5.1 monitoring not working / no assign button?

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5.1 monitoring not working / no assign button?

Posted by Yoav Dagan on October 26, 2017 at 10:43 am

Does anyone have the same audio issue?

I cannot find a way to create a 5.1 / 6 channels monitoring output (I can see 12 channels on my preview monitor through the SDI) as well to – and this is the big one: Assign each audio channel to a specific output channel?

Why did they break it?
And no, I do not want to get into Audio post with busses etc’ not interested in final mixing on a grading system (thats a bit stupid in mho) don’t want to learn Fairlight just to output mixed audio that was done already…

Anyone?

Yoav Dagan
Colourist / Onliner
TiNT Post Production
South Africa
tintpost.com

Yoav Dagan replied 8 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Jeff Sargeant
October 26, 2017 at 2:49 pm

Not sure but try this setting for each audio track and choose the desired output channel.

Jeff Sargeant
Videographer @
Flowmaster/Hurst/B&M
Hayden, ID
Yoav Dagan
October 26, 2017 at 8:40 pm

Thank you Jeff,

Unfortunately not, just tried it but it doesn’t work as well..

DaVinci, as it is now, went back a few steps and it’s not a real finishing system, just a grading one..

Yoav

Yoav Dagan
Colourist / Onliner
TiNT Post Production
South Africa
tintpost.com
Jeff Sargeant
October 26, 2017 at 8:58 pm

There must be a way to do it, possibly in the software for the SDI interface?

Jeff Sargeant
Videographer @
Flowmaster/Hurst/B&M
Hayden, ID
Jeff Sargeant
October 26, 2017 at 9:49 pm

Got this from the Blackmagic Form:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=64373&sid=75584b6b78cb81b648c7c72f3303411c

It seems simple mapping has moved to Audio tab on the render page. In my example I have 8 WAV’s for 7.1 mix, 8 mono tracks setup on the timeline.

Track layout:
Track 1: L
Track 2: R
Track 3: C
Track 4: LFE
Track 5: LsS
Track 6: RsS
Track 7: LsR
Track 8: RsR

No need to touch any settings on edit page or Fairlight page. Go to Audio tab on render page, setup 8 output tracks and pick “Timeline Track” on the drop down menu.

Render setup:
Output track 1 to Timeline Track 1
Output track 2 to Timeline Track 2
Output track 3 to Timeline Track 3
Output track 4 to Timeline Track 4
Output track 5 to Timeline Track 5
Output track 6 to Timeline Track 6
Output track 7 to Timeline Track 7
Output track 8 to Timeline Track 8

Give this a shot!

Jeff Sargeant
Videographer @
Flowmaster/Hurst/B&M
Hayden, ID
Yoav Dagan
October 27, 2017 at 7:18 am

Thanks Jeff,

Thank you for your help man

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=64373

I read it, but it does not work for what I am looking for, we need to monitor the sound, not to export / render (that is the last stage).

By monitoring – I mean – seeing it on the external UV meters on the external monitors, sound devises.. before we output..

It seems that BM didn’t finish the proper development of the DR 14 (for me, this is still in beta) and I do not recommend to move to it just yet.. not if you are working with it as a finishing software – last stage of the production – DCPs – delivery etc’

Thanks again

Yoav

Yoav Dagan
Colourist / Onliner
TiNT Post Production
South Africa
tintpost.com

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