exporting m2v has no sound
by Leonard Frankford
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May 5, 2009 at 4:25:54 pm
I am not very experienced with Final Cut so I have a lot of questions. I'll begin with exporting a sequence to a DVD-compliant mpg2 file with sound so I can import it into a PC-based DVD authoring application that I am familiar with. I am not up to speed yet on DVD Studio Pro so I just wanted to export the sequence so I could bring it in to the software that I know. When I exported the sequence using Compressor I selected DVD 90 minutes/m2v file. When I brought it into my program (Movie Factory 6) the video plays fine but there's no sound. When I tried to open it on my PC it wouldn't play--the PC didn't recognize it as a movie file. Even when I played it back from the Mac desktop it wouldn't open. I got a window refering to a droplet and then some other window. But the file wouldn't play back. How can I make a PC-compatible DVD-compliant mpg2 file from Final Cut? I am in a hurry. Thanks.
Re: exporting m2v has no sound by John Fishback on May 5, 2009 at 4:30:24 pm
mv2s from Compressor have no sound. You need to use a second preset in addition to the DVD 90-Minute one you used for the mv2. Use the Dolby Difital Professional 2.0 (ac3) preset in the same folder as the mv2 preset. Make the following changes using the inspector (after dropping the preset on the source): in the Encoder tab > Audio tab change the Dialog Normalization to -31 from -27. In the Preprocessing tab change Film Standard Compression to None. Save As whatever you want to cvall it and it will appear in the Custom folder in Compressor for future use.
John
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Re: exporting m2v has no sound by John Fishback on May 5, 2009 at 7:18:34 pm
Hi, Chris. I think you can do this with Compressor if you use a Program Stream preset. The preset is in Apple>Formats>MPEG-2 folder. You want the Program Stream preset. Switch the Stream Usage to SD-DVD in the Encoder tab> Quality tab. Try it with the parameters in the preset, but you can always adjust those if you want.
John
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Re: exporting m2v has no sound by Leonard Frankford on May 5, 2009 at 7:50:15 pm
I actually tried that one first at the suggestion of a colleague, but the file size was too big. However, I see now where I can knock the bitrate down to a DVD-friendly size. I'm exporting now and will report back what happens. Thanks for the advice.
Re: exporting m2v has no sound by John Fishback on May 6, 2009 at 3:38:19 pm
If you go into the Encoder tab > Extras at the bottom click Multiplexed Mpeg-1/layer 2 Audio the Program Stream. Note that the settings in the Encoder tab jump to rate much higher than those for a SD-DVD and the Stream Usage turns back to Generic. I tried this and the audio and video play together. When you make the DVD I hope there a way for you to limit the data rate. Otherwise, the DVD won't play. The max data rate for audio plus video on a DVD is 10mbps and practically speaking, most folks have a max video rate of 7.7mbps and audio (ac3) rate of 197kbps.
John
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Re: exporting m2v has no sound by Leonard Frankford on May 6, 2009 at 7:10:39 pm
John, you are the man. I exported a short 30 second clip of my show and the sound came through. I see what you mean about switching to "generic" but I think it will be fine. I'm exporting the whole 1 hr 6 m show now, so I'll see when I bring the file into the DVD software. I hope you will handle my Boris 3D questions coming up next...
