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Sony DVD Architect prepare and burning problems
I’ve edited and rendered my video in sony vegas and have 2 files, mpeg and wave sound. When I open them in DVD Architect with all the DVD menus it all works fine, both sound and video. When I burn to DVD I only get video, no sound. I also found that when DVD architect prepares the movie, it only creates files for the video_ts and not the audio_ts, which it makes during the prepare process.
I’m not sure what to do to fix this.
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With rare exceptions, the AUDIO_TS folder is empty.
Do you not get sound while watching this on a TV?
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The more likely answer (needed time to think about this).
DVD Architect defaults to AC-3 audio.
Since you’re using PCM (i.e. WAV) audio, you need to go into the properties and change it.
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Alex, are you using DVD Architect Studio (and not DVD Architect Pro)? I can’t find any info on it now, but I seem to recall DVDA Studio having, at one time, a bug to do with PCM / wave audio. I don’t use the Studio apps on a regular basis, so I really can’t remember the details or how to fix it.
Whatever you’re using, just for kicks, try rendering an AC3 file out of Vegas and replacing the audio in your DVD Architect project. (Incidentally, is there a reason you want to use PCM / wave instead of AC3? AC3 is much more common.)
Rob
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[Rob Strobbe] “(Incidentally, is there a reason you want to use PCM / wave instead of AC3? AC3 is much more common.)”
AC-3 is the equivalent of MP3 which means lower quality (approx. 10:1 compression).
For that reason, purists (not me!!) insist on using PCM audio whenever they can.
Most of my work is things like plays which run close to 2 hr. long so I use AC-3 audio in order to get a higher bitrate on my video. -
Thanks for helping me out but i’ll just say I know very little about this, i’m editing for a friend.
Mike, I haven’t got the option to change the audio format in the properties, it’s set at PCM stereo.
Robb, i’m using DVD Architect Studio 3.0 and Sony Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 and I didn’t choose PCM for any particular reason, I think it was the default setting. Is there another name for AC3 as it’s not an option in the render list?
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You can disregard that part. DVD Architect Studio 3.0 didn’t accept AC3 files, and VMS didn’t encode them. I think that may have been added in DVDA Studio 4.0 or maybe even 5.0.
Just had a thought: You may need to check to make sure the DVD player being used supports PCM audio and is setup correctly for it. Not a lot of commercially made DVDs use PCM, so you (or your friend) probably wouldn’t have noticed before now. Did you try playing the disc on more than one player? Or on any computers?
Rob
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I did try it on several different PCs and a DVD player and it didn’t work. This was a while ago now and there is another problem I’d forgotten to mention that has happened since the sound.
When I burn the prepared file to a disk, I end up with the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders (Audio_TS empty). However, it doesn’t play at all and if you view the properties of the disk, it either says there is 0mb used, 0mb free or a very small amount(about 125mb used, 0mb free). It’s a 6.7 GB file and I’m using 8.5GB DVDs.When I first edited and burnt the video about a year ago it worked fine but I had to go back to vegas as there were mistakes.
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Have you gone into the VIDEO_TS folder of the prepared file to confirm that there are a series of files in there?
Double-clicking any one of the VOB files should launch your media player.
If there are files in there, then I would suspect bad media or a bad burner. -
yeah there are loads of files in the video_TS folder.
Any suggestions/tests I can do? Or should I just try and use another machine? -
How long is the program supposed to be?
What’s the total size of the .VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder?
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