No sound in Premiere

[RadOD]

I've been using Premiere to covert DV->AVI->DVD with no problems. I wanted to burn a downloaded AVI clip to DVD. However, after inserting it into the timeline it has no sound. The wierd thing is, I can still play it WITH sound from the project window from within Premiere.

Any ideas?

[Sugar]

Can you clarify?
- Which version of Premiere do you use?
- What do you mean it has no sound. Do you mean you have a video track but no audio track visible on the screen?
- How did you put the .avi file in the timeline? From the clip window or directly from the bin folder?
- Do you say you hear sound when you play from the timeline/project window and not the clip window?

[spectroelectro]

The usual reason for this problem is that Adobe Premiere can't decode Dolby AC3. If the downloaded AVI is DiVX with an AC3 soundtrack, Premiere won't be able to deal with it. The downloaded AVI might also be an Ogg media file with an Ogg Vorbis soundtrack, and Premiere can't handle vorbis either.
Solution:
If you don't have Dolby AC3 and Ogg media Directshow filters, download 'em and install 'em now. They're widely available at sites like www.doom9.org etc.
Then use TMPGenc or VirtualDubMod to open the AVI file and demux it into elementary audio and video streams. If the audio stream comes out with a suffix "ac3," then it's a Dolby AC3 file. In that case, open up the AC3 file with TMPGenc and do ALT F (for "file") and then SAVE AS and then choose WAV file. The audio track will then get saved as a WAV file. You can then import the m2v video stream and the WAV file PCM audio stream into Adobe Premiere.
Do your edits, save the file as an AVI, and then if you need to burn the resulting edited and encoded file to Dolby AC3, extract the WAV file for the edited saved AVI file and encode it to Dolby AC3 using BeSweet with the superb AC3Machine GUI frontend.
Adobe Premiere is a little behind the times because it can't handle AC3 soundtracks. VEGAS can handle AC3, but it's pricey, and if you already own Premiere, no reason to spend all that money just for native ac3 editing when a workaround exists.

[RadOD]

Sugar:

- Version
Premiere Pro 7.0

- What do you mean it has no sound
There is 1 video and 1 audio track. However, the audio track contains no sound.

- How did you put the .avi file in the timeline?
From the project window into the timeline window.

- Do you say you hear sound when you play from the timeline/project window and not the clip window?
No - in the monitor window I have the AVI on the left and sound is ok. In the monitor window on the right is sequence 01 which corresonds to the sequence in the timeline. This has no sound.




spectroelectro:
When I go to the clip's properties and Premiere as well as with gspot, they tell me the audio is MP3. I don't know if this still can be AC3 or not.

In any case, how do I demux it in TMPGenc when its still an AVI? If I go to mpeg tools, my only choice is to load a mpeg. Or do you mean to just add the file to both video and audio source and tell it to convert to mpeg? If so, it tries to add [m2v+wav] to the file name, but I can't actually convert it because my mpeg2 thing is expired. Sorry, I don't have that much experience with TMPGenc.

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