Rewrap your AC3 elementary streams into a .ts or .m2ts wrapper with tsMuxer or some other utility and Vegas will open them. Avoid rewrapping to .mp4, .mpg, etc.
That said, AAC, when properly implemented, has the quality/compression edge, and our old Mainconcept aac is still one of the best.
However, the problem here is that AAC 5.1 has not been widely adopted as DD AC3 has on playback devices. So yeah, convert your project files to AAC and then you're good inside of Vegas but hardly any other playback device will properly decode it during playback which then makes it pretty much pointless.
AC3 support in Vegas come by owning a license for DVD Architect.
So you're saying if you install DVD Architect, then you can decode and encode AC3 in Vegas Pro?
I don't do much surround sound in Vegas any longer but the last time I did, I was looking for a way to render to AC3 5.1 and came up empty. I haven't been installing DVD Architect, since I really don't have a use for it any longer but if installing it means I get AC3 support back in Vegas, then I may do that.
The later versions of DVD Arc only have the AC-3 'Studio' encoder. Earlier SCS versions had the 'Studio' .. and the AC-3 Pro encoder, which had more encoding options. As I recall, once a Magix version of DVD Arc or VP is installed, the Dolby AC-3 pro is removed. There are work-a-rounds to get it back though. Much discussion on this soon after the Magix acquisition. Search this forum.
I have the Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro encoder available in Vegas Pro 13-453. Only the studio version in Vegas Pro 14-270, Vegas Pro 15-416 or Vegas Pro 17-353.
Even though I have multiple licenses for DVD Architect, I still only have 5.2 loaded on my workstation. It does everything that I want to do these days.
Even though I have multiple licenses for DVD Architect, I still only have 5.2 loaded on my workstation. It does everything that I want to do these days.
The later versions of DVD Arc only have the AC-3 'Studio' encoder. Earlier SCS versions had the 'Studio' .. and the AC-3 Pro encoder, which had more encoding options. As I recall, once a Magix version of DVD Arc or VP is installed, the Dolby AC-3 pro is removed. There are work-a-rounds to get it back though. Much discussion on this soon after the Magix acquisition. Search this forum.
Thanks rraud. I searched on YouTube, hoping to find the answer instead since I've read some of those discussions on this forum in the past and they got kind of long winded.
Here's what I found....
Although in Spanish speaking, here's what I'm seeing on making this work.
1. Copy the DD AC3 Pro DLL from a previous version of Vegas Pro that supported it from the File I/O folder.
2. Paste the DLL into the File I/O folder location of the DD AC3 "studio" folder of the latest version of Vegas Pro installed and rename it to the same file name as the DD AC3 "Studio" DLL.
Does that seem about right?
Essentially, you're replacing the studio DLL with the Pro DLL and Vegas will now recognize and use the Pro DLL.
for full details. If you try it and get it to work, please let me know!
Yep, I tried the above steps installing multiple older versions of Vegas, didn't have success and just gave up. I haven't done any surround sound projects in some time, and gave up. It was more of a nice to have feature for me personally. I'm going to bookmark the link you posted, for just in case purposes down the road.