Audio Crackling

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swanpool
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Audio Crackling

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I recently converted a Brain Farm Digital Cinema Reel 2012 from Vimeo to a DCP using DVD O Matic and found sections of the audio had a distinct crackle which was not in the original mp4 download.

After checking the DVD and DCP O Matic websites I re-encoded the file with the Audio gain set to -12db. This has eliminated the crackle.

However the crackle does not appear to be created by our cinema system which is a Barco 10s projector, Dolby DDSS220 Server/IMB and 7.1 Dolby CP750.

Rather the original crackle was present in the DCP when it was played using dcpPlayer on a PC. The cinema system was merely reproducing the DCP audio.

Crackling audio therefore appears to be an artifact of the DCP conversion process rather than the cinema audio system!

Is this a valid interpretation of what is occurring!
carl
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Re: Audio Crackling

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Yes. If the audio level is too high it is clipped in the DCP's audio files, so it will sound nasty no matter what you play it back on.
swanpool
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Re: Audio Crackling

Post by swanpool »

Thanks Carl. A great program and a real life saver for us at a small community run cinema in Victoria, Australia.
Peter.
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