Using third party codecs with Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 6

[Steve Boreham]

Update on Dolby 5.1:

1) Click Help / About
2) Select Components tab
3) Scroll down to component “AC3”
4) Observe “ac3plug.dll version: Not loaded”

This implies that I don’t have AC3 encodingg installed exactly as I guessed at the outset, but which contradicts the help file. I will write to Sony Support.

[John Rofrano]

It may be a version problem. According to Sony’s product comparison page, Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8 has AC3. You are using version 6 (2 versions behind!) so maybe your version doesn’t have AC3. The upgrade is only $45 so it might be worth it to get the latest version if you’re seriously getting into this.

~jr

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[Steve Boreham]

Yup, it is indeed a version problem.

Sony Support’s response to me today confirmed that the help file refers to some features that were only available in the Pro edition at the time I purchased Platinum. Subsequent releases of Platinum were however enhanced to support encoding to AC-3 as implied by current v9 functionality.

With the 20% discount upgrade offer, I guess I’ll be upgrading then!

Cheers
Steve

[Mike Calhoun]

Thanks so much, this really solved my confusion using adobe PP and AE to render video.