Best AC3 encoder for newbie?

[Chris Barnard]

Tmpeg 4 Xpresss is the best I know at the lowest price, approx 1 carton of beer

the free ones are free for a reason, they don't work perfect

Bought Softe Audio Encoder. Yesterday but they have not esnt me the activation code. GETting very upset...

http://www.softe.net/

[antonsvideo]

Tmpeg 4 Xpresss is the best I know at the lowest price, approx 1 carton of beer

the free ones are free for a reason, they don't work perfect

[Chris Barnard]

thanks guys. I will get Edius 4.5 but I can't wait until then.

I tried the free ffmpeg encoder, but the audio stream is out of synch with the video. 1/2 a sec or so.

tearing my hair out here!!

[GrassValley_BH]

Or if you can wait for v4.5 of EDIUS, that will have AC3 encoding as well (yes, you can output AC3 alone directly from the timeline).

[T-Bone]

chris, for some good background info, take a look at this
http://ediusforum.grassvalley.com/fo...hread.php?t=90

it talks about PC3's AC3 as well as some other possibilities

[Chris Barnard]

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/SoftE_Audio_Converter_44019_p/

or something like this? Supports volume normalising...

[Chris Barnard]

Something simple that does the job but allows even an intelligent novice to tweak a few settting so prevent those volume drop-offs and so on.

Anyone have any thought?

IS this too technical?

http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/store/24125/index.html