5.1 audio to dvd project help

[tomoftenville]

i recently taped a concert at a festival and made the mix of it in 5.1 surround using sonic foundry Acid 4.0.

now i am having trouble getting this to dvd.the project has saved the left,right,centre and both rear outputs as seperate .wav files.how do i get these all to play as one 5.1 surround mix also making an animated background out of the photos from the festival itself.


thanks

[guns1inger]

If you have Vegas, just load them into Vegas as seperate tracks, check the positions and create an AC3 file. If you need a free solution, ffmpeggui or besweet can create a 5.1 ac3 file.

The photos can be mixed using either something like memories on TV or similar, or a video editor with motion capabilities (Premiere, Vegas etc)

What authoring software do you have ?

[tomoftenville]

the only software i have is the tempegenc dvd creator,have`nt used it for ages.i also have pinnacle studio 9.3+.

what i`m looking for is the dvd to play the 5.1 mix with edited photos possably animated or with effects on the screen while the dvd plays.

thank you

[Cunhambebe]

As it's been suggested you can use Vegas to make your video compositing and also to encode your audio files to 5.1. As far as I know you can also use Premiere to join all these audio files to get a final 5.1. DVDA is another option: as fas as you have your final 5.1 file, you can use DVDA to create a simple slideshow. Please note that all of them are not freeware. Anyway, I guess you can use you software - pinnacle - to composite your video too.

[thecoalman]

I don't know about other software but I'm pretty sure most of the lower end software will reencode the 5.1 track as being "non-compliant".

DVDWS is one authoring program that will work with 5.1 audio files providing you already have a compliant 5.1 AC3 audio track. It's as simple as directing it to not reencode compliant tracks. It won't create a 5.1 track though.

[Cunhambebe]

I don't know about other software but I'm pretty sure most of the lower end software will reencode the 5.1 track as being "non-compliant".

-this is absolutely true.