*background crackles and pops in audio after burn
*there is no background crackle in preview mode prior to burn suggestig this is possibly a factor of the burn process
*hardware is eMachine with AMD Athlon II X2 Processor (2.8 GHz) 64 bit
*Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
*Magix Movie Edit Pro 16 plus HD
I strongly suspect that the actual burning of the disc (presumably a DVD) actually has nothing to do with the problems you are experiencing.
Have you tried to play the burned disc on something other than your computer? My reason for asking this is, due to the way Windows 7 tends to "muck about" with audio recording and playback there is every chance that a disc with apparently "faulty" audio when played on your computer will actually play without this problem on a DVD player.
So, perhaps you could give us a little more detail about exactly what you are doing/how you are playing back the disc when you hear these crackles and pops.
Jeff
Thank you, Jeff.
I have played the DVD on two other players in the house and with the same result. Tech support suggested I export the movie to MPEG movie and see if that helped. It didn't. However I tried an experiment and exported the movie to MAGIX movie. The resulting video was not good but the audio was fine and had no crackles. So it doesn't necessarily appear to be a computer/burner problem but possibly something in the MAGIX program that impacts a MPEG2 burn. Possibly a setting or even a Win7 conflict of some sort. I was thinking of exporting the video and audio separately and then combining them again into a project but figure I will have problems getting it to line up properly.
Interesting dilemma. Any further thoughts?
Best,
Lou
Thank you, Jeff.
I have played the DVD on two other players in the house and with the same result. Tech support suggested I export the movie to MPEG movie and see if that helped. It didn't. However I tried an experiment and exported the movie to MAGIX movie. The resulting video was not good but the audio was fine and had no crackles. So it doesn't necessarily appear to be a computer/burner problem but possibly something in the MAGIX program that impacts a MPEG2 burn. Possibly a setting or even a Win7 conflict of some sort. I was thinking of exporting the video and audio separately and then combining them again into a project but figure I will have problems getting it to line up properly.
Interesting dilemma. Any further thoughts?
Best,
Lou
Sorry my thoughts were clearly so far from correct. I really don't know what to suggest but the fact that burning to a different format avoids the audio problem at the expense of the video quality does hint at something going somewhat wrong at the Export stage.
I fully agree with your thoughts about separately exporting audio and video and then recombining them; that path is likely to be somewhat fraught!
Not sure why Tech Support would suggest exporting to MPEG since the DVD is MPEG-2 by default, or are you actually attempting to burn an AVCHD Disc? What format is your original footage? Are you making any changes to the standard Export format for your DVD?
A quick look at the specs of your CPU show that it is the bottom of the range of Athlon II X2 dual-cores. I wonder whether there is some incompatibility between it and MEP? I've never known a "slow" CPU to adversely affect an Export, it merely takes rather a long time (!), but I have no experience with AMD processors. Although my computer has an AMD/ATI graphics card, the CPU is Intel.
And yes, I am clutching at straws!
Jeff