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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 8/24/2005, 11:32 PM
It did it for me - wonder why that is - did they do a different license or something in moviemaker that they didn't do in Vegas? - Very strange - but hey, it sure did the trick - I've got no complaints - that's all it took for Vegas to be able to handle it - so what if I had to do an install/un-install - not much worse than haveing to add a new codec.

I'm happy.

Dave
rsp wrote on 8/25/2005, 11:11 AM
Will the above mentioned 'workaround' also load the AC3 into Soundforge?
Laurence wrote on 8/25/2005, 12:32 PM
Well if I install Movie Studio, I can import the AC-3 audio tracks into Vegas. Unfortunately when I uninstall Movie Studio, I lose the ability to import AC-3 audio. Does anyone know how to keep the AC-3 import ability and uninstall the Movie Studio demo?
rs170a wrote on 8/25/2005, 2:14 PM
Laurence, not sure what I did differently but it still works for me (Vegas 5 & 6) after uninstalling it.

Mike
Laurence wrote on 8/25/2005, 3:26 PM
Well I deleted the Movie Studio directory and all references to the program and it still works. I think that's as good as it gets on my system. Anyway, I've wanted to be able to import AC-3 audio for years and now I finally can!
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 8/25/2005, 3:41 PM
Mine won't let me capture all of a sudden - it says that it needs a serial for Vegas 6.0 Video capture

I'm just gonna re-install the real Vegas over and see if that fixes - but yea - I have wanted/ needed this ability for a few jobs - and this makes my life a lot eaiser - wish it were a sticky
rsp wrote on 8/26/2005, 1:36 AM
No luck here with ac3 in either SF or Vegas - now also get the 'serial for Vegas 6.0 Video Capture' screen

Rudi
mbryant wrote on 8/26/2005, 6:37 AM
I'd like to try this "trick" to get Vegas to handle AC3 files, but don't want to break video capture. Please let us know if reinstalling Vegas fixes that.
Mark
Laurence wrote on 8/26/2005, 8:00 AM
Just to be sure everyone's on the same page. I still can't load an AC-3 file directly. What is different now is that if I move a VOB or MPEG2 file with encoded AC-3 audio, both the video and the audio now show up on the timeline. This is incredibly useful.
rsp wrote on 8/26/2005, 8:22 AM
1. Just tested what Laurence said - here Vegas6 and SF8 can indeed open a VOB with ac3

2. However it doesn't run very smoothly and hangs occasionally

Rudi