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When I play video some of the makeing popping/cracking/delaying/noice ever 4 sec

Product
Video-SL
Version
Video-SL
Scratch Live
Hardware
Ortofon | Serato S-120
Computer
Mac
OS
Platform
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DJ TURN SIGNAL 11:25 PM - 23 November, 2009
Product: video-sl
Computer: mac
OS Version: 10.5.8
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When I play video some of the makeing popping/cracking/delaying/noice ever 4 sec.

1st
When I play older videos, videos I have converted from flv to mp4. and flv it makes this popping cracking sound an repeats through whole song. its not in teh audio or at least not in the wave form like a curpt file is. I have the fast mac pro 2.5. i have over 5gigs free, I have 4gigs of ram.

2nd
When I first turn click on the video tab to turn on video in Serato it doesn't always work the first time, I will have to minimize my Serato, right click the video icon in my dock, click quit then the video turns back on, I have done the same thing to fix it when the video drops out on one side for some reason. so you don't have to reboot Serato just the video part cause video is a totally different program.

3rd.
I have mpeg's that wont load up, why could that be?
What is the best format for video as of now, I think its avi, but I'm not sure'
also does anyone know of a good place(free/good quality/easy place to download/torrent) for music videos?
4th
Thanks guys
DJ Turn Signal
Serato, Forum Moderator
Michael R 3:54 AM - 30 November, 2009
Hi DJ TURN SIGNAL,

Quote:
1st
When I play older videos, videos I have converted from flv to mp4. and flv it makes this popping cracking sound an repeats through whole song. its not in teh audio or at least not in the wave form like a curpt file is. I have the fast mac pro 2.5. i have over 5gigs free, I have 4gigs of ram.

If you play these videos in another program (eg. QuickTime) do you hear the same audio defects?

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2nd
When I first turn click on the video tab to turn on video in Serato it doesn't always work the first time, I will have to minimize my Serato, right click the video icon in my dock, click quit then the video turns back on, I have done the same thing to fix it when the video drops out on one side for some reason. so you don't have to reboot Serato just the video part cause video is a totally different program.

That sounds odd. Which version of Video-SL and Scratch Live are you using?

Quote:
3rd.
I have mpeg's that wont load up, why could that be?

It would be good if you could give some more info on these files. Could you please download movieinfobatch (found here -> www.serato.com [click link]), take a read of that article and post the info for one of these files into this thread :)

Quote:
What is the best format for video as of now, I think its avi, but I'm not sure

By "best" do you mean best quality or best performance with Video-SL? If you mean the latter we recommend an MP4 file with H.264 codec and an average bitrate of 2000kbps.

Quote:
also does anyone know of a good place(free/good quality/easy place to download/torrent) for music videos?

There's a thread on this here -> www.serato.com. Please remember we only advocate the use of legally obtained videos :)
Serato, Forum Moderator
Michael R 4:47 AM - 3 March, 2010
Quote:
LOL YES THEY ARE CONVERTED FILES FROM FLV TO MP4, I HAVE 20 GIGS FREE SPACE AND WHEN I PLAY IN QUICK TIME NO POPPING. WHEN I PLAY IN SERATO NO POPPING, WHEN I PLUG IN TTM 57 POPPING. AND ONLY ON SOME SONGS THAT HAVE BEEN CONVERTED. ALSO IT SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO THE FILES THAT ARE 80 KBS AND BELOW???? WEIRD I KNOW. ALSO IM USING FLV CRUNCHER TO DO BATCHES OF CONVERSTIONS. IS THERE A WAY TO LOAD MULTI FILES INTO HANDBRAKE?. I DNT USE HAND BREAK CUSE U HAVE TO LOAD FILE ONE BY ONE. LET ME KNOW ALSO IM USING HE LATEST VERSIONS OF EVERYTHING, NO BETA VERSIONS.
Serato, Forum Moderator
Michael R 4:52 AM - 3 March, 2010
Quote:
ALSO IT SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO THE FILES THAT ARE 80 KBS AND BELOW????

Is that the audio bitrate? If so, that's quite low! Can you please attach one of the files you are having this problem with to this thread (using the "Attach A File" button above the reply box) so I can take a look at it.

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IS THERE A WAY TO LOAD MULTI FILES INTO HANDBRAKE?

Yes there is :) Take a look at this article -> www.serato.com (click link), the second half explains how to convert multiple files.
DJ TURN SIGNAL 6:07 PM - 12 March, 2010
CAN U GET ME A DIRECT LINK TO THE PRESET CAUSE I WENT AND I THINK I DOWNLOADED, BUT I STILL CANT LOAD MULTI TRACKS AT ONCE TO CONVERT WITH HAND BRAKE. I USE FLV CRUNCHER BECUASE I CAN SELLECT ALL AN CONVERT 1-100 AT ONCE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO CLICK ON EACH FILE ONE BY ONE LIKE YOU DO WITH HAND BRAKE,

ALSO I GOT ADVICE THAT I COULD CHANGE THE CHAPTERS ON HANDBRAKE TO DO MORE THEN ONE FILE AT ONCE. BUT IT ONLY SEEMS TO WORK IF U ARE CONVERTING FROM A DVD. PLEASE HELP.

1.HOW DO I LOAD MORE THEN "ONE FILE AT A TIME" WITH HAND BRAKE IF THE FILES ARE ON MY DESKTOP OF A FOLDER?

2. WHAT MAKES A VIDEO HIGH OR LOW KBS? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN,IS IT THE VIDEO,THE AUDIO, OR BOTH?

3.THS SERATO.. ALSO CAN UP CONVERT ALL TEH FILES I CONVERTED WITH LOW KBS.. CAUSE I CONVERTED ABOUT 500-600 VIDEOS AND IM SURE U KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO FIND THE ORG FILES.

THX
DJMark 4:39 AM - 14 March, 2010
You are not going to like this answer, but the real fix for your problems (plural not an accident) is to do some basic research/learning about properly encoding videos. The guide posted elsewhere on this site is a good start.

Transcoding Flash videos just seems like a really terrible idea, for numerous reasons.

I'm fairly new to video myself, so I can appreciate there's a lot of information to swallow/digest/apply. But if you do things right you end up saving yourself a lot of ongoing trouble.

And by the way, a lot of people consider CAPS-LOCK kind of rude.
Serato, Forum Moderator
Michael R 3:25 AM - 17 March, 2010
Hi DJ TURN SIGNAL,

Quote:
1.HOW DO I LOAD MORE THEN "ONE FILE AT A TIME" WITH HAND BRAKE IF THE FILES ARE ON MY DESKTOP OF A FOLDER?

It looks like you can only do this with Handbrake if you use the command line. If you're interested in this, I found this thread on the Handbrake forums -> forum.handbrake.fr (click link).

Quote:
2. WHAT MAKES A VIDEO HIGH OR LOW KBS? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN,IS IT THE VIDEO,THE AUDIO, OR BOTH?

A high kpbs rate means better quality, and applies to both video and audio. Where are you getting your kbps values from?

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3.THS SERATO.. ALSO CAN UP CONVERT ALL TEH FILES I CONVERTED WITH LOW KBS.. CAUSE I CONVERTED ABOUT 500-600 VIDEOS AND IM SURE U KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO FIND THE ORG FILES.

I'm afraid you can't "up convert" files. Once quality is lost in compression, it's gone forever. You'll need to re-encode from the original source.
1:21 AM, 2 Aug 2010
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