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Tampa wrote on 10/22/2003, 5:53 AM
You might have chosen a template that did not have any audio included in the render. Some templates have to have their sound rendered seperately. This allows you to have a choice between several types of sound including DD5.1. However, the downside is it takes 2 renders. One for video and one for audio. If you chose the best quality DVDA template it did not have any sound rendered by default.
jetdv wrote on 10/22/2003, 9:10 AM
You may want to check out this thread. It sounds similar.

http://www.mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=216849
johnmeyer wrote on 10/22/2003, 2:31 PM
I suppose it could be a sound phase problem, but more typical is that if you render the sound separately, and the name of the sound file doesn't match, DVDA will go ahead and burn the DVD without telling you that there is no sound associated with the video.

There should be a warning, and DVDA needs to make it much easier to link audio and video.

To check if this is your problem, open your problem project in DVDA and then double-click on one of the icons in your menus that is linked to a movie file. This should take you to the screen where you can edit your movie, add chapters, etc. On the right hand side should be a column labeled "Media Properties." Below that should be a line labeled "Video" and another one labeled "Audio." If the audio line is blank, you will need to manually tell DVDA where the audio for this media clip is located. If the video media also contains audio, then you can specify that same file name on the audio line (click on the littel "folder" icon to browse and point to the file you want to use).
jetdv wrote on 10/22/2003, 2:59 PM
The key point from the original post for me was:

Everything previewed fine including audio for the menu and all the movies

That's the reason for my suggestion. If the audio did not automatically link, it wouldn't preview fine.
kameronj wrote on 10/22/2003, 3:50 PM
Actually, I"m re-reading the original post and I"m finding some areas that are not explained well about the audio. That is:

When you say "everything previewed fine..." - what exactly are you referring to?

When you say ...once I've burned by DVD and played it back, there is no audio at all." - Where are you playing it back at?

It is possible that the terms "preview" and "playback" are being used loosely - and without knowing exactly what you know, the advice given may not be exactly what you are looking for.

I've have started burning plenty of DVDs where when I looked at my set up in the DVDA Preview, I had audio on the background menu and the movies played fine via the preview mode also - but when I went to go burn the DVD I screwed something up and lost the audio tracks.

I think I may have made a change and forgot to "re-attach" the audio file.

So....that being said - the third question is....

Once you have finished burning the DVD - can you go back to DVDA and verify that it had an audio file(s) selected when you told it to prepare and burn?

So....let's recount. Three questions for you to answer back with.

SonyEPM wrote on 10/23/2003, 9:36 AM
sedgewick- in DVDA>optimize, the audio is set to what format?

Can your player support that format?