Best sound quality

BarBakke wrote on 8/6/2003, 5:18 PM

I have recorded my son's piano concert on DV. I recorded the audio separately on a Minidisc recorder, and I'm going to sync the video and audio tracks in V4. The question is, how can I get the best possible audio quality when I render the final Mpeg-2, and transfer it to DVD in DVDA? 44.1 or 48? AC3 or wav? Other?

TIA
BarBakke

Comments

SeanC wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:55 PM

do either 48K pcm (wav) or ac3. 48K will be the most compatible and has no data compression.

mcgeedo wrote on 8/7/2003, 8:23 AM

PCM will (technically) be better, but it takes a fairly good ear to hear the difference between it and ac3.

Use 48 kHz, since if you use 44.1 it will be transcoded to 48 anyway for the DVD.

BarBakke wrote on 8/7/2003, 12:51 PM

But when I render the audio as 48K ac3, DVDA says it will recompress the audio. Why?

BarBakke wrote on 8/8/2003, 3:35 AM

Please ignore the above message. I found out what I did wrong...

Rednroll wrote on 8/8/2003, 12:07 PM

Here's a website I found, that has some good information for FAQ's for DVD. This might help with some of the questions you might have.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/officialfaq.html