Hi folks,
I use Reaper on the Mac. I have a Q&A video—my friend edited the visual part, and all I had to do was add some sound effects for flow and background music. Audio editing is a breeze on Reaper, but when it comes to video, that’s where I always struggle and doubt.
Without any editing, my friend said the video looked way too bright on the screen. She even said it looked unrealistic, like everything had lost its life or something. I was like, “What?”
After I did my editing, I rendered the video with the following settings:
• Primary output format: MPEG-4/MOV (macOS 10.7+ AVFoundation)
• Video container format: MPEG-4 Video (without streaming optimization)
• Resolution & frame rate: 1920x1080, 30fps
• Video encoder: H264
• Video bitrate: 10000
I also have VLC Media Player installed, and the video decoder priority is: VLC, AVFoundation, FFmpeg, QT.
But the problem still exists. The only thing I could do was mute the original audio in the video and add my edited audio to it—but I didn’t do this in Reaper because it would cause more problems. Instead, she used her own video editing app for that.
I’m just so over Reaper having issues with certain videos. It works fine with some, but this one wasn’t any different—it was just a simple Q&A where I talk and questions appear as screenshots. It’s frustrating.
Because I’m totally blind, I’m very limited in the software I can use. I don’t want to switch to Final Cut Pro or anything else because Reaper is super easy and comfortable for audio editing. I also tried installing the full FFmpeg library, but since I’m on Apple Silicon, I never got it to work in Reaper. I changed the decoder priority too, but that didn’t help.
Also, I don’t think my render settings are the issue, because even playback on Reaper before any editing was already problematic.
Please help—there’s gotta be a solution for this!