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I'm a relatively new Vegas user, and the first hurdle I encountered when I made the switch is that it appeared there was no way to render a video stream with 5.1 audio. I could render a high bitrate H.264 file with stereo audio, but not six channel surround. At the same time, it's happy to let me render a 5.1 PCM audio stream without video. My workaround has been to render the audio and video separately ("Sony AVC" for video and "Sony Wave64" for audio with a 5.1 PCM profile). I then mux the two together while encoding the audio to AAC.
Is that how you do it? Have I overlooked something, and there's actually a way to render H.264 with six channel AAC direct from Vegas? I'm using version 18 Pro.
Personally, I don't mind the workaround as 98% of the changes while iterating are just to the audio, and it only takes a few minutes to re-mux the streams and review the changes*.
Is there a better way?
*The downmix option in Vegas does not give an accurate representation of how things will sound, so rendering it out and listening in a proper player seems to be the only reliable way to really know what people will experience.
Is that how you do it? Have I overlooked something, and there's actually a way to render H.264 with six channel AAC direct from Vegas? I'm using version 18 Pro.
Personally, I don't mind the workaround as 98% of the changes while iterating are just to the audio, and it only takes a few minutes to re-mux the streams and review the changes*.
Is there a better way?
*The downmix option in Vegas does not give an accurate representation of how things will sound, so rendering it out and listening in a proper player seems to be the only reliable way to really know what people will experience.