User manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Support
- More about MAGIX
- Introduction
- Overview of the program screen
- Track window and constant control elements
- Import
- Cut sound – Working with objects
- Remove
- Enhance
- Export
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Effects Menu
- Options menu
- Standard mouse mode
- Cut mouse mode
- Zoom mode
- "Delete objects" mode
- Draw volume curve mouse mode
- 2 tracks
- Stereo display
- Comparisonics waveform display
- Activate Volume Curves
- Overview track
- Lock all objects
- Play parameter
- Units of measurement
- Mouse Grid Active
- Auto crossfade mode active
- Display values scale
- Path settings
- Tasks menu
- Online menu
- Help menu
- Keyboard layout and mouse-wheel support
- Activate additional functions
- Appendix: MPEG Encoder Settings
- MPEG glossary
- MPEG-4 encoder settings
- Index
126 Appendix: MPEG Encoder Settings
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audio track. VCDs and SVCDs require 44.1 kHz, DVDs require 48
kHz. To reduce the size of audio data it is recommended to lower the
bit rate instead of the sample rate.
Mode: You can use mono, stereo, joint stereo, or dual channel. If
audio type "Dolby
®
Digital" is used, then "5.1 Surround" mode may
also be selected.
• Dual channel enables encoding of two mono tracks (e.g. different
language sound tracks) that can be switched during playback.
• Joint stereo is an optimized stereo encoder which takes advantage
of the fact that the signal of both stereo channels is largely identical.
Use joint stereo if you can only use small audio bit rates, but still
require a stereo signal.
• 5.1 Surround is available only for surround projects for burning
DVDs. During this process, all 6 surround channels in the audio
stream are encoded.
Note! For Surround projects "Dolby
®
Digital" should be selected
under "Audio type", and "5.1 Surround" under "Mode".
Bit rate: Here you can set the audio signal bit rate. The higher the bit
rate, the better the playback quality. VCD requires 224 kBit/s, and for
SVCDs and DVDs select a value between 384 kBit/s and 448 kBit/s.
Dolby® Digital Details
Hint: These functions are available only in the "5.1 Surround" mode.
Dialog normalization: Set the dB level of spoken dialog. This value
will be used to adjust the total volume of DVD movies and different
programs that can be received by the DVB. To do this, you must first
measure the volume of spoken dialogs in your movies. The values
1-31 correspond to volume levels of -1 to -31 dB.
Hint: Use the mixer's peakmeter to set the volume level. This process
produces only approximate results, because the exact measurement
requires a mean value and this cannot be easily measured with
MAGIX Video Sound Cleaning Lab.
The displayed value serves also as a reference value for "Dynamic
Range Control". Some areas are softer so that speech can be made
louder, and louder areas will be made softer to avoid overmodulations.