Poor quality of finished DVD when using Architect 4.5

[Diane Sosnoski]

I have Vegas Pro 8 and there is no AC-3 option.

[Mike Kujbida]

Diane, as I recall, you said you have DVD Architect which makes this very strange as installing it installs the AC-3 option in Vegas.
Which versions and builds (found in the Help files of each app) of Vegas and DVD Architect do you have?

[Mike Kujbida]

Diane, my apologies if I’m wrong but I have to ask if these are legitimate copies of Vegas & DVDA or…
Your problem sounds very similar to people using “less than legal” copies of the software.

[Diane Sosnoski]

Mike,
I bought Vegas 4.0 in ’03 from Sonic Foundry and the Pro upgrade in ’07 from Sony. Now, this is really strange but I just put a WAV file in a project to check again, looked for the AC-3 option and there it was, 3rd down. I’m mystified because when I looked before, it wasn’t an option!
I’ve been having problems on this PC and had to clear the CMOS yesterday but I don’t see how Vegas would have been effected.
Sorry about the confusion, you’re right, the AC-3 option is there.

[Mike Kujbida]

Diane, I’m glad to hear that you finally got it resolved.
Yes, computers can be very finicky, even at the best of times.

[Burton Loupee iii]

I am also not seeing Ac-3. I have .aa3, mp3 sony audio. I have a licenced version of Sony Vegas 8 that I purchased from Best Buy a while back. Diane mentioned not seeing it then having it appear. Is there some way to select only the audio to have it appear?
Any help is appreciated!
James

[John Rofrano]

The Dolby Digital encoder comes with DVD Architect. If you only have Vegas Pro 8 and don’t have DVD Architect then you won’t have it.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Burton Loupee iii]

Thanks for the quick response. I have both Vegas 8.0 and Architect 4.5 but I purchased them separately. I had vegas, then downloaded Architect as a trial before buying the full version. Is there a way to synch them together or should I reinstall Architect?
Thanks again.

[Burton Loupee iii]

Just uninstalled and reinstalled Architect 4.5 and it does in fact say Sony DVD Arch Trial. I bought this off of sony’s online store for $39.95 and it doesn’t say anything about only being a trial version. Any reason to think that the $40 version should not support the AC-3?

[Mike Kujbida]

[Burton Loupee III] I bought this off of sony’s online store for $39.95 …

What you bought was DVD Architect Studio and not the full version of DVD Architect.

…and it doesn’t say anything about only being a trial version.

You should have received a serial number with the program so it shouldn’t show up as being a trial version.
Have you installed any other versions of DVD Architect previously?

Any reason to think that the $40 version should not support the AC-3?

None that I can think of but, as this is the Studio version and not the Pro, there may be restrictions that I’m not aware of.