Rendering in Vegas...

Vegascat40 wrote on 1/20/2010, 6:22 PM

I was rendering an Mpeg2 for a DVD and used the Dolby Pro Stereo encoder for the audio. It says it normalizes to -27dB by default. Does that mean it takes a my levels from the time line and kicks them all the way down to -27? I only leave about 6dB of headroom and do not want the default template setting to sabotage my levels. Any input on this is appreciated.

Steve.

Comments

Jay Gladwell wrote on 1/20/2010, 7:08 PM

Read this.

Vegascat40 wrote on 1/20/2010, 11:04 PM

Thanks Jay....though...I don't understand why normalizing at an even lower level (-31) fixes things?

Steve.

Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 1/20/2010, 11:47 PM

Only probably those people that knows the internals of the Dolby encoder understands this, so don't worry.

During the years, so many people have stumbled over this "sound on DVD is too low"-syndrome. The "fix" should be either a sticky or clearly mentioned in the documentation, even as a clearly marked warning!

My first 10 DVD's produced were very silent. Gee I felt stupid. But the answer to the problem is not very obvious - or - intuitive... There is nothing wrong with your intelligence, this IS a pitfall for many new Vegas users - if not for all!

Christian

Vegascat40 wrote on 1/21/2010, 11:47 AM

Thanks Christian! :_)

Vegascat40 wrote on 1/22/2010, 1:06 PM

Here is some input on this I got from the SoCalVegasUsers group on Yahoo:

From: n19093 <steve@mmdv.com>
To: SoCalVegasUsers@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 8:12:51 AM
Subject: [SoCalVegasUsers] Dialnorm

This is dialnorm (dialogue normalization) - a setting courtesy of Dolby to handle their definition of "loudness". Have you noticed that when you play a Hollywood DVD that you have to turn up the volume on your TV? Dialnorm is why. If you keep your levels under control then there's no reason you can't set this to zero.

UNLESS - your media will be going to television broadcast, where dialnorm is required by the FCC.

geowickey wrote on 1/31/2010, 9:45 AM

Sorry if I still don't get it.

I have a Vegas project which includes music with a voiceover. The finished product will be a DVD...

In Vegas I see levels for each track and then a master volume level which affects both. Are you saying there is another place to set another "master level"?

Can someone please dummy this down for me? At approx what level should each of these settings be set to? Please list examples from your successful DVD project

e.g.

Voice track set to X
Music track set to Y
Master set to Z
Other? set to Q

THANKS SO SO SO MUCH!