Render Audio Separately? Why?

matonanjin wrote on 1/19/2019, 12:34 PM

In a couple of Movie Studio Zen's YouTube tutorials he stressed the importance of rendering an audio file separately before using DVD Architect to burn a DVD. I'm not quite sure why he said this. Does one get better audio quality? Can one somehow control audio parameters more effectively doing it this way.

I just burned my very first DVD using Architect. I made a few menus and imported a couple videos and, shockingly, everything worked fine. I didn't render any separate audio. In fact, they weren't even videos that I had outputted from MS Platinum, just a couple videos I had laying around on my harddrive. They were MP4's.

Does anyone else render audio separately?


vkmast wrote on 1/19/2019, 12:56 PM

Yes. (See more in the relevant MSP online Help (F1) file.)

matonanjin wrote on 1/20/2019, 4:49 AM

So, vkmast, you're saying, "RTFM"? 😏

Thank you. If I understand correctly, one can do it the way I did it. But one runs the risk of 1) It taking longer to burn the DVD, and/or 2) It may have to recompress the audio file which may result in some loss of quality.

Thank you again.

vkmast wrote on 1/20/2019, 5:05 AM

If you do not like to read online Help files that are inside the software or the manuals, read e.g. this thread. It was the most recent one on the subject that came up when I did a Search using Find…"render separately".

matonanjin wrote on 1/20/2019, 10:34 AM

Thank you once again.