Sony DVD Architect Pro 5.2 About Volume…

[Mike Kujbida]

See if the following suggestion helps.

Encode set to AC3;
Click on Custom tab;
On the first tab, set Dialog Norm at -31 (this sets it at unity gain);
On the last tab marked Preprocessing, set the Line Mode Profile and RF Mode Profile mode to “none”;
Save this as a preset.

[Hideaki Ogiwara]

I can’t not find any tabs into my “Render As”….
Then Click Custom tab….
They say:

Audio service configuration:
Bitstream mode:
Audio coding mode:
Sample rate:
Data rate:
Dialog normalization:

Please tell me how to go this page…

Thank you.
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Click on Custom tab;
On the first tab, set Dialog Norm at -31 (this sets it at unity gain);
On the last tab marked Preprocessing, set the Line Mode Profile and RF Mode Profile mode to “none”;
Save this as a preset.

[Mike Kujbida]

On the first tab, set Dialog Norm at -31 (this sets it at unity gain);

On the last tab marked Preprocessing, set the Line Mode Profile and RF Mode Profile mode to “none”;

Save this as a preset.

[Hideaki Ogiwara]

Thank you very much!! I’ll try it right now!!!

[Wayne Munn]

It looks like you didn’t get a reply from the initial requester some two years ago, but I had a similar question and found your detailed answer. It worked fine for me.

Thanks so much for the detailed steps. I now have them in my Evernote files for the next time.

How the heck did you know what to do? You must know the specs and “insides” of how things have changed during the transition from analog to digital with such a range of dynamics possible. If there is a reference I should look to regarding how all this works, I would appreciate a pointer.

Thank you again for sharing this valuable, and correct, info.

Best regards,

Wayne

[Mike Kujbida]

Thanks Wayne. As much as I’d like to claim to be a guru when it comes to things like this, the reality is that I got the info from one of the many Vegas forums I’m on. If I could remember who it was that originally posted this, I’d happily give them credit.

BTW, here are two more lines to add to the above post. Once again, the author is unknown.

DC High Pass Filter On (this operates at <=3Hz and takes DC bias out of the mix);
Bandwidth Low Pass Filter On (this takes aliasing noise at >20kHz out of the encode).

[Wayne Munn]

I’ve added that last bit to my notes also.

I have been on the Sony Forums for a long time. I started with Vegas Video V 1 and have been reliant on Sound Forge since 1996. I bemoan how Sonic Foundry and the team in Madison seems to have deteriorated since the behemoth Sony got in the picture. The great inventive folks in Madison don’t seem to have much to add to their “bag of tricks” anymore.

Even with cheap upgrades and being in the Beta program I can find no valid reason to update past Vegas Pro 10. 11 was a disaster and 12 seems little more than 11 re-branded. BUMMER. Other than adding begrudging support for BluRay in VP and DVDA, it seems SONY has done little of merit. Of course, Adobe with the forced march to the cloud where they can hold the entire universe hostage is all a bit scary. (No I’m not afraid of the cloud. . .unless it is one in the hands of the “evil and conspiratorial universe” that Adobe has become 🙂

What are your thoughts on VP 12? Maybe I’m missing something, although it seems not from my monitoring of the restricted access Beta forum.

I have thought about giving up the ship an migrating fully to Adobe Premier, but I found the interface more difficult (inscrutable) and far less intuitive than Vegas. Also, one of my primary uses for Vegas is audio-only projects mixing and mastering 16-24 track live high-def audio recordings. I have always respected Vegas strengths in the area of multi-track audio.

Regards,

Wayne

Wayne Munn, Principal
AFS Digital Media Services