• Adobe Encore DVD

  Encore doesn-t accept a DV with 5.1 dolby digital! Help!

  Posted by Deborah on November 28, 2005 at 4:39 pm

  Hallo everyone!

  I made a DV with Premiere pro with audio 5.1 dolby digital.
  When I try to import it with Encore, I get a message where only a stereo signal ia accept!

  may somebody help me???

  Thanks! Debbie.

  Deborah replied 20 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tim Kurkoski

  November 28, 2005 at 6:40 pm

  Are you saying you created a DV-AVI file with 5.1 audio? That’s not Dolby, that’s embedded 6-channel PCM audio.

  In any case, Encore only accepts 6-channel audio as individual AC3 files or muxed with an MPEG-2 file. Use the encoder included with Premiere Pro (it’s a trial version only, limited to 3 exports before you have to pay), or export the audio as a 6-channel WAV file and use another program to encode it to AC3.
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  Deborah

  November 29, 2005 at 8:30 pm

  Timothy,

  thanks for your answer. Can you please recommend me a free program able to transform the 6-channel WAV file into AC3? I tried to do a search in the net, but without results!

  Thanks for your time! Debbie.
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  Tim Kurkoski

  November 30, 2005 at 5:27 pm

  I don’t think you’ll be able to find a free program, Debbie. In order to use Dolby technology you have to license it, so there’s no freeware or shareware I know of that can produce AC3 (of course, I don’t know everything).

  Premiere Pro comes with the SurCode Dolby encoder. As I said before, it’s a trial version limited to 3 uses. After that, I think the cost to unlock the encoder is something like $300, which is actually pretty darned cheap for this sort of thing.
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  Deborah

  December 1, 2005 at 1:20 pm

  Timothy,

  thanks for your answers! Debbie!

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