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5.1 Audio to DVD – Yes/No?
I could make a huge fool of myself here but I
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If you’re in 5:
Compressor manual chapter 7.If you’re in 4xxx
You’ll have to aklign the audio in A.PackAnd: Hey presto
The resulting file goes to DVDSP (Not iDVD, I think..)
Gunleik
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While Compressor can encode 5.1 audio, you can’t create a 5.1 soundtrack in FCP. You’ll need a seperate application to create a 5.1 mix such as Dolby Media Producer https://www.dolby.com/professional/pro_audio_engineering/DMP_01.html
I’ll bet it’s expensive. -
He’s already got a 5.1 mix…
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Well the Compressor tip sounds good in prospect but – I can’t find anything at all about Compressor or about 5.1 in any of the Final Cut Suite manuals.
I’ve never even opened Compressor simply because of an apparent lack of documentation – or am I being particularly stupid?
Would you please tell me in precisely which book I’ll find this Chapter 7?
Many thanks,
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Here’s what I did:
1. Open Compressor
2. Select the “Help” menu – -
[Lee Berger] “You’ll need a seperate application to create a 5.1 mix such as Dolby Media Producer ” target=”_blank”>https://www.dolby.com/professional/pro_audio_engineering/DMP_01.html”
Sure guess Media Producer should work. Looks like it among other things sort of does the same thing as compressor
(but, I’m sure – it’s better and more expensive.There’s a wide variety of software to mix 5.1 in these days. Any “serious” DAW does it.
As with video – the differnce is in the skill and monitoring.
You don’t get that with the software unfortunately.
(or upgraded ears for every decimal softwareupdate, for that matter…).Gunleik
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Curently working on 2 Genelec 1030A…
Hey— that’s not surround!
And aren’t those black woodboxes being replaced with lovely grey
plastic boxes these days?
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I’ve just started with FCP Studio 5 and while I did a practice ac3 encode with compressor, it was for a stereo track. I’m guessing that using Compressor in FCP Studio 5 to make ac3 tracks is similar to apack with FCP 4.5.
In apack you need all 6 separate tracks that comprise the 5.1 signal. It seems as if these have been supplied to you. They are probably labeled as to their 5.1 position (left, center, right, etc.).
You open apack and tell it you’re encoding a 5.1 track. It will open up with places for all your audio tracks. You simple drag the appropriate track from your finder to the corresponding box in apack. See the Ken Stone article for clarification:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/a_pack_warmouth.html
After you’ve laid out your tracks and adjusted the relevant parameters (448kbps, dialog norm -31, and Film Compression off) click Encode, tell it where to put the file and you’re done. You just marry the resulting ac3 audio file with the mv2 file of the video in DVDSP (or other DVD app) and you’re done.
John
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