Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
... Then do a time compress/expand of the audio in a higher-end app like Vegas. This would only be required if pitch-correction had been applied when the PAL DVD was mastered. If PAL speed-up is present , then a simple rate change would be adequate. It should be obvious by listening to the 2 soundtracks sise by side what method you will need to use.
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
...Then load that WAV into Vegas, normalize the audio, perform the stretch/squeeze to the number of frames, and export back to AC3. ...
In this case, normalization is not required. Just make a note of the dialnorm value in the original PAL bitstream, and use the same value when re-encoding the slowed-down WAVs back to AC3. ... Then do a time compress/expand of the audio in a higher-end app like Vegas. This would only be required if pitch-correction had been applied when the PAL DVD was mastered. If PAL speed-up is present , then a simple rate change would be adequate. It should be obvious by listening to the 2 soundtracks sise by side what method you will need to use.
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
...Then load that WAV into Vegas, normalize the audio, perform the stretch/squeeze to the number of frames, and export back to AC3. ...