AMV News

[pic4arts]

Some months ago I watched this documentary and thought it's pretty much relevant for the AMV-community.

Are you trying to use the best possible sound quality? Discuss and vote!

[Lirinis]

We all know that probably >99% of amv viewers don't have the equipment needed to hear the difference between CD and 320kbps mp3 so working with lossless sound is just for your own feeling that you're doing everything right. That's a great feeling by the way.

When I thought about my viewers, I didn't think about lossless sound. I worried that, oh god, half of those bastards were going to watch it on their freaking iphones with earbuds and I couldn't do anything to help them hear beyond the most prominent sounds.

And we don't have just good and bad devices. We have audio systems designed for different environments. Phones, laptops, headphones, TV speakers, theatre systems. We play amvs on all of them and in each environment they sound very differently.

[GreenElephant]

I have 10$-earbuds (Nokia WH-205) and I feel the big difference between 128kbps mp3 and 480kbps mp3 (but can not between 480kbps MP3 and 1000kbps FLAC).
Youtube's maximum quality have 128-192kbps AAC only - it's just funny. Of course 128-192kbps AAC is not 128-192kbps MP3 but quality difference between them soooooooo small.

[neko lover]

For me sound is important, I even spend my author's comment for warning about random change left/right earbuds, but who cares? Even some of good amvmakers watch amvs in preview using just one earbud or 10-year old speakers and then talk about “no sync”

[Shui]

I do a lot of Audio stuff and I myself cannot hear much difference between a 320 mp3 and lossless.
I think working with lossless sources is just important because for most vids you re-encode your audio. Most people don't mux and let zarxgui or similar programs handle it. But if you have a good quality mp3 that's good enough for me.

[Artofeel]

of course only lossless
more interesting question is:
did you use WASAPI exclusive or shared (or maybe OpenAL) when watch?

[Cenit]

I think good mp3 quality (320kbps+) is good enough if you don't have CDs or flac. However, I always edit with lossless audio files (WAV) as everybody should. I just convert the MP3s into a lossless format for editing. So ... confusing question.

[l33tmeatwad]

[ThalesEditions]

In my opnion how more quality in audio better, because we don't know if all people that watch AMV News use or no a required equipment. So if I can bring a FLAC version from CD it's better. If no, only a mp3 320 Kbps for the majory. The documentary is so good to people see the diference, interesting.

[diegao94]

"I think good mp3 quality (300kbps+) is good enough." For me, of course.

[Bean780]

I myself would usually avoid MP3s and usually go for a m4a. (which is slightly more detail than MP3)