I have some cheesy mono sound effects that I would like to enhance with simulated stereo or surround. I'd like to then archive these "re-mixed" sounds in an effects library. I'm a little confused on AC-3 encoding. The manual provides absolutely no help and Spot's book, while informative, has left me scratching my head.
If you're out there Spot, you mention on page 249 that monitoring of AC-3 is not possible in Vegas. Is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish? I assume I could simply remix these effects in a project and then encode to AC-3 for DVD but I'd like to have them available in a file as remixes that I can pull out and use on any project. Does any of that make sense? I think you've mentioned that encoding/decoding of AC-3 causes a loss of quality? The quality of these 16 bit mono 20kHz sounds couldn't possibly get any worse. I've been able to sweeten these sounds up quite a bit, now I just want to KEEP them that way and be able to drag them back to the timeline for later projects as if they were MP3s, OGGs, WAVES, etc..
If you're out there Spot, you mention on page 249 that monitoring of AC-3 is not possible in Vegas. Is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish? I assume I could simply remix these effects in a project and then encode to AC-3 for DVD but I'd like to have them available in a file as remixes that I can pull out and use on any project. Does any of that make sense? I think you've mentioned that encoding/decoding of AC-3 causes a loss of quality? The quality of these 16 bit mono 20kHz sounds couldn't possibly get any worse. I've been able to sweeten these sounds up quite a bit, now I just want to KEEP them that way and be able to drag them back to the timeline for later projects as if they were MP3s, OGGs, WAVES, etc..