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Chienworks wrote on 6/16/2008, 5:47 PM
Do you hear other sound and the music is the only thing missing? Or is there no audio at all?

If the latter, are you rendering for DVD? If so, you have to render the video as MPEG2 and then render the audio as WAV or AC3 separately, then combine them back together again in DVD Architect.
VideJoe wrote on 6/26/2008, 11:25 PM
Why wouldn't Movie Studio let you include the audio in MPG files as an option (or rathe standard) as is the case with the Vegas (a render option)?
This strikes me as quite odd. Especially when taking the target group into consideration, amateurs and kids. I explain Vegas Studio for this target group but having to render video and audio in separate files doesn't make any sense to them, or to me.
MSmart wrote on 6/27/2008, 1:31 AM
I don't mean to contradict Chienworks, but you can have audio with mpeg files. It just depends on what template is used.

In the Make Movie - Render Settings window, if you use the Main Concept MPEG-2 *Format* along with the DVD Architect... *Template*, you don't get audio and must re-render again going into the Advanced Render settings to choose an Audio only Type and template.

But, if you use the DVD NTSC template, then you will get a MPEG-2 file with both a video and audio stream.

It's VERY important to look at the Description field to see what type of file will be created, with the Format and Template chosen.

For me, since I only work with DV AVI source video (from MiniDV cam), I render to DV AVI files (video and audio) and use that in DVD Architect Studio.
Tim L wrote on 6/27/2008, 5:07 AM
The NTSC DVD standard lets you use PCM (.wav) or AC3 audio on a DVD disc. I *think* (but am not totally positive) that the audio you get when you include it inside an MPEG2 file is lower quality than either PCM or AC3. (Maybe somebody can back me up on that? Or correct me if I'm wrong?)

So that's why the DVD Architect template keeps the audio separate(at the slight inconvenience of having to render a separate audio file): so you can hand over a higher quality audio source to DVD Arch Studio, rather than rendering to an inferior audio format and then rendering back to a better format for the DVD.

Of course, if you are rendering an MPEG to put on the web or email to someone, you want to choose a template that includes the audio.

Tim L