Solution for audio crackling
Hey everyone! I use OpenShot to edit ASMR videos that I make and upload to YouTube. I record the video on either my phone or my camera, and i record audio separately with a Tascam dr05x.
I use OpenShot to overlay the recorded audio over the separately recorded video. I was frequently getting that crackling static over certain parts of my audio while editing. I already tried a ton of other advice i found on this subreddit, but none of it worked quite right. So, I thought I'd provide my solution for anybody else having this problem when overlaying audio to a video.
Once I get the audio track lined up with the video track, I would normally set the video's volume to 0 so you can only hear my audio track. This seems to be there the problem was. Once I actually disabled the audio on the video track (something I just now learned I could do), instead of setting it to 0, it fixed my crackling problems.
How to disable video audio
- Right click your video track
- Click "Properties"
- Find "Enable Audio" and set it to "Off"
I'm assuming this is because of clashing bitrates or something between my video and audio track, but if you're in a similar situation to me, it's a lot easier to just disable your video audio rather than separate it and adjust the bitrate.
TLDR: Audio crackling when overlaying audio to a video. Already tried fixing it through adjusting bitrates and sample rate. Instead of setting video volume to 0, fully disable the video audio instead.