[Steve Hancock]

Okay, I think we finally got it figured out. It seems like it’s just a matter of us figuring out the Mac layout more than anything else.
It turns out there is a little blue icon at the top right of the compressor that we have to select to bring up the audio options. We had no idea as the blue icon is very small and not labeled, so we had to do some searching to figure out that was what we needed to select.
Once that is selected the audio options open up and the first thing that has to be done is to de-select the option to automatically render the audio settings from the original file. Once that is unchecked, the stereo options become available and can be selected.

I looks like it’s all set now. Finally! Thanks a lot for you help. Hopefully this thread will be helpful to someone else down the road as well. I’ll check back if any other issues occur.

Thanks again!

[Steve Hancock]

Would it be easier if we uploaded a small rendered MXF file here or would dropbox be better for you?
And any thoughts on the template we’re using? I uploaded a picture.
Thanks again for all of your help.

[Steve Hancock]

Let me know if the image is enough or if you need more. Thanks!

[Steve Hancock]

Let me know if this is helpful or if you need something else. Thanks a lot

[Steve Hancock]

Here’s an image of the Sony Render Settings we’re using.

If you’d like I can give you a dropbox link to a 1 minute render if that would be helpful.

Thanks

[Steve Hancock]

Does that make sense? Any thoughts?

[Steve Hancock]

We’re still having some issues.

We are trying to render our .mxf files on Sony Vegas to give us stereo, so that we can put it through Compression and get ProRes 422 in stereo.
We tried it and the files don’t give us stereo.
When we try to create stereo by choosing one left and one right, it’s not correct either. Our distributor says this: You are putting the left and right channels in two different tracks. On your timeline, you should have it this way (one track for the left and one for the right with each faded to the far side), but when you render it out, you have to pick “Stereo Pair” so it combines these two different tracks into one in the pro-res file.
However, I never have a Stereo Pair option.
Any idea what are we doing wrong?

[Steve Hancock]

When the audio options on prores are two mono channels, is it correct to choose one as left and one as right? Will that give me stereo? It claims my .mxf file is Linear PCM stereo

[Steve Hancock]

Thanks a lot John! I think this is probably were we screwed up. We’re just a bit ignorant with compressor right now and couldn’t quite figure it out.
We’ll update how things turn out. Thanks again!

[Steve Hancock]

We didn’t render the Prores on a PC.

We now have access to a Mac Laptop and we got Apple compressor 4.1.
We rendered the files as .mxf in Sony Vegas and then ran that through Compressor on the Mac laptop to get the prores render.

It all seemed to work fine, but the distributer is saying we have an audio issue. The audio needs to be Stereo, but they’re receiving the prores file as dual mono.

Is there something we would need to do when using Apple Compressor to make sure the audio comes out stereo when doing ProRes?