no sound when creating a SVCD

[bhales]

I know why there's no sound on one of two videos I created. The "data track" in project properties is blank when it should say "audio and video". What I can't seem to figure out is WHY. Video Studio (7) will not allow me to change it. Is it possible that once a project is created, the properties can't be changed? The documentation is pretty worthless - it makes little clear to me. Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can output with sound? I know the sound is there because I hear it when I do a project playback.

[Thumper]

I know why there's no sound on one of two videos I created. The "data track" in project properties is blank when it should say "audio and video". What I can't seem to figure out is WHY. Video Studio (7) will not allow me to change it. Is it possible that once a project is created, the properties can't be changed? The documentation is pretty worthless - it makes little clear to me. Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can output with sound? I know the sound is there because I hear it when I do a project playback.

Same trouble here! I hear the sound just fine in project playback, but when i try to create a movie file there is no audio! Though the audio is there when i create a DVD though... but I want to create storable MPG's or AVI files but so far no sound help! thanks (did you have any luck by the way?)

[sjj1805]

What format of sound, MPEG , WAV, AC3 (Dolby) or something else?
VS7 does not support AC3 (Dolby) without a plug-in. The plug-in cost almost as much as an upgrade to VS9 which has Dolby support built in.

Steve J

[Thumper]

What format of sound, MPEG , WAV, AC3 (Dolby) or something else?
VS7 does not support AC3 (Dolby) without a plug-in. The plug-in cost almost as much as an upgrade to VS9 which has Dolby support built in.

Steve J

ahh interesting Steve I'm so new to this how would I know? I haven't even gotten into editing yet I just wanted to get my DV into the computer and then into a computer file like AVI or MPG ....

i didn't even see a place to chose which sound output to file. Do you mean what sort of sound is coming out of my camcorder?. Or what sort of sound did i "chose" to output to the file? All l I know is the dvd worked fine ................(although even though i chose the option to have ZERO loss in video quality an hour of video turned out to be about 3.5 gigs.. it still doesnt look as good as the original tape ... (that's a different issue though.

SO I should go look for or try to output my audio to the file a different way and see if it ends up having sound in the mpg or avi file? also when i tried to create an avi file it took hours like it was converting so MPG is what i'll go for! also why are SVCDS or whatever why arent they just caleld MPGS since they seem to be mpg files when they are finished? lol sorry i have sooo many questions and i'm using Videostudio 8. thanks for your reply!

[GeorgeW]

Are you making SVCD's or DVD's (or maybe VCD's)

There are different specifications for the different types of discs.

Go to videohelp.com, and in the top left corder there is a "What Is" section for the three different formats.

Regards,
George

[sjj1805]

For a description of AVI files, MPEG files etc see this post
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 5019#55019

The difference between DVD / VCD / SVCD is down to evolution.
A few years ago we used floppy disks firstly the 5.25" then the 3.5"
They didn't hold much data. then along came the CD able to hold 650-700MB and so the Computer geniuses devised a method for getting up to a hours worth of video onto these discs in a format known as VCD then later in slightly higher quality SVCD. They use what is known as MPEG1 format.

Computers continued to evolve and along came the DVD disc able to hold 4.3 GB of data and so the quality of video was vaslty improved with the introduction of the MPEG2 format.

Things continue to improve and in the next month or so dics known as Blue Ray will hit the market which can hold 25GB of data. We will then see users making HD (High Definition) Videos.

Regards
Steve J