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Sound issues and new stuff on the way

Thu May 21, 2009, 9:37 AM
  • Mood: Uneasy
  • Playing: Perfect Dark
Because I haven't been beating myself up enough over various audio issues in my cartoons, I decided to look into the actual quality of the audio itself in the past couple episodes. Now, on my computer, everything sounds fine, but a few people have commented that the audio sounded weird. Well, I've been working on this cartoon with a voice track that I didn't record that was originally sent to me in WAV format and I converted it to MP3 to save space, which is what I normally do. Today, I was using headphones and when I played the cartoon with the MP3 sound file, it sounded weird, like the characters were underwater. I went back to the WAV and it sounded fine. So I checked on the files for Overreaction and sure enough, the MP3 files sounded gargly, but the original raw audio sounded normal. I was totally oblivious to this before, but I guess now I know to just keep everything as WAVs. I would go back and fix the Geoweasel episodes that sound like this, but I only save the raw audio as a WAV, and when I edit them, I save them as MP3s, so I would have to go and splice all the audio together perfectly again.
Also, someone asked why the Having A Wonderful Time music video wasn't on Youtube and the answer is simply because of the song. Even if I do upload it, Youtube will reject it. So I may upload it and see if I can find an alternate public domain track that will suit it well. Maybe I'll edit it for HD too.
And finally, the non-Geoweasel cartoon I'm working on is almost done; I'll probably finish it today. Since it's not for my site though, I don't have jurisdiction over when it goes live, so it won't be tomorrow's update. It might be up on Sunday the earliest, but if it takes longer to go up, I'll try and do a little comic to make up for it.

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:iconwonchop:
What's your export settings for when you do your flashes? Default's pretty crappy.
WAVs tend to export at about the same swf size as MP3s, plus they work better for instances like event sounds and loops. Of course, mp3 is generally reccomended when sending stuff over the internet, but if it's for personal use wav should be fine, unless you're particularly fussy about hard drive space.

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:iconnikoanesti:
Yeah, I don't export at default. I use MP3, 80 kbps, Stereo for both stream and event for posting the actual Flash file to the site and I use 128 kbps for when I convert it to video. But yeah, I always converted it to MP3 so I wouldn't have a huge Flash file, but if WAVs come out the same, I'll definitely have to start using that.

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:iconzlxq3000:
Huh... I always use .wav's now, only because Audacity won't export .mp3's... I use the same settings as you, and my audio's always fine...
:icontylerburrito:
Did you ever download the LAME mp3 codec? That lets you export mp3s with great quality.
:iconzlxq3000:
It tells me to look for it whenever I try to export as an mp3, but it's okay; I've got a program that I've had forever called CDex that converts .wav's to .mp3's if I need to convert them (I think it costs money now, but I got it way back in, like, before the 21st century, when it was still free). But it doesn't matter; after hearing about this issue Niko's having, I'd rather keep 'em as .wav files and keep the higher quality than have a smaller file with crappy sound quality.
:iconevoboredom:
You can get around YouTube's copyright nonsense.
Go to "My Videos"
The "deleted' video will still appear there.
When it tells you the nonsense about it not being accepted because of the copyright claim, go to "Resolve Copyright"... Then, "I want to learn more about the dispute process"... then "Take me to the dispute form."
Click on the second option, and type "I am in no way associated with the content of this video, and in no form am I trying to take credit for the content shown."
Type yo signature, and copy and paste the good faith crê;pe.

Congratulations, your video is back.

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