movie i made is overall too quite.

[FieryGoose]

So I just got done editing a movie that I made for my English class and overall the whole thing is just too quite, I have my speakers all the way turned up and everything, Everything sounds clear in the media file, it's just really quite. The state it's in is a finished media file ready to be burned onto a DVD so I was just wondering if there is any way to edit the sound on the file to make it generally as loud as average audio files. If you don't know what I mean, an easier way to explain it is when I play a song through Winamp it is really blasting at full volume compared to the movie that I made which is pretty quite at full volume, I think when I captured the video footage from my camera on to my computer the input volume was too low. But I don't want to redo the whole thing so I figured there must be a way to make it louder on the computer I just don't know how. Any help would be greatly appreciated.:cheers:

 

[PvtRyan]

You can do that pretty easily in VirtualDub, under Audio you have to select Full Processing Mode and then simply pick Volume to change the volume. But I think you gotta re-render the file, but I think that's inevitable. Although there could be some global variable in video files that controls the volume multiplier which can be accessed without re-rendering the file.

 

[xX NoTe 2 SeLf]

quiet*** sorry it was bugging me

 

[TCfromBN]

^ beat me to it.

 

[Asus]

You could use a program to de-multiplex which splits VIDEO and AUDIO into separate files. Probably .mpg and .wav or .mp2 in your case. Keep the original files. Use Virtualdub or another program to just edit the audio file. Then multiplex (combines VIDEO and AUDIO) back to 1 file.

I know TMPGEnc can split and combine Mpeg and Mpeg2 A/V files.
VOB files have MPEG1/2 files in them. VOB is just a 'container'.

But that way you don't mess with the video portion when doing the edit and quality does not go down from re-encoding it.

 

[FieryGoose]

Alright, thanks guys for all the help with my issue and my vocab. error. I'll be quiet*** now...
This is just for a "simple" school project, so I think that since this all sounds fairly complicated I'll just live with turning the volume on the t.v. up.

 

[Asus]

Didn't save your progress before making ready for DVD? Your project after editing and all. oh well

Turning the TV up would work too.
I always remember teachers turning the TV volume up really loud anyway for stuff in class.

 

[Stigmata]

I think everyone got hearing damage from one TV at my school that had awful tinny speakers, and would resonate at this terrible high frequency whenever any sound went louder than a normal speaking voice.

Make sure not to get one of those TVs, and you should be alright with just boosting the volume there

 

[FieryGoose]

I did save the progress after editing and all, however what I'd have to do to make the input volume go louder is recapture the footage from my camera to my hard drive and if I did that I'd have to re-edit it as far as I know. Or I can do what you guys suggested with those programs. But I think to save some time I'll just ask the teacher to crank to volume up.

And we have one of those high pitch t.v.'s at my school and I absolutely hate it, it hurts my ears every time music comes on or anything, because this screeching noise is all that you can hear in those times. Luckily that t.v. wont be used to play my video. So yea, if I go to school and that t.v. is there I'm just going to have to toss it out the nearest window. haha.
Thanks guys.

 

[VirusType2]

I did save the progress after editing and all, however what I'd have to do to make the input volume go louder is recapture the footage from my camera to my hard drive and if I did that I'd have to re-edit it as far as I know. Or I can do what you guys suggested with those programs. But I think to save some time I'll just ask the teacher to crank to volume up.

And we have one of those high pitch t.v.'s at my school and I absolutely hate it, it hurts my ears every time music comes on or anything, because this screeching noise is all that you can hear in those times. Luckily that t.v. wont be used to play my video. So yea, if I go to school and that t.v. is there I'm just going to have to toss it out the nearest window. haha.
Thanks guys.

Next time you can check input volume levels in the Xp control panel under sounds/audio devices or whatever. Something called Line-in, input, or mic. Whichever one you used.

Also, you may need to have the volume up on your input device. For example, your video recorder.

 

[FieryGoose]

I know for a fact that the reason I'm in the predicament that I'm in right now is because I didn't have the input volume up at all.
Well anyways I took the video to school and even with the volume turned up all the way on the tv the class still couldn't hear the volume. So I'm going to have to split the audio and video and turn up the audio like you guys suggested. However my video is in wmv format, Would TMPGEmc still work along with all that other stuff? Or what do you guys suggest. I need to use free programs. Thanks.

 

[Qonfused]

I think everyone got hearing damage from one TV at my school that had awful tinny speakers, and would resonate at this terrible high frequency whenever any sound went louder than a normal speaking voice.

Make sure not to get one of those TVs, and you should be alright with just boosting the volume there

Yeah.

 

[FieryGoose]

any suggestions? I need this done by tonight...

 

[Asus]

DVD Video is only Mpeg/VOB files. I'm guessing the file was WMV before being encoded and put on DVD in the same process.

Option 1
-Use the WMV file and open the whole file with Virtual Dub to do the audio edit and save it.
-Burn DVD like before (Nero? Roxio?) which will encode the video from WMV to MPEG/VOB on the DVD.

Option 2
-If files are only on the DVD use DVDdecrypter or MagicISO (in MagicISO, load as DVD Video image file) to extract from the DVD to your hard drive. Don't drag/drop from DVD in Windows. (skip if already on hard drive)
-From the hard drive open the .VOB or MPEG file with TMPGEnc's de-multiplex tool (under Mpeg tools). Splits A/V.
-Open just the audio in Virtaldub to do the edit and save.
-Open the new Audio and old video in TMPGEnc to Multiplex (under Mpeg tools).
-Burn DVD like before (Nero? Roxio?) and it shouldn't re-encode since it is already in the MPEG/VOB format.

Option 3
-Redo capture

I'm not familiar with an easy all-in-one program that could do what you want and free. hehe
I usually use no less than 3 programs when messing with video everyday. I'm sure it's confusing if you are not used to it. :x

 

[FieryGoose]

Thanks a lot Asus and the rest of you guys. I used your previous suggestion of using tmpgenc after converting the file to avi and I was able to re-encode it with the louder sound and then burn it using Nero. It's the only way I could figure out doing it after hours of trying different things. I'm sure the way you just described is much easier though....
Thanks for all the help.:cheers:

 

[Asus]

At least it works!