A couple of question regarding Studio 9's surround sound

[Vanster]

I would like to try including surround sound effects in my next home video using Pinnacle Studio 9. Because of the instability in Pinnacle products my processs has been to capture and edit in Studio 8 (and now 9) and then render to an uncompressed AVI file. From there I encode using either TMPGE or Mainconcept and then author and burn in TMPGE DVD Author. When I encode the file I usually use MPEG 1 layer II audio.

My questions regarding Pinnacle's surround sound are:

1) Will I keep the surround effects when I render to the uncompressed AVI file? (Or do I have to actually burn the disk using Pinnacle...which I haven't had much success doing)?

2) If the AVI file does keep the surround effects will I then lose the effects when I encode using MPEG layer II audio?

Thank you for your answers and opinions.

Vanster

[Vanster]

anyone?

[guns1inger]

I'm a Vegas user, so this may or may not help. I use Vegas for doing surround audio using the AC3 encoder. I always render it out seperately as an AC3 file, then mux it back in later when authoring the disk. That way I know that the surround will be preserved. I don't know if studio 9 support AC3 (at 5.1 or EX), but if it supports mpeg audio, I would render it out as a seperate file for muxing later. At least you guarantee you keep your mix.