Action! Audio Problem

[misterio95]

Hi everyone! First of all i have to say that i'm Italian, so i'll not speak very good English.
Today i recorded Far Cry 3 for the first time, but in the final video i can see the video of the game, hear the ambiental effects, my voice over the gameplay, but in the video seems that the voices of all the peoples of the game aren't recorded or are recorder very very low.
I deselected in the options "Allow Multi-Channel Recording" but is always the same..
What i can do? Maybe in the next update this will be fixed, or maybe there is not a solution?
Thanks in advantage, and sorry again for my bad English

[radi]

Could you upload a sample of your video when the problem occurs? We can provide an ftp server for larger files.

[misterio95]

Could you upload a sample of your video when the problem occurs? We can provide an ftp server for larger files.

Yes, here's a video that i uploaded on youtube. You can hear the audio problem at the beginning of the video, when the guy is talking to my character. There are the subtitles, but you can't hear the voices..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD8LDPB0vSM

[misterio95]

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[AlanDavison]

If I had to guess, I would assume you're playing the game in surround-sound? Either 5.1 or 7.1, maybe? If you are, and you deselect multi-channel audio recording, Action! might get confused and think you mean "This is stereo", and only capture the left and right channels, which probably won't contain speech.

But if you keep it selected, it could be whatever editing/encoding software you're using doesn't know how to downmix properly. If you are playing in 5.1/7.1/whatever surround while recording, have you tried switching the game to mono? I'd be curious to see if that solved anything.

[misterio95]

If I had to guess, I would assume you're playing the game in surround-sound? Either 5.1 or 7.1, maybe? If you are, and you deselect multi-channel audio recording, Action! might get confused and think you mean "This is stereo", and only capture the left and right channels, which probably won't contain speech.

But if you keep it selected, it could be whatever editing/encoding software you're using doesn't know how to downmix properly. If you are playing in 5.1/7.1/whatever surround while recording, have you tried switching the game to mono? I'd be curious to see if that solved anything.

Well.. Actually i'm playing the game with Logitech G35, so Surround 7.1. If i select "Record Multi-Channel" the output format of the video isn't completely supported by Sony Vegas, so i have to uncheck it..
However.. How i switch the game to mono? (or maybe stereo..?)

[AlanDavison]

On this page: http://www.pcgames.de/Far-Cry-3-PC-2175 ... z-1038695/ (which is in German, unfortunately), I found this:

"Far Cry 3 Issues: None Speech
In the sound card driver or in the Windows settings from 5.1 to stereo switch can solve the problem."

Seems like some people are having the speech issue when just playing, so that might be related.. the Logitech G35 is a USB headset, right? In that case, maybe try this: http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Headphone ... d-p/383242

"Close the game, unplug the headphones. plug them back in, switch to stereo, then run the game.", and "I thought there was a switch on the side to turn off surround, no?"

Seems there's a little switch on the side here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... e_view.jpg ?

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I've really never, ever used surround sound in my life.

Edit: Found a review, and.. the switch on the right here is apparently the "3D sound" toggle switch, which I would hope actually toggle surround-sound.

Review page here.

So.. disconnect the headphones, flick that switch, reconnect them, try recording, and.. hope, I guess.

[misterio95]

Thanks a lot for the help, but the thing is that i never activated the surround switch..

[FetusZero]

Unselecting multi-channel does indeed record left and right speakers only, I've had that problem and posted about it.

I see you use Vegas though, there's a workaround for the audio, it can be found here: http://www.mirillis.com/forum/viewtopic ... dio#p20920

Or in short, you can install Dxtory (free) and in the installation folder, double click "AudioStreamSplitter.exe". This will add the context option "Extract Audio Stream" when right clicking AVI files. Doing this will give you a separate, audio only file. It allows you to import the video and the audio tracks separately in Sony Vegas. It requires more steps than just importing the video, but at least that way you will get the multichannel audio in Sony Vegas until either Sony decides to properly support extensible wave or until capture software gives us more options for the audio.

[misterio95]

Unselecting multi-channel does indeed record left and right speakers only, I've had that problem and posted about it.

I see you use Vegas though, there's a workaround for the audio, it can be found here: http://www.mirillis.com/forum/viewtopic ... dio#p20920

Or in short, you can install Dxtory (free) and in the installation folder, double click "AudioStreamSplitter.exe". This will add the context option "Extract Audio Stream" when right clicking AVI files. Doing this will give you a separate, audio only file. It allows you to import the video and the audio tracks separately in Sony Vegas. It requires more steps than just importing the video, but at least that way you will get the multichannel audio in Sony Vegas until either Sony decides to properly support extensible wave or until capture software gives us more options for the audio.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to do that