Topic: pcm audio on dvd video not dolby 2 or ac3 etc etc

[boyacrobat]

just synced one of my fav dvd shows with 16/44 pcm soundboard .
prob i have is every template in vegas 8 or dvd architect 4 i have messed with
changes/compresses  my audio stream when making the final dvd.

i really want the 16/44 stream playing, is it possible with dvd s ?

any help in the right direction ? divx codec maby ??

my file from vegas is avi 12 gig with pcm 16/44 but how to keep this on the final dvd burn ??

g

[Javier Cinakowski]

the minimum you can use for DVD is 16/48.   There is no way to make 16/44.1 work afaik...

[boyacrobat]

i will try upsampling the stream to 16/48 and see what happens ?

g

[stantheman1976]

Easily done.  Select the region you want to output.  Mute everything but the audio track.  Render as 16/48 WAV.  Now mute audio and un-mute video track.  Render video track as MPEG-2 or DV-AVI and convert to MPEG-2 with external encoder.  I encode with TMPGEnc myself but it's perfectly acceptable to render straight to MPEG-2 from Vegas.  Now open your DVD authoring program and import the separate video and audio streams.  There you have it.  Just remember to account for the bitrate of the audio when calculating the bitrate of your video.  I think the maximum allowable to keep a DVD in standard is 10MBps for the whole shebang.  So if you have audio that is 1546 (I think that's the number?)  you shouldn't encode your video higher than 8MBps to stay safe.

I use this bitrate calculator:
http://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php

[boyacrobat]

easily done, thats what ive been looking to read.
i will get right onto it and finish it ..

thank you all dearly, much appreciated.

and stan , you should be upgraded to main.
         - stan the main man -

g

[stantheman1976]

Have you been using Vegas long?  There are so many tricks and tips that every time you do a project there's something new to learn.  If you plan on doing any multi cam edits Vegas 8 will save you tons of time.  As you've also learned, syncing up different sources is easy too.

[boyacrobat]

started with vegas this week, my first project.
nearly there.

g

[guitard]

So if you have audio that is 1546 (I think that's the number?)

Minor correction ~ 1536

[stantheman1976]

So if you have audio that is 1546 (I think that's the number?)

Minor correction ~ 1536

Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. 

[boyacrobat]

stan your advice worked
bless you champ

g

[boyacrobat]

for anyone interested the dvd i synced was u2 - 1983-05-30 - us festival-devore-1st gen now with 16/48 pcm.
it is being seeded at u2torrents now .

g