all in preview mode, too!)

I think the problem is common in PD, so you get used to it.

text block, especially credits, some particle effects and some transitions causes hiccups in audio, happens in the preview after rendered this well.

You can check by turning off the track, text, and or effects.

It happens here and see that my PC is not weak.

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