Corrupted Audio

MatthewEverett-Gates wrote on 11/30/2025, 10:28 AM

The audio corrupted (cracking up) at end of music video project: 4/7 in to 7 minute video. What can cause this?

Worked fine on previous renders, then adding the last 2 minutes of edit* (and incidentally having had issue with ghost audio on a track, which I copied video objects off of and deleted to solve) it corrupted.

Googled for answer; turned off hardware acceleration in Windows settings, replaced audio file in project, checked section where problem starts (indeed dense video effects and 4 layers + audio), moved audio track to bottom of stack, tried to render audio to wav and import but MAGIX Import window doesn't see that.

Original mp3 file is good. 48K, 32 BIT (no float), 320kbps, length 6:45; Cubase 13

Using: MAGIX Movie Studio 2025 Suite version 24.0.1.249 (UDP3), UG code 8485 KA1

Frankenstein rig: ASRock B75M, 8GB Ram DDR3, Intel i7-3770, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB GDDR 5, Win10, motherboard audio. (Motherboard graphics is Intel HD Graphics 4000, 32MB)

*It rendered fine yesterday, including through the problem time point. (double checked file just now)

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CubeAce wrote on 11/30/2025, 2:09 PM

@MatthewEverett-Gates

Hi.

Try slightly increasing the audio buffer settings in program settings. The setting will go up in blocks. Going too high will affect latency on playback within the program. It's probably been caused by using 32bit audio which is somewhat more demanding than using 24bit and that your CPU is probably doing much more work than your GPUs.

Ray.

 

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