Movie Studio 13 - 24 Bit PCM Audio support?

Bit Fiddler wrote on 12/14/2015, 10:52 PM
I have several AVI files where the audio is 24 bit PCM encoded. Multiple players on the PC are able to play the AVI with audio, but Studio 13 does not recognize it. Highlighting the file in the Studio Explorer window says that the audio stream attributes could not be determined. Anybody have any suggestions how to get studio 13 to recognize that 24 bit PCM audio?

Thanks,
Dave

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 12/16/2015, 9:55 AM
Post the full MediaInfo report for your AVI file, please.
Tim L wrote on 12/16/2015, 10:06 AM
In the "Audio" section of the product comparison here:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudiope/compare

...the table shows that Movie Studio supports "Max bitrate/bit depth 16-bit/48kHz".

Vegas Pro can handle 24-bit/192kHz

I don't know if the Movie Studio limit is a limit on both input and output, or on output only.
Bit Fiddler wrote on 12/18/2015, 9:23 AM
Well, here is an update - first, this is the text view output of Media Info for one of the AVI's:

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 00001000-0000-0100-8000-00AA00389B71
Duration : 2h 3mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 2 304 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Stream size : 1.99 GiB (3%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 1034 ms (31.00 video frames)

The AVI comes from BlackMagic's Intensity Pro and Media Express. Media Express does not have any audio codec options.

I downloaded a trial version of Vegas Pro, but it is still not able to identify or play the audio in the avi file. I downloaded a copy of FFMpeg and am able to use that to convert the audio to 16 bit PCM which both Movie Studio and Vegas Pro can use. While the conversion works, it is not convenient (loooong command line and the time consumed to convert) so I don't consider the FFMpeg work-around a solution.

Movie Studio did not let me chose the recording method when trying to capture video via the Intensity Pro card. The codec it used was too much for the disk drives I have in my PC. Vegas Pro offers some options when it comes to capturing with a codec that does enough compression to work with my PC without dropping frames. I ended up purchasing the Vegas Pro upgrade and will use that for capture & editing going forward.

Dave