Rendering audio

JakeDaSnake wrote on 1/17/2006, 1:34 PM

I am wondering what format to use for rendering my audio out of Vegas. I have heard that rendering to AC3 will reduce the quality of the audio. Is this true?

What format do you guyz use when rendering out your audio?

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Former user wrote on 1/17/2006, 1:42 PM

What will you be using the audio for?

Dave T2

JakeDaSnake wrote on 1/18/2006, 6:05 AM

I will be bringing it into DVDA 2 to burn to DVD

mbryant wrote on 1/18/2006, 6:53 AM

AC3 is the "norm". It is a compressed format so in theory it is not lossless, but is a very high quality compressed audio format. Hollywood DVDs use ac3...

The only thing "better" you can use to create a DVD is uncompressed PCM audio (.wav). Takes up a lot more space, which can mean less room for quality video (depends on the length).

Mark

johnmeyer wrote on 1/18/2006, 7:58 AM

Try rendering a few minutes of a project. Then render the audio for that snippet twice: once in AC-3 and once in PCM. Bring the video into DVDA twice, and associate one audio file with one instance and the other audio file with the second instance (or just put two audio tracks on the timeline -- that would be even better). Burn a DVD+RW or DVD-RW, put it on the best home theater system you can find, crank up the volume and switch back and forth. Can you hear a difference? If yes, use PCM. If not, use AC-3.