vegas 13 with 5.1 wavs to Adobe Encore CS6

[John Rofrano]

I would render the audio as Dolby Digital AC3 using the 5.1 Surround template. At least that’s what you would do if you were using DVD Architect Pro. Hopefully Encode will be able to ingest this file (you’ll have to ask on the Encore forum).

~jr

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[Mike Peterson]

Thanks I’ll ask them.

[Mike Peterson]

Actually I have had some trouble outputting to Dolby Digital AC3 via Vegas before as I seem to get compression like crazy even though I have every setting I can think of off. Any one else have that issue?

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Peterson] “I seem to get compression like crazy even though I have every setting I can think of off. Any one else have that issue?”

Can you define “compression like crazy” in more technical terms? Is the volume too low? are there compression artifacts? is the audio compressed so that there is no dynamic range? ???

~jr

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[Mike Peterson]

There is no dynamic range, the highs are brought down low and silences get lifted up like it’s trying to equalize all levels. That was my past experiences with it, I’ll give it a shot with these new wavs and see if I have to same results

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Peterson] “There is no dynamic range, the highs are brought down low and silences get lifted up like it’s trying to equalize all levels.”

Turn off the compression. Press the Customize Template button, go to the Preprocessing tab and under Dynamic range compression set both the Line mode profile and RF mode profile to None

~jr

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[Mike Peterson]

Fantastic!

[Mike Peterson]

Actually Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 Surround DVD doesn’t allow me to customize the template…it is greyed out. I do have the options of two templates, one with AGC on and one without, I selected the one without. This is the info it says under the template:

Audio: 448 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, 5.1 Surround, Automatic Gain Control off.
Use this setting for 5.1 Surround DVD soundtracks.
Audio: 448 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, 24 Bit, 5.1, AC3

Again, I’m not certain I still have the problem. I’ve rendered the files but haven’t burned the Blu-Ray yet. I’ll try to finish that today. Just listening to the AC3 it seems fine, but I don’t have the greatest ear 🙁

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Peterson] “Actually Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 Surround DVD doesn’t allow me to customize the template…it is greyed out. “

It’s not greyed out for me because I checked it before I answered your post. I’m not sure why you can’t edit it. Are you using Movie Studio? That could be why.

~jr

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[Mike Peterson]

No, I have Vegas Pro 13. The other templates customization isn’t greyed out, but for Dolby Digital Ac3 it is. Not sure why