Newbie Question about 6 channel surround

[ZombieBiscuitEater]

Hey guys,
First thanks to EVERYONE here, would be lost without you all,
Second, I did a sweet surround mix in Premiere pro, output it as an uncompressed WAV, now what?? I tried Sonic Foundry Soft encode. it said it only accepts uncompressed PCM (that's what I thought it was?) tried the ffmpggui it gave me an error message about runtime...etc.

I'm freaking out here. I just want my little surround menu...

Any suggestions guys and gals???

Thanks 1,000,000

[muskgrave]

ok i've never used any of those programs and i may be stating the obvious but i've had 2 problems related to AC3 encoding and here they are.

I recorde an audio track..saved it as .wav..but forgot to upsample to 48khz.

I recorded an audio track..saved it as .wav..but not the kind that these programs like..some programs let you save as windows pcm or microsoft pcm..cause they are evil and want to confuse you

hope this helps...
dlv

[Perro Grande]

It sounds like Premier Pro is not exporting the file the way you think it is... I'm not familiary with Premier Pro, so I cannot test it here.

However, Soft Encode *WILL* accept your surround sound as individual wave files. If you can get Premier Pro to reliably export each channel as a separate mono wave file, Soft Encode will allow you to import them, one at a time, and assign which surround channel is which.

Software encode will also read and write multichannel WAV files.

Based on this, I'd say that what you're creating from premier pro is not truly a wav file. A WAV file does contain uncompressed PCM data, but it has a specific header format, bit depth (bits per sample), and byte ordering. it is entirely possible that premier is writing something else.

[ZombieBiscuitEater]

You know that sounds logical. I tried importing the "wav" file that premiere put out, but NONE of the other progz I tried would import it. Sound forge, River's edge audio, nero wave editor, nothing. Sounds Adobe doesn't want to play nice with others anymore.

Got any suggestions on a a program that may open it and convert it to a standard PCM wave???

Thanks again guys!

[ZombieBiscuitEater]

Hey,
Just thought I'd post a reply for anybody reading this string that may have had the same problem. To fix this problem...
I used Premiere 6, did my sound mix with multiple channels that I labeled FRONT_LEFT, FRONT_RIGHT and so on..
Then I checked only the channels I wanted to output, all the ones that I labeled FRONT_LEFT for example...
Then I exported them as uncompressed wav files...
Took those files into Soundforge, saved as 16bit mono 48K wav
Then imported the six differant waves into Softencode...
Encoded an AC3 file that I pulled into DVDlab... Worked like a charm.
Sounds like a lot of work, but It made a GREAT surround mix that gave me TONS of control over the final product.
They can keep the PRO edition of premiere, I found a way around the 5.1 without the upgrade :P