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Workflow for 5.1 Audio

octoroxx

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I have to be honest that I've never worked with 5.1 audio before, always stereo. I've finished the workprint of my 3-in-1 prequel edit, and everything is miraculously in-sync and sounds fine, but my timeline is a bit of a mess:



Yeah...so now how do I go about assigning different tracks to different speakers? To complicate things, I grabbed some deleted scenes from the DVDs, thankfully I had the foresight enough to put them in subclips, but because I ripped from MPEG Stream clip, I got 2 stereo wavs and 2 mono wavs rather than 6 mono wavs like everything else (which was ripped with pavtube)



Is there a way I can painlessly assign these to specific speakers as well without messing up everything else?
 

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Did you setup the sequence with a Master 5.1 track? That's the first step :) Then in the audio mixer tab, you can assign each audio channel to a different speaker by dragging the black dot to the speaker of your choice.

For example,
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You may also like to check out a tutorial on the topic...

 

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d'oh! Copying everything to a new 5.1 sequence. Thanks for the tips and tutorial.
 
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