The best audio for my videos is best heard on headphones. This audio mix was based on PC, headphones and PC speakers. Headphones being best.
The vast difference in audio mixing for a particular device, there really is no honey spot, another version is required. The key for viewing it on TV is headphones, or large speakers. I don't consider sound bars large speakers.
Explanation for the bored.
A movie made for TV will sound great on a PC speaker and sound bar. Not so much for a movie made for theaters played on a PC.
The video looks great on TV, however that requires a different audio mix and compression to be "right". There is quite a bit of sound lost, especially music, without that process. This is why when a movie comes out in the theaters, then it moves to TV, you see "Made for TV" notice. Some clips may be omitted and sound is remixed for TV compression. Compression can bring everything to the same level, for smaller tv speakers. Mix for theaters retains the true dynamics of the audio, light compression. You're not just getting a better sound system in theaters you're getting a different audio mix too, dynamics is grabbing you.
TV runs at a very high compression, everything is flat-lined, there are no curves left in the sine wave. Audio with little or no compression will retain nice smooth curves of equal peaks and valleys.
The higher the compression ratio number the more compressed it is.
I.E.; My videos go through a stair-stepping of compression (because digital compressors suck, another book) with a light threshold starting at 3:1 then 5:1 then 7:1. Dynamics is retained.
For TV requires a much high compression of up to 12 layers of stair-stepping (even with analog compressors), they start at around 2:1 and end up around 21:2.
As you can see/hear a major difference between 7:1 and 21:2 end product.
I MAY make a TV version. That would just be compression, as the project files are long gone to make drive room for something else I'm working on.
Clips for MotA in AVI format took up 1.5T of space, end product in MP4 form is 1.8G. It had to go.
