sound problems

hardright · Post by **hardright** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:30 am

hey there,

I'm having trouble adding sound to my project.

It's basically 27 seconds of an animation repeated as seperate titles 9 times

I've tried assigning a 30 second mp3 file with fade out ending to each title animation

it works fine in the edit window but sound wont play in the final preview window.

I've tried converting the mp3 file to wav and assigning it that way but to no avail

when I burn the DVD animation is there but no sound.

the audio TS file isn't appearing on the burnt dvd either.

has this something got to do with the length of the audio file or does that matter?

please help

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:48 am

Yes it matters. You cannot have a sound file longer than the video in menus. You are right to convert to wav, however.

hardright · Post by **hardright** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:59 am

Thanks devil

still having probs though edited the file down to 26 seconds as the animation is 27seconds and It's a wav file as well but still no joy.

when I play in the finish preview window it says

Audio: 0/0

still no sound being played help?

hardright · Post by **hardright** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:11 pm

Okay progress I started a new project and used the sample file provided by ulead as the video and tried adding my 26 second wav file to that.

It worked perfectly.

This could be the newbie problem:

the video animation I had imported was an avi, I'm assuming that DVD workshop converted the files from avi to mpeg before the burn but am I wrong. Do I have to convert them myself and is this the reason the sound wouldn't play, it was conflicting with the avi?

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:16 pm

My guess is that an avi file should have the sound already incorporated, but you don't say what kind of avi? If it's highly compressed, such as DivX or XviD, then I would expect all kinds of trouble. If it's DV or similar, there should be no prob.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:24 pm

In the EDIT step, under the AUDIO tab, what do you have listed

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:28 pm

...the audio TS file isn't appearing on the burnt dvd either.

FYI - A "normal" video DVD will have an empty AUDIO_TS folder. The audio and video are multiplexed (interwoven) together in VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder.

I'm assuming that DVD workshop converted the files from avi to mpeg before the burn...

Correct. VOB files are MPEG-2. (The DVD spec also allows MPEG-1.) But like Devil says, it depends on what type of AVI you are converting from.