Only one sound when rendered

neenaw52 wrote on 10/4/2004, 7:23 AM

When I render a project and send to DVD Architect Studio, all the sounds don't render. If I have a voice file and a music file playing simutaniously, only the music file renders. What am I doing wrong????? Help!

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gogiants wrote on 10/4/2004, 1:40 PM

Sorry if this is too obvious, but do you have one or more of the audio tracks muted when you rendered originally? Look for the line-through-the-speaker icon near the track name on the left.

What was your workflow? What format did you render to from Movie Studio? Does the rendered file have sound when played in Windows Media Player? Also, as a long shot, I've seen certain sound file formats (.ogg for instance) perform oddly in terms of preview and rendering. What sound file formats are you using?

neenaw52 wrote on 10/4/2004, 5:00 PM

I have rendered several times and no tracks were muted during any rendering. I tested the project in Movie Studio and all played perfectly. I'm sorry, but I don't understand "workflow".

When I rendered, I chose "Burn it to DVD in the Make Movie Wizard, and used .wav file for the audio. The last time I rendered, I de-selected the the "Fast video resizing" box, and it took 6 hours to render! I was patient. Still no "voice". The rendered version will not play in Windows Media with sound because the sound is a seperate file. It will play in DVD Architect with sound...but only the music...not the voice. The format chosen was was NTSC (the largest one). The "movie" files inserted with voice are MPG from my Sony digital camera. The songs are mp3. The songs play...the voice doesn't whether simultaneously with the music or consecutively. The imported sound effects don't play when rendered, either.

I am truly at a loss. Any more suggestions? I'm desperate!
Thanks!

gogiants wrote on 10/4/2004, 7:03 PM

Not sure what is happening with the .wav files, etc.

What you might try is to say "Save it to your hard drive" in the Make Movie wizard. From there, choose MPEG-2 or AVI. That will put the video and sound in one file. You can then work with the file in DVD Architect Studio. Doing this would also allow you to test the rendered file in Media Player.

Also, try highlighting just a small region of the video and trying out the various options, making sure that "render loop region only" is checked in the Make Movie wizard. That way you won't have to wait a long time to try things out!

neenaw52 wrote on 10/5/2004, 6:43 PM

Thank you so much for your suggestions! Rendering to an .avi file was the answer. All audio is actually audible!

The strange thing with "Burn to DVD" was, if it was a small project...really small...all audio rendered. But it never rendered with the entire project.

With the .avi format, I can use fast video resizing option again, reducing the rendering time about half. I burned to DVD, watched it and just smiled. Thanks again!