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is buying surcode the ONLY way to export 5.1?
Hi all,
only recently worked out how to create 5.1 audio in premiere pro cs5 and I’ve used my 3 surcode trials. I thought that as I could choose Dolby Digital within premiere that I could do basic 5.1 using that, but it seems that’s just Dolby Digital Stereo. (What the difference is between that and plain old stereo I’m not sure)
Basically my question is are there any other simpler/cheaper/free ways to output into 5.1 from premiere, it seems madness that you need to pay such a hefty price tag to a third party to do so.
Thanks in advance
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4 Replies
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You should be able to map audio within Premiere: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7f46a.html
There’s also a tutorial link: https://cowcast.creativecow.net/premiere_pro/episodes/002_SCM_iPod_Lo.mp4
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Thanks for your reply however after reading and watching I suspect most of this does not apply to cs5 as everything seems different when I try to do this. I can mix the audio fine in premiere, it’s the outputting that’s the issue. Unless I choose surcode the ac3 file I create when dragged back into premiere or authored to dvd using encore is only stereo.
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Hi David
I am just struggling, how to covert stereo audio to Dolby 5.1?
and have u managed to find any way eporting 5.1 from premiere cs5 without buying surcode?
Thanks very much
Manj -
I have a method of doing this that honestly I would prefer even if I could afford the SurCode encoder:
1. Export video with the H.264 Blu-ray preset, and export audio with the Waveform preset (make sure output is set to 5.1). This will leave you with one .m4v file and one .wav file.
2. Use eac3to to extract 6 mono .wav files from the single .wav you created in step 1.
3. Use DTS-MA Encoder Suite (easy enough to find for free) to encode to DTS-MA 5.1. This will give you a .dtshd file.
4. Remux your .m4v video file with your .dtshd audio file with tsmuxer.
Done.
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