Missing .ac3 Render Choice

Flyer Curt wrote on 6/10/2009, 10:41 PM

This board and the manuals keeps referring to a "Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio (*.ac3)" Render choice that I just don't see. I have VMSP 9.0b (build 92) and DVDA 4.5d (build 107).
When I select in VMSP "Make a Movie" and "Save to my hard drive", I have boxes for "File Path", "Format" (not "Save as Type"), "Template" and "Description". My "Format" box has 7 choices starting with "Main Concept MPEG-1 ...". There are no audio choices.
When I select Format "Main Concept MPEG-2 ..." (the second choice), then my "Template" box offers 24 choices starting with "Default template". I don't see any .ac3 choices in this list, and nothing I select has any mention of .ac3 or Dolby Digita sound.
I purchased and registered this software from Sony online, and both VMSP and DVDA are in my Program Files on the same hard drive.
How do I render 5.1 sound? Thanks for the help.

Curt

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Eugenia wrote on 6/11/2009, 9:39 AM

Audio is rendered separately for DVD exports. First export the mpeg2 DVD video stream, and then use the "render as" menu item to render the AC3 audio (not sure it supports 5.1, I think it's just stereo). Then, DVDA will put them back together.

Flyer Curt wrote on 6/11/2009, 11:02 AM

Thanks Eugenia, I'm ready to render separately, and I just finally found the audio choices you folks have been talking about by selecting the "Advanced Render" button on the "Make Movie", "Save to my hard drive" menu. Yea! It's all there.

Curt