After render audio mostly in right channel

[Danny Hays]

You are rendering the audio as an .ac3 file aren’t you?

[Rob Franks]

Are you doing Blu Ray?

From what I understand, Movie Studio uses the “STUDIO” ac3 encoder (as opposed to the Pro level encoder found in Vegas pro). The Studio encoder is not certified to work with Blu Ray nor will it function properly. You will need the pro encoder, or simply render as Dolby Stereo.

[Rob Franks]

If you’re doing DVD then it’s best to render a SEPARATE audio and video file (a AC3 file and your video file) and then import this to DVDa which will mux them together when it builds the disk.

[Christian Burge]

Thanks so much for your help. Yes, it turned out to be an issue with trying to render it as a surround sound track. Once I changed the project properties to stereo the problem was solved when I rendered the audio track. Makes me wonder though why they even include the option to render in surround if it doesn’t work…

Thanks again for your help. I truly appreciate it!

[Danny Hays]

wmv files can be rendered with surround sound as well as a few others. For surround sound dvds, they need an .ac3 file muxed with the dvd compliant mpg to get 5.1 audio.

[Mark Prebonich]

I have a Sony CX-500V camera. It is defaulted to record in 5.1 sound. When I first started editing video, Vegas would ask me if I wanted to work in 5.1. This worked fine for 5.1 but I noticed the same thing with sound more directed to one channel when I selected editing in stereo. After I changed the camera setting to stereo rather than 5.1, I found that everything now flows smoothly. 5.1 on this camera is for the most part a gimmick and marketing ploy anyways. I am very happy in leaving it set to stereo and the sound is now well balanced.

-Mark