Combining Video and Audio Files

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

you can render as an MPEG 2 with included audio if you choose that option from the render dialog.
or…
you can render as an mpeg 4/mp4 for future safekeeping as well.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the reply. All I have at this point is the the mpeg and ac3 files. What is the prefered software to go about combining them?

[Scott Francis]

In DVDA you can select the audio to use….unless you are trying to view it outside of DVDA, in that case I would re-render to MPEG 2 WITH audio.

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Mark Prebonich]

I would like to view the file with a program such as Windows Media Player. I use TsMuxer for HD video and audio muxing. I had hoped that there was a program that would be able to do this for MPEG-2 and AC3 as well. It seems quite a pain to have to re-render just to join the audio and video files.

-Mark

[Matt Crowley]

If you don’t mind trying another media player, then check out MPC-HC (Media Player Classic Home Cinema). It can automatically pick up the AC3 audio file if you play the associated MPEG2 file. It’s a bit of a techie hacker’s program, but I like it for the lean interface and format support.

There are probably other media players that can do this but I haven’t tried any. VLC might also do this.

To guarantee playback on all media players, you’ll have to rerender as an MPEG2 video with included audio, or mux the files somehow.

[Mark Prebonich]

OK, if I have to re-render then I guess I’ll do that. Now I have run into another problem. I had originally rendered the audio to AC3 and I am unable to place the audio back on the timeline. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks.

-Mark

[Mike Kujbida]

Load the original project and you can then render to any format you want.

[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the reply Mike. I do not have the original project which is the probelm. I have only the DVD and the 2 files that were used for DVD Architect. I have been looking for a muxing program but have not found one that will work properly. The closest thing I have found is TsMuxer but time keeping and slide bar in WMP are off, however the video and audio are in sync. I can then load the muxed file back into Vegas Pro and I suppose that I could then render this back out. I am still hoping that there is a simple way to just mux these to files into one video. Any other thoughts regarding the proper workflow at this point? Thanks.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

OK, after several hours of trying various programs, good old tsMuxeR came thru again. I used M2TS muxing and it worked great. I then just changed the file type back to mpg to be technically correct. Thanks everyone for their input.

[Matt Crowley]

This might be a bit late to be helpful this time…

You can use the authored DVD as the source for a new project which you can then render to whatever format you want.

Just import the DVD video into Vegas (Project>Import DVD Camcorder Disc) to get the video and audio on the timeline, then you can render normally to whatever format you need.