AC3 5.1 With Vegas 5.0 Help

[nwo]

Hi,

Vegas 5.0, I have a 2 channle stereo movie file which i would like
to turn into AC3 5.1 i have try, but i only get 3 (stereo and Mono) of
the 5 channles.

[Sillyname]

Hi,

Vegas 5.0, I have a 2 channle stereo movie file which i would like
to turn into AC3 5.1 i have try, but i only get 3 (stereo and Mono) of
the 5 channles.

I don't know Vegas but I know surround.
You got a Surround amplifier? Try switching to Dolby Pro Logic or Pro Logic II when playing back your 2-channel audio from the DVD player. Don't try to convert it, it'll give you an aneurysm. If your surround amp can do this for you, then go that route. If there is no surround matrixed into the 2 channels your trying to "convert". Forget about it! Trust me!

To "create" true 5.1 you need 6-channel sound. If you dice up that poor little 2-channel track, at best you can get all three front speakers(R,L and C) and your subwoofer section (LFE) but it needs to be all frequencies below 120Hz (I assume you are making Dolby Digital not DTS).

The real problem is the surround section. How are you going to pick out sounds that you think should be in either rear speaker at any given time. You're not. Because "A" you're not getting paid to do it and "B" you don't have the time. And "C" it would probably sound like shit anyway. So follow my suggestion of just seeing if you can pull some good old Dolby Surround out of it. If you can't, then settle for what you got.

[nwo]

Hi,

Yeah the track is Dolby Digital, it for a movie i made which i would
like to sell on my website, i have done a DD 2.0 & Pro Logic Ex Mix
Next i would like a DD 5.1 and DTS 2.0 & 5.1, do you think that a
4.7gb disk can hold 8 dobly (Dts) tracks with 2 hours of video.

I am using DVD Workshop 2 As well, i think it said i can load 8 tracks,
still i would like to have a go.

Thanks

[Sillyname]

Hi,

Yeah the track is Dolby Digital, it for a movie i made which i would
like to sell on my website, i have done a DD 2.0 & Pro Logic Ex Mix
Next i would like a DD 5.1 and DTS 2.0 & 5.1, do you think that a
4.7gb disk can hold 8 dobly (Dts) tracks with 2 hours of video.

I am using DVD Workshop 2 As well, i think it said i can load 8 tracks,
still i would like to have a go.

Thanks

If you have DD 2.0, I believe you can encode your Pro Logic Matrix into it, so when people use it, the get both. I'd cut out DTS 2.0, though. I mean whats the point? DTS is for "audio purists", it seems. Chances are they are going to only really jones for DTS Surround. 'Sides, I've never seen DTS 2.0 and almost doubt it is an option. (Confidentially speaking: The only reason DTS is said to sound better than Dolby digital is that it's low end goes to 80Hz on all sattelites (As opposed to DD 5.1 cutoof @ 120Hz) before it sends all the rest to the LFE channel.) That's really the only difference between DTS and DD. So just putting a 5.1 DTS, should be sufficient.

In other words, DD 2.0 (I'd matrix this one with Dolby Pro Logic II) and DD 5.1 + DTS 5.1, should get you everything you need. That'll save space on placing 8 tracks by whittling them down to 3.

Just curious? Where are you getting your DTS encoding from?

[BJ_M]

how did you do a pro logic EX ? You must have Nuendo -- a very expensive software package .. pretty advanced ...

in vegas you need to set your properties to 5.1 so that you can encode to 5.1 ...

but you should split up your stereo (which you can do with channel selector in vegas) and pan it properly ..

you would import your stereo file 6 times and pan each channel and select one track (both) for LFE (vegas will do the crossover)