Make Movie - No Audio - Augggh!

sfmrad wrote on 11/30/2005, 9:19 AM

Movie Studio (4, I believe)

I have found that when I a do a Make Movie, I sometimes get audio and sometimes I don't. I have found that this happens when making a WMV file from mpg files and vice-versa.

I just spent 40 hours rendering a file (for a complete DVD) and found it had no audio. What really sucks is that I did 2 tests of Make Movie by starting the process, hitting Cancel after a few minutes, playing the file to ensure it had audio and WITHOUT leaving the Make Movie wizard, start the "final" 40 hour rendering process!

Has anyone else had problems like this?

My computer did go into Screen Saver mode while rendering, but that shouldn't have affected things, right?

<sigh>

Comments

ChristerTX wrote on 12/1/2005, 11:24 AM

I belive this is because when you do "Make Movie" the software will create two files that DVD-A is using.
One for sound and one for the video.

You can render an MPEG2 and using "save on disk" and that will be complete.

(I'm not in front of it now so my titles could be wrong)

Tim L wrote on 12/1/2005, 2:41 PM

I was wondering about that too.

What options did you select for Make Movie?

Some render the audio out to a separate file, using the same file name but with a .wav(?) extension (I think).

Also, some options specifically render just video or just audio.

If you are going to put this onto a DVD, you should be able to go in and ask it to render just the audio for you, then pull both files (video, audio) into DVD Arch.

Look around first, though, to make sure your audio isn't already there (on your hard drive, wherever your video file is).

Tim L

Bill S wrote on 12/2/2005, 10:18 AM

Version 4 had a hitch in it. I think the update to 4a fixes that bug.

phende wrote on 12/10/2005, 4:06 AM

Support says that this issue was fixed for v4. However, I have v6.0 (there was no v5) and got the same problem. The workround is still to untick the box in Preferences labelled 'Close media files when not the active application'. I have queried Sony as to why this should be happening but, as yet, no reply.