PD 13: Bass audio distortion after production?

MusicInTheWoods

Newbie Joined: Oct 15, 2016 12:26 Messages: 1 Offline

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Oct 15, 2016 12:37

Problem: After producing the video in HVAC format with MP4 settings (what I found to be best suitable for YouTube), the audio track has distortion in the low end. Particularly in the opening of the song when it is just bass guitar.

When played in the editor, the audio - a separate music track, not the audio from the video being used - sounds fine.
When producing the video, I am unable to see options for normalizing the audio, or other settings. I also do not have any cursory software along with PowerDirector 13.

I've begun experimenting with other formats, but I want to be sure it will upload to YouTube as well. Any suggestions?

Thank you!!

Carl312

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

Oct 15, 2016 16:31

Quote: Problem: After producing the video in HVAC format with MP4 settings (what I found to be best suitable for YouTube), the audio track has distortion in the low end. Particularly in the opening of the song when it is just bass guitar.

When played in the editor, the audio - a separate music track, not the audio from the video being used - sounds fine.
When producing the video, I am unable to see options for normalizing the audio, or other settings. I also do not have any cursory software along with PowerDirector 13.

I've begun experimenting with other formats, but I want to be sure it will upload to YouTube as well. Any suggestions?

Thank you!!

You can reduce the level of the sound to not get the distortion. If you produce the audio to about -6 DB peak you surely will have no clipping.

Youtube renders everything that is uploaded to their own format. Nothing on Youtube is what was actually uploaded. It is just some formats get less modification than other formats.

Recommended upload encoding settings: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

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rolldog

Newbie Location: Baton Rouge, LA Joined: Jun 21, 2015 14:59 Messages: 14 Offline

Oct 16, 2016 21:03

Yes, Google's YouTube VP9 format is open source and requires no royalties for people to use while H.264 vs H.265, the royalties to use H.265 have increased 5 fold to a max of $25 million a year. This is exactly why we're all stuck in this media codec/non-standard format war, which only huts us. Sucks, people don't like change. any UHD 4K video viewed on YouTube is using VP9, and I don't think it's bad at all. Saving $25 million is just icing on the cake.