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To make sure the scaling of your videos do not get messed up, we will export it

as a QuickTime and bring it back into Premiere instead of straight copy and pasting

it. This way, the dimensions of your video files will not be manipulated in any way

that is undesired.


Locate your timeline that you are going to add your surround sound mix and 

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Export it go to >File>Export>Media

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Choose File Name

Where to save it by clicking the Blue Type on Location


Choose the Preset DNxHR/DNxHD MXF Op1a

Resolution DNxHR HQ 8 bit

Full HD 1920 x 1080

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If you have captions make sure you burn in with Captions Into Video

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Then Choose Export

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You will end up with a .mxf file like this

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Go to >File > Import that back into your project and we will use it later in this process


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Next Import the 5.1 Interleaved File into your Premiere Project

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Select the file and import
Choose the Interleaved 5.1 .wav

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Click on the >File >New Item and choose Sequence

Choose DNxHD HQ 1080 23.976
DON'T HIT OK YET!!

NEXT CLICK ON THE SETTINGS TAB

Click on the Settings TAB


Leave all the settings as is but double check to match

this frame grab shown here


Then Name the Sequence at the very bottom

DONT' HIT OKAY YET


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CLICK ON THE TRACKS TAB NEXT



Click on the Tracks Tab and then delete the audio tracks
Audio 2 - 4


DONT' HIT OKAY YET

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Set Video to 1 track
And change Mix from Stereo to Multichannel and set
Number of tracks to 6

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Change the Track Type of the one audio track to 5.1

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Title the sequence "Title - Surround Sound" and click OK

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Next double click the .mxf file to load it into the source monitor and then drag just the video track

down to the newly created surround sound timeline

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Choose to Keep existing settings

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Then load the sound mix

(5.1 Interleaved) file into the source monitor and drag the audio only tracks to the timeline

Place on the 5.1 track in the surround sound sequence 

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YOU will be only able to check audio tracks 1 and 2 so you won't hear dialog but hopefully you can tell well enough.

The final check will be the QuickTime you will make next.


REMEMBER

DELETE THE 2 POP AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END

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Scaling YOU WILL HAVE TO SCALE YOUR FILE


Double click on your video file in the timeline




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Drop down the Motion setting and on scale select that parameter

Drag the slider to scale the image in the frame


Scale the image down to 50% or until you see black around the frame then scale it up till you don't see any black

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Don't want to see this small black edge to the right or left side

Scale till you don't see any black line on the right or left side

Flat DCP may choose to leave a slight letterbox on the top and bottom that is up to you

Scope DCP will have letterboxing on the top and bottom


Next step is to export

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Make sure the sequence is loaded in the Timeline Window and then select the timeline window so it's

Highlighted Blue

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Go to >File >Export>Media

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File Name - Title of the movie

Location choose where you are going to save the file


Preset - Custom

Choose Format QuickTime

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Video Codec Choose Apple ProRes 422 HQ

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Everything else will be greyed out but Match Source will set the export to match the timeline

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Click on Audio tab and choose

>Sample Size >48

Then choose More

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Stream 1 > Output Channels > Select an Option

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Choose 
5.1 L,R,C, LFE, Ls, Rs

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Choose >Entire Source

>Check the Output settings so they match

Video QuickTime 1920 x 1080 23.976 for flat

Audio Uncompressed 48 5.1 L,R.C.LFE. Ls, Rs 24 bit


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Then choose Export

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