Newbie Seeks Help

alastairbrown wrote on 2/10/2003, 4:11 PM

I have rendered my video from within Vegas 4.0 as a DVD Architect PAL compatible MPEG. I then import this file into DVD Architect and make my menus. However, no sound? I'm new to this having emigrated from Pinnacles Studio 8 which encode Audio and Video at the same time as an MPEG. Vegas doesn't seem to do this? I see some mention of ac3 rendering but, I am struggling.

Can somebody point me in the right direction as to what I should be doing. Ideally, I'd like a walk through on how to get my video with sound into DVD Architect.

Cheers!

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PAW wrote on 2/10/2003, 4:42 PM

If it is AC3 sound you need to render the PAL video stream only and the AC3 audio stream as two seperate operations.

When you add the video to DVDA if the audio is the same name & location DVDA should pick it up.

Check in optimize DVD and click on the video stram and it should show the audio stream detailed below the list of clips/menus

There is a script on one of the forum posts to automate this slightly.

teknal wrote on 2/10/2003, 7:08 PM

I got caught by this too but if you look closely it says 'video stream' so no audio. I would think you can render just the video from V4, then add the rendered audio to your media object in the media properties window in DVDA (double click the media object and look on the right hand side).

-Troy

teknal wrote on 2/11/2003, 1:01 AM

Here's a better thread than my description:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=156226

alastairbrown wrote on 2/11/2003, 1:44 PM

Hi Guys,

Many thanks for the help. Went back and re-encoded my audio track as an ac3 from Vegas with the same name as my MPEG. Re-made my project in DVDA and it automatically imported the ac3 as it had a similar filename.

In 2 nights, I've acheived more with Vegas than I was able to do in 4 months with Pinnacle Studio 8!