Render Audio and video

mikesteven wrote on 7/17/2013, 4:04 PM

I have a short clip with audio. I was having trouble getting the audio to play after rendering and opening the mpg file in windows media player.

I did render as and chose the ac3 template for audio. It rendered fine. I then did render as and chose dvd architect widescreen. It rendered fine. They were both in the same folder along with the sfl files.

When I opened the mpg file in media player, it played with no sound.

I then decided to click make movie and selected dvd without menus. It burned to disk and played fine with audio.

Why is the render as option not working. I uninstalled quicktime and reinstalled it. I tried to just open the ac3 file and get the error that it is not a file that quicktime understands.

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mike_in_ky wrote on 7/17/2013, 6:49 PM

Did you name both the audio and video files the same name (not including the extensions)?

musicvid10 wrote on 7/17/2013, 7:29 PM

The only place your mpg video and ac3 audio will be muxed is inside the dvd folder (not the original mpg).

Find the .vob file in the VIDEO_TS folder that contains the program you want, copy the file, and rename the extension to .mpg

mikesteven wrote on 7/18/2013, 9:01 AM

Both files have the same name before the extension. Could there be a problem with quicktime? I did get that error message that quicktime could not read the ac3 file, yet if I just click make movie and burn to disk, it works fine.

Maybe I will uninstall movie studio and try a reinstall.

mikesteven wrote on 7/18/2013, 9:02 AM

There is no vob file. It was an original mpg file when I started.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/18/2013, 9:15 AM

Yes, there is.

The prepared DVD folder, which DVD Architect always creates, contains the complete dvd structure and content!

Look in your Documents directory for "DVD Architect Projects." That's where you'll find the TS_VIDEO folder containing all the the .vob files, which are the muxed video and audio.

mikesteven wrote on 7/18/2013, 9:51 AM

I used the make movie option-save to hard drive, so DVDA never opened and when I checked the DVDA project folder the files are not there. I assume that is because DVDA was never opened.

If I use make movie and burn to disk, everything plays fine. It is only when I try to save it to the hard drive that there is no sound. The ac3 file was rendered first then the movie file second.

I play the movie and no sound. I am thinking about doing a complete reinstall.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/18/2013, 7:54 PM

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As I explained twice, this will mux (multiplex) the mpg video with ac3 audio into one file, called a .vob.

You will not be rendering an mpeg-2 video file with muxed ac3 audio in Vegas, unless something has changed in the most recent version. Saving mpg SD video with audio in Vegas only saves with mpg audio.

If you want to render separate video and audio files, and then mux them later in a third party application, you are welcome to do so, but you are on your own there.

I don't know how else to tell you how to do what you want, which seems to be mpeg-2 video and ac3 audio in the same file using Sony Creative Software.

Best of luck!

mikesteven wrote on 7/18/2013, 9:05 PM

Thanks for the input. I was told in the forum a long time ago to render them separately in MS if I was not going to use DVDA.

The simple way is what I will use by using DVDA.

Mike

musicvid10 wrote on 7/18/2013, 9:44 PM

I think you misunderstood. DVD Architect expects separate audio and video. Make Movie is what it is.