Not all sound on DVD

natvid · Post by **natvid** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:29 pm

With MF5, When creating dvd with multiple AVI imported files, the final DVD has sound with background but some of the sound tracks from AVIs are missing. Workaround is to normalize audio which allows all sound to be captured on final DVD.

snoops · Post by **snoops** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:21 pm

Hi,
this is another post on missing sound with certain imported files (in this case AVI).

AVI or WAV is like a brown paper bag: what's inside?

How about posting the exact audio properties and encoding in the AVI or WAV files?? That way folks will be able to avoid it.

MF5 probably just uses the system's audio playback (any installed codecs) when previewing, but doesn't handle certain types of audio correctly when it does its encoding for DVD.

natvid · Post by **natvid** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:12 am

All of the AVI files were the same. Audio 16 bit, PCM format. For some of the files the DVD had the sound and for some of the AVI files the DVD had no sound. Note that all of the AVI files were coded the same.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:51 am

natvid wrote:With MF5, When creating dvd with multiple AVI imported files, the final DVD has sound with background but some of the sound tracks from AVIs are missing. Workaround is to normalize audio which allows all sound to be captured on final DVD.

Where did you import them from - your camcorder or off the internet?

natvid · Post by **natvid** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:06 pm

I created them in another program (Pinnacle studio). I had no problems with MF4 or MF2.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:08 am

Which still doesn't answer the question. If this were the Pinnacle Studio Web Board I would still be asking where did you get them from
Camcorder, internet extracted from a DVD found in a Christmas cracker or where?

natvid · Post by **natvid** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:01 pm

Sorry, I wasn't clear but Pinnacle is an editing program on my PC. So the process is camcorder (high definition mode) imported to Pinnacle as mvt file which creates the AVI which is then imported into MF5 and is used to create the DVD. Note the same file in MF4 works fine.

[u][b]The main poin[/b][/u]t is that some files have the sound and others do not. No consistency.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:44 pm

Are you intending upon editing anything in MovieFactory or simply using its DVD authoring abilities?

If only for authoring the DVD then export the file from Pinnacle as a DVD compliant MPEG2 file otherwise you are rendering twice instead of once.
Ensure that the option (cogwheel icon bottom of screen) has
[do not convert compliant MPEG files] is checked to prevent re-rendering.

snoops · Post by **snoops** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:09 pm

Hi natvid,
well, if the same files work fine in MF4 then you've probably exposed a bug in MF5. We users can't fix it, but our goal might be a workaround. That's why I asked for the exact audio properties.

Steve's suggestion is good... why convert more than needed, losing quality with each step.

You didn't mention the exact audio format, just part of it. But you did say that normalizing the audio avoids the problem!
EDITED:
Sorry, I forgot there was a "normalize" option in MF5 itself (final burn dialog). Forget the question I previously had here

Just in case you happen to be using the same file names...
Based on a bug already mentioned here (importing the same VOB file name from 2 different folders = bad news), a possible workaround would be to use different AVI names.

I'm really worried about the size of cookies in the UK:

a DVD found in a Christmas cracker

This sounds more like space cake is playing a role.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:29 am

snoops · Post by **snoops** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:32 am

No, I wasn't the one who mentioned using Normalize.

According to what has been posted so far, it looks like MF5 has a problem when the audio is not exactly the same length, and that this problem was intoduced with new code in MF5 (compared to MF4).

When MF5 normalizes the audio, it probably generates an audio track equal in length (cutting or padding as needed).

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:24 pm

natvid · Post by **natvid** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:35 pm

Steve, I only use MF for dvd creation. It has very good menu controls and has been very stable for this task.

Thanks for the idea of using MPEG 2. I will give it a try. I have a project I can test to see if it improves the render time and the quality is the same or better. This would be a big time saver for me

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