Serato Video General Discussion

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Video Editing

Andrew Vonn 9:57 PM - 4 November, 2011
Can you recommend a good program to edit video and audio together? I find that the audio tracks on the videos that I have all have different volume levels. I know that I can adjust this manually in the serato program but I would rather make everything uniform before it plays (like with a wave editor for mp3s).

I appreciate any and all suggestions!

Thanks...Andrew
12:55 AM, 7 Nov 2011
Discussion moved to Video-SL General Discussion
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Samuel S 12:56 AM - 7 November, 2011
Hey Andrew,

I have moved this to the general Video-SL area, the guys here will probably be able to recommend something. I'm not entirely sure about third party video/audio editors :)

Sam.
marx 1:30 AM - 7 November, 2011
I'd tell you to just keep using Serato. There is no way of making the adjustments needed with the existing sources without losing quality.
Armtone 2:44 PM - 7 November, 2011
Final Cut (MAC) / Sony Vegas (WIN)
djpuma_gemini 4:34 PM - 7 November, 2011
Some users will say adobe premiere as well.
DJ-Phat-AL 9:44 PM - 7 November, 2011
Quote:
Some users will say adobe premiere as well.


I feel like I am the only one
Dj Nyce 1:17 AM - 8 November, 2011
No Al, i'm diehard Adobe Premiere too.

Premiere Pro FTW!
DJ-Phat-AL 2:39 AM - 8 November, 2011
EL YAY! I am not alone!
Andrew Vonn 9:17 PM - 8 November, 2011
Right on guys...thanks for the heads up...gonna try Final Cut first...they have a 30 day free trial...gonna see if it has the features that I want...If not, will move on to Adobe & Sony...

Thanks for all the thoughts!!!
DJ-Phat-AL 9:57 PM - 8 November, 2011
FYI... All the Adobe apps are cross platform... meaning PC or Mac... and projects can be open on both... meaning... make a project on a PC... open it on a Mac... jus sayin....
ta2423 12:57 AM - 9 November, 2011
Adobe all the way here...
Dj TopDonn 4:15 AM - 24 December, 2011
Im giving Premier a try after switching from Vegas. Are folks using the Adobe MediaCoder for exporting directly to mp4? I know it uses the Main Concept Encoder and from my experience its not very good. Id rather export out uncompressed and then use an offline encoder for the final product.
DJ-Phat-AL 4:17 AM - 24 December, 2011
you can use the Adobe Media Encoder to export to uncompressed format and go into a different encoder for sure. I do it all the time.
Dj Nyce 6:37 AM - 24 December, 2011
i use adobe media encoder to MP4 about 25% of the time. other times i use ame to uncompressed avi then to either mediacoder or sorenseen squeeze.

also i tested the mainconcept codec, sorenson h.264 codec apple h.264 and sorenson mpeg4 pro codec in sorensen squeeze. quality, file size and and playback performance are identical.

currently i use the x.264 (mediacoder) or the mainconcept codec (sorenson) to encode all mp4.
kkmin 9:54 AM - 13 December, 2019
I'm using Joyoshare Media Cutter, which is good at trimming, splitting and joining video and audio clips without re-encoding, so that you will never lose any original quality.
steven wynen 8:39 PM - 18 December, 2019
FCPX but you need COMPRESSOR too to export in audio above 128.

(Audio levels are corrected automatic by the gain in serato)