<HTML>Rick -
Sorry to share bad news...
It's very difficult to make 5.1 AIFF files for DVD Studio Pro, primarily because they are
not generally used... the combined bandwidth of 6 uncompressed AIFF channels
is around 4.5 Mbps, which effectively shoots your video bandwidth in the foot.
What I would recommend instead would be the following -
- Compress your AC3 5.1 files again, but set the prefs to the following:
- Encode Mode 3/2 (as you already know)
- Encode Rate 384 Kbps
- Set Dialog Norm to -27 if it isn't already... You might also try -25 as an alternative
The closer this number gets to -1, the quieter your track will sound...
- In the "Procesing" Tab, Turn the COMPRESSION SETTING to Off,
but you might try Music Light or Music Heavy to see if one of them reduces or eliminates the distortion.
If you have any way to re-output the original files, you might try to
create the original AIFFs again with some Level Attenuation.
hope this helps you out -
Bruce Nazarian - the DVD Guy
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