DVD compliant encoding with elementary streams

CrazyRussian wrote on 9/22/2002, 6:12 PM

Can somebody post a settings for MainConcept plug in to encode for DVD fomat into elementary streams? I edited some clips, and came out with a file that if encoded at 6000 kbps is 6GB in size, then using this formula:600/(minutes of video) = (bitrate for video & audio combined) i found out that i can encode it at about 4000 kbps, what i'm trying to do now is encode it at VBR with max bitrate set to 4000, also to get more space, i want my audo convert into ac3 format. So, is there a way to encode using Main Concept codec into 2 elemetrary streams? and would Soft Encode take file produced in ecoding. Also how to make audio and video syncronized after encoding it in ac3, i think timecode is used for that, no? if yes, can it be output from Main Concept encoder?
Thanks in advance

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bcbarnes wrote on 9/22/2002, 6:18 PM

To get two elementary streams, select the DVD NTSC template, then click on "customize". At the bottom will be several tabs. Click on the last one, thats titled "system". You'll see a check box near the top that you can check to create separate streams, the video goes into a ".m2v" file and the audio goes into a ".mpa" file. This will produce a separate audio file in MPEG format. If you want the audio in .AVI format, you can just render twice, once with video only, and once with audio only.

Don't know about your .AC3 questions.

SonyEPM wrote on 9/23/2002, 8:28 AM

Vegas will not produce .ac3 files...at this time. You will need to find an .ac3 encoder- and you'll need to use an authoring tool that accepts and correctly synchronizes the a/v streams.