At ExposureRoom we believe Audio is as Important as Video. That is the audio in a video is important, and so we've made some feature enhancements to videos on ExposureRoom. This enhancement has actually been in place for a month. Like so many other enhacements this one went under the radar. But I've noticed many of you commenting on videos saying, "the audio is really good" and that reminded me of this feature.
 
I'm sure there are many people out there who simply can't watch a video if the audio of the video is bad. And conversely, if the audio is really good, it makes a video so much more interesting and enjoyable.
 
We found a lot of member's believe this since if you paid close attention to the audio in their videos, there are all sorts of sounds that you don't ever pickup when the video is transcoded for on-line purposes. Websites that host videos typically encode audio at about 96kbps. The really good ones encode video at 128kbps and ExposureRoom was amongst those.
 
But being "really good" wasn't quite good enough and so we've made some changes. We'll encode your videos at the same audio bit rate as your originals! Well, up to 320kbps.
 
The video below is a small snippet of one of the Editor’s choices. The audio starts out as 128kbps and somewhere along the way, it switches to 320kbps. I’ll leave it to the viewer to figure it out. If the audio system on your computer (or home theater) system is good, you’ll notice a marked difference. The Original by Studio-x can be found here Sp - kép maradsz. Yes, it is encoded with an audio bit rate of 320kbps since the original that was uploaded was encoded at an audio bit rate of 384kbps.

 

There are a few reasons for limiting the audio bit rate to 320kbps and they are the following:

Due to #3 above, the Low versions will still be encoded at up to 128kbps, since the Low version is primarily for folks who have a slow Internet bandwidth. The medium and HD versions will be encoded with an audio bit rate of up to 320kbps. But please, be sure you know what you're doing when you set your audio bit rate at the time of encoding your videos. Be sure to read this article to understand more: Bit Rates De-Mystified

 

Please also note that audio bit rates are in "steps" meaning that if the audio in your video is not encoded at exactly 128kbps (for example) but is encoded at 124kbps it will be encoded at 112kbps. One step lower.

 

The following are some of the audio bit rate steps:

48kbps

64kbps

96kbps

112kbps

128kbps

192kbps

224kbps

256kbps

320kbps