4 Replies Latest reply: May 22, 2013 10:32 PM by Rallymax-forum RSS

    help with encoding 5.1 from quicktime file

    peacebreakerr Community Member

      So we've been editing projects in Media Composer, outputting a same-as-source quicktime, importing that in Squeeze, then linking a 5.1 ac3 mix to it that we receive from our sound mixer.  I recently upgraded to the Production Suite and have found that the compression that we need to do for our clients is much better in Media Encoder (mp4 for hardware players such as the Roku).  However, Media encoder doesn't let you link two files together.  I just discovered that you can ouput a multichannel quicktime from Media Composer with a certain setting.  So my question is, how does Media Encoder know what channel is what?  When I open the file in quicktime it says that the audio is 6 mono channels.  I've never worked with surround within Media Composer so I'm not sure how I would go about setting the channels for surround.  Any help is appreciated...