5.1 WAV -> 5.1 AC3 - How?

[psyklax]

Simple question, hopefully simple answer.

I've been banging my head against the wall with this one. I've mixed my new movie in 5.1 surround sound using Adobe Audition 1.5, beautiful, lovely, great. But, I don't know how the surround aspect of it sounds, because my PC obviously has just two speakers. So, I wanna try it on my home DVD player, with a 5.1 setup. Simple. Or is it...?

Adobe Audition 1.5 can export your mix to either a 6-channel WAV file or 6 separate mono WAV files - in my case, either one is 48khz 32bit, because I'm making it for DVD, so that's how it was mixed. I could change it to 16bit, but that doesn't seem to make much difference in my encoding issues. Let's see what I've tried:

Sonic Foundry Soft Encode - can read the WAVs and set them up for AC3 encoding, but crashes while trying to encode to an AC3 file.

ffmpeg - used the one with the GUI. Doesn't do AC3 5.1. No good.

BeSweet - tried to encode with it: came up with "Error 32: No input-data was found (wrong substream?)"

Surcode DVD DTS - doesn't do AC3, but does DTS, which'll also be good for me. Does appear to encode to a DTS file (yay!) but I can't find ANY authoring programs that support them (boo!)

Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 built-in encoder - too fiddly, would rather use an external one, but would be nice if it worked (3 trial uses)

Basically, you can see my despair. AAGH.

Anybody know how to take a 5.1 WAV source (either 6 mono WAVs or a single 5.1 WAV, in 16bit, 24bit or 32bit) and turn it into a 5.1 AC3 file that TMPGEnc DVD Author will use off the bat, as well as Adobe Encore DVD and all the rest.

And also, how do I author DTS files for DVDs? I'd like my film to have several optional audio tracks, see - Dolby Digital, DTS, 2.0 Stereo...

HELP!

[Cornucopia]

You've got SoftEncode, so just re-install it. That's one of the best ones around.

Then make sure you give it 16bit, 48kHz, mono WAV files (6 of 'em). It probably doesn't like 32bit, cuz it's not part of the DVD spec. 24bit may work.

I haven't had any problems here.

Scott

[MOVIEGEEK]

Vegas+DVD
TMPGEnc DVD Author only supports/encodes 2ch AC3,as for DTS..good luck.

[yoda313]

Vegas+DVD
BTW...TMPGEnc DVD Author only supports/encodes 2ch AC3.

Hello,

Well tmpgenc dvd author will accept 5.1 ac3 but it won't edit it. You can load vobs with it but you can't chop it with tmpgenc dvd author.

Kevin

[Baldrick]

And also, how do I author DTS files for DVDs? I'd like my film to have several optional audio tracks, see - Dolby Digital, DTS, 2.0 Stereo...

dvd-lab pro supports dts.

[psyklax]

Success, I got AC3Encoder, and it encoded it fine, all the options too.

Still no further on DTS though. According to this site Encore can use DTS audio, but I can't import them into it, so Christ knows how that works. I used Ifoedit to make a vob with the DTS audio in, which seemed to work fine, but didn't get any audio out of my DTS-compatible DVD player... and as I said, I can't author DTS audio with Encore, which is what I want to do my DVD in.

Well, it's a half yay. Kind of like .

[curlyween]

Could you tell us where you got "AC3Encoder" from?

Cheers

[daphy]

I used Ifoedit to make a vob with the DTS audio in, which seemed to work fine, but didn't get any audio out of my DTS-compatible DVD player

check the cabel:
DTS needs a digital connection (no two analog chich!)

check using the right track, maybe mapped wrong as sound track two...

Sonic Foundry Soft Encode - can read the WAVs and set them up for AC3 encoding, but crashes while trying to encode to an AC3 file

uninstall softencode - delete all softencode keys in the registry and reinstall softencode - this should work

CYA Daphy

[digitalfreaknyc]

Sweet! This is just some of the info I was looking for. Thanks!