Almost bald :-) : can’t import into DVD Architect

[John Rofrano]

Is the AC3 file created? Is there any other software on your PC that creates AC3 files? Have you download one of those “codec paks” that has every codec under the sun in one installer? Something on your PC is causing Vegas not to work properly. You just have to figure out what it is. 🙁 (not fun… i know)

~jr

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[Terry Esslinger]

I asked the question in another post about downloading a ‘codec pak’ (I think it was K-lite) I was concerned that some of the codecs would ‘replace the codecs that Vegas uses and cause problems. I was told (I don’t know how authoratatively) not to woorry. That Vegas looks first to its own codecs for the render. If it doesn’t have one that will do the job then it looks to other installed codecs. How does this sound?

[John Rofrano]

> I was told (I don’t know how authoratatively) not to woorry. That Vegas looks first to its own codecs for the render. If it doesn’t have one that will do the job then it looks to other installed codecs. How does this sound?

I believe that that is how it is supposed to work, however, I have seen people get themselves in trouble installing codec paks and uninstalling them seemed to fix the problem. (your mileage may vary) 😉

~jr

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[Rob Strobbe]

Not sure, but I think perhaps the trouble may be not in which codec Vegas uses to encode a file, but in which codec DVD Architect uses to interpret it. Could very well be that the file is fine — DVD Architect just thinks there’s something wrong with it because it’s trying to “read” it with one of those errant codec pack codecs.

I haven’t experienced this with DVDA (I stopped using these kinds of codec packs a long time ago), but I’ve had other software be unable to read a file properly. Then once I dumped the codec pack and got my system back to normal, that same file opened fine.

Rob

[John Rofrano]

That reminds me… other software can mess things up as well. Nero is a big offender. I stopped using it because it inserted it’s own video filters into your Windows system that caused Boris RED to not be able to read DV AVI files from Sony Vegas! So it could very well be some other software that is causing Vegas to not read the file.

~jr

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[Frank Colgoni]

Thanks guys. It’s definitely not a codec pack issue but the Nero OEM application is installed. I instlled everything on my laptop which doesn’t have Nero and I have encountered the same issue.

I have double-checked that the output format is correct any number of time but it just doesn’t like it for some reason. I have been scouring the net for answers and have found a few others with the same problem but it’s always a dead end…

Thanks for the input though.

[James Brian]

Frank did you have any success with your issue?

I’m going thru the exact same thing and man..it’s annoying as hell.

Found this thread thru search hoping to find easy answer…guess nothing yet other than whats been posted. All my other programs seem to be working fine..audio and video.

Please Frank post an update if you’ve had any luck with this.

Thank you,

[Pete Law]

has anyone resolved this problem

I get the same error

When I execute “make movie”, it creates the mpg file and the ac3 file of the same name and then opens DVD Architect. Once open, Architect delivers this message:

“Warning: an error occured while opening one or more files. The file is an unsupported format.”

I have go to the file associations in windows and changed the assoc with mpg and ac3 etc. but it still didnt work…

can anyone help please….
i am desperate now

[Jon Hegle]

Add me to the list… I have the same problem. The only difference is that when I render the video using the Main Concept MPEG-2 using the template DVD NTSC video stream, teh video file created has a .M2V extension. But the same error occurs when trying to import into DVD architect.

I am using a brand new HP dv6-1350US laptop, and have not loaded any other software except for the Sony Vegas and DVD architect. If anyone has any ideas, please let us know.

[Mike Kujbida]

Jon, use the DVD Architect NTSC video stream template for MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro for audio.
Give both files the same name and render them to the same folder.
That way, when you load the video file into DVD Architect, the audio file will automatically follow.