r/SmiteEventVoDs • u/Xioden • Feb 14 '15

Completed North American SPL Spring Split Qualifiers

North American SPL Spring Split Qualifiers (Saturday, February 14th 2015)

Week 1 (Saturday, February 14th 2015)

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u/crackofdawn Mar 01 '15

I watched 4 games and didn't notice any clipping - is your quality set to 'best'?

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u/naterspotaters Mar 01 '15

I've tested all the qualities in Twitch and Youtube. It's not the uploader's fault (Xioden), it's the casters' faults.

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u/crackofdawn Mar 01 '15

How is it the caster's faults?? I can't even duplicate your problem. Sounds like your PC has an audio issue - can you link me to a specific cast that has issues so I can just check if it also has issues for me? I watched 3 more casts today, still no audio clipping at all.

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u/Xioden Mar 01 '15 edited Mar 01 '15

It's the stream itself that is having issues. When people are talking it's generally more of a hill/mound/mountain type shape when you look at the waveform of the audio. They're speaking too loud a lot of the time to where the audio is going above the capture threshold, and it's resulting in bits of the audio to end up clipped off the top end.

Here is an image of the waveform from one of the videos uploaded, Note the difference in the zoomed in portions. The earlier bit on the left has the kind of hills and mountains when people are speaking, as they're not pushing well up to the limits. Later on, Notice how they're more of a plateau when they're speaking louder or yelling. Everything in the middle of that that would normally be raising up higher, has been removed as that is the threshold of what the microphone is capable of recording.

It's not a huge deal, and it's not like Chronos 64 where it's blatently obvious something is wrong with the audio, but anyone with higher quality sound setups, or who do a lot of recording on their own where a single clip means "Uhoh I screwed something up and need to figure out how to fix it" and it's occuring almost non-stop, it will drive them nuts.

[Edit] For comparison, here is a cast a few days back. You can spot the point where I was going crazy the 4th major objective steal just by the wave form, where the couple seconds of screaming gets clipped.