Will TMPG accept MP3 or WAV ?

[scottymac]

I'm having trouble with BeSweet and popping on MP2s so I was hoping that I could leave a file as a wav or MP3 and have TMPG accept it.

When you multiplex the audio, TMPG gives a drop down option of accepting MP3 or WAV but I always get "Illegal MPEG audio"

How do I convert a WAV or MP3 so TMPG will accept it or do I still have to go the MP2 route

Thanks, and have a good weekend


scottymac

[Tommyknocker]

I think you may be trying to multiplex in TMPGEnc when it is not necessary. If you have a wave file available, why use it as the audio input on your main program screen?

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[scottymac]

I think you may be trying to multiplex in TMPGEnc when it is not necessary. If you have a wave file available, why use it as the audio input on your main program screen?

Thanks for the reply, but I don't want to input audio there at all.

I'm following the guide to convert PAL to NTSC film. When I do the Audio conversion with BeSweet I get major pops. So I extract the audio with TMPG, stretch it to the appropriate time with Sound Forge, convert from WAV to MP2 with Complete Audio Converter Pro (The only software I could find that can convert to MP2-HeadAC3he was giving me a headache too) and then re-multiplex with TMPG.

But Complete Audio Converter Pro is a MAJOR resource hog and is only trialware so I was hoping to skip that step and multiplex with an MP3 or WAV since TMPG says you can multiplex with them, as per the drop down menu, but I always get "Illegal MPEG audiostream"

Can you help me with the audio conversion step?

Thanks once again,


scottymac

[Tommyknocker]

Well, if you want mp3 audio, you can use Gold Wave.

[bugster]

TmpGenc will convert the 'length corrected' wav file to mp2.
Simply start Tmpgenc, cancel the wizard. Select your wav file as the audio source as TommyKnocker suggested, then to the right of that box, select the audio only radio button. click settings and select sample rate, bitrate etc, click ok and then start. You will end up with an mp2 audio file.

But as tommyknocker also suggested, why not use your 'length corrected' wav file as the audio source during the video encoding step, that way you can end up with a ready multiplexed audio and video file.

[scottymac]

bugster, Tommyknocker, thanks for your replies.

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[jester1x]

Just a thought, but have you tried toolame? It's a command-line based program, but it does have an available GUI (frontend). Toolame can covert wav files to mp2 within TMPGEnc if you desire. Another great tool to use which is also free is dbPowerAMP music converter. It can convert mp3 and/or mp2 to wav files.

[scottymac]

Just a thought, but have you tried toolame? It's a command-line based program, but it does have an available GUI (frontend). Toolame can covert wav files to mp2 within TMPGEnc if you desire. Another great tool to use which is also free is dbPowerAMP music converter. It can convert mp3 and/or mp2 to wav files.

Haven't tried too lame. Thanks for yet another great tip, but I found my solution.

I got the mainconcept MPEG1/2 plugin for soundforge.

I de-multiplex audio with TMPG
Input MP2 into soundforge
stretch by 4.03%
save MP2 as MPG (has blank video, but saves audio in the correct format)
Multiplex with converted M2V in TMPG

works great.

[allycat]

Hi

I have forgotten where to use Too Lame within TMPGenc, can anyone remind me please?

Thanks