DVD Camcorder import function not importing audio

[Joe Mantaratz]

If you are using the “import camcorder disc” function there is no further step for audio. The video files cannot just be copied into Vegas as it will truncate the files. Not sure why you would not be getting audio. Is this from a camcorder disc or from a burned DVD? Some camcorders use 4 channels and as I recall Vegas only sees 2. That might be the issue if it is from your camcorder. A little more details might help.

[David Oddleifson]

Thank you for your response.

The DVDs are burned DVDs but they have worked in the past. We had to re-build our operating system and after we re-installed Vegas, this problem pops up. The strange part is that when I play the imported files in windows media player, the audio works correctly. However, when I import them into Vegas, the audio does not appear. The DVDs shouldn’t have 4 channel audio because they were made from 2-channel media.

[Joe Mantaratz]

Understand…then try this. Explore the DVD, copy it to the desktop, change the extension to MPG instead of VOB and drag the file to the timeline. The audio should be there but the video will be shortened. This is just a test.
There is no reason I can see why the audio would not be seen in Vegas and yet play in Media player. How were the DVD’S burned? Since you mentioned they worked before what were you referring to?

[David Oddleifson]

Thanks for your responses. I ended up calling Sony. Turns out that there is a known issue with 9.0a not importing the audio off of mpeg2’s. The fix: updating to 9.0b. Something I should have thought of but didn’t after we reinstalled the program.

[John Rofrano]

When you re-installed Vegas did you also re-install DVD Architect? The AC3 codec is shipped with DVD Architect, not Vegas.

~jr

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