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Walte58
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February 5, 2017
Question

Exported audio sounds different than on timeline

  • February 5, 2017
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When I am editing the voiceover in Premiere Pro it sounds pretty good, but after I export the video to an mp4 it sounds like I'm speaking in a large empty auditorium. Why does it sound so different than when I am editing it and how do I fix it? If the audio isn't going to sound the same once I export it, the audio editors in Audition and Premiere become useless.

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      RS3793
      Participant
      December 20, 2024

      I today had another issue:

      My De-Noising was active, but it was not exported. I never had this before. After hours of research I set it from strong to weak noise cancelling (it is in german, so I am not sure about the very right names of the settings in englisch) then back to strong noise cancelling. All problems solved.
      Everything was correct, all the time... It simply was not applied and you no way you could see it 😞

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      THOMAS33291020cgj2
      Participant
      October 31, 2023

      I have the excact same problem but for some reason it only happens when I have headphones in... once I take the headphones out, the premire pro video and the exported video sound the same, but with headphones in they sound sooo different. 

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      RetiredBob
      Participant
      January 7, 2022

      This was the answer for me. It was driving me a little crazy but when I read this post I checked the audio volume level on my VLC player and it was at 70% I clcked the Increase Volume  choice under the audio tab several times and got it to 100%. At this point the volume on the timeline matched the colume on the VLC player of my exported video. Thaks a million.

       

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      February 5, 2017

      How exactly are you listening to the exported file?

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      Walte58Author
      Known Participant
      February 5, 2017

      The sound runs through external speakers regardless of what media player I use. Prior to editing and after export I used Cyberlink Power DVD 16 and Microsoft Movies & TV. During editing I used Premiere and Audition. After applying audio effects it sounds good (but not great) until I export the file. I know I'm not going to get great sound because of the recording quality, but what I am interested in is why it sounds so different after I export it. I can't accurately edit an audio file if I have to guess at the way its going to sound.

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      C18Eckholm
      Participant
      July 6, 2022

      Jim, I have looked at the settings for the media player and changed them.

      This seems to have worked to resolve the issue of the difference in sound.

      Thanks.

      Shooternz, the use of the multiband compressor was something I saw on

      YouTube. Is there a better way? It seems to work better than the volume

      control. Thanks.


      What was your actual solution? I'm having the same problem. In premiere, my voiceover sounds great, however when I export as a .wav and play it through quicktime it sounds extremely echoed.

      shooternz
      shooternz
      Legend
      February 5, 2017
      When I am editing the voiceover in Premiere Pro it sounds pretty good, but after I export the video to an mp4 it sounds like I'm speaking in a large empty auditorium.

      You are preview and editing the audio in the same condition that you recorded it.  An echoing room.  The playback is showing the reality back to you..

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      February 5, 2017

      Not a normal thing.

      So how about some information, so all us volunteers out here aren't having to spend a lot of time guessing?

      Basic data on the hardware ... computer, OS/CPU/RAM, and for this your sound gear ... special sound card, system sound, what do you use?

      Next, a screen-grab of the Sequence settings for audio track setup, then grabs of both Audio tab sections of the Preference settings, Audio and Audio Hardware. And also one of the Export dialog box for the export you're creating.

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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      Walte58Author
      Known Participant
      February 5, 2017

      Ok, I hope this helps. The computer is an MSI Dominator Pro Win10/Core i7/ 32GB RAM/ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB/Nahimic 2 Sound.

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