making audio tracks for DVD

[coldfire8]

hi, i'm new to the board and have been looking through some of the posts related to my question. some were helpful, but i thought i would post up what exactly i need help on.

okay, basically, i am in the process of editing a short little independent film that's going to go on the medium of DVD. i have the video editing practically finished, and now i'm moving on to sound. this project has been more of an experiment than anything, and one of the new things i've been meaning to try is multichannel audio. i have enough source audio (from raw recording) to work with, and i just want to try some things like positional sound effects and isolating sounds to certain channels.

first off:
i am using video from a DV camera (captured through firewire). the tools i have at my disposal are adobe premiere, and adobe audition (formerly known as cool edit pro; still using the trial for another 20 days). i know audition has mulitchannel editing capabilities, but i'm not quite sure if it can do what i want it to do (which is listed below). if it is i will prob purchase it, because it's a great program.

second:
how do i take the edited audio tracks from premiere that i have already put in place with the video, put it into a program like audition for 5.1 editing, and then export it all to DVD format?

if i could get some tips, that would be great.

[northcat_8]

Depending on exactly how you are wanting to do this, you have to becareful especially if the audio needs to be in sync. Some effects will lengthen the audio.

Basically what you can do is go ahead and make the movie. Render it with sound and all. Then use CoolEdit (I think that's the one I use, or sonic) open your movie. Now Cooledit will only bring in the audio...You can then have CE convert the audio to an MP3 or WAV file or what ever format you want. Then you can import that file back into CE and edit it like you want and save it.

Then go back to Premiere, drop your original AVI on the video track, right click and unlock the audio from the video and then delete the audio. Then drop your newly created audio file on the track and you should be good to go.

I'm trying to remember as I am not at home right now....but basically I use either Cooledit or sonic foundry to seperate the audio from the video then I can edit the audio independently.

I have had to take audio off of one video segment and place it on a basically a slide show I used some effects and what you are trying to do is about the same thing.

[coldfire8]

thanks for the reply. that seems like a good method. however, i was wondering if premiere will support insertion of a multichannel audio file (5.1)., which is my main concern. i was thinking to basically do the basic sound track in premiere, and then export the entire video to dvd format. since the sound and video files are seperate, can i not just edit the audio file with audition (cool edit), making it multichannel, and then just save it back as that same DVD audio file?