Export Dolby Digital 5.1

[Robert Brown]

Dolby 5.1 can be tricky because you have to have a Dolby encoder obviously and then it will only playback with an AC3 player. If you are making a DVD or BluRay you can use apple compressor to turn your surround wav files into 5.1 AC3. Then you can use Encore and that can burn the 5.1 and a stereo pair if you want to a BluRay or DVD – you would have to provide the stereo file as another file to Encore.

Compressor I think is the cheapest way to do it and most people already have it.

Robert Brown
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[Giannakis Omirous]

i already have an ac3 file and i want to embed it in an HD photo in premier. I will playback the video on my TV through a USB (not DVD).

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You probably want to look at a command line tool like FFMPEG or FFMBC. On Windows it should be easy, on Mac I think there is a bit of a set up.

Regardless, these free tools will allow you to take the video stream from one file and the audio stream from another. Quality is kept as there is no transcoding… just a merging of the info into one file.

Alternately, if you have Quicktime Pro and you’re working with a MOV file, you should be able to use the program for this function as well.

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