PCM audio to DVD architect ?

BPB wrote on 4/9/2004, 11:07 AM

I have been rendering my rock band vegas project at 48K pcm to keep the highest audio quality. (hopefully i am correct here) and it burns out to disk great. My question is ..where is the file? It isn't in the Audio folder created when I save my DVD project to disk for later burning. I would like to archive my project to a firewire drive and want to be sure to include all the appropriate files. i want to save
1) a rendered AVI file (which I can do right to the firewire drive? yes?)
2) the vegas rendered files for DVD Architect
3) the DVD Architect project folders

oh one more question..any benefit in rendering stereo audio to AC-3 other than smaller file size?

thanks for any help
bryan

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/9/2004, 11:13 AM

You are probably rendering it to the default Documents folder when you render. Use your Windows Search tool to find it by name.
Go to Project Properties, and use the browse window to point your temp renders to somewhere other than the C: drive, and use your Options>Preferences to point renders to a location other than the C: drive. YOu can also point renders to a new location in the rendering dialog process.
You can save everything to the firewiredrive by doing a "Save As" and then ticking the "All project media" box in the lower left corner. Then point it all to your firewire drive. All assets except fonts will be stored on that drive.

GaryKleiner wrote on 4/9/2004, 11:26 AM

Your audio is muxed with the video (vob) files. The Audio_TS folder is supposed to be empty, so you are not missing anything there.

PCM audio takes up more room, but is higher quality than AC-3.

Gary

BPB wrote on 4/9/2004, 11:48 AM

Thanks Spot and Gary...you are very nicely clearing up the blank spots in my brain...

farss wrote on 4/9/2004, 5:01 PM

As to using ac3 instead of .wav. No advantage for stereo apart from smaller file size and ac3 is a lossy encoding system. I wouldn't use it unless you need the space on a DVD.

BPB wrote on 4/9/2004, 5:12 PM

thanks farss, that's what I was thinking ..thanks for confirming my thought.