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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Export Dolby AC3 from MC7 timeline?

The ac3 output file is an encoded 2 channel surround sound file. Played back decided you will get full surround.

From:"Roberto Miller roberto@puregrain.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Date:Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:38 PM
Subject:Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Export Dolby AC3 from MC7 timeline?

Thanks, Nick. I'll download the free trial of Squeeze 10 and see what it offers in terms of AC3 Kbps surround.

The Squeeze 8.5 I have offers AC3 encodes but only in stereo, and 256Kbps, but the upgrade to 10 is within my reach.

Roberto

On Jun 11, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Nick Hrycyk <bigblueav@yahoo.com> wrote:

Squeeze 9 does a good job at making surround encoded AC3 files, start out with 6 discreet tracks exports from MC.
(Needless to say, make sure all tracks and video start at the same place!)

Nick H

From: "roberto@puregrain.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Export Dolby AC3 from MC7 timeline?

Thanks, Marianna, I've gone that route and can import and decode AC3. My goal though is to encode AC3, as Job noted, and unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a license or MC plug-in for that. There is for ProTools, as the link Dom shared shows, but it's very expensive and I'm not a ProTools guy.

Job, I'm using Encore (as you probably guessed) to create blu-ray disks for film festivals and special screenings. Unfortunately, it only takes AC3 for surround, as far as I know. I could export PCM surround from MC but Encore doesn't take it.

I prefer DTS surround encoding on blu-rays, and would like to offer that as an option on the disk.

Is there a way to export DTS from MC? And is there a blu-ray authoring app (beside the $~3K one from Sony) that can work with it?

Thanks again,
Roberto