Adobe Premiere Pro - How to Make a 2K or 4K - 5.1 QuickTime using your Surround Sound Mix - Use for DCP Screening
The First step is to do a Sequence Export that Matches the Sequence settings. This will be your VIDEO file that you will combine with your surround sound mix. REASON FOR DOING THIS IS you will make a "video mixdown" of your timeline rendering out the file with all the edits and resizing. |  |
| Go to >Sequence>Sequence Settings |
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Sequence Settings most common: >General Tab Look at the Timecode - should be 23.976 or 24 Frame size should be 4096 x 2160 or 3840 x 2160 or 2048 x 1152 All the other settings should look similar to this frame grab |
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Next select the Color Management Tab Should be set to Rec 709 Output color Space Rec. 709 |
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| Select the final timeline you want to export and choose >File>Export>Media |
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Name your file Choose Format > DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a Twirl down the Video Codec and set >Video Codec DNxHR HQ 8-bit |
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Then choose the frame size of your tmeline >4K >UHD >Full HD Depending what your timeline aspect ratio that you had set in Sequence Settings earlier in this process |
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Frame Rate should be 23.98 |
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>Click on the File Name Title it and choose where you want to save the file by clicking on Location blue link |
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| Choose the destination for the file Save it to your storage drive etc. . . |
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Click on Export in the lower right corner |
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The file will export for a bit so wait for that. |
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In the meantime locate your Sound Mix files. The sound mixer should of exported a Surround Interleaved 5.1 .wav file The file should look similar to this 5_1.wav file Don't want the ones labeled Stem they are not the full mix |
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We suggest making a new Bin to put the final files into for organization >File>New>Bin |
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Title the bin >Final Deliverables or similar then open the Bin to import the image and sound files into |
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Import the 5.1 Interleaved File into your Premiere Project RT click in the new bin and choose Import |
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Select the file and import |
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Import the Video File you just exported that matched the Sequence Settings Choose only the .mxf that exported there will also be a .xmp but you can ignore that |
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Click on the New Item and choose Sequence |
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Choose Sequence The next steps will setup the Surround Sound sequence >It takes a lot of steps and you have to go through all the tabs of the sequence setup before creating it Don't HIT OK till you've completed setting up the sequence |
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Go to the Legacy Folder>twirl it down Choose DNxHR HQ 2K 23.976 |
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Click on the Settings TAB Editing Mode - Choose Custom 1998 x 1080 settings for FLAT DCP's or 2048 x 858 for SCOPE DCP's If you do not know if your film is flat or scope?? Do you have bars on the top and bottom of your image to make it look wide screen? Then your film is scope. If you do not have bars then it's flat. Still confused? Ask tech staff to help. DONT' HIT OKAY YET |
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Go to the Video Previews |
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Change the Codec to Apple ProRes 4444 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 DONT' HIT OKAY YET |
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Set Video to 1 track DONT' HIT OKAY YET |
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Change the Track Type of the one audio track to 5.1 DONT' HIT OKAY YET |
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Title the sequence and click OK Now it is time to Click OK to create the surround sequence |
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Double click the video 2K or 4K file to load it into the source monitor Drag the Video Only icon to your newly created 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 new sequence you just made |
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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.REMEMBERDELETE 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 |  |
The clips properties will load Click on Scale property 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 Choose Format QuickTime Preset - will change to Custom |
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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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Twirl down the Audio tab and choose >Sample Size >48 Then choose More |
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Stream 1 > Output Channels > Choose |
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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 |
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>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 |
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| Then choose Export |
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