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

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

DONT' HIT OKAY YET

Now it's time to choose output assignments.

DONT' HIT OKAY YET

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)

 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

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

DONT' CLICK EXPORT YET

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

You may find other ways to do this on the internet. Ways that may seem legit, from legit organizations, like this one:

http://blogs.saic.edu/fvnmatech/2016/06/27/creating-a-master-file-for-5-1-surround-sound-dcp/

But if you follow their workflow, your mix will be wrong!  Aren't you glad you're attending UT!!