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Jason Garrison
September 27, 2011 at 3:19 am in reply to: Rendering with 5.1 audio “an error occurred while opening a codec”

Hi again

So the supposedly 5.1 surround rendered file reads only as stereo on my surround reciever. Bummer. I can have “fake” surround sound by having the reciever manipulate it into DTS Neo 6 or DDPLII but that can be done with any stereo track.

I experimented a bit, importing the same file into Vegas with the 5.1 soundtrack and then with only a stereo track. I rendered both files and the one that imported with only two channels sounds better than the one imported with 6 channels which were down-mixed in the rendering (Down-mixing apparently loses significant information).

The video was shot in native 24p, but I also test rendered the sucker in an AVCHD 1080 60i 5.1 surround preset template but Vegas output it with only a stereo track as well (and the loss of video quality was quite noticeable)

I paid an extra $40 to get the Canon surround mic vs. the regular stereo version. That may have been a mistake. It appears to me that if I want full HD at 24p with a surround soundtrack I am going to have to invest in a bluray burner. I hope this is not the case. I hope somebody out there has a solution.

Thanks again.

Jason
Jason Garrison
September 27, 2011 at 2:05 am in reply to: Rendering with 5.1 audio “an error occurred while opening a codec”

Thanks for the response.

I set the bitrate to 256 as you suggested and the file did render. Also as you said the rendered file appears only to be in stereo (at least that’s the way windows reads it). It may be it just needs decoding(?). I’ve heard that dd 5.1 isn’t truly 6 separate channels, but a stereo track coded to send certain signals to different channels when decoded. Don’t quote me on that, I’m not positive that is the case. I’m going to go try and play it on my surround system and see what happens.

Thank you again.

Jason
Jason Garrison
September 22, 2011 at 5:12 pm in reply to: How to render 1920X1080 24fps progressive video

Thanks John

I had not even considered the “internet” templates. I knew I was missing something simple.

Thank you very much for your response and patience with a newbie.

Jason
Jason Garrison
September 21, 2011 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Why aren’t all my fonts available?

It was as you said. I re-downloaded and loaded some of my missing fonts from a different source and was then able to access them in all functions of Vegas. Thanks again.
Jason Garrison
September 21, 2011 at 3:10 am in reply to: Why aren’t all my fonts available?

Thank you for the response. Problem solved.