Re: [microsound] Help: 5.1 Surround mixdown

[leyton <leyton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

apart from what bard said about the dolby surround,

id like to figure out why you only have two files generated

i do this for work( doco soundtracks) regularly ( from logic) and so

i just booted back into 7.2 and did a test and generated a 5.1 set of  
stems

please check:

that under AUDIO>SURROUND you have selected the chosen format ie 5.1

that your audio channels have surround panners activated with the same  
format

that when you "bounce" you choose the surround bounce option and the  
format you want

this will/should generate file-L file-R file-LR file-RR file-C file-LFE

these files go to the sound post guy that does the encoding of the  
finished sessions in Tools

the only encoding ive personally used is the ac3 one with apple  
compressor, [[ac3 is the technical name for dolby digital which  
downmixes "automatically"]]

i know ive seen encoders and decoders out there, but have no direct  
urls .. google is your friend

http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Producers_And_Engineers/Guidelines/

has a good pdf on surround recomendations.

best,


leyton