MPEG 2 clips in DVD project audio problems

[ez3401]

I have created 6 Mpeg 2 videos with Elements, each no more than 10 minutes long. They play fine individually. I want to create a DVD using these videos so that they will be all on one disk with menus etc.
But when I put my Mpeg 2 videos in the timeline of the DVD “layout” the audio becomes distorted, it sounds very slow and nothing is comprehendible. I did an experiment putting Mpeg 1 videos in the “layout” and everything is fine. Does anyone have an idea of what the problem could be? Are the Mpeg 2 videos just too big to do this? I have searched the forums but found nothing so forgive me if I am repeating a question.

[ATR]

Hi, I saw your Thread, and it looked interesting. So, I thought I would do a little exploring and see what happens. Hopefully one of the pros will be along soon.

First, when the sound was distorted, what did the video look like? You did create the 6 videos in Premiere Elements? not Elements 3.0 or 4.0?

Second, when you say you created 6 different MPEG 2 movies….I am assuming that you did each this way--- you started with a video in the Timeline, created, edited, etc. there, and then pressed Export as MPEG2 file which you saved in some place like Documents or My Videos. You repeated the process for each of the remaining 5 videos.

At this point you should have 6 videos (Movies) MPEG2 files saved in Documents. Each of these 6 videos should come as a set of 2, a MPEG2 File and an XMPSES File. As far as I can determine this XMPSES files contains Chapter data and may not be essential depending on how you have prepared each video. In short, it is the Movie MPEG2 file that is going to be used as follows.

(When you say that each of the videos (Movies) played OK separately, were you clicking on one of the Movie MPEG2 files in Documents and watching it from there?)

Open Premiere Elements 2.0…via Add Media, add the Movie MPEG2 file for each of the 6 videos. Drag these files to the Timeline, the proceed from there. When I did all this, everything worked fine. The only time I ran into a problem (moaning like sound) was if I tried to stretch audio files on the Audio Timeline. Right click on an audio file in Audio Timeline, left click on Time Stretch in the drop down list… (40 & 50 % was associated with the moaning sound, 100% with the great sound).

Hope this helps until someone else clarifies. I think that I will give this another try to see what happens if I aim for a MPEG1 type instead of MPEG2.

ATR