Render audio in PCM?

coluzzi wrote on 5/10/2004, 8:59 AM

Hello again,
When attempting to render in Vegas I chose MPEG2 for the video, vbr, all that good stuff. Under the audio tab there were all sorts of compression options but nowhere could I select PCM. Is this correct? Am I going to be forced to always compress audio tracks? I was under the impression I could add a regular old stereo soundtrack to my dvd material.

Thanks,

Alex

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Spot|DSE wrote on 5/10/2004, 9:05 AM

Render video as an m2v, then render audio as pcm. For the space cost, I hope your music has some really extreme dynamics with loads of tight bottom and sizzling highs. If it's just dialog with bed music, you'll be wasting a lot of space for no gain.
DVD will support PCM, and most set tops will play it, but the gain is (for the most part) minimal.
Check out the YES LIVE concert DVD to hear what great quality AC3 can embue.

Hope to see you at VASST, we'll be covering some of the AC3 encoding stuff.

coluzzi wrote on 5/10/2004, 9:19 AM

OK thank you, I'll just go for the 384k AC3 and see what happens.
Thanks for the response.

Alex