http://macaudioguy.com The Mac Audio Resource Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://macaudioguy.com/the-old-maca-audio-guy-blog-archive/comment-page-1/#comment-18288 macaudioguy Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:55:26 +0000 http://jayshaffer.com/mag/blog/?page_id=7#comment-18288 I know exactly what happened! If you did the mix in Soundtrack Pro, it defaulted to a surround mix. You need to go back to your mixer settings in STP and make sure your mix is set to Stereo (outputs 1,2) If you outputs are set to 1-6 you're mixing in surround. sounds great in Quicktime but everything else is muted because of the surround mix. Email me direct if you have questions. I know exactly what happened! If you did the mix in Soundtrack Pro, it defaulted to a surround mix. You need to go back to your mixer settings in STP and make sure your mix is set to Stereo (outputs 1,2) If you outputs are set to 1-6 you’re mixing in surround. sounds great in Quicktime but everything else is muted because of the surround mix. Email me direct if you have questions.

]]> http://macaudioguy.com/the-old-maca-audio-guy-blog-archive/comment-page-1/#comment-18282 Red Pharmacist Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:35:14 +0000 http://jayshaffer.com/mag/blog/?page_id=7#comment-18282 Hey, so sorry to bother you with my troubles, but I am at my wit's end here and hoping that my karma will kick in and someone will come to my aid with a word of wisdom... The problem: I have an audio file that plays perfectly in Quicktime... But when I export it, either up to YouTube, or more importantly, to DVD, the audio goes missing! I recorded the audio with a (miniDV) digital video camera and an external microphone, uploaded the footage into iMovie, exported it to full-quality digital video, then deleted the video channel in Quicktime. (because it was a 2-hour recording, I needed only the audio, the file size was huge, and I was short on external hard drive space). Now when I play the file in Quicktime... at first it played really, really low in the mix on a pair of crappy speakers. I thought that the speakers were the problem perhaps, so I good a decent pair of speakers. Sure enough, now I hear the file when I play it in Quicktime. But let's say I export it to MP4 format to upload to YouTube. The MP4 file, in Quicktime, plays the audio fine, but when I upload it to YouTube, the audio can't be heard. Or, when I encode the file in MPEG2 format to put on a DVD, again, the audio can't be heard. Additionally, I tried playing the file in Quicktime and recording it with one of those screen-capture programs that's supposed to capture everything that's going on onscreen, including audio events. Did that, and the new audio file worked, but again, when I tried converting it either to YouTube or DVD, the audio was inaudible. This file is vitally important for the indie documentary I am working on... I am desperate and starting to stress! Please help! Thanks 1000000 Hey, so sorry to bother you with my troubles, but I am at my wit’s end here and hoping that my karma will kick in and someone will come to my aid with a word of wisdom…
The problem: I have an audio file that plays perfectly in Quicktime…
But when I export it, either up to YouTube, or more importantly, to DVD, the audio goes missing!
I recorded the audio with a (miniDV) digital video camera and an external microphone, uploaded the footage into iMovie, exported it to full-quality digital video, then deleted the video channel in Quicktime. (because it was a 2-hour recording, I needed only the audio, the file size was huge, and I was short on external hard drive space).
Now when I play the file in Quicktime… at first it played really, really low in the mix on a pair of crappy speakers. I thought that the speakers were the problem perhaps, so I good a decent pair of speakers. Sure enough, now I hear the file when I play it in Quicktime. But let’s say I export it to MP4 format to upload to YouTube. The MP4 file, in Quicktime, plays the audio fine, but when I upload it to YouTube, the audio can’t be heard. Or, when I encode the file in MPEG2 format to put on a DVD, again, the audio can’t be heard.
Additionally, I tried playing the file in Quicktime and recording it with one of those screen-capture programs that’s supposed to capture everything that’s going on onscreen, including audio events. Did that, and the new audio file worked, but again, when I tried converting it either to YouTube or DVD, the audio was inaudible.
This file is vitally important for the indie documentary I am working on… I am desperate and starting to stress! Please help!
Thanks 1000000

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