6 mono Wav to ac-3 or other?

[dave_van_damme]

Hi guys,

I've been using Acid v.4 to master a soundtrack in 5.1. Sadly I don't have the ac-3 plug in so I've had to make do with rendering the song to 6 mono Wav PCM tracks. I plan on adding some video footage to the audio and then burn it to dvd.

My question now is how do I go about burning it to a dvd for playback in 5.1?
Can I use Nero7 to burn it?
Do I need to convert it to ac3?

Many thanks.

[gadgetguy]

Convert to AC3. I use AviSynth to make sure the channels are in the correct order and then send it to QuEnc to create the AC3. Then I use TDA to combine them into the DVD format, followed by ImgBurn to burn to disc.

[dave_van_damme]

Any idea how I'd go about using AviSynth? I've just installed it but there doesn't appear to be a .exe file for me to open. Sorry for the totally stupid questions.

[gadgetguy]

AviSynth is script driven. It's not particularly hard, but there is a bigger learning curve than GUI based programs. In the install folder for AviSynth there is documentation that will walk you through the basic steps.

[dave_van_damme]

Is there any guides that can illustrated what I need to do as I'm utterly clueless!

[gadgetguy]

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic99389.html#textroll

Here is a sample script for 6 mono WAV to 5.1 AC3.

Video = Colorbars(720, 480).ConvertToYV12().Trim(0, 3596)
LC = WavSource("LeftChannel.wav").SSRC(48000)
CC = WavSource("CenterChannel.wav").SSRC(48000)
RC = WavSource("RightChannel.wav").SSRC(48000)
LS = WavSource("LeftSurround.wav").SSRC(48000)
RS = WavSource("RightSurround.wav").SSRC(48000)
BC = WavSource("BaseChannel.wav").SSRC(48000)
Audio = MergeChannels(LC, CC, RC, LS, RS, BC)
AudioDub(Video, Audio)

The colorbars are strictly to provide video so QuEnc will accept the script, (even though it's set for Audio Encode only). Trim the Video to match your audio length. You'll have to replace the filenames for your own wave files. SSRC is only necessary if your source wavs are not already 48kHz.

Edit: Also note that I said this is how I would do it. There are other tools and methods that may be easier to learn, but this is the method I'm comfortable with and I know it creates a fully compatible AC3 file.

[guns1inger]

Aften with one of it's guis will also do a good job.