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multi track audio output
Please can someone help – I have found similar posts to this, but nothing that quite answers my question: I am trying to create a DVD from Final Cut Pro with five audio tracks on it that will play though a surround sound system, but each time I try this all tracks play through all speakers at once. I have set the audio outputs in the sequence settings, assigned each track to a channel and used compressor to make an AC3 file, but I am obviously missing something. When this is imported into DVD Studio Pro this only shows up as one track and then when authored this plays everything at once as though it was one big mono track.
Thanks,
Alexa
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4 Replies
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If you want a 5.1 surround mix, you need to do that in Soundtrack Pro. Export the 5.1 mix from there. It isn’t just as simple as 5 tracks of audio. It has to be mapped in a way that everything understands.
HOW? I have no clue. I just know it is done in there.
Shane
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Are the 5 tracks that you are trying to export actual Left, Center, Right, Left Surround and Right Surround? If not and you are trying to create a surround mix within FCP then you can’t. FCP doesn’t have surround panning.
If everything is playing from all speakers at once then there must be something about the tracks or the routing. Once you get to Compressor and make an ac3 file, it is a single file with the multi channel audio embedded in so that part is normal.
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply. At least that narrows it down to what I am not doing in FCP, only I can’t see how to make the tracks Left, Center, Right, Left Surround and Right Surround…?
Alexa
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[alexa wright] “only I can’t see how to make the tracks Left, Center, Right, Left Surround and Right Surround…? “
Right. You can’t do this in FCP. It isn’t a sound editing application, it is a video editing application. You need to use SOUNDTRACK PRO, or Logic, or ProTools for this.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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