Vegas Pro 9 how to convert AVCHD to MPEG2 (AC3)?

[amitabhbansal]

friends
i have sony XR500E camcorder, i have transfered the video in HD format to my pc and vegas shows me its 5.1 channel sound in it, but when i try to render the video in MPEG2 (DVD) format it shows me only stereo mode, and i want to render it in MPEG2 format with ac3 sound format so that i can hear 5.1 channel sound.
Please help me

[aedipuss]

did you set your project file/properties/audio to 5.1?

[amitabhbansal]

yes i already did so

[aedipuss]

you probably need to render them as separate streams. use render as dolby digital ac-3 pro type and the 5.1 for dvd template. and in your mainconcept mpeg-2 encode click custom and uncheck include audio in the audio tab.

[amitabhbansal]

friend the thing is i am having windows 7 64 bit, i have installed vegas pro 9 64bit and dvd architect 5 but whenever i try to render it as ac3 it says "The AC-3 plug-in is currently unavailable. You can unlock this plug-in by installing and registering DVD Architect Pro" i have tried uninstalling and installed again but still not available, i think its because of 64 bit operating system. please do something else for me

[aedipuss]

try sony support. it works fine in the 32 bit version of win7.

[amitabhbansal]

can you please guide me any other software name by which i can render my HD quality video to DVD quality in ac3 format?

[tarrickb]

Did you try both of the AC3 codecs listed in Sony Vegas? The two codecs are called something like AC3 pro and AC3 studio.

[aedipuss]

adobe premiere pro cs4 or maybe surcode soft encode if you need a 5.1 ac-3 encoder. don't know if that last one works in win7 64bit.

[amitabhbansal]

yes TARRICKB i have tried both but both gives the same error.

Thanks AEDIPUSS i will get adobe premiere pro cs4 today only.

[aedipuss]

sorry i forgot why i had surcode. it is the required plug-in for pp cs4 to get ac3 5.1 output. you need to buy it separately.

http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/products/surcode07.html