SurCode Plugin Printmaster Workflow Using ProTools 4 CMB4.108A and ProTools 5 CMB 4.122

Owned by Susanne Kraft
Last updated: Nov 30, 2017
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Open your ProTools Session or Create a new Session and import the 5.1 tracks you would like to turn into an LtRt track.

 Make sure the Routing of the session is correct. To do this-

Go to >Setup>I/O

 

Go to Import Settings

Go to the templates folder again and choose the UT RTF Default pio

 

Click Open

Open your existing Mix session or create a new one

To make a new session to add your 5.1 tracks n to mix down to LtRt do the following.

Open ProTools and make a new session.  

 

Wav file type 48KHz

24 Bit

 

 

 

 

Choose where the session will be saved

 

click Create

Go to >File>Import>Audio


Navigate to the 6 channel audio files that should

be organized in the following order

Left = 1

Right = 2

Center = 3

LFE = 4

Ls = 5

Rs = 6

 

Or if you have one Surround Interleaved File

Select It and it will come in correctly

Select the audio tracks and choose "Add All"

 

Then click Done

Choose New Track as the Destination

 

Click OK

Next:

Go to File>Import>Session Data


Navigate to the Printmaster Template Folder that is on one of the Storage Drives of the Computer


Open this folder and select the ProTools session with the .ptx extension

Import Session Data Settings. Select all 4 tracks to import as New Tracks>Copy from source media>Link to source media and Maintain absolute time code values - Click OK


After the 4 tracks import, select all the tracks in the session not the printmaster tracks just the tracks in your mix session

Go to the Mix Window

Then change the output of each track by clicking on the Output path in the "Audio Path Selector"


Selecting only the tracks in your ProTools Session change the audio tracks to 5.1 Record bus.  Make sure you don't change the 4 tracks that you imported as session data.

Change the output path to bus to the 5.1 Rec (5.1) path

Tracks output should look like this

 

Set the surround sound tracks to the correct Panning settings

Using the Multi Channel Panner Windows

track order

L,R,C,LFE,LS,RS

To see the panning larger select the Output Window Button shown here

Set the Lfe Channel to this setting

 

Set it to "Zero" or Unity - this picture shows the LFE

slider set to -infinity of nothing. Turn up the slider

till you get a "0" in the LFE window.