5.1 Audio in Vegas, with a twist. Help!

Sticky Fingaz wrote on 5/5/2004, 10:18 PM
Hi, I am using Vegas 4 (cannot afford to upgrade to 5 for a while) and I would like to use Dolby 5.1 audio simply because the compression is WAY better than PCM. However I need to have the SAME amount of audio passing through each channel. You ever listen to a music CD on 5.1, when it's just a normal CD? Sounds way better in PCM because the CD is faking the 5.1. So if anyone could tell me a pretty idiot proof way I can make the audio in 5.1, but have the same level and audio output in each channel, I'd really appreciate it!

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JJKizak wrote on 5/6/2004, 5:31 AM
Maybe if you put the little red surround thingy in the middle.

JJK
pwppch wrote on 5/6/2004, 6:56 AM
You don't need to work in surround mode on a project to produce AC3 stereo encoded renders.

The AC3 encoder will let you encode to AC3 stereo.

Peter
Sticky Fingaz wrote on 5/6/2004, 10:32 AM
No kidding, but the channels don't produce the same output throughout.

I tried JJKizak's idea but the back speakers didn't work. Why is that?
Jay Gladwell wrote on 5/6/2004, 11:07 AM
Check your Audio Device under Preferences. I had to use "Direct Sound Mapper" in order to get proper channel separation.

J--
pwppch wrote on 5/6/2004, 11:11 AM
>>...but the channels don't produce the same output throughout.

Don't know what you mean - or want - by this.

>>I tried JJKizak's idea but the back speakers didn't work. Why is that?

Make sure:

- You select the correct pan mode - right click on the panner to select.

- you have all the speakers enabled on the panner.

Hardware routing does not effect the actual mix routing, other than the hardware routing determines how it is played/monitored. That is, the mix will be correct when you render it, but the routing to hardware will control how it is monitored on your particular system.


Peter


Hunter wrote on 5/6/2004, 9:52 PM
I kinda got lost in your post, what is your media and playback device going to be?

Newer DVD players support "*wma" so you could render a 5.1 audio CD that way.

Hunter

* windows media audio