AVID - How to Make a 1080 5.1 Surround Sound QuickTime Using Your Interleaved Surround Sound Mix

If your mixer did not give you "One" file that contains 6 channel but instead gave you 6 separate .wav files then use this workflow

AVID - How to Make a 5.1 QuickTime Using 6 separate files Left, Right, Center, Lfe, Ls, Rs

Open your AVID Project
Change you project to HD 1080 Go to AVID Media Composer and choose Preferences
Change to HD 1080p/23.98
	Make a New Bin to import your surround sound mix files
	Title the bin how you wish
Link to the Surround Interleaved file that you received from the mixer Go to >Tools>Source Browser>
The file will be a 5.1 Full Mix.wav file Click on Link
The file will appear in the bin
Right click on that linked file in the bin and choose Modify > Modify Clip...
Choose Set Multichannel Audio from the drop down
Choose 5.1 SMPTE: L R C Lfe Ls Rs
When you load it into the source window the file will have a 5.1 icon on it shown here
Create a new sequence and edit the 5.1 audio into the new timeline and then delete the other audio tracks that are automatically generated in the timeline
delete the other audio tracks that are automatically generated in the timeline
Edit the 5.1 audio file into this new timeline
Next need to make your video file to overwrite the 5.1 audio file Select your final color corrected timeline in the bin and double click it to load it into the timeline interfacee
Next choose Timeline>Mixdown>Video
Choose the bin in AVID you want to save the file Choose where the .MXF will be saved (your hard drive) Resolution DNxHR HQ
You will end up with a file titled Video Mixdown after the title of your timeline
Load that video mixdown clip into the source browser and edit that on to the newly created 5.1 timeline that contains the 5.1 audio.
Check the Sync of the entire movie before exporting Remove the 2POP from the timeline at the head and tail.
Next go to >Tools Audio Mixer
Change these audio mixer settings for the source and record side Set the "Monitor Mix Format" to 5.1 SMPTE: L R C Lfe Ls and Rs
Note if you are on a laptop or a computer w/o surround sound hardware connected you won't be able to set the "Monitor Mix Mode" to surround you will just leave it stereo
Set the "Sequence Mix Mode" side to 5.1 as shown here
Close the Audio Mixer
Export the timeline Select the Sequence to export that has the video mixdown with the 5.1 audio
Go to >File>Output>Export to File
Click on Options
Choose MXF OP1a Video Compression DNxHD HQ Mix is 5.1 Make sure Interleaved is checked
Choose a place to save the file choose And Choose Save

Remove the 2POP from the timeline at the head and tail.