DVD-Architect Audio problem

[bobnh911]

Using Vegas 6 to edit my avi and render to MPEG-2. Using DVDA 3 to create a single movie DVD, no menu. Whether I prepare to HD or burn right to disc. I get static with audio for about 25 seconds, and then no audio at all. I've tried to re-render, re-burn, etc... but always with the same result. DVDA is compressing the audio to AC-3. I assume the problem is happening during that process, but do not know why.

MPEG-2 file's audio sounds fine when I play it directly in Media Player.

Any thoughts?

Bob

[MJPollard]

Use Vegas to export the audio to an AC3 file and use that, rather than let DVD Architect convert it. Use the same name as the MPEG2 file (i.e. MOVIE.MPG and MOVIE.AC3) and DVD Architect will automatically associate the two.

(You should also use the special "NTSC DVD Architect" [or whatever it's called] template when rendering to MPEG-2; it'll produce a proper MPG file, but with no audio, as you'll already have the AC3 file.)

[bobnh911]

I'll try that. Any idea why it would not work the other way? It did for the first few weeks I used the program....

Bob

[bobnh911]

Martin, I rendered to 2 sep files and it seems to work.

I did see that the video only render (DVDA template) had an .m2v extension rather than mpg, and DVDA did not associate the 2 files, I had to select them individually.

[MJPollard]

To be honest, I couldn't tell you why the first way did not work properly for you. I've always created separate audio and video files when rendering for DVD authoring, so it's never been an issue for me. (I'm also something of an "old school" guy: use each tool for its strengths. Vegas' strength is its video editing and rendering, and DVDA's is its authoring. When you let one try to be the other, you get Microsoft Office. )

As for the association... hmmm, that may have been an oversight on Sony's part. I'll bet that if you renamed the file with a .mpg extension (or forced .mpg when you rendered), it would've worked. It does for me, but then again, I use TMPGEnc Plus for all my video rendering (it creates the file with .mpg), thus I'm not as experienced in the Vegas rendering department as I'd like. Glad to hear you got it working, though!