No sound

[Chuck Engels]

Is the audio just from the camcorder? Did the camcorder audio settings get changed somehow?
There has to be a reason for this to be happening.

Anyway, what version of Premiere Elements are you using?

[Chuck Engels]

It may be worth looking at Sony DVD Architect, cheap and good

[cdeemer]

None of the audio is from the camcorder. This is the silent movie. I deleted the cam audio and added music tracks generated by Band In A Box. PE 3 is my version. And remember, I DID make a workable dvd with freeware, the video quality just isn't very good. (I.e. the no sound video quality from PE is much better).

I am using an AVI source file that has everything.

I'll check out architect, thanks.

[Chuck Engels]

What format are the files from Band In a Box? Are they the same format you have used before?
Premiere Elements is very particular about the audio format, it likes the most simple and basic audio the best.
WAV files, most MP3s but not all, standard PCM audio, nothing fancy.

[cdeemer]

mp3s ... I just remembered, there IS some camcorder audio at the credits ... I should go there and see if there is sound. (BIB saves as midi, and I convert to mp3. The sound does play in PE AND in the DVD preview in PE, just not on the burned disk.)

[cdeemer]

nope, no cam sound in the credits at the end.

[cdeemer]

I found a previous version of DVD Architect, unopened box, for ten bucks, I think I'll try it.

[Chuck Engels]

Can you convert to WAV instead of MP3?

[Bobby]

Edit: Removed my comments - missed a few posts.

[Chuck Engels]

Bob, Premiere Elements has problems with Audio on DVD at times, this has happened to others.
The fact the the files are MP3s makes this even more of a possibility. I would bet that if Charles takes the MP3s out of the project and puts the camcorder audio back in that the audio will burn to the DVD and play just fine. It has to do with encoding the audio onto the DVD, if it doesn't like the format it won't do it.
Even though it plays in the program just fine, and the AVI export will play just fine, the encoding for DVD is a totally different process.

[cdeemer]

Chuck, I've had sound in all my videos and DVDs, of course, and I've always used mp3 in the past. However, what IS different is that then there also was a cam audio track. This is the first time a deleted an entire cam audio track, except for the credits. But the credits have no sound (from the cam) either. Something is very, very different.

Meanwhile I did order that cheapie prior version of architect. See what it does.

I have no trouble making dvds with this freeware program, it's just that the quality sucks.

[Chuck Engels]

After re-reading my previous post I am not even sure that it is right.
If you can export to AVI then the audio would be converted and everything should be fine.

I could understand it not exporting to AVI or burning to DVD with various audio formats, but if it will export to AVI then that file should be able to be burned with audio intact.
This is getting way too confusing

[cdeemer]

Yes indeedy, I am totally and hopelessly confused. I'm going to find another way to do DVDs ... EVERYTHING else in PE is working great, and I don't want to screw that up ha ha trying to fix the other. As they say so often in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, "it's a mystery."

[jackfalbey]

Charles, have you tried it with the camera audio track in the project but with that track's volume set all the way down? That way maybe the cam track will encourage PE to burn the audio, but you'll only hear the other BiB tracks...

[Chuck Engels]

Good suggestion Jack