DVD Architect input media file requirements

ramman001 wrote on 12/5/2011, 11:17 PM

Everything I've read said that DVD Architect requires both an MPEG2 file and an audio AC3 file to operate. In VMS 10 I selected Make Movie, save to hard drive and then Advanced Render. In that I selected MPEG2 for DVD Architect, set bitrate to 7500 (from default 6000), for audio selected to include it into MPEG2 file, and then rendered the file. This created a MPEG2 file but no AC3. I opened DVD Architect, loaded the MPEG2 file and with it burned a DVD. I got no error from DVD Architect and the DVD it produced worked fine with perfect audio. WHY?? I thought a separate AC3 file was required? What do I loose by doing it this way?

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musicvid10 wrote on 12/5/2011, 11:22 PM

"for audio selected to include it into MPEG2 file,"

Don't do that. What you have done is to compress the audio a third time, at the expense of both time and quality.
Render a separate DVD-compliant Dolby Digital AC3 file as you have read. That advice is not wrong.
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