5.1 in Architect...LFE missing?

newUzer wrote on 6/5/2009, 9:09 AM

I know it's bad form to ask a DVD Architect question in a Vegas forum, but there just isn't that much information over there. So, the question is: I have a perfectly legit 5.1 AC3 created by Vegas (checked it by playing it in WinDVD and extracting channels with BeSweet so I could hear each channel individually). I want to use this in Architect, so I set my project audio for 5.1, drop the AC3 (and mpeg, of course) into the project, and then proceed to make a DVD as I've done many times before. What's interesting this time, though, is the LFE channel is missing in the resultant DVD. What gives? Any one else experience this?

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musicvid10 wrote on 6/5/2009, 9:24 AM

In the custom render settings for your Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro encoder in Vegas, there is a checkbox to "Enable LFE."

If it is unchecked, LFE will be missing when prepared in DVDA.

blink3times wrote on 6/5/2009, 11:02 AM

Your AC3 is already mixed, muxed, maxed and complete by the time it gets to DVDa so it can't go missing there. If in fact it's missing then it had to go missing at the time you mixed coming out of Vegas, so I would suspect Musicvid is on the right track when he says you probably didn't have "enable lfe" checked when rendering.