audio too soft on youtube/iphone/macbook fine on imac
Hi all,
Back in January when I uploaded this clip to YouTube the dialogue audio was fine: http://youtu.be/7-42HDg7xzs
I could hear it just fine on my iPhone because I remember when I posted it I had played it several times for people using my iPhone 3GS. Recently I have discovered that I can no longer hear the dialogue on the same iPhone. This problem, using clips that were logged from the same equipment into Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 as the one in the above clip, persists in my most recent upload (can't hear audio on Iphone, also difficult on my mother's 2008/9 MacBook). I have no idea what is going on. I thought maybe it was YouTube and uploaded the file to Vimeo and still have the same issue. Did something change since January 2011 that I am unaware of? It's just mind boggling to me. I have tried increasing the audio. I have tried exporting the sound files to Soundbooth, and testing in there, then importing the aiff file back into the sequence. Still doesn't work.
Secondly, the new clip (http://youtu.be/9a__KfY5K-8) is a mixture of FlipCam video/audio and the video/audio mentioned already. The FlipCam audio is fine and matches what I hear on my computer. And in both cases the music track is true to what I am hearing on my computer (an iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.7).
The clips with the audio issue come from Sony HV miniDV tapes recorded on a Canon HV40 which was connected to a mixer (Rolls MX54s) that was connected to an external shotgun mic. It was imported in stereo. Both video and audio were recorded onto the miniDV tapes. The FlipCam clips are also stereo although they are not captured through Final Cut Pro like the ones from the HV40 are.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how I can fix it?
Thanks all.
Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OS X (10.6.7), canon hv40