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As a doctor of history, I highly recommend this channel for all your historical needs. Although i do want to add, always follow the money for the truth of the matter. Do your own research as well. There's nothing like holding an ancient primary document! God Bless you all.
What is the point of informing subscribed followers in the Uk of documentaries they cannot watch in the UK? I'm just going to unsubscribe as all the best programs are not available to Brits and I keep getting excited to see you have blocked us from watching something good.
Such an excellent presentation. What a shame that so much of the dialogue is over powered by the music...makes it very difficult to stay with....A remix, please!
I'm just guessing, because I haven't verified with headphones, that this dub has a mono one channel audio signal, and if so, the one where Tony's voice is louder wasn't chosen. You may have noticed that guest speakers are never hidden behind music.
This program has the potential of being a great documentary if a sound engineer would edit the film to lower the background music so the presenter can be heard.
I can hear it just fine and always have been able to. It would be YOUR issue if you can't hear the presenter, not the show. Use subtitles if you can't understand it
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 several people have commented on the volume of the music in conjunction with the narrative voice. I agree with them that a slightly lower volume of the music would be conducive to greater quality of the documentary and listening pleasure.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 the subtitles actually drop out when he narration volume goes low. Everybody else is correct. The sound is all over the place, and does affect the viewing experience.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 This is stolen and pirated from the BBC, and the sound balance is absolutely APPALING. The more I watch, the more I begin to think that the sound was not put through a compressor to fool RUclips's Automatic Copyright Detection algorithm, the music is SO incongruent and out of place, and SO badly mixed, it was never on the original BBC production at all and has been deliberately added but very badly mixed: in order to fool YT's copyright detection. Down vote, report for copyright infringement. {:o:O:}
Ah these kinds of documentaries with excessively loud brass transitions always take me back to rainy school days when the teacher just wanted to relax.
Odyssey should pair up Tony Robinson and Mary Beard together for an all exclusive Rome- Ancient Rome docuseries that would dominate all other. This is the best channel for history buffs
Me Too with Mary's husband because Mary is only four years younger than myself and I fell in 😘 with ancient History when 13 seeing pictures of the Pyramids and if I had not had a father that had to pay for college I would have been an archeologist but I was crushed by my father in 1972 telling me he sent me to college to find a husband not to find a life career. Feminist movement liberated women and they must not relinquish the freedom ever again as children isn't necessary for life happiness.
I echo the sentiments of a previous poster. Good historical documentary, but the background music sometimes overpowers Tony's voice so it is hard to follow what he is saying. "Really good video but the background music often time overpowers the narration to a point that you cannot understand what is being said. This really needs to be corrected. "
Everyone, in short sadly there is no chance of getting the audio corrected as basically this is 3 2003 documentaries edited together by red dot studios/Odyssey an All3 media company. Julius Caesar 1 & 2 and Caligula. It was produced by Spire Films in Britain for Channel 4. Back then David Willcock should have insisted that Colette Foster make Trevor Barber (dubbing mixer) go back and add processing treatment on Tony’s overdub track during the B roll footage or at the least turn it up…So, unless Red Dot got their hands on the actual project files…there’s no hope…as an audio engineer in broadcasting for 17 years this pains me. As these are good documentaries and I LOVE everything Tony is on. He’s much older now but still awesome! And dang Odyssey! 1 million views in the 4 months since uploaded? Way to revive old documentaries like archiving and curation! Thanks for that ;)
Or...this is youtube...download the video onto editing software and reduce the music by 40% and turn up the audio to the video by 20%...easy fix...i have to fo this from time to time with my videos
@@BeautyByLinnoria ….it’s a stereo mix down …meaning merged in post production years ago. Those two tracks won’t be magically separated (in this case) if you still believe that’s possible still, I would urge you to do that and re upload it people would love that. But it’s such a long video and file it would take more time than it’s worth to do all that even if it was possible. But I say go for it
That thing was damn near overcooked. You know, we have the longest intestinal systems of all land mammals? This is so we can eat a wide variety of foods. The diet used to consist heavily of fermented foods as well, it hardly does at all now. You must train your immunity like you would your brain, or your bicep. I’m sure the natives have ate a raw animal or two, they did just fine before their lands were demolished and poisoned.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 sorry are you a sound engineer because i am the sound is shocking. you need to be normalise sound. To normalize audio is to change its overall volume by a fixed amount to reach a target level. It is different from compression that changes volume over time in varying amounts. It does not affect dynamics like compression, and ideally does not change the sound in any way other than purely changing its volume. to make sound normal.
The mix is terrible! Every time the music is cued up it drowns out and/or competes heavily with the narration. I did, in fact have to use subtitles at some points and that should never happen. It's odd because I haven't noticed this problem with other Odyssey videos, which are typically stellar in all regards of their production.
An excellent presentation badly let down by poor sound mixing. A combination of music and sound effects frequently muffles Tony Robinson's voice which bizarrely drops just when it needs more volume. 1:11:50 is an example.
This is the best documentary that really touches the heart of every viewer of this documentary. The detail narrative of all the Emperors of Rome from Julius Caesar to Nero and a portion of Vespasian, I learned a lot from this well researched and passionately narrated documentary, I can watched this again and again. Thank you, Tony Robinson, for the beauty of your passionate and eloquent narration. Kudos!
Yeah, well, I don't know why Julius Caesar is included in this "tyrannical emperors" video, as the view that he was "tyrannical", is certainly not objective, and he definitely was not "emperor"; in fact, the first Emperor of Rome was his adopted son, Octavian Augustus (30 BC-14 AD). As for "tyrannical emperors of Rome", Emperors like Octavian's (own) adopted son (and successor), Tiberius (14-37) would have qualified (at least, Emperors that came from Julia-Claudia Dynasty, the first Roman imperial dynasty). Also, right at the end of this video, a very important detail in Nero's reign (54-68) was left out: beginning in the year 66, fueled by real, and/or imaginary conspiracies, he unleashed a wave of terror on the members of the Senate (as well as other members of the nobility/patricians); this was (partly) the reason that, as soon as they could (in the year 68, shortly before his death/assisted suicide), the Senate declared Nero "enemy of the State".
@@mariusmatei2946 Yes, you are right to the detail of history. Julius Caesar was not tyrannical during his reign, and yes, not called Emperor......Caesar, after his death the rest of his successors were called Caesar. Thank you for the historical info.
@@tommyjohnson6410 Depends on which part your talking about but if you're talking about Romans in Italia than they're skin complexion was white or middle eastern brown.
@heinrichbierhals-wn1xz Well, I have learned that the Romans civilization was started by the Etruscans. We know that the etruscans were black people. The book Early Man in Britain by W Boyd Dawkins will tell you the Welsh, Scots, Iberians, Etruscans, and others were black people. We were lied to by racist scholars and historians. I was taught that the only blacks in Europe were slaves and servants. You can now look up online the color of Julius Caesar it will tell you he was much darker than his fake displays and pictures. So if the etruscans started Rome and they were black, then the Romans had to be black like the Greeks, Phoenicians, and the rest of the Mediterranean area. We know that Augustus Caesar was the 1st Emperor of rome. Negro was the fifth and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was directly related to Augustus Caesar. My question to you is why would a blonde or red hair, blue-eyed Caucasian man nickname himself Negro or Nero?? Negro and Nero means the same thing.
A great fan of Tony Robinson's work , for years. It is irritating to need to keep readjusting my ears, in order to hear his narrative nearly half of the time here. I really wish your producer would take the time to deconstruct the sound lines and adjust that problem.
Many here have commented on a bad sound mix. I'm just guessing, because I haven't verified with headphones, that this dub has a mono one channel audio signal, (either the left or the right) and if so, the one where Tony's voice is louder wasn't chosen. You may have noticed that guest speakers are never hidden behind music. In a stereo mix, this is to separate their voices from Tony's commentary. As I said, I'm only s'posin' here.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 it’s poor editing in filming if you ask me. I’m already hard of hearing and I hate using subtitles when the volume is already up very high
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 *_"It is done the way the show was."_* No, it's stolen and pirated from the BBC, and they've put it though a compressor to fool YT's automatic copyright detection. It levels everything flat, so when there are background sounds, Tony becomes almost inaudible. *_"Use subtitles"_* No, the thing to do is thumb down, Unsub and report the channel for copyright infringement. {:o:O:}
@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 This wasn't made by the BBC in the first place, which makes me doubt your knowledge as regards the rest of your statement.
So no sound editing awards were awarded for this series I imagine; the music simply overpowers Tony's voice, he gets compressed in the mix whenever it appears and promptly becomes louder when it subsides. This is rank amateurism frankly. It's rather sad and makes difficult the enjoyment of an otherwise visually and factually enthralling experience.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 *_"It is done the way the show was."_* No, it's stolen and pirated from the BBC, and they've put it though a compressor to fool YT's automatic copyright detection. It levels everything flat, so when there are background sounds, Tony becomes almost inaudible. *_"Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter."_* No, the thing to do is thumb down, Unsub and report the channel for copyright infringement. {:o:O:}
This was an excellent documentary, but I don't know what you've done to the sound balance. Tony is too quiet, and whenever there are background effects - traffic, battle, waves, music etc - Tony goes even quieter. It's like some sound balance algorithm was being misused and screwing it all up. {:o:O:}
I am sooo interested in this .. the music or sound effects are so over the top I struggle to hear the narrator.. super frustrating.im going to keep trying. Curious, is there a way to adjust settings on my side to balance the sound issue?
No, I think they've used a compressor of some sort that flattens everything and levels it all out. And whenever there are background sounds Tony goes even quieter. Probably done to out fox the copyright detection algorithm. The only way round it is to get the original DVD from BBC Productions. {:o:O:}
To y’all complaining about the sound quality. Go to timeline on RUclips and listen to the entire series in pure sound quality. The problem with this upload is how the stereo sound was loaded through a digital mono filter. They never work !
No matter how far back you go…the frailty of humanity is there. Chasing shadows and quieting elusive voices…but there’s no escaping the confinement of one’s mind full of suspicion…losing the ability to know who is for you…and who is against you. Very nice video…thank you🙂🌺
I too am having a difficult time understanding due to the poor quality of the audio. I'm appalled to see so many comments saying basically 'get over it and use subtitles'. What utter selfishness and lack of awareness to suggest such a thing when many of us are vision impaired. SMH
Perhaps its just my machine (on a macbook air right now) but the sound is really unbalanced at quite a few points in this documentary. Im no audiophile btw- and unfortunately i lack the vocabulary to succinctly describe the issue im referring to. its as if the background music is louder than Tony's narration itself? makes it kind of difficult for someone hard of hearing like me, especially since im pretty stoned atm (i imagine a lot of people watching this are lol) no idea if the sound can be fixed? either way i love this channel thank you
This would have been a really good documentary Tony Robinson is good but the background noise that is called music was dreadful and ruined it a documentary is supposed to be what it says someone narrating but with that noise a lot of what he said was lost whoever did the background should be sued for spoiling a decent program
I recently read some facts about Caligula: he was actually capable (in the early years) to do important things for the whole empire. New infastructures, new laws. It makes me think that even an half crazy person was able to manage such a vast territory and nowadays we cannot find a valid PM who can at least fix Rome’s roads.
Serious sound editing needed here. It is, as always with Tony Robinson's presentations on history so interesting and well made, but the crazy apparently incessant music is annoying as all hell anyway, but when the sound of the narrator is drowned out totally on some of the most interesting parts of the video by strident and irrelevant music it makes it impossible to watch. Such a shame.
It's a shame but I can't watch this with the sound the way it is. At times I can't hear Tony at all because of the unnecessarily loud music. I'll try another video.
Except that he shouldn't have been included in this "tyrannical emperors" video, as the view that he was "tyrannical", is certainly not objective, and he was definitely not an "emperor"; in fact, the first Emperor of Rome was Octavian Augustus (30 BC-14 AD), Julius Caesar's adopted son.
I remember that my earliest idea of what Caligula was like came from the BBC series I Claudius, but much of history is determined by the winners and I had long changed my mind about him, he was a typical emperor who went against the ruling class. If Cassius and Bruno had beaten and killed Mark Anthony and Octavius then I would imagine Caesar would have been cast as another Tarquin and his literature destroyed.
That's a good point, that we would probably remember Caesar quite differently if the conspirators had won the second civil war. Even so, I think that Shakespeare has influenced how we remember the conspirators - Brutus and Cassius being cast as tragic heroes and probably getting a bit more credit than they deserved. When he wrote his Claudius novels, Robert Graves drew heavily on Suetonius, who drew heavily on the most scurrilous gossip about the Julio-Claudians to make the Antonine emperors look good by comparison. A lot of what we think we know about Caligula comes from Suetonius, and it's always interesting to see the historical evidence from different angles.
Amazing job telling an educational story, dispelling myth while still honoring the heroism. The storytelling, audio and visual effects and content is superb! It's great to see valid history portrayed in such a palatable way.
SORRY!!!! but the sound is a little off... when you overlay the music and some of the sound FX it drowned out the vocals a fair bit... i had to use the subtitles, again SORRY!!
I can not understand why the creators of these kinds of fascinating documentaries find it necessary to play annoying loud music, especially while the commentator is speaking. I could not hear half of what Tony Robinson was saying because the music was much louder than his voice.
I love these stories but the background music is way too LOUD! I can't hear 3/4 of what Tony is saying and that's a shame. Please try to address this issue promptly because I love this show.
I would prefer NO music. It bothers me when there are really good, long-form documentaries, but they feel like they need to "make it more dramatic" and add music. I'm here for the information, not a rousing experience. It just makes me not want to watch, to be frank. Tony Robinson and the Timeline series seem to be the worst offenders. In another comment, it says that this is pirated and the music was added or boosted to get around copyright. Blech.
Caesar's enemies were just stuck on stupid. He was so good for Rome. The fools against him were blind and jealous. Even his killers did not prosper in the end.
@@robertgiles9124 No I don't think I am. If you know Roman history you should know they almost all came to a bad end, before Caesar and way after. The people who wen't against him had many reasons. Being blind and jealous were not one of them. I'm not taking sides just saying it was more complicated than jealousy.
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It's like Netflix for History: the world's finest documentary streaming service -- use the code 'Odyssey' to get 50% off your History Hit subscription! bit.ly/3AQ8pPJ
As a doctor of history, I highly recommend this channel for all your historical needs. Although i do want to add, always follow the money for the truth of the matter. Do your own research as well. There's nothing like holding an ancient primary document!
God Bless you all.
What is the point of informing subscribed followers in the Uk of documentaries they cannot watch in the UK? I'm just going to unsubscribe as all the best programs are not available to Brits and I keep getting excited to see you have blocked us from watching something good.
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Such an excellent presentation. What a shame that so much of the dialogue is over powered by the music...makes it very difficult to stay with....A remix, please!
I'm just guessing, because I haven't verified with headphones, that this dub has a mono one channel audio signal, and if so, the one where Tony's voice is louder wasn't chosen. You may have noticed that guest speakers are never hidden behind music.
@@AnnieVanAuken Thank you.
I had to unplug / unpair the actual speakers to listen to this with the trash Tablet speakers because of the music killing the narration as well
Hold on im calling skrillex
I'm giving up. The music shooting up at odd times ruins the presentation for me.
This program has the potential of being a great documentary if a sound engineer would edit the film to lower the background music so the presenter can be heard.
I can hear it just fine and always have been able to. It would be YOUR issue if you can't hear the presenter, not the show. Use subtitles if you can't understand it
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 several people have commented on the volume of the music in conjunction with the narrative voice. I agree with them that a slightly lower volume of the music would be conducive to greater quality of the documentary and listening pleasure.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 the subtitles actually drop out when he narration volume goes low. Everybody else is correct. The sound is all over the place, and does affect the viewing experience.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587, you can but most of us can’t, they need a better sound editor.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587
This is stolen and pirated from the BBC, and the sound balance is absolutely APPALING. The more I watch, the more I begin to think that the sound was not put through a compressor to fool RUclips's Automatic Copyright Detection algorithm, the music is SO incongruent and out of place, and SO badly mixed, it was never on the original BBC production at all and has been deliberately added but very badly mixed: in order to fool YT's copyright detection.
Down vote, report for copyright infringement.
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Ah these kinds of documentaries with excessively loud brass transitions always take me back to rainy school days when the teacher just wanted to relax.
I love Tony. He's very good at his work.
I had to stop the video though. The soundtrack was always louder than Tony's voice.
Totally- just thought the same. I'm 5min in. need to remix this
@@mattwestfield351
Thank you, Matt.
The music is not necessary. It's only a distraction.
Thanks again.
I love Tony, but 19:40 why the fuck are you wearing socks in bed ????
@@lindalee3408 It's to avoid copyright
@@nassimboussaadia6720
That sounds true. I sure you are right. Thanks for the info.
TURN THE MUSIC DOWN!!!
Odyssey should pair up Tony Robinson and Mary Beard together for an all exclusive Rome- Ancient Rome docuseries that would dominate all other. This is the best channel for history buffs
I would love to see a mini series with co-naration by Tony AND Mary and not just naration but a discussion as well !
Me Too with Mary's husband because Mary is only four years younger than myself and I fell in 😘 with ancient History when 13 seeing pictures of the Pyramids and if I had not had a father that had to pay for college I would have been an archeologist but I was crushed by my father in 1972 telling me he sent me to college to find a husband not to find a life career. Feminist movement liberated women and they must not relinquish the freedom ever again as children isn't necessary for life happiness.
@thebotformalityknownasdale2564
YES
What a team that would be❤
I echo the sentiments of a previous poster. Good historical documentary, but the background music sometimes overpowers Tony's voice so it is hard to follow what he is saying. "Really good video but the background music often time overpowers the narration to a point that you cannot understand what is being said. This really needs to be corrected.
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Everyone, in short sadly there is no chance of getting the audio corrected as basically this is 3 2003 documentaries edited together by red dot studios/Odyssey an All3 media company. Julius Caesar 1 & 2 and Caligula. It was produced by Spire Films in Britain for Channel 4. Back then David Willcock should have insisted that Colette Foster make Trevor Barber (dubbing mixer) go back and add processing treatment on Tony’s overdub track during the B roll footage or at the least turn it up…So, unless Red Dot got their hands on the actual project files…there’s no hope…as an audio engineer in broadcasting for 17 years this pains me. As these are good documentaries and I LOVE everything Tony is on. He’s much older now but still awesome! And dang Odyssey! 1 million views in the 4 months since uploaded? Way to revive old documentaries like archiving and curation! Thanks for that ;)
Thanks for that explanation.We learn something new every day. 💜🫰🏼
Or...this is youtube...download the video onto editing software and reduce the music by 40% and turn up the audio to the video by 20%...easy fix...i have to fo this from time to time with my videos
@@BeautyByLinnoria ….it’s a stereo mix down …meaning merged in post production years ago. Those two tracks won’t be magically separated (in this case) if you still believe that’s possible still, I would urge you to do that and re upload it people would love that. But it’s such a long video and file it would take more time than it’s worth to do all that even if it was possible. But I say go for it
@@BeautyByLinnoria I like that suggestion
It is nicely done with exception of the background sound being too loud to hear the story.
Can we just talk about how raw that steak is for a second
Diarrea alert!
Omg I was just thinking the same thing lol. Looks like there's still a pulse for God's sake
I heard the cow screaming every time he made a cut!😮💨
You don’t eat your steak like that? No wonder you guys get sick all the time
That thing was damn near overcooked. You know, we have the longest intestinal systems of all land mammals? This is so we can eat a wide variety of foods. The diet used to consist heavily of fermented foods as well, it hardly does at all now. You must train your immunity like you would your brain, or your bicep. I’m sure the natives have ate a raw animal or two, they did just fine before their lands were demolished and poisoned.
Great job on the narration ! At least I think, because the sound engineer clearly preferred the music
god its overwhelming.
😂😂🤣!!!
Such a great production is overshadowed by the terrible sound that overpowers the description.
O dear! The music is louder than the commentary. What a pity
I can hear it just fine. Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 sorry are you a sound engineer because i am the sound is shocking. you need to be normalise sound. To normalize audio is to change its overall volume by a fixed amount to reach a target level. It is different from compression that changes volume over time in varying amounts. It does not affect dynamics like compression, and ideally does not change the sound in any way other than purely changing its volume. to make sound normal.
The mix is terrible! Every time the music is cued up it drowns out and/or competes heavily with the narration. I did, in fact have to use subtitles at some points and that should never happen. It's odd because I haven't noticed this problem with other Odyssey videos, which are typically stellar in all regards of their production.
Jesus.... turn down that background music, man..
if you're wearing headsets the music is loud as hell but on speaker its mixed right
?... The music is SO loud I couldn"t hear the narration! It's such a shame as I couldn't watch/listen to it,
An excellent presentation badly let down by poor sound mixing. A combination of music and sound effects frequently muffles Tony Robinson's voice which bizarrely drops just when it needs more volume. 1:11:50 is an example.
This is the best documentary that really touches the heart of every viewer of this documentary. The detail narrative of all the Emperors of Rome from Julius Caesar to Nero and a portion of Vespasian, I learned a lot from this well researched and passionately narrated documentary, I can watched this again and again. Thank you, Tony Robinson, for the beauty of your passionate and eloquent narration. Kudos!
Yeah, well, I don't know why Julius Caesar is included in this "tyrannical emperors" video, as the view that he was "tyrannical", is certainly not objective, and he definitely was not "emperor"; in fact, the first Emperor of Rome was his adopted son, Octavian Augustus (30 BC-14 AD). As for "tyrannical emperors of Rome", Emperors like Octavian's (own) adopted son (and successor), Tiberius (14-37) would have qualified (at least, Emperors that came from Julia-Claudia Dynasty, the first Roman imperial dynasty). Also, right at the end of this video, a very important detail in Nero's reign (54-68) was left out: beginning in the year 66, fueled by real, and/or imaginary conspiracies, he unleashed a wave of terror on the members of the Senate (as well as other members of the nobility/patricians); this was (partly) the reason that, as soon as they could (in the year 68, shortly before his death/assisted suicide), the Senate declared Nero "enemy of the State".
@@mariusmatei2946 Yes, you are right to the detail of history. Julius Caesar was not tyrannical during his reign, and yes, not called Emperor......Caesar, after his death the rest of his successors were called Caesar. Thank you for the historical info.
@@miriamarit yes, "Caesar" (and variations of the name, e.g. "Kaiser", and/or "Czar") came to be synonymous with "Emperor".
@@mariusmatei2946 Yes, indeed...CAEZAR..CZAR OF RUSSIA, Czar Putin...sounds good eh?
@@miriamarit well, just like Czar Nicholas II, Putin's dragging Russia into the abyss!
Loved this. Very interesting. One issue I feel needs your attention is that the music drowned out Mr. Robinson's delivery. It was a shame.
I am well versed on Ancient Rome and loved this! Our understanding of Rome has changed so much since I started to study it.
Were the Romans civilization black people?
@@tommyjohnson6410 Depends on which part your talking about but if you're talking about Romans in Italia than they're skin complexion was white or middle eastern brown.
@heinrichbierhals-wn1xz my research is showing ancient Roman to be black people. Im thinking the whole Mediterranean area were black people.
@@tommyjohnson6410 Which research? I'm going to need some sources, I've never heard about this before.
@heinrichbierhals-wn1xz Well, I have learned that the Romans civilization was started by the Etruscans. We know that the etruscans were black people. The book Early Man in Britain by W Boyd Dawkins will tell you the Welsh, Scots, Iberians, Etruscans, and others were black people. We were lied to by racist scholars and historians. I was taught that the only blacks in Europe were slaves and servants. You can now look up online the color of Julius Caesar it will tell you he was much darker than his fake displays and pictures. So if the etruscans started Rome and they were black, then the Romans had to be black like the Greeks, Phoenicians, and the rest of the Mediterranean area. We know that Augustus Caesar was the 1st Emperor of rome. Negro was the fifth and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was directly related to Augustus Caesar. My question to you is why would a blonde or red hair, blue-eyed Caucasian man nickname himself Negro or Nero?? Negro and Nero means the same thing.
This was one of my favorite documentaries about the Roman rulers. Educational and entertaining. Thank you so much💛
A great fan of Tony Robinson's work , for years. It is irritating to need to keep readjusting my ears, in order to hear his narrative nearly half of the time here. I really wish your producer would take the time to deconstruct the sound lines and adjust that problem.
This is good stuff, but the background music tends to drown out the narration.
This is an excellent documentary, but the background music muffles out the narrator and is often too high-pitched.
Thanks Tony, wonderful work. Some how I find the story of ancient Rome absolutely compelling.
Me, too. It was such a fascinating culture.
Many here have commented on a bad sound mix. I'm just guessing, because I haven't verified with headphones, that this dub has a mono one channel audio signal, (either the left or the right) and if so, the one where Tony's voice is louder wasn't chosen. You may have noticed that guest speakers are never hidden behind music. In a stereo mix, this is to separate their voices from Tony's commentary. As I said, I'm only s'posin' here.
I agree the music overpowers the narration. It’s hard to make it out.
So fun. You feel like you are walking through history with him. He is an incredible historian/story teller.
Yes, the audio is horrible. Who threw that music track on over top of the voice? I don't think that was part of the original video.
This is the way the show was done. Use subtitles if you can't deal with it
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 no thanks. I will pass.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 it’s poor editing in filming if you ask me. I’m already hard of hearing and I hate using subtitles when the volume is already up very high
@@lorrainearmstrong7587
*_"It is done the way the show was."_*
No, it's stolen and pirated from the BBC, and they've put it though a compressor to fool YT's automatic copyright detection. It levels everything flat, so when there are background sounds, Tony becomes almost inaudible.
*_"Use subtitles"_*
No, the thing to do is thumb down, Unsub and report the channel for copyright infringement.
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@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 This wasn't made by the BBC in the first place, which makes me doubt your knowledge as regards the rest of your statement.
So no sound editing awards were awarded for this series I imagine; the music simply overpowers Tony's voice, he gets compressed in the mix whenever it appears and promptly becomes louder when it subsides. This is rank amateurism frankly. It's rather sad and makes difficult the enjoyment of an otherwise visually and factually enthralling experience.
This is not the original one. This was originally a 4 part series which is still on the Timeline channel right now.
Binned it. Shocking sound mix. The music is so overpowering.
It is done the way the show was. Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter. I can understand them just fine
@@lorrainearmstrong7587 some of us are vision impaired
Worst sound editing I have ever heard. The most significant narration is drowned out by godawful, generic "boogeyman" music.
@@lorrainearmstrong7587
*_"It is done the way the show was."_*
No, it's stolen and pirated from the BBC, and they've put it though a compressor to fool YT's automatic copyright detection. It levels everything flat, so when there are background sounds, Tony becomes almost inaudible.
*_"Use subtitles if you can't hear the presenter."_*
No, the thing to do is thumb down, Unsub and report the channel for copyright infringement.
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@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095I will be glad to do what you suggest. Thank you.
If you are an amateur follower of Ancient Rome and imperial rule, this is for you. Your host, Tony Robinson is a very good storyteller.
Background music often gets too loud throughout the video. I'm sure it's a great video, but couldn't watch it due to the high background music.
the sound engineers made the backgrounf music louder than the narators voice.
This was an excellent documentary, but I don't know what you've done to the sound balance. Tony is too quiet, and whenever there are background effects - traffic, battle, waves, music etc - Tony goes even quieter. It's like some sound balance algorithm was being misused and screwing it all up.
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I am sooo interested in this .. the music or sound effects are so over the top I struggle to hear the narrator.. super frustrating.im going to keep trying. Curious, is there a way to adjust settings on my side to balance the sound issue?
No, I think they've used a compressor of some sort that flattens everything and levels it all out. And whenever there are background sounds Tony goes even quieter. Probably done to out fox the copyright detection algorithm. The only way round it is to get the original DVD from BBC Productions.
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Tony is a joy to listen to and watch.
Yes, but I can’t help but think of my 1st knowledge of Tony Robinson as a comedic actor in Blackadder.
Fell asleep yesterday woke up to this video 2h30min in 😂😂😂😂
Kindly remove the conflicting music. Cannot hear the speaker. Thanks
It destroy all the pleasure in listening to Robinson.
To y’all complaining about the sound quality. Go to timeline on RUclips and listen to the entire series in pure sound quality. The problem with this upload is how the stereo sound was loaded through a digital mono filter. They never work !
The sound engineer needs to face Roman justice.
No matter how far back you go…the frailty of humanity is there. Chasing shadows and quieting elusive voices…but there’s no escaping the confinement of one’s mind full of suspicion…losing the ability to know who is for you…and who is against you. Very nice video…thank you🙂🌺
I'm currently on the bit where Caligula orders the soldiers to collect shells and I can't hear a word from Tony over the waves!
The background music is always drowning out the voice of Tony.
Good heavens!
Great documentary but the background music is too loud and we can barely hear you.
An excellent documentary, but unfortunately ruined by unnecessarily loud background music. Such a shame.
I too am having a difficult time understanding due to the poor quality of the audio. I'm appalled to see so many comments saying basically 'get over it and use subtitles'. What utter selfishness and lack of awareness to suggest such a thing when many of us are vision impaired. SMH
The passion shines through in every video. It's truly inspiring.
Brilliant Baldrick, Bloody Brilliant
The sound mixer should try listening to this documentary. Too often the music overwhelms the commentary.
History still repeating itself
The music is MUCH LOUDER than the narration.
Great video, however, the music and background noise is too loud and sometimes drowns out the narrator.
Perhaps its just my machine (on a macbook air right now) but the sound is really unbalanced at quite a few points in this documentary. Im no audiophile btw- and unfortunately i lack the vocabulary to succinctly describe the issue im referring to.
its as if the background music is louder than Tony's narration itself? makes it kind of difficult for someone hard of hearing like me, especially since im pretty stoned atm (i imagine a lot of people watching this are lol) no idea if the sound can be fixed?
either way i love this channel thank you
Music extremely loud and drowning the narration. I give up.
I heard the narration just fine. Not sure what your issue is. Perhaps you should turn on the subtitles?
Great documentary! so fascinating..
The music volume is too loud when the narrator is speaking.
Steven
Remix the audio. Narration overwhelmed by music is what I walked away from this presentation remembering.
Excellent documentary, outrageous music and noise.killing the story telling.
Why this loud music????
All the commercials in the world won't get me to support daddy's boy Snow and his "it's like Netflix, but for History!"
solid episode. except the small fellow cutting the steak at the beginning. it was like he'd never cut red meat before lol
He had probably forgotten how...like many today.
Lewis .... small fellow? lol that small fellow is Sir Tony Robinson - and that meat looks raw!`
Ugh I almost threw up! It was raw!! 🤮
@@ChezzaAU ew!! Yeah it was! So gross!!
That meat was raw af.
On my phone, the music overpowers the narration. Ergh..
This would have been a really good documentary Tony Robinson is good but the background noise that is called music was dreadful and ruined it a documentary is supposed to be what it says someone narrating but with that noise a lot of what he said was lost whoever did the background should be sued for spoiling a decent program
sound effect is your Achilles heel
Very enjoyable.
However, Cæsar may have been tyrannical but he wasn't an Emperor! (Octavian/Augustus was the first Roman Emperor.)
Correct
Really great but the background music was to loud it drowned out the narration. Excellent research
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Very interesting, but the music most times overpowers the narrators voice..
Thank you for such fantastic content. Watched tons of Caesar related videos and still learned some new information from this vid.
I recently read some facts about Caligula: he was actually capable (in the early years) to do important things for the whole empire. New infastructures, new laws. It makes me think that even an half crazy person was able to manage such a vast territory and nowadays we cannot find a valid PM who can at least fix Rome’s roads.
Serious sound editing needed here. It is, as always with Tony Robinson's presentations on history so interesting and well made, but the crazy apparently incessant music is annoying as all hell anyway, but when the sound of the narrator is drowned out totally on some of the most interesting parts of the video by strident and irrelevant music it makes it impossible to watch. Such a shame.
It's a shame but I can't watch this with the sound the way it is. At times I can't hear Tony at all because of the unnecessarily loud music. I'll try another video.
You can't help but admire Julius Ceasar. The more you learn about him the more fascinated you become.
The two figures that changed the world had the initials "J.C"
Except that he shouldn't have been included in this "tyrannical emperors" video, as the view that he was "tyrannical", is certainly not objective, and he was definitely not an "emperor"; in fact, the first Emperor of Rome was Octavian Augustus (30 BC-14 AD), Julius Caesar's adopted son.
Admire? He was a piece of garbage from start to finish. Good riddance.
@@wvjeepguy8178 and you base your view on... what/care to explain what your view is based on?!?
@@mariusmatei2946 The documentary that we are commenting on? Did you just skip the entire thing? His own people murdered him for being a tyrant.
The sound mixing is horrible! Can that be re-mixed?
I remember that my earliest idea of what Caligula was like came from the BBC series I Claudius, but much of history is determined by the winners and I had long changed my mind about him, he was a typical emperor who went against the ruling class. If Cassius and Bruno had beaten and killed Mark Anthony and Octavius then I would imagine Caesar would have been cast as another Tarquin and his literature destroyed.
That's a good point, that we would probably remember Caesar quite differently if the conspirators had won the second civil war. Even so, I think that Shakespeare has influenced how we remember the conspirators - Brutus and Cassius being cast as tragic heroes and probably getting a bit more credit than they deserved. When he wrote his Claudius novels, Robert Graves drew heavily on Suetonius, who drew heavily on the most scurrilous gossip about the Julio-Claudians to make the Antonine emperors look good by comparison. A lot of what we think we know about Caligula comes from Suetonius, and it's always interesting to see the historical evidence from different angles.
Excellent history narrative! I used an external processor to filter out most of the very annoying and unnecessary background music.
Music is too loud.
All learning will be prevented by the audio sound track. IT IS OVERWHELMING !!!
Thank you so much for the brilliant video and the MSF fundraiser. ❤
Ah yes, make the music louder than the presenters voice, great idea guys.
Amazing job telling an educational story, dispelling myth while still honoring the heroism. The storytelling, audio and visual effects and content is superb! It's great to see valid history portrayed in such a palatable way.
that was amazing an so interesting, thanx tony for another informative history lesson, i realy enjoyed it
Great video... my solution for background music Closed Captions imo easier to watch with volume minimized.
SORRY!!!! but the sound is a little off... when you overlay the music and some of the sound FX it drowned out the vocals a fair bit... i had to use the subtitles, again SORRY!!
The music is simply too loud during Caligula to hear anything
Turn down the damn music or turn up the narration. Worst engineered sound I've experienced on RUclips.
I can not understand why the creators of these kinds of fascinating documentaries find it necessary to play annoying loud music, especially while the commentator is speaking. I could not hear half of what Tony Robinson was saying because the music was much louder than his voice.
Neros revolving ceiling room was not the room he was in..Thats room is on the western Palatine
I love these stories but the background music is way too LOUD! I can't hear 3/4 of what Tony is saying and that's a shame. Please try to address this issue promptly because I love this show.
Turn up the music I almost heard Tony 🤣
This brought me happiness
0:11 That steak was still mooing
I literally can not stomach that 🤢 the best I can do is medium well
This is a fuller story of the actual Caligula ...it helps to understand the psychology of the times 😊
I would prefer NO music. It bothers me when there are really good, long-form documentaries, but they feel like they need to "make it more dramatic" and add music. I'm here for the information, not a rousing experience. It just makes me not want to watch, to be frank. Tony Robinson and the Timeline series seem to be the worst offenders.
In another comment, it says that this is pirated and the music was added or boosted to get around copyright. Blech.
Tony Robinson the presenter is a legend
Caesar's enemies were just stuck on stupid. He was so good for Rome. The fools against him were blind and jealous. Even his killers did not prosper in the end.
N. Korea and it's dictator awaits you.
Their hatred of him made them permanently irrational
Not that simple. There was a lot going on at the time.
@@kevinc809 Simple; every one who went against Julius came to a bad end. Killing him brought on a terrible Civil War. Are you stuck?
@@robertgiles9124 No I don't think I am. If you know Roman history you should know they almost all came to a bad end, before Caesar and way after. The people who wen't against him had many reasons. Being blind and jealous were not one of them. I'm not taking sides just saying it was more complicated than jealousy.
The music drowns out Tony’s voice. Thumb”s down