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Surround Mixing
Hi,
I’m hoping for some mixing tips for DD5.1 surround sound in Sony Vegas Pro9e.
A typical scene in my movie takes place in a winebar and there are four ‘layers’ of sound.
LAYER 1: Dialogue
LAYER 2: ‘Background’ music
LAYER 3: Ambient sounds (e.g. chatting etc)
LAYER 4: Sound effects for things on screen (e.g bottle being dropped)My basic requirements for each layer are:
LAYER 1: Up front and mainly through centre speaker, with a bit to the front left and right for a little bit of spread.
LAYER 2: All around, but with a bias toward the front.
LAYER 3: All around, with maybe some bias toward the front again.
LAYER 4: Wherever is appropriate, sometimes with some panning where appropriate.
Question 1: General question; Which surround format should I use? The default one, or the ‘film-style’ one and why?
Question 2: What’s the best way to do the music? The source files are stereo. Should I import the stereo media or should I import the separate Left and Right tracks of it? It seems to me that I must do the latter so that I can position each one separately in it’s own surround audio track? The former seems like I’d be placing a ‘mono’ version somewhere in the field, as there’s after all, only on ‘dot’ on the surround panner isn’t there. Either way, should I avoid the front speaker and only use the other four speakers for this (I’m ignoring the LFE/SUB in this question)?
Thanks a lot!
Fred
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2 Replies
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Personally I would use the normal 5.1 as most surround sound systems people have are Dolby surround sound 5.1. Then I would put the main dialog mostly in the center speaker and then place other sounds where ever they would be in the video. If you have a 5.1 sound card, experiment and try to place them where it sounds like your in that environment. Remember if your making a surround sound DVD, you will need to render the audio seperatly from the video as .ac3 format. You can also render as WMV suround sound as one file. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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Thanks Danny.
Anyone re Question 2?
Fred
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