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Participant
January 6, 2017
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Videoupload to Facebook kills audio quality

  • January 6, 2017
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Hi there,

I am using Premiere Elements 14. I have tried numerous export audio types (AAC, mpeg, PCM), numerous bitrates and samplerates, but the problem consists.

Within elements the sound of my video is fine, when I export it as .mp4 or else also. But when I try to upload it to Facebook or Youtube the problems occur. When I upload it to Youtube, online desktop users have good sound, mobile sucks. When I upload it to Facebook directly, the sound is bad regardless of which device is used.

Can anyone help me?

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Correct answer Ann Bens

Audio is out of phase.

Add Fill Left to the clips audio.

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Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 6, 2017

Audio is out of phase.

Add Fill Left to the clips audio.

Participant
January 9, 2017

That seems about right maybe. Can you tell me how to do that? :-)

Participant
January 9, 2017

Found it, thanks. Works! :-)

Legend
January 6, 2017

If you'd like to post a link to your YouTube video -- or to a sample video on YouTube -- I'd love to see if I can duplicate your results.

In any event, it has nothing to do with Premiere Elements. What Premiere Elements uploads to YouTube (Vimeo or Facebook) is re-encoded by the site into their own streaming format. So if there is something going on with the audio, it's happening on YouTube.

But before we get too deeply into it, I'd like to at least see if I'm seeing the same thing you are.

BTW, you are in the USA, right? Let's make sure we're comparing apples to apples.

Inspiring
January 6, 2017

I would try vimeo.com and do links from there instead.

Really high quality on both video and audio, but have not tried smartphone how their player is.

Free account allow 500MB a week, total 25G a year storage.

Legend
January 6, 2017

First, ensure go back to your Premiere Elements project and, under the Tools menu, open the Audio Mixer. Make sure that the audio in your project peaks at zero but does not exceed it.

If your audio is full but not over-modulated, then you'll get excellent audio quality in your upload to YouTube.

There is no reason the audio would play differently from YouTube on a mobile device than it would on a desktop. It's exactly the same audio and video file. Any difference is in the hardware or software of the mobile device.

Participant
January 6, 2017

Hey Steve, all parameters are exactly as you said. Nonetheless - it doesn't work. And as a matter of fact: There is a huge difference between desktop and mobile devices (both iOS and Android). I am aware that this doesn't make any sense - but it is how it is.