I have been using videopad for the past 4 months and have noticed that my video's audio always sounds bad after I export it. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't sound HORRIBLE, just not crystal clear. In fact, most people probably wouldn't even hear the difference, but I am a video editor by trade, so making sure my video has the best quality audio and visuals is very important to me. The only way I can describe how it sounds is imagine you are watching a 1080p Youtube video, and then you switch it to 360p. The audio would still sound fine, but not nearly as crisp as in 1080p. That's how all my videos sound, like they are in 360p, even though the video is in 1080p. Is it my export settings? If so, then what's the best export settings for clear audio that I can set it to? My usual settings are as follows:
Preset - Default
File Format - MP4
Resolution - Auto Match Content
Frame Rate - Variable Smart Max
Now once I started hearing the audio problem, I started to tinker with the MP4 encoding settings, and here are the video and audio settings as follows:
Compressor - H264
Video quality/bitrate - High Quality
Lossless export- Auto Detect
Compressor - AAC
Preferred Channel Numbers - Same as input
Audio quality/bitrate - High Quality
So what about my settings are causing this issue? On a sidenote, whenever I use AVI instead of MP4, this seems to fix the issue, but for some reason my VLC player is not playing the AVI files that videopad exports, even though all other AVI files play fine with it. This wouldn't be a big issue for most people, but my VLC player is how I watch all of my videos, so I would like my videos to be compatible with it, but that's an issue for another day. Also, using the Lossless video setting seems to work the best for this issue, but it doesn't ALWAYS work. Half of the Lossless videos I try to export fail without any reason given, forcing me to go back to a regular MP4 export with the bad audio. Please help.