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  • AC3 audio volume

    Posted by Sebastian Alvarez on January 3, 2008 at 3:17 am

    I noticed that when I encode audio to AC3 Pro in Vegas the level in the resulting file goes down considerably. I’m using the settings as they are, the only parameter I change is the bitrate to 448 kbps. Does anybody know why this happens?

    Sebastian Alvarez replied 18 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Mike Kujbida

    January 3, 2008 at 4:10 am

    I can’t explain the technical reason as to why this happens but here’s the workaround.

    Encode set to AC3 Pro;
    Click on Custom tab;
    On the first tab, set diag. norm to “-31”;
    On the last tab marked Preprocessing, set the Line Mode Profile and RF Mode Profile mode to “none”;
    Save this as a preset.

  • Sebastian Alvarez

    January 3, 2008 at 4:21 am

    Excellent. That worked. I wonder why they would set the default to parameters that produce such a level loss.

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