Which render settings?

nic6 wrote on 5/25/2013, 10:46 AM
Greetings,
I have a factory made music DVD with superb sounding audio, I wish to know which render settings were used to achieve this quality.

The DVD info is in the screenshot below, it's stereo 4 channels.

If I were to import audio from a CD ( 2 channels) which render settings would be needed to duplicate the stereo 4 channels settings of the DVD?

http://my.jetscreenshot.com/11869/20130525-nkr3-270kb.jpg

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 5/25/2013, 10:56 PM
Your video does not have four audio channels, it has two stereo tracks. You only use / play one at a time.

One of those tracks may actually be 5.1 surround, but we'll never know because you opened it in a stereo project.

Digital Audio quality begins with the recording, mixing, and last, the encoding.
Vegas supports LPCM and Dolby AC3 for DVD / BluRay authoring, and both are excellent. Concentrate on the recording and mixing instead.
nic6 wrote on 5/26/2013, 12:20 PM
Thanks for reply.
It appears there are 2 stereo tracks and the audio sounds superb.
I would like to know how (BR Music Holland) encoded this music DVD.
Perhaps I should try Sorenen Squeeze.

http://my.jetscreenshot.com/11869/20130526-2xap-35kb.jpg
musicvid10 wrote on 5/26/2013, 4:27 PM
I hinted that it has little to do with the encoding.

A DVD is MPEG-2 video and Dolby AC3 audio, as in your screenshot. LPCM is also available in Vegas/DVDA.
You own a licensed Dolby AC3 encoder in the Vegas software you purchased.
So now all that remains is recording and mixing superb audio.
rraud wrote on 5/27/2013, 9:56 AM
The production company most certainly hired skilled pro audio engineers for the production and post production. While a good encoder is important, it will not make poorly recorded and/or mixed program sound better.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 5/27/2013, 10:32 PM
How they encoded it would be unlikely to be relevant to it's superb sound - that would be more likely be due to all the recording stages.

Have a look on the DVD case and see if it mentions the LPCM audio spec - some do - and all should say if either LPCM or AC3 etc.

geoff