FCP-L: Re: [FCP-L] FCS surround encoding

Monday, October 26, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] FCS surround encoding

Disregard - only one of my methods was faulty; it was my testing
method this afternoon that turned out to be problematic. Surround
encoder working well.

gh
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Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
323 677 2096 F
www.DigitalServiceStation.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
www.SecretHQ.com

On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Greg Huson wrote:

> No matter what method I use, FCS consistently encodes my surround to
> stereo, even though I've been through the process by every method I
> can figure. I followed any and all instructions I could find in the
> book, and online - yet my discreet 6 tracks keep getting mixed down by
> the 5.1 encoder. My decoder shows I'm getting 6 tracks, but
> everything is still mix to L and R, with C, LFE, LS, and RS silent.
>
> I have built a test project with 6 discreet test audio channels that
> sync up with text in the picture, saying which channel should be
> played back. I've set the outputs carefully; I've even tried using
> 'add surround group' in compressor, having each track be an individual
> aiff file, and linking them one-by-one to the surround group. In
> that case, it appears that R, C, LFE, LS, and RS all get encoded
> into R.
>
> Anyone else seen this? Any clues where I might be missing something?
> I'm so certain I'm doing this right - yet if there was a software bug,
> I'm certain we would of heard about it before now, right? Someone
> must be doing proper dolby 5.1, not just 2.0.
>
> Any tips much appreciated. It's got to be something obvious I'm
> missing... even though I've been through it multiple times in the last
> week.
>
> gh
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> Greg Huson
> Secret Headquarters, Inc
> Post Production / Production
> Culver City, CA
> 323 677 2092
> 323 677 2096 F
> www.DigitalServiceStation.com
> greg (at) SecretHQ.com
> www.SecretHQ.com
>
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