Audio Balance

GrizzlyIke wrote on 5/2/2008, 7:06 AM

I am preparing a simple DVD (first time). Background music for the title page is a wav file. The audio portion of the movie is an ac3 file rendered in Vegas Pro 8.0b. The volume of the wav file is much higher than the volume of the ac3 file. Is there any way to balance the volumes of different audio sources within DVD Architect 4.5? Is there something I should do prior to insertion into the DVD?
Thanks, Dave

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bStro wrote on 5/2/2008, 9:33 AM

Is there any way to balance the volumes of different audio sources within DVD Architect 4.5?

Nope.

Is there something I should do prior to insertion into the DVD?

Yup.

Rob

johnmeyer wrote on 5/2/2008, 9:51 AM

When encoding to AC-3 in Vegas, the defaults will make your audio too quiet. To fix this make the following changes:

1. In the Render As dialog, select Save As Type: AC-3.

2. Click on the Custom tab.

3. On the Audio Service tab, set Dialog Normalization to -30 dB.

4. On the Preprocessing tab, set BOTH of the Dynamic Range Compression settings to None.

5. Save this as a Template so you can use these settings in future renders.

You will now have an AC-3 file that matches the level of the WAV file.

GrizzlyIke wrote on 5/4/2008, 7:34 AM

Great! Thanks for your help

dogwalker wrote on 5/27/2008, 10:19 AM

Hey, I just ran into this same thing, did a search, and found this thread. Thanks, John!