DivX clips: no audio in Project mode or exported video

bmuse · Post by **bmuse** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:05 pm

Using VS10+ trial

Hi all,

I'm importing DivX clips into my project. When "Clip" is selected under the preview window, each clip plays with its audio. But when "Project" is selected, the video plays with NO audio.

And, when I create a video file, there's no audio in the resulting MPEG either. I've tried Share > Video File > NTSC DVD and NTSC MPEG2, and also followed the Custom procedures in the "Recommended Procedures" sticky thread. Same results, no audio.

The DivX clips were created using Dr. DivX, from non-commercial VOB files. The DivX clips play fine in WMP and PowerDVD.

Why would they play fine in VS with "Clip" selected, but no audio when "Project" is selected?

I'm using the trial, but if I can't get this to work, then the full version won't be of much use to me. I'm sure it's a setting on my end.

Any suggestions are very much appreciated!

Thank you!

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:45 pm

If you search the forum for DivX, you will find that DivX*causes more trouble than anything else!

On top of that, DivX and MPEG-2 are both lossy compression. The VOB files are already MPEG-2 compressed. You loose some quality with each compression step, and your procedure requires two "extra" lossy compression steps.

Video Studio can Import the DVD directly. (Look it up in the user's manual. If you don't have a user's manual, you can download it.) The Import DVD featue doesn't work with all DVDs (I suspect it has some bugs), but when it does, it extracts the MPEG-2 directly from the DVD without re-coding or degrading it.

* Actually, all of the highly compressed formats cause trouble, including Xvid, WMV, etc. Even MPEG-2, which isn't quite as compressed, causes some trouble, depending on what you are doing with it. The most trouble-free format is DV. AVI/DV files are compressed to 13GB per hour.

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:29 pm

Correct about temporally compressed formats like DivX etc.

As far as MPEG-2 goes I agree for Main Level/Main Profile MPEG-2 as is used in DVD's and 'normal' MPEG exports, but not so much with HDV. It's MPEG-2 profile is High1440 which is much more edit-able.