Problems with sizzle's "Background Audio Feature"

[tzippy]

no matter which format i use, ac3 or mp2, sizzle wont recognize my audio file i want to add as background audio.
how do you use this feature? which app do u use to create background audio for sizzle??

thx

[tgpo]

I used Soundtrack and compressed it with A.Pack

[tzippy]

okay, thanks. A.Pack worked fine for me...

[terryj]

tgpo,
could you give me a step by step how to?
I tried this with a 20 sec AIFF , and A.Pack
said it made a vaild AC3, but when I drop it into Sizzle
for use on the TOC background, it says it contains no audio
data, therefore cannot use this file.

I made it as a 0/1, no audio compression, 160 kbps,
and i've tried 1/1, 2/1, and 3/1 and no luck!!!!
What am I missing????

[tgpo]

Here are the steps I take to produce an ac3 file.

Open A.Pack
Click File/New Batch List

Under Audio Tab
Change Target System to Generic AC3
Change Audio Coding Mode to 2/0 (L,R)
Change Data Rate to 192 mbps
Change Dialog Normalization to -29 dBFS

Under Bitstream Tab
Change Dolby Surround Mode to NOT Dolby Surround Encoded

Under Preprocessing Tab
Change Compression to None
Uncheck RF Overmodulation Protection

Then back in the lest side of the window I click the top select button and select my aiff.

Then click on the bottom select button and select my aiff.

Be sure that one is set to left and one is set to right channels. (Done to the left of the select buttons)

Then Click Encode. That's how I've always done it.

[terryj]

the RF modulation and the Dolby I didn't mess with.
I'll give it a go tonight and post back.

tgpo, you are a god among gods.....
when I grow up, I want to be just like you!

[tgpo]

when I grow up, I want to be just like you!

How old are you?

[terryj]

old enough I should know better:

after running through your steps tgpo,
it still didn't work. Then, on a whim,
i tagged the file as an ".ac3" file,
which I didn't before, because I assumed
that Sizzle would read the header and recoginize it.
:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
silly me.

everything's grand now...

[tgpo]

Glad it all worked out.