Dolby 5.1 question before I buy Studio 10 Plus

[Fleabag]

Hi

I've been evaluating various programs but inevitably demo/trial versions are incomplete in some respect.

Could anyone tell me the answer to the following questions please? My apologies if the answers are already in the forum, I did a brief search but didn't see exactly what I wanted....

Basically I have a DV video clip from a digital camcorder, which has a soundtrack on it, recorded on the internal rubbish microphone. This was a recording of a large choir. We simultaneously recorded the choir on a decent digital desk using 8 microphones. I have produced a single WAV file which contains the 6 tracks required for a Dolby 5.1 surround track. Now I want to add this back to the video and put it on DVD.

1) Will Studio 10 plus allow me to remove the rubbish soundtrack that is part of the original clip (or at least set its volume to zero!) ?

2) Can I import my 6-track WAV file to overlay on the video? Nero 7 allows me to do this, but Nero 7 crashes on trying to render my video. All the advertising "marketing speak" on the ULead site seems to point towards using a stereo track which you then pan using the surround panner. This is not how I want to work, my track is already mixed with the voices panned to the correct surround positions, I just want to overlay the WAV on the DV.


Thanks to anyone who finds time to answer

Regards

Fleabag

Portsmouth, UK.

[Rich2Putt]

1) Yes, you can set the mute on your video clip in VS or "0" volume

2) Haven't tried 5.1 in VS10+, so can't give you a direct answer.

VS10+ (full box version) is just begining to arrive in our mail boxes. Someone should have an answer for you in the coming days.

[Fleabag]

I can now confirm the following from the trial version:

1) Yes you can set the level of the original soundtrack to zero or mute it.

2) Importing a true 5.1 WAV file onto the timeline works, and you can hear each separate channel in the final DVD. HOWEVER, there is a regular burst of white noise on all channels at roughly 0.5 or 1 second intervals, which is louder than my own soundtrack. I assume that this is probably for licensing reasons, to prevent the Dolby encoder being usefully used without being paid for?

It's been good enough as a proof of concept for me, so I am happy.

[Mike-Mat]

There is a Split Audio function. It will pull the audio out from the video. Then you can completely delete it. A way of making sure your white noise wasn't comming form the old audio.

Since you only have 1 audio track, you will have to split and delete before you insert the Wav file.

Mike

[Fleabag]

Thanks Mike, I actually found that button while you were typing...

Oddly, today there is no white noise so perhaps you are right, perhaps the hiss came from the particular movie I loaded up. Because today there is no hiss and I am working from a different sample clip in my evaluation... (AVI instead of Quicktime MOV).

EDIT: no, the noisee was not there when I listened in Quicktime. Odd...

[Black Lab]

Since you only have 1 audio track, you will have to split and delete before you insert the Wav file.

Actually, you have two: Voice & Music. Three if you count the Video track. OK, technically four if you include the Overlay track. And if you have VS10...