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  Movie has no audio

  Posted by Curtis Suter on March 5, 2009 at 4:41 am

  Hello,

  I’m in the USA making a movie with Sony Vegas Movie Studio Version 9.0b and DVD Architect ver 4.5d.

  I sent a friend in England two DVD disks:
  One saved via DVD Architect in NTSC and another in PAL.

  He states:
  I have played both of your disks in my laptop and pc they both run VISTA. They use Windvd to play the disc.
  The PAL runs ok, but the picture quality is a bit ‘fuzzy’
  The NTSC picture is more sharp but there is no commentary sound track. Music but no speech.

  Both disks run on my home DVD player and TV. The PAL disc is good for picture The NTSC is poor and again no soundtrack speech.
  End Quote.

  Why no audio? I shot the movie with my camera and simultaneous audio through the camera, then placed the movie in the timeline, rendered via MPEG2 and then went to DVD architect, dragged the files into there and made the disks.

  Thanks so much for the continued support.
  Curtis
  Montana

  John Rofrano replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  March 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  On the NTSC disc did you use WAV audio or MPG audio? I believe the NTSC DVD spec does not allow MPG audio, just WAV and AC3. Most US DVD players support MPG audio but they don’t have to. Maybe in PAL countries they don’t? Double-check what audio format you used.

  BTW, the PAL DVD spec does allow MPG audio. So if both discs use MPG audio it would explain why one plays fine and the other doesn’t. (I don’t think DVD Architect Studio supports AC3)

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Curtis Suter

  March 5, 2009 at 1:43 pm

  JR,

  Thanks.

  Ok, when I go to Vegas Movie Studio the audio that does play comes up as .wav it’s from Cinescore.

  The audio that doesn’t play comes from the Camera as Quicktime.
  Here’s more details on that audio:
  Format ulaw 2:1
  Attributes 16K, 16Bit, Mono

  In DVD Architect I’m able to select:
  PCM Stereo
  AC-3 Stereo
  AC-3 5.1 Surround

  Okay, both disks I sent were in AC-3 Stereo. So that’s the problem. But there isn’t a Wave (.wav) option. Or is that the PCM Stereo?

  Thanks JR
  Curtis
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  John Rofrano

  March 5, 2009 at 9:02 pm

  OK, I’m way confused now. I misread your original post. I thought the NTSC disc had no audio but now I realize that you said that it had music with no commentary. Forget about the WAV thing… you made them AC3 and that was the correct thing to do. (BTW, yes… PCM is WAV format)

  I also just went back to re-read your post and originally I thought the two discs were fine when you played them but not when your friend played them. Is that the case? Do they behave differently for your friend? Or do they not play right for you too?

  You said that that the MOV file is not giving you audio. The first thing is to make sure the project plays back on the timeline before you render to any DVD format. Is the project playing back correctly? Just trying to figure out if the audio was ever correct.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Curtis Suter

  March 6, 2009 at 12:20 am

  John,

  I’m sorry I’ve confused you.
  I’m not worried about the NTSC version for the USA, it plays and works great whether on the timeline in Vegas Studio, DVD Architect or via a DVD player on the computer and finally good on the TV. So the USA is good to go! 🙂

  However, I sent it to a friend in England whom uses PAL format and wanted him to try the PAL and NTSC formats on his computer and TV. I couldn’t get the PAL to work here in the USA but didn’t know what would be best for the computer.

  Here’s a chart of what he reported back.
  He uses WinDVD on his computer.

  ……….PAL…………………..NTSC

  TV
  ……..Video OK………………Poor Video
  ……..Audio OK………………No audio from .mov
  ………………………………..Good audio from Cinescore (.wav)

  Computer
  …….Video a bit Fuzzy……….Good Video
  …….Audio OK……………..Same as above for audio.

  So I guess that if I want to send him a PAL disk for TV than I should make it in PAL.

  So if he wished to view it mainly on his computer I should send him the DVD in NTSC but redo the audio from AC-3 to PCM Stereo.

  Does that sound right?

  Thanks
  Curtis
  Montana

  So it seems that
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  John Rofrano

  March 8, 2009 at 7:21 pm

  I’m not sure how PCM would be different than AC3 unless in Vegas there is a problem rendering the MOV audio to AC3 somehow. You can try rendering using PCM just to see what happens. Check the resulting WAV file and make sure all of the audio is there.

  Otherwise, I would just send him PAL discs since they work.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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