Audio format – question

[John Fishback]

Please explain your workflow so we can help. List all the steps you took to arrive at your DVD. Are you asking what format the audio is on the DVD, or before it’s encoded for inclusion on the DVD?

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Zuleide Otaviana]

I have the audio from my FCP exported as dual stereo. I am creating a DVD using DVD Studio Pro. The audio setting on FCP is 48 khz / 16-bit.

[John Fishback]

I’m still not sure what you’re asking, but I’ll take a crack at it. When you have your clip in FCP you can export it in many ways. Using QuickTime Conversion you can export audio as aiff. If it’s stereo in FCP it will be stereo when exported.

You can either use the aiff audio in DVDSP or a better approach is to first convert the aiff to ac3 (Dolby) in Compressor. However, be sure to search for how to do that (I know it’s covered in the DVDSP forum) as the basic preset in Compressor has to be adjusted. It’s best to use ac3 in DBDs as it’s only 192 kbps compared to the aiff which is approx. 1500 kbps which takes up more space on the DVD and is harder for the DVD player to playback. I hope this helps.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Zuleide Otaviana]

Thank you very much.