Audio drops after 25 seconds

TAG Video wrote on 7/10/2005, 5:02 PM
Using Vegas 6 to edit my avi and render to MPEG-2. Using DVDA 3 to create a single movie DVD, no menu. Whether I prepare to HD or burn right to disc, I get static with audio for about 25 seconds, and then no audio at all. I've tried to re-render, re-burn, etc... but always with the same result. DVDA is compressing the audio to AC-3. I assume the problem is happening during that process, but do not know why.

MPEG-2 file's audio sounds fine when I play it directly in Media Player.

Any thoughts?

Bob

Comments

ScottW wrote on 7/10/2005, 8:03 PM
You should be using one of the MPEG2 DVD Arch templates for the video - don't be including the audio in the MPEG-2 file (none of the DVD Arch templates do this by default as far as I know). Have you tried rendering the AC3 file directly from Vegas and including that in your DVDA project, rather than letting DVDA create the AC3 stream?

Have you downloaded and installed the latest version of DVDA3 (3.0b)?

--Scott

TAG Video wrote on 7/11/2005, 5:43 PM
Scott, the software is on the PC at the church, but I will try this next. I do not recall if I downloaded the latest version.

But I do wonder, why this would be an issue? In fact, I did another video, using MPEG-2 with video and audio, and it worked fine. So the problem is intermittent.

thanks
Bob
ScottW wrote on 7/12/2005, 6:01 AM
Don't know, but I can say that by including your audio in the MPEG-2 stream you aren't doing what's considered a normal work-flow for DVDA. Normal work flows receive much more testing attention, so if a problem was unintentioanlly introduced into DVDA 3 in the area of extracting the audio from the MPEG-2 stream, it might not have been noticed (especially if as you indicate it's intermittant).

--Scott
TAG Video wrote on 7/12/2005, 6:27 PM
Downloaded latest version of 3.0 (b). Rendered video and audio separately. First burn worked fine. Hopefully this resolved the issue.

However, when I tried to use "Single Movie" mode ( I do not need a menu), and grabbed the video only version file, it did not grab the audio file on its own. I had to pull that in as well. I thought DVDA would grab the audio as long as they had the same base name.

Bob