Can't set mp3 audio while rendering video file

gko wrote on 6/6/2023, 1:19 AM

Hello,

I have Movie Studio 13.0 (Build 190) 64-bit. Windows 11 64-bit.

I want to render a movie with sound. I'm choosing: "Save on hdd" -> AVCHD -> Advanced Options -> Video for Windows.

Then I select one of the provided templates and use it as the base to create my own template:

- for the video stream I use x264 codec, that is installed on my Windows 11 PC:

- for the audio stream I would like to use mp3 codec, but this is what I have in my Movie Studio:

(it says "No supported formats" on the first screen on right).

When I choose MPEG Layer-3 it automatically switches back to PCM Uncompressed.

I have Lame mp3 codec installed on my Windows and it works fine with Audacity - meaning that I can export mp3 file from Audacity using Lame mp3.

How can I install mp3 codec to Movie Studio to be able to use it for audio stream while rendering a movie?

 

Comments

kodabar wrote on 6/7/2023, 2:56 PM

AVCHD is, by definition, h.264 video and AC-3 audio. So no, you can't use MP3 with it. Just because you have an MP3 codec installed doesn't mean you can always save audio with it. Yes, in Audacity you can save an audio project as MP3 audio, but when you're rendering a video file, you are restricted by what the container file supports.

Is there a particular reason you want to use MP3 audio? The disk space saving over PCM is negligible compared to the size of the video stream.

gko wrote on 6/9/2023, 3:38 AM

Now I see, that writing about AVCHD option was misleading because it's irrelevant what format You choose on this page, if after that You choose "Advance Options" and set video and audio stream by yourself:

After choosing Advanced Options i prepared my own template:

And my template looks like this:

video stream:

audio stream:

As You can see on the last screen, I can set many kinds of audio codecs, with much lower quality than AC-3 audio and event mp3 audio. Event though i set radio button near AVCHD format earlier. That's because I then choose "Advance options".

My main reason for all of this is to make the output file as small as possible, keeping the very good quality. So, as You can see, using x264 for video stream won't produce very large file. So the mp3 audio will help produce significantly smaller file, then PCM audio.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/9/2023, 5:48 AM

Why do you consider you need to use "Video for Windows"?

I would use Main Concept AVC/AAC or Sony AVC/MVC to give a mp4 file with Video H264 and Audio AAC.

gko wrote on 6/9/2023, 6:43 AM

Why do you consider you need to use "Video for Windows"?

Because only then I can choose x264 video codec.