Hi SonicEPM,

Thanks for youre answer, can you give me some links to these freeware tools?

I hope that it doesnt take so long time to make a muxed file. If its easy and fast
Im off to the shop and ordering Vegas+DVD Architect :)

Thanks Patrick Klemetz.

OK, now I'm confused. I thought that the workflow was to render to m2v from V4 and render to AC3 from V4 and import into DVDA. Otherwise, how do I get my 6 tracks of audio into DVDA?

The workflow is:

render a muxed MPEG video from Vegas (there are DVD Architect templates now in Vegas)and
render PCM or AC-3 Stereo or AC-3 5.1 audio in Vegas

and marry the a/v together in DVDA. This is the best method- you won't have to render over and over when doing test burns.

You can let DVDA do all the encoding all the time, and this works fine for everything except 5.1, but rendering every time is silly when you don't have to.

HI again, hmm so I dont have to use a freeware to make a muxed file with my *.mv2 and wav filem I can use Vegas Video 4 for that operation?

TIA
/Patrick

To clarify this further: You can not bring MPEG elementary stream files (.M2V) into DVD Architect, but you can bring video only MPEG files in. Although to the user these two file types may seem almost the same, the one important difference is that MPEG files contain navigation information in them, which facilitate editing in DVD Architect. Without this navigation information, DVD Architect would have to read the entire elementary stream file before it could use it. When you export video and audio from Vegas, the built-in templates allow creation of a video-only MPEG file, and an AC3 file.

The only time you need to use a freeware utility is when you want to convert an elementary stream file to a video only MPEG file.

Hi SonicTony, I understand that I must have that type of MPEG file and that Vegas can give me that one when I use Vegas, but in my case I use Premiere right now cos I have the R.TX 100 card and when i export from Premiere whith all my fx and transitions in realtime I get 2 files one *m2v file and one *.wav. Now if I only want to use the DVD Architect SonicEPM said that I need a freeware tool that can muxed thoose files together. Where can i find that freeware tool? And does anybode know if there are a scheduel update for DVD Architect so that I can import *.m2v file and *.wav files like other authoring programs do like DVDit and Pinnacle Impression.

Sorry for my English, Im from Sweden :)

/Patrick

TMPGEnc has an MPEG tools option (under the File menu) that includes tools to split and combine MPEG streams. I'm not sure if these work on mpeg2's unless you register it though.

http://www.tmpgenc.net/

I believe if you use Vegas to combine the MPEG and wav files you will have to wait for it to render the entire project, which can be very long. TMPGEnc should be able to merge it without as long a wait. You might also want to check out http://www.vcdhelp.com, their tools section lists a number of MPEG tools that might also do what you need.

Thanks for youre tip msorrels, I will check them out now.

/Patrick

Hi again,

I tested the TMPGEnc plus last night but it I got this error message" Multiplexing Linear PCM stream to system stream is not supportet" so It cant be done in TMPGEnc ?

Can someone else point me to a program that works, thank you.

/Patrick

It will work if you convert the PCM to MPEG-1 layer II audio first.

You can do that conversion then multiplex your .m2v file & the MPEG audio for a MPEG-2 multiplexed file.

Ok I will try that, I was hoping that it could be done a litle more simple. Maybe an update 1.1 of DVD A can import m2v and wav files.

/Patrick

is it possible to export a muxed MPEG file using the tools you have?

No I cant choose to export a muxed MPEG file from Priemere using realtime export. Maybe I can use Adobe MPEG insted for that? but it takes longer to export.

It would be much better if DVD A could support *.m2v and *wav files like other authoring programs do...Im willing to upgrade to Vegas 4 + DVD A just for the authoring program with AC3 decoder if it just works well with my *.m2v+*.wav files.

I think that within 2-3 ears from now computer power is enough for video editing without hardware acc cards like tht R-TX 100 from Matrox. I want speed and quality :)

/Patrick

No I cant choose to export a muxed MPEG file from Priemere using realtime export. Maybe I can use Adobe MPEG insted for that? but it takes longer to export.

This thread hasn't been touched in a while, but here's something that may help.

Since DVDA wants MPEG files, as opposed to M2V files, you can use TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools to multiplex an M2V file without audio. Seems strange to "multiplex" one file, but it works.

Go into TMPGEnc, select File -> MPEG Tools. Then on the Multiplex tab, select your video source (M2V file). Don't add an audio file. Set your output file, and click RUN. You will end up with an MPEG file without audio. You can import your new MPEG file and your audio file into DVD Architect.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything, and I hope this works for you.

Craig

Hi Craig and thanks for youre help. I will test that tonight and if it works im happy :)

/Patrick