Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources]

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Creating a 5.1 surround sound mix

Premiere Pro lets you create a full, digital, 5.1 surround sound Mix. You can use 5.1 surround sound in two places: audio on a DVD or an audio file for playback on a PC with 5.1 surround sound speakers.

5.1 digital audio has six discrete channels: left front, front center, right front, right rear or surround, left rear or surround and the LFE (Low Frequency Effects) channel designated for a subwoofer.

If you have a 5.1 surround sound set-up on your PC, this will be a lot of fun and lead to much experimenting. If you don't have a six-speaker set-up this will at least give you a feel for how to add 5.1 surround to a DVD.

Here are the basic steps to follow:

1.

Create a new sequence with seven mono tracks and a 5.1 Audio Master track.

2.

Marquee select the five clips from Lesson 12-3 and Copy/Paste them into tracks 1-5 of the new sequence (target its Audio 1 track to place them there).

3.

Drag Music 12 - Sonoma-Left and -Right to tracks 6 and 7.

You'll put them in the rear speakers. Your sequence should look like the next figure.

4.

In the Audio Mixer, drag each track's 5.1 Panner

puck to the proper location (use the next figure as a reference).

5.

Set volume levels for tracks 1-5 that are similar to those you set for the stereo mix. For Audio 5, the bass, use the LFE volume knob and place its puck in the center. Set volume levels for tracks 6 and 7 (Left-rear and Right-rear) to 0 and -2 respectively.

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Now you have some options:

  • You can move the clips on Audio 6 and 7 about a tenth of a second (3 frames) into the timeline, (causing them to play a little after the rest of the clips) to make it sound like they're coming from the back of the room. To do that, select each clip in turn, press the plus sign (+) on the numeric keypad, type 3 on the numeric keypad and press Enter.

  • You can add a Reverb with a Size parameter a bit higher than what you choose to set for the front channels. You might find that you don't need to have as much reverb for the front channels when you work in 5.1 surround sound.