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No surround sound for Blu-ray
Hopefully somebody can help. I can only get stereo output from my Blu-rays out of DVDA. I have tried the Sony AVC and the AVCHD PAL 5.1 Surround template and the MainConcept MPEG2 with separate Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio and the 5.1 surround DVD template. When I load these into DVDA and select burn it tells me that the video on track 1 of ‘xxxxxx will be recompressed. The reason it gives is “the audio in the project is not in the proper format”. If I continue I end up with stereo output.
Any ideas?
I am running vers 8 of Vegas and 5 of DVDA and running out of BD-Rs.
Stan
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6 Replies
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Let me guess… you’re using the “studio” encoder… which is no good for Blu Ray work. You must use the PRO encoder.
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Yes Rob you are correct. I don’t want to do anything fancy, just take footage from a Sony camcorder to a Sony NLE to a Sony Burner to Blu-ray (Sony). So to achieve this I need to pay Dolby Labs £100? I wonder if Sony receive a comission if I order it via the link from Vegas? Or am I being cynical?
Thanks
Stan
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Actually you shouldn’t have to pay anything. If you’re running Vegas 8 (Pro) with DVDa5 then the Pro encoder should already be included.
The difference between the Pro and studio encoders is that the pro encoder is certified by Dolby Labs. It’s a real encoder while the studio encoder is not. The studio encoder is good enough for dvd…. but not blu ray.
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Rob,
I went back and tried again and the PRO encoder was available. I cannot explain why I saw the pop-up asking me if I wanted to purchase PRO??? I am re-rendering all of the files now as I rendered one, loaded it into DVDA and when I chose optimize I saw a tick rather than a recompress message.
If all goes well many thanks for your help.
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Well I’ve burnt another Blu-ray that is destined for the bin. There is surround sound coming out in between the numerous dropouts. The audio is truly apalling. Here are the settings I am using:
I will carry on hunting to see if anyone else has experienced this. Am I correct in thinking that I can try out all of these ‘features’ using a 4.7Mb disc. ie will results be identical when I burn a 25Mb Blu-ray disc?
Regards
Stan
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Tried on my son’s PS3 and it worked perfectly. Tried it again on the Sony BDP-S360 and a vast improvement (occasional drop outs – approx 2 per minute and always at different points). Will now investigate the deck and updating firmware.
Getting there!!
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