Adobe Premiere - How to Export a Surround Sound QuickTime

Set Video to 1 track

And change Master from Stereo to Multichannel

Click plus to add two more tracks.

Change Number of Channels to 6

Change all tracks types to mono

pan all odd tracks left

pan all even tracks right

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 Add audio clips to the sequence. Drag audio clips from the Project window to the 5.1 surround sequence in the Timeline window. You can drag an audio clip only to a track with the same number of channels, so if necessary choose Sequence > Add Tracks to add new tracks containing the number of channels that match the clips you want to import.

Add them as follows

A1 - Left

A2 - Right

A3 - Center

A4 - LFE

A5 - Left Surround

A6 - Right Surround

Label the Tracks

A1 - Left

A2 - Right

A3 - Center

A4 - LFE

A5 - Left Surround

A6 - Right Surround

 Turn up LFE to "Zero" or unity

use the LFE gain knob

Export the QuickTime

File>Export>Media

Click on the Sequence to export and choose >File>Export>Media or click "Command M"

Choose the following:

Format – QuickTime

Click on Output Name and choose a destination for the exported file

Choose to export Video and Audio




Click on the Video Tab and choose – Apple ProRes 422 as the Video Codec

On Windows systems chose the AVID DNxHD codec 175 23.98

Basic Video Settings choose
1920 x 1080

Frame Rate - 23.976
Field Order – Progressive
Aspect – Square Pixels


Choose to "Export"

Click on Audio tab and choose

Sample Rate 48

Sample Size 24

Audio Channel Configuration

Output Chanels

5.1 L,R,C, LFE, Ls, Rs