My Purchased version of Vegas+DVD arrived today!!! wohoo!!!!
I have a question about AC-3 audio.
I have cleaned up the audio to sound great on the DV master. (from a VHS source through my Canopus DVC-100 unit).
I have converted the video/audio to MPEG using the MainConcept encoder.
ULEAD DVD Moviefactory 2 will burn the resulting file with MPEG audio just fine and it plays brilliantly on my dvd player.
I know that MPEG audio is not really the DVD spec but I live in a PAL area where it is.. Anyway MovieFactory burns it and it plays. Sound is great.
Now my questions..
1/. I realise that DVD Architect does not allow MPEG audio and wants always to re-encode it. Could someone from SonicFoundry let us know if they are working on a future update that will allow it to burn MPEG audio as it stands without a re-encode (perhaps with a 'non-standard PAL MPEG Audio' tickbox??). Is this feature likely to be ever available? I, and lots of others, I am sure through reading through these forums would appreciate this feature!!
2/. I did a seperate AC-3 sound render to keep DVD Architect happy and imported it and burned it. The resulting sound was 'worse' than my original mpeg version.
The sound was mainly lower. I notice there are lots of settings in the AC-3 codec.
My source is a stereo format file only.
What are the best settings to use that will ensure that the level of the audio in the AC-3 file will stay at the level I mastered it at?
(I just noticed the AC-3 forum here - appologies if I have posted in wrong place)
Thanks for reading.
P.S. - I really appreciate these forums - a great resource to everyone!!
I have a question about AC-3 audio.
I have cleaned up the audio to sound great on the DV master. (from a VHS source through my Canopus DVC-100 unit).
I have converted the video/audio to MPEG using the MainConcept encoder.
ULEAD DVD Moviefactory 2 will burn the resulting file with MPEG audio just fine and it plays brilliantly on my dvd player.
I know that MPEG audio is not really the DVD spec but I live in a PAL area where it is.. Anyway MovieFactory burns it and it plays. Sound is great.
Now my questions..
1/. I realise that DVD Architect does not allow MPEG audio and wants always to re-encode it. Could someone from SonicFoundry let us know if they are working on a future update that will allow it to burn MPEG audio as it stands without a re-encode (perhaps with a 'non-standard PAL MPEG Audio' tickbox??). Is this feature likely to be ever available? I, and lots of others, I am sure through reading through these forums would appreciate this feature!!
2/. I did a seperate AC-3 sound render to keep DVD Architect happy and imported it and burned it. The resulting sound was 'worse' than my original mpeg version.
The sound was mainly lower. I notice there are lots of settings in the AC-3 codec.
My source is a stereo format file only.
What are the best settings to use that will ensure that the level of the audio in the AC-3 file will stay at the level I mastered it at?
(I just noticed the AC-3 forum here - appologies if I have posted in wrong place)
Thanks for reading.
P.S. - I really appreciate these forums - a great resource to everyone!!