DVDA2 Dropping Audio??? WHY?? Insane!!!!!!!!! Urgent HELP!

Denicio wrote on 8/13/2004, 11:23 AM

I have only done 2 projects in V5/DVDA2 since i upgraded.
I never had issues with V4/DVDA1.

Here is my problem and its happened BOTH times...thats not good stats.

Everytime i prepare and burn a video (no more than 3 gig total) the audio just dissappears within the first 15 minutes or so. Never to return!!!!!!!!
I check the V5 Rendered file by dragging it back into vegas, it shows all the audio there, then i pull the project up in DVDA2 and in "preview" mode all the audio is there.

WHY is it dissappearing in the Final Render.

I have a 20 year wedding anniversary project i MUST deliver tomorrow and dont have any time to be futzing with this.

Everytime i render in DVDA2 it tells me the Audio will be recompressed. Thats the only warning message i get.

Should i be exporting out of Vegas 5 differently? I use the MPG2 export with the default template. Should i be using one of those DVD Arct options.

Can someone help me ......and fast??

Brock Landers

Comments

Ted_H wrote on 8/13/2004, 1:37 PM

I haven't heard of this, but as a workaround you could render the audio as .ac3 from Vegas and then DVD Architect won't need to recompress it.
The video and audio should just burn "as is". Make sure to replace the audio stream of the video file with the .ac3 file in the "Media Properties".

Ted

cworld29 wrote on 8/13/2004, 10:40 PM

Yes it is recommended you use one of the DVD Arc. settings. Render the video as MPEG 2 DVD Architect NTSC video stream. Then render your project again as AC3. This will give you your DVDA compliant Audio stream that will not have to be recompressed.

JazzyG wrote on 8/18/2004, 7:52 PM

cworld29

I'm new at this, I just rendered my video as MPEG 2 DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream. Now, do I need to remove the video from the timeline to render the audio as ac3?

bStro wrote on 8/18/2004, 9:10 PM

Now, do I need to remove the video from the timeline to render the audio as ac3?

No. When you render to AC3, Vegas will simply ignore the video portion.

Rob

earthrisers wrote on 8/19/2004, 9:04 AM

Also worth knowing: there are simple scripts available that let you set up a "batch render" -- queue up both the video render and the audio render at the same time, then the script handles the two operations one after the other, without you having to manually launch the second render.
Handy for when you need to go do something else away from your computer (such as going to bed at night...) -- you don't have to monitor progress to be there when your first render (i.e., either the audio or the video) finishes; it goes right on to the second render without you having to launch it by hand.
You can even queue up multiple different projects, if you want/need to.
-Ernie

bStro wrote on 8/19/2004, 11:51 AM

there are simple scripts available that let you set up a "batch render"

I have got to get me those scripts. Where can I find them?

Thanks,
Rob

vkrhodes wrote on 8/19/2004, 5:08 PM

Would this also help if the audio is getting out of sync with the video in places? My DVD is fine except for two places and the audio is out of sync.