How to do 5.1 in Vegas 5.0?

whiskey3 wrote on 10/28/2004, 4:09 AM
I have a live band concert that I have encoded to DV. The client gave me six different audio tracks of 5.1 already mixed including the subwoofer. Do I just load the DV footage....lose the audio re-sync the six seperate channels of audio.....or do I have to point them to specific speakers before I render the audo seperately to a wav file? Then render the DV to MPEG-2 then author in a DVD Workshop?

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Jay Gladwell wrote on 10/28/2004, 5:18 AM
If I'm understanding you, and I may not be, it sounds like a done deal. If the "tracks" you were give were already "mixed" there is little you can do, other than insert the mixed track into each 5.1 channel.

Need further clarification on what you have in hand.

Jay
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/28/2004, 5:43 AM
Yes, you have to point them to specific speakers before I render. First you need to set up your Vegas project so that it’s a 5.1 Surround project.

To set up a 5.1 Surround project in Vegas 5:

1. Press Alt+Enter or select File > Properties
2. Click on the Audio tab
3. Set the Master bus mode: to 5.1 Surround
4. Press OK

Load your DV footage and mute the audio track (you will need it for a reference). Load each of the 6 wave files and use the Surround Panner to pan them hard to their respective speakers. For the LFE track, double click on the surround panner in the track header and it will bring up the large surround panner. Click the LFE button in the upper right corner of this window to assign that track just to the LFE. The small surround panel will just say LFE at this point.

When you render you must do it in two steps:

Step 1: Use the MainConcept MPEG-2 (*.mpg) type with the DVD Architect NTSC video stream template to render the video as MPEG2 without audio

Step 2: Use the Dolby Digital AC-3 (*.ac3) type with the 5.1 Surround template.

If you give these two files the same name, when you author your DVD in DVD Architect it will pick up the AC3 audio with the MPEG2 video automatically.

[edit] I just realized you are using DVD Workshop. I assume DVD Workshop can accept 5.1 AC3 also. If it cannot, then you have to render 6 separate wav files. There is also no need to set up the surround project either since you won’t be mixing. (oh well)

~jr
whiskey3 wrote on 11/2/2004, 1:49 PM
How do I point the Subwoofer Track? Also the audio they gave me was .aiff's at 48khz. After I encoded the DV video with the Microsoft DV Encoder and tried to sync up their audio it goes out of sync??? I tried converting audio to 48khz but it still doesn't match??? Is there a way in Vegas to make the audio pitch shift or slide so I can make it fit? It's a rock band's live concert footage......