Can I Change Audio Codec in MPEG-2?

EDP72

Newbie Joined: Dec 13, 2012 16:35 Messages: 2 Offline

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Dec 13, 2012 16:51

I'm creating programs for my church group to air on our local cable station. The station requires the files to be MPEG-2 video, and MPEG audio layer 2. When producing through PD9 (laptop) or PD10 (desktop) I cannot figure out how to change the audio codec when selecting the MPEG-2 file format option. I had thought that it was doing this automatically but when our program aired it had no audio so I just found out about GSpot which shows what video and audio codecs are in a file. Mine show MPEG-2 video, but AC3 audio. If someone can please instruct me how to have a final produced file that is MPEG-2 audio layer 2 I'd be eternally grateful. Thanks in advance!

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Dec 13, 2012 17:24

Hello,

You probably intended your question to be posted in the PowerDirector forum, but as it happens I can assist.

When you go to Produce > MPEG-2 & select the profile you want, click on the + button to customise the profile.

Under the Audio tab in the Audio Compression dropdown, choose MPEG Audio

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EDP72

Newbie Joined: Dec 13, 2012 16:35 Messages: 2 Offline

Dec 13, 2012 17:40

I didn't realize it was so simple! Thanks so much! I tested it out on a small file, double-checked it using GSpot, and it worked perfectly. (sorry for posting in the wrong forum I thought "AudioDirector" was just a fancy name indicating that this was the place to discuss audio issues with the PD software).