Blu-ray Authoring with 5.1 Surround

Willk wrote on 6/27/2015, 2:25 PM
Blu-Ray Authoring
Hope someone has an answer to my dilemma. Authoring using DVD Architect 5. I am able to make DVD of a concert I resentfully did with both 5.1 surround and 2 channel. It came out great. But I'm having trouble also making a Blu-ray version. My latest attempt was to render the video using Vegas 12 to AVCHD 1920X1080-60i surround preset. In DVDA5 I added rendered m2v file It had both video and (audio in track 1) and then added the 2 channel w64 in track 2. After burning disk track 1 came out as a compressed 2 channel mix No 5.1 surround, track 2 was an uncompressed two channel mix and much louder. I have also tried rendering the sound track to w64 surround but am not able to load that into DVDA5 timeline. Tried naming each file the same and in the same folder but no luck either. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks Will Kruger

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Jumping Rascal wrote on 6/27/2015, 3:11 PM
You could check your Vegas Pro properties in the project to ensure that the audio tab is set to 5.1 surround. The project properties in DVDA also should be 5.1 surround (not AC3).

When I work on similar 5.1 projects for blu ray, I always render to Sony AVC 1920X1080-60i 5.1 surround preset; this produces an .m2ts file (not m2v) and find that the 5.1 disc works fine when prepared with DVDA. By the way, iIf you re render the project in Vegas for some reason, you'd be best to delete the m2ts media file in DVDA and reinsert it via insert media as I have found that sometimes DVDA won't pick up changes properly.

Best of luck on your project!
musicvid10 wrote on 6/27/2015, 6:00 PM
You don't need to do all of that. Never render audio in Architect.
Render a video stream and a 5.1 Dolby or PCM audio stream in Vegas PRO ( that's 2 files!), its been written about hundreds of times here.

USE THE DVD ARCHITECT RENDERING TEMPLATES IN VEGAS PRO 12.

Import the files into Architect PRO, set your project correctly, author and prepare. Your stereo downmix is already there for you to use. Forum "search" is a really cool feature.