Vegas to DVDA help

chuckerst wrote on 2/26/2004, 6:45 AM
O.K.-One last try-Can anyone PLEASE help me? Yes I am stupid BUT-I have captured live concert clips into Vegas from my digital cam and synced up my audio from my multitrack cd of the same concert-NOW -All I wanna do is burn a DVD-I have rendered-saved-tried everything but cannot get into DVDA-I rendered as mpeg2-Do I also hafta render the added audio track separately? My clips play just fine and are easy to find in Vegas, just not DVDA-I don't have a problem getting a clip right off the camcorder into DVDA-it's just when I add my mixed cd track to the clip-No matter how I render it just can't be found in the DVDA browser!! I give up!!

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ScottW wrote on 2/26/2004, 7:06 AM
Yes, you must seperately render the audio track - preferably as AC3. There are render templates in the vegas render dialog specifically for DVDA - you should select the approrpiate template when rendering the MPEG-2 file and an appropriate template for the AC3 file.

if you name both files the same name and in the same directory (except the file extension, which will be .mpg and .ac3 respectively), then if you drag the mpg file from the DVDA explorer window onto the menu area, DVDA will automatically include the AC3 audio. Then click on preview and see how things look/sound (keeping in mind that DVDA preview isn't always exactly like the finished DVD).
GaryKleiner wrote on 2/26/2004, 7:07 AM
Render the combination of audio and video as Mpeg2 and then let DVDA encode the audio into AC3 or PCM

OR

First render the video as MPEG2 and use the template called DVD Architect NTSC (or PAL) video stream.

Then render the audio as type>AC3 WITH THE SAME FILE NAME AS THE VIDEO and in the same directory. DVDA will see the file and match it to the video.

Gary
Liam_Vegas wrote on 2/26/2004, 7:48 AM
Just to make sure I am understanding exactly what you are doing.
I suspect my confusion is related to my reading too much into the way you are refering to you audio... bu just in case...

You are refering to this mixed CD track as if it were a totally seperate audio track to the one you already have (that was recorded on the camcorder). Which would of course be the correct way to refer to this track while it is inside of Vegas. But... when you render for use in DVDA the audio from all tracks will get mixed down into one single track. My (probably wrong) interpretation of your post is that you are trying to combine the CD track into DVDA along-side the existing audio track.

Just for my sanity can you confirm how you are using the final mixed audio in your situation?

As already mentioned it is best to render to separate MPEG and audio (ac3) files.

There is also a way in DVDA to manually specify the audio file to be used with a specific MPEG file (cannot recall exactly where this setting is... but it is there... probably on the media object properties).
chuckerst wrote on 2/26/2004, 8:06 AM
Yes! It is a totally separate audio track-I mute the one from the camcorder-I didn't delete them just in case it got out of sync somehow-I then rendered as mpeg 2-To render my "added audio" do I just click on it and then choose render? I'm thinkin it renders audio and video at the same time-Sorry again for my cluelessness but I am determined to learn this with a lotta help!! Thanks again.
ScottW wrote on 2/26/2004, 8:46 AM
You don't need to select your audio track in vegas; you just tell vegas that you want to render AC3 and vegas will render your audio track.
chuckerst wrote on 2/26/2004, 10:06 AM
Thanks to everyone for the help!!