Topic: What to do with audio edits?

Posted under General

It is clear that the audio edit thing had to be fixed.
Deleting my post is not fixing it.
I am a sound engineer with authorization of the artist with all respected credits.
"Mairo" posted a comment about adding a sound edit tag but then my post was just deleted.
If I get instructions about it I'll do it, but getting it deleted for "inferior vertion" is outright offensive.

While I'm not Mairo and can't speak for their deletions, your version has a plainly inferior video stream: while a 2160px version exists from the official source, yours is 1080px, and you re-encoded the video stream so that you could modify the credits.
It'd be one thing if you edited the 2160px version, but it's pretty indefensible to expect 20 seconds of acting to make up for this kind of downgrade when it's entirely preventable.

lafcadio said:
...and you re-encoded the video stream so that you could modify the credits.

Just to be perfectly clear here, re-encoding something isn't necessarily unacceptable and if you do need to alter visuals in any way, it's required. Editors adding watermarks or credits is perfectly valid reason to re-encode the video, just that in most cases when they do, they manage to alter and break everything in process somehow and I keep getting amazed how many things can be broken during this...and then 90% of the audio edit uploads get deleted for this reason.
With images, re-saving the work is unavoidable, that's why if you are working from JPG source, it's actually preferred if you save your edit as PNG.

Guidelines only require to be "at the same level of quality", which you can do with re-encoding, quality does drop but you can prevent the drop from being so huge it's visible when playing normally.

Also in this instance, the video is already transcoded from the source, so taking the source file and working from that should basically provide as great quality without further degradation.

mairo said:
Just to be perfectly clear here, re-encoding something isn't necessarily unacceptable and if you do need to alter visuals in any way, it's required. Editors adding watermarks or credits is perfectly valid reason to re-encode the video, just that in most cases when they do, they manage to alter and break everything in process somehow and I keep getting amazed how many things can be broken during this...and then 90% of the audio edit uploads get deleted for this reason.
With images, re-saving the work is unavoidable, that's why if you are working from JPG source, it's actually preferred if you save your edit as PNG.

Guidelines only require to be "at the same level of quality", which you can do with re-encoding, quality does drop but you can prevent the drop from being so huge it's visible when playing normally.

Also in this instance, the video is already transcoded from the source, so taking the source file and working from that should basically provide as great quality without further degradation.

Thanks for the clarification that it was a problem of video quality.
So, if I want to upload my work again, I just need to br more careful about using something closer to the original source and thay would be it; there is nothing wrong with the format of tagging or anything

reveriexs said:
Thanks for the clarification that it was a problem of video quality.
So, if I want to upload my work again, I just need to br more careful about using something closer to the original source and thay would be it; there is nothing wrong with the format of tagging or anything

I mean it says on deletion reason, it's inferior/dublicate of another post, that means it's identical or worse.
So obviously the problem is that it's worse quality of already exsisting post. Guidelines with clear section to edits is also in guidelines that should be linked with big letters on upload form.

Technically we shouldn't be accepting sound edits at all to begin with because of audio being irrelevant factor, that's most likely where the confusion comes from.

Also reading your comment, if at some point you need to transcode multiple times during editing into lossy format and god forbid use WMV, you are doing it completely wrong.
Even Vegas that's horrible piece of software, allows exporting in lossless formats in case there's no export option directly to desired format (and MP4 exporter is broken...).

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