Rendering produces separate video and audio files

Camerasforsafety wrote on 2/14/2012, 9:07 AM
I'm a newbie to this software. I have created a 3-minute video with a video and an audio track, which I can preview successfully on the timeline. Looks and sounds good. However, when I try to turn it into a disk file, I get two separate files, one containing video, and other containing audio. My goal of course is a single file containing both video and audio together.

Initially I could use "make movie" to create a file on disk successfully. Then, unbeknownst to me, I changed something and now when I render my timeline, I get a video file and a separate audio file, instead of one file that contains both audio and video. I'm rendering to "MainConcept MPEG-2," specifically to Blu-ray 1920x1080-60i, 25Mbps video stream" and I have checked "Match project settings." The details are:

Audio: 224 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo,
MPEG Video: 29.970 fps, 1920x1080 Upper field first, YUV, 25 Mbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000
Elementary Stream

I do not have any tracks muted.

Ideas? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/14/2012, 9:45 AM
You will get separate audio and video streams if you are trying to create a disc with menus -- because this is how the file will be ported to DVD Architect. Do you have DVD Architect Studio? Did you click the Send to DVD Architect Studio button?

In version 11, if you select Make Movie/Burn DVD or BluRay and you select one of the options without menus, it will burn your movie directly to a disc with no menus.

Which option did you select?
Camerasforsafety wrote on 2/14/2012, 10:52 AM

Thanks for your reply.

In "Make movie" I selected "Save it to my hard disk," aiming to create a single MPG disk file containing both video and audio.

I do have DVD Architect Studio though I have never opened the program, and am not trying at this point to create a DVD or a Blue-Ray. I want to create a MPEG disk file and the only choice for doing that under "Save it to my hard disk" is "MainConcept MPEG-2" and within that, "Blu-Ray 1920x1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream."

The first time I tried it, it successfully created a .m2v file that play perfectly with video and audio. (I had previously succeeded in creating an .MP4 file but I didn't like the quality, so I tried MPEG and I loved the result.) Seeing success, I then made further edits on the timeline, and when I re-rendered the timeline, I started getting 2 files instead of one.
Camerasforsafety wrote on 2/14/2012, 1:36 PM
Found it!

Under "Make Movie," then "MainConcept MPEG-2," then "Blu-ray 1920x1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream," then "Customize Template," then the "System" tab (at the bottom of the window), I had evidently checked the box "Save as separate elementary streams." Don't ask me why I did that. But when I unchecked that box, I could produce a single MPEG-2 file (with file extension .m2v) containing both video and audio tracks. Whew.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/14/2012, 2:51 PM
Excellent find, Cameras!