Amplify audio, best format to input to DVD arch

volleynerd wrote on 12/13/2008, 1:01 PM

Hi - I'm a newbie to the DVD authoring world, have poked around the forums a bit to come up to speed.

The audio in the source videos I want to make a DVD of is too quiet, so I want to amplify the level. I *think* the only way to do that with the Sony suite is in Vegas, save that new video file with the better audio level, then author the DVD with DVD Architect from there.

I want to have multiple titles (source movies) in the resulting DVD, so I dont think I can go straight from Vegas to the DVDA software via "make a DVD" (it would only have that one title wouldnt it?)

So what's the best process to use to increase the audio level on multiple different movie files, then export those, then author the DVD in DVD Architect with titles, menus, etc. Hopefully so that it doesnt have to then again re-encode during the DVD building process?

Hope that scenario makes sense.

Any tutorials or "best practice" sites you can point me to?

Thanks in advance!

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cbrillow wrote on 12/13/2008, 6:02 PM

This has been covered several times in the forum -- here's a link that discusses it in full. You can look for others in Search by looking for Dialog Normalization.

The consensus here seems to be to render audio and video to separate files from Vegas using one of the DVD Architect templates for the video and setting up and saving a custom AC-3 template in which you've set the Dialog Normalization as directed in the other thread.

If you do this, DVDA shouldn't have to reencode when you're building the DVD unless there is another issue that triggers it.