Capturing 8mm video

[vlakslee]

I have captured an 8 mm video and am finding the audio to be problematic on creation of DVDs. I can create the DVD and author it fine in TMPGEnc DVD Author. What I am finding is that the created DVD will play the included audio fine on my computer (Power DVD, Windows Media) but when played on my stand alone DVD player the video is fine but no audio comes through. I have tried several different ways to include the audio.
1. By seperating the audio from the video in Audition and including it in the edited video as a seperate track.
2. I have tried including a seperate music track in the edited version to see if that would come through on the final DVD and it does play on my DVD player.
What I can't figure out is why a music .wav file will come through on the DVD but the video's original sound file (talking) will not. The music .wav and the video .wav have the same sample rate ( 41000Hz) and both are in stereo. The only thing I can think of is the audio from 8mm is somehow different than regular VHS and mini DV (both of which I have captured and authored with no problems-sound comes through just fine on my DVD player). Should an 8 mm video be captured differently than VHS to make the audio suitable for DVDs? This has got me going in circles. I used Windows Movie Maker to capture, Adobe Premier to edit and Studio 9 also to edit a seperate version. TMPGEnc Source Creator to create the mpeg file and TMPGEnc DV Author to author the final DVD. Any ideas??

[mwkurt]

In my opinion your problem could be a couple things. First and foremost, DVD audio needs to be at 48khz. You have 41khz, so most likely that is your problem. I believe that you can use some free tools to upsample your audio. I was going to say that you should encode your audio to AC3 to be totally DVD compliant. but I see that you are using wav audio. I think that is okay too. Don't use mp2 audio as there are some older players that will not play that type of audio file.
Hope this helps!
Mark

[jlietz]

Should an 8 mm video be captured differently than VHS to make the audio suitable for DVDs?

No.

Have you tried to play the DVD on another set top DVD player? Its possible that its some unknown error between your DVD player and the video/audio on the disc.

I've seen this before and the only solution I was able to come up with was to start from scratch and recap the tape.

[pijetro]

mwkurt is correct...

First and foremost...and this should be a sticky...
If your intention is to create DVD's, then always capture your audio with 48Khz..
Introduced music, ie backgrounds should also be converted to 48Khz...

When authoured, you'll have no issues as far as .AC3 encoding goes..

Vlakslee.
You're doing two wrongs to make a right. Forget about it..

Whether you want to edit with the original audio or not is your business...
But before authouring is done, you need to export the .WAV file, and resample it..(F11 within Audition i believe)...