Such a simple thing...

Tucker wrote on 8/2/2008, 3:59 AM

N00bie here(forum search was unsuccessful).

Problem: No audio in movie output to hard drive.

What I did:
1) Inserted timelapse jpgs into main video track. Rendered to mpg. Displays fine.
2) Opened New Project, inserted above mpg into main video track.
3) Added a short wav file to music audio track.
4) Made Movie. Clicked on Play Movie? mpg displays w/ no audio.

If I click on play in the lower left of the main project area, the movie plays with the sound track in the preview window.

Am I missing something? Have I not set something?

While I'm at it, the documentation for this product is marginal at best, can someone suggest a book or website where I can start climbing the steep learning curve?

Comments

Tucker wrote on 8/2/2008, 6:08 AM

Jeez Louise!

Figured it out on my own...Duh : )

Still would like a book recommendation.

Chienworks wrote on 8/2/2008, 7:22 AM

I'll recommend using the .mpg file you produced in step 1 as the video you used to render in step 4. This can lead to an MPEG file being rerendered into another MPEG file with a loss of quality. A much better option would be to add the music file to the original timelapse images and render once from there.

Steven Myers wrote on 8/2/2008, 9:30 AM

If you render to an mpg using the default settings, the audio doesn't get rendered. So, you must go into the Custom settings and enable audio.