Compressor reducing 5.1 to stereo?

[Jeremy Garchow]

The reason I ask is that Toast can reencode and do weird things when you don’t want it to.

From your screen grabs, it looks like you have setup everything correctly in Compressor.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Thanks.

Could one of you maybe look at my files and test them. I’ m lost here.

[Michael Gissing]

[Jeffrey Ellis] “Here’s all six tracks. It’s about 300 MB.”

I am downloading now and will have a look.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Thanks 🙂

[Michael Gissing]

Jeffrey, I made an ac3 file using compressor and it was 40meg. It loads into DVDSP but I didn’t burn a disk to test the playback on my hifi . The weirdness is importing the ac3 back into FCP which attempts to unpack the ac3 and it creates six channels but plays the audio like a stereo fold down so i am getting the same as you. However, that doesn’t mean it didn’t encode properly.

If your ac3 isn’t working on the bluray, try burning it to a regular DVD using DVDSP to test it. If you want my ac3 file I can upload it you yousendit if you want to send me your email details, but I suspect there is nothing wrong with yours.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, Michael–

That would be great, thank you.

I don’t know how to PM here. so my email is rlinsurf2001 at dhnet dot us.

Thanks again.

[Michael Gissing]

Notification to download sent.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I got the exact same results.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, Michael–

I used your version and miraculously, this time it all just worked. So thank you again 🙂

I noticed you suggested I use DVDSP to burn this to a DVD. Can you tell me how to do that, so that it will auto-play, no menus?