Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Can I merge a separate audio file in xvid4psp?

Also, what audio settings should I use? I just used default settings for everything... any suggestions you have for tweaking it would be appreciated.

Yes, you can, or you can deal with the audio and video separately and merge them later. Xvid4PSP will deal with them both either together or separately. I would suggest doing them separately and when you are finished, create the final product using tsmuxer. That will allow you to adjust the delay between the audio and video assuming it is synchronized from start to finish.

For the audio settings, I would suggest using 640Kbps stereo AC3 unless it doesn't sound very good to begin with and maybe you could use a slightly lower bit rate and leave more room for video. You need to see how big the audio file is, and make sure that the video plus the audio aren't too big for a DVD9 after converting to bluray format. I would give a little breathing room when encoding the video and keep the total of the audio and video file sizes just under 8GB.

I haven't had a chance to check out your clip yet because my family is in town, but I can't wait to see it. I will let you know if I have any other suggestions. I am curious if I can take your clip and use TSMuxer to create a valid bluray disc because it is using a non standard resolution. You definitely want to encode it to 23.976 frame rate dropping extra frames from your 30 fps capture. You may also want to encode it to 1280x720. This will ensure compatibility with bluray players.

Mike