Fundamental AC-3 Audio Question...

kentwolf wrote on 3/8/2003, 4:11 PM

I am fairly new to Vegas +DVD, so I do not know the ins and outs of this audio issue:

I have a video clip rendered with AC-3 sound. It plays fine on my WinXP system media player. It is an MPG2 clip.

I wanted to import this clip into my Vegas 4.0 timeline and use it elsewhere. I can import the clip just fine, but it has NO audio after the import; no audio available in Vegas.

In order for this AC-3 audio to "show up," and be available, must I have the 5.1 Surround Sound plug in package for $279?

Using TMPGEnc, I can extract seperate video and audio files; I get the seperate AC-3 file...it's just that I don't really know what to do with it once I have it. I am obviously missing something big here.

Thanks for your help to a probably obvious question. :)

Comments

SonyNateM wrote on 3/18/2003, 11:40 AM

kent:

Vegas cannot currently split your 5.1 AC-3 file into separate streams for editing/re-mixing. Your best bet would be to use a program like Soft Encode 5.1 (no longer for sale, but very capable, if you Google for it, I'm sure you could find somewhere that still has a copy in stock) or BeSweet (free, open source, command line interface, harder to use). Either of these will dump you 6 WAV files which you can then drop into Vegas and route appropriately.

Nate

rmjdesigns wrote on 3/19/2003, 12:57 PM

you can try ripping tools to decode the ac-3 soft encode will allow you to encode AC3 hence the name soft encode!!! i have it and used it to encode DD for cd it will not decode!!!!! look into dvd riping forums thats where i learned to rip dvds!