Jimlau 0 Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) Trying to render an audio and video track. The settings I have are in the photo. I am able to render on my new computer, but on my porior 1 I get an error from all the video players I have that there is a codec issue. Any idea why? I have Windows 10, and the latest Cakewalk version. Edited August 29, 2021 by Jimlau Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Vere 1,437 Posted August 29, 2021 Most people only drop the video into cakewalk as a guide to score the music to. Once you have your music track you export it as a wave file and drag it to the original in your video editing software. The quality of the video in Cakewalk is not the greatest. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bdickens 1,180 Posted August 29, 2021 Cakewalk isn't meant to be a video editor. The video track is there for those who are scoring to picture. I suggest you would save yourself a lot of trouble by using an actual video editor for rendering Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimlau 0 Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, John Vere said: Most people only drop the video into cakewalk as a guide to score the music to. Once you have your music track you export it as a wave file and drag it to the original in your video editing software. The quality of the video in Cakewalk is not the greatest. I don't use it as a video editor. I just import a finished video. I don't want the audio to degrade by having it rendered again in a video editor. Would quality suffer if I have to render the audio twice, once in Cakewalk, once in a video editor? Anyway, it works on 1 of my computers. I guess no 1 knows what I need to download for the codec to work? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 88 80 Posted August 29, 2021 No, audio quality will not suffer if all your setting and levels are set up correct. Usually the default settings. I send pic references for mixes all the time. I use to do it the way the others describe, it use to be the most efficient way with Cake doing the audio rendering and a video app rendering the picture. That rendering process was the quickest and I had more flexibility choosing the video format for my clients who mostly worked with Macs. But recent cakewalk updates have made that unnecessary. I wish I could help you with the codes thing, but I'm just a button pusher when it comes to that stuff. All I know now, is that I export a video file from Cake, choose export MPEG4 video and everything works...and works well. Thank you Cakewalk bakers again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bdickens 1,180 Posted August 29, 2021 Quality will not suffer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OutrageProductions 14 Posted August 29, 2021 I do mostly audio post for video and always cut & print at 48k/24b because all of my video post mixing stages require that as a minimum. So therefore, there is no rendering necessary in any of the audio/dialogue/foley tracks that I send. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Vere 1,437 Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) The video editor I use Movie Studio Platinum or what was Sony Vegas is as capable as any DAW with its audio. I can use most of my audio plug ins and it seems to use any wave audio format I drop in there. Sound Forge is even built in. When I make music videos I might have 3 cameras with audio. I simply take my Cakewalk export of the song and line it up using the count in. I then kill all the camera audio. Because i use backing tracks they always sync up Edited August 30, 2021 by John Vere Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
