Adobe Premiere - How to Export a Surround Sound QuickTime Using 6 separate files Left, Right, Center, Lfe, Ls, Rs

Click on the New Item and choose Sequence

Choose Sequence

Choose Canon XF MPEG2 1080p 23.976

Choose the Canon XF MPEG2 1080P

23.976


1920 x 1080 settings




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CLICK ON THE TRACKS TAB NEXT

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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Now it's time to choose output assignments.



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Set Audio Track 1 to output assignment 1 - 2

Set Audio Track 2 to output assignment 1 - 2

Set Audio Track 3 to output assignment 3 - 4

Set Audio Track 4 to output assignment 3 - 4

Set Audio Track 5 to output assignment 5 - 6

Set Audio Track 6 to output assignment 5 - 6


(your screen will not look like the screen grab...only one "Track Output Channel Assignments" popup window will appear at a time)

Title the sequence and click OK

Import the Audio Files

Select the files and import

 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

Make sure your movie is in sync on on video track one


But in premiere you won't be able to hear the center channel so you'll have to export to make sure it's in sync because Premiere does not have a downmix

Go to >File >Export>Media


File Name - Title of the movie

Location choose where you are going to save the file


Preset - Custom

Choose Format QuickTime

Video Codec Choose Apple ProRes 422 HQ

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

Click on Audio tab and choose

>Sample Size >48

Then choose More

Stream 1 > Output Channels > Select an Option

Choose 
5.1 L,R,C, LFE, Ls, Rs

Choose >Entire Source

>Check the Output settings so they match

Video QuickTime 1998 x 1080 23.976 for flat

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


>Check the Output settings so they match

Video QuickTime 2048 x 858 23.976 for scope

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


Then choose Export