Soundslides Audio Quality
UPDATE!!!!!! Soundslides has really come a long way since this post and I think it would be unfair to keep this in the public eye without making a correction to my early experiences.
Joe Weiss and his team is continuing to do a wonderful job with Soundslides having already addressed my only real gripe with the software......its handling of my audio files. With the latest version of Soundslides you have the option of telling the software how you want it to handle your audio file so for the audiophile types like myself can maintain the cleanest possible audio we can. So now I can safely say that this software is a complete package that will only continue to get better.
My communications with Joe have been great. He's open, honest and very receptive to ideas for the future. So if you have something slide on over to his site and let him know of your ideas! You just might find it in a future update.
Just about everyone producing audio slide shows, myself included, is using a program called Soundslides . This is a great tool for photographers in that it allows you to create multimedia content quickly and easily.
Lately though I've been growing increasingly frustrated with the audio quality of my projects. Tinny sound with that funky web audio artifacting has popped up in places and its bothering me. So I set out trying to figure out what's going on and see if it was something that can be fixed.
After some testing this is what I've found. Everything I'm doing on my end is PERFECT! Soundtrack Pro is handling the files and exporting the audio perfectly. QuickTime plays the files clear as day just as Soundtrack pro. Everything ok here.
Taking those files and put them in SoundSlides is where the problem comes in. I guess in order to have a quickly loading audio slide show they must hack the crap out of the sound files the largest file(s) of the project. It's pretty clear that the SoundSlides is the problem.
So what's the solution? Well.....There isn't any!
SoundSlides takes your audio and coverts it to a MP3 using settings that are not user adjustable. I personally would like to see this changed in future updates. I'd like to be able to use the file format I want too OR be see the quality setting used in SoundSlides go up.....WAY UP!
I spend allot of time gather good clean audio and pride myself on this. To work so hard then have SoundSlides MP3 conversion rip it to shreds stinks. Though I'm far from an audio pro I do know good audio when I hear it. SoundSlides is lacking here.
I can only hope future updates will allow some sort of end user control of audio or see the MP3 setting they use improve four fold. I rather have a sound file take a few more second or even minutes longer then have crappy audio.
My 2 Cents. I hope the folks at SoundSlides is listening.
Joe Weiss and his team is continuing to do a wonderful job with Soundslides having already addressed my only real gripe with the software......its handling of my audio files. With the latest version of Soundslides you have the option of telling the software how you want it to handle your audio file so for the audiophile types like myself can maintain the cleanest possible audio we can. So now I can safely say that this software is a complete package that will only continue to get better.
My communications with Joe have been great. He's open, honest and very receptive to ideas for the future. So if you have something slide on over to his site and let him know of your ideas! You just might find it in a future update.
Just about everyone producing audio slide shows, myself included, is using a program called Soundslides . This is a great tool for photographers in that it allows you to create multimedia content quickly and easily.
Lately though I've been growing increasingly frustrated with the audio quality of my projects. Tinny sound with that funky web audio artifacting has popped up in places and its bothering me. So I set out trying to figure out what's going on and see if it was something that can be fixed.
After some testing this is what I've found. Everything I'm doing on my end is PERFECT! Soundtrack Pro is handling the files and exporting the audio perfectly. QuickTime plays the files clear as day just as Soundtrack pro. Everything ok here.
Taking those files and put them in SoundSlides is where the problem comes in. I guess in order to have a quickly loading audio slide show they must hack the crap out of the sound files the largest file(s) of the project. It's pretty clear that the SoundSlides is the problem.
So what's the solution? Well.....There isn't any!
SoundSlides takes your audio and coverts it to a MP3 using settings that are not user adjustable. I personally would like to see this changed in future updates. I'd like to be able to use the file format I want too OR be see the quality setting used in SoundSlides go up.....WAY UP!
I spend allot of time gather good clean audio and pride myself on this. To work so hard then have SoundSlides MP3 conversion rip it to shreds stinks. Though I'm far from an audio pro I do know good audio when I hear it. SoundSlides is lacking here.
I can only hope future updates will allow some sort of end user control of audio or see the MP3 setting they use improve four fold. I rather have a sound file take a few more second or even minutes longer then have crappy audio.
My 2 Cents. I hope the folks at SoundSlides is listening.
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