VTS Plugins For 5.1 Surround Sound

[foochuck]

Does anyone know of any plug-ins I can use with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 or Adobe Audition to take a stereo mix and turn it into a 5.1 Surround Sound mix?

Thanks

[Soopafresh]

http://www.stevethomson.ca/vi/

[foochuck]

Do I need software to encode to Dolby Digital 5.1 or will that plug-in do it for me?

[Soopafresh]

It'll create 6 mono WAV files which you can combine with

http://www.rarewares.org/wavewiz/wavewizardv0.54b.zip

and then send to an encoder such as:

http://www.thefrontend.net/EncWAVtoAC3/index.html
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However....

Have you tried the scripted "semi-automated" process? It'll save you a lot of work and it sounds really good. No need for VST plugins and multi wav combining.

Requirements:

Install Avisynth
Install .NET 1.1 or Higher (you probably already have it installed)

1) Download This and Unzip

wav_upmixer.zip

2) Save Your 2 Channel (Stereo) WAV file with the name INPUT.WAV and put in same folder. Doubleclick _Run_Upmix.bat to start the process.



3) When it is complete, you'll find the 5.1 AC3 file in the same folder.

[foochuck]

Soopafresh, thanks so much for that info!

I'm gonna try out the "semi-automated" process out...

[raquete]

as you're using audition and V.I. ...

load your stereo source in audition and extract FLFL,CLFE and SLSR using V.I..
in audition multitrack view, "insert",FLFR,CLFE and SLSR.
click Ctrl+E to open the multichannel encoder.
in "panning assignment" adjust:
FL+FR stereo for track 1
Center + LFE stereo for track 2
Ls + Rs stereo for track 3
click export and adjust to export as one interleaved,6-channel wave file and click "OK". now you have one 6-channel wave interleaved!

take this result to EncWav2AC3 to encode your ac3.