5.1 Surround Sound Audio Set Up

I am currently running Final Cut Pro 6. I am looking into configuring my setup to do play out 5.1 surround sound from the system. What is the best configuration to do that? Through the optical port into a DTS converter or through another external box? Thank you in advance for any help.

Final Cut Pro doesn't technically support 5.1. Soundtrack Pro & DVD Studio Pro do, but not FCP.
The workaround?
Get a capture card that supports at least 6 discreet analog audio outputs.
Setup your sequence for 6 outputs.
Route 6 audio tracks of your sequence to each of the 6 outputs.
Connect a powered monitor to each of the 6 capture card outputs (5 plus 1 sub).
Drop the appropriate audio onto the matching channel's track in FCP.
Probably not the answer you were hoping for.

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Anyone know if there is a way to change the default surround sound audio mapping in Premiere CS6?
For example, when working with six mono channels being sent to a 5.1 submix. I manually set where each of the six go (front left, front right, center, lfe, rear left, rear right). Then I route that 5.1 submix to go to a stereo submix so that I can hear the downmixed audio in my laptop speakers. When my project is exported to a video file, I turn off the last step of routing the 5.1 submix to the stereo submix, so the file has all six channels of audio in their proper place. When I change the 5.1 submix to feed the master output, I get the option to re-select where each surround element should end up in the master output. In our production facility, we have surround in the order I mentioned previously. I noticed that Premiere has the front, then rears, and then center and lfe listed. It is annoying to have to re-select my surround preferences everytime I switch between monitoring the stereo downmix and the surround output.
Any way to change what Premiere sees as the proper order for surround sound channels? I know there's the audio option to change mapping, but when working on a laptop, you only get the left and right speaker, no surround settings there.

that's tied into our entire facility audio spec, and every video file we have would have to change audio mapping, in addition to re-wiring a lot of air-chain devices.
In broadcasting, it seems like it's more common to do surround sound the way we're doing it: L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs. I understand why some might want to do it another way, which is why it would be nice to be able to change it and leave it a certain way. I know I can submit a feature request, I'm just trying to find out if anyone knows how to do it already.

Can an iMac output surround sound audio similar to Dolby 5.1 sound in Windows?

Is it possible for my iMac to output surround sound audio similar to Dolby 5.1/7.1 surround sound in Windows?
Mileman10

Yes on 5.1,
Here is a "how to" article:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Configuring_5.1_Surround_Output_in_Mac_OS_X
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Using 5.1 surround sound speaker set with my laptop

1. HP Pavilion DV6-6150EW QA944EA
2. Windows 7 Profesional 64 bit
This is my laptop.
I want to buy a set of 5.1 surround sounds speakers (most likely some cheap and popular creative inspire Inspire T6160).
My question is will they work with my laptop? Ill have to just plug cable from that speaker set into my 3.5mm jack socket on the left side of laptop (where i usually plug in headphones) and it will work?
Or this laptop dont have 5.1 sound?
I didnt found what sound card it has, all i found is that its beats audio and IDT High Definition audio codec (driver date: 2012-03-23, driver version 6.10.6395.0).
I would appreciate help sice i dont want to find out that if i buy speakers they wont work (or only 2 speakers will work).

Hey there,
I would recommend using one of these USB audio processors: http://goo.gl/5z9Gm
This is just the first one I found so do you research to see which one fits your needs the best. I looked at your laptops spec's and could not tell if you had any digital output connectors. HDMI will also transfer digital audio, it just depends on what your trying to accomplish.
Hope this helps!
Sean
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ITunes 11.3 no longer plays AC-3 surround sound / audio.

I run iTunes in Windows, and upon updating to 11.3, the surround sound option (AC-3) no longer plays audio. Stereo works fine, but no surround sound plays at all. It worked in 11.2, but when upgrading to 11.3 it no longer works.
Possibly related: even in 11.2 it would work "inconsistently", meaning sometimes I would select the surround option and iTunes would either freeze or the sound would not play. 11.3 it won't work at all
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I have had this same issue, and my problems started about the same time (three weeks ago). When I started experiencing the program I updated to the latest version of QuickTIme, but it has not helped the problem. Seems I have no audio on MPEG1 files. I can open them in iTunes and they play fine. QuickTime doesn't even show that there's an audio file when I look up movie properties. GeneLC65, have you found any solutions yet?
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Surround sound audio card

What card do I need to run Logitech X540 systen. Has 3 wires. What about hooking up a turntable with RCA jacks? Anybody converting vinyl to Mp3's or other?

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
What card do I need to run Logitech X540 systen
Included with the speakers is a two-channel RCA-to-3.5mm jack. The speakers are designed to emulate surround sound 5.1 from a 2 channel source. The 3.5mm jack is connected to your audio out on the back of the tower.
What about hooking up a turntable with RCA jacks?
iMic
Anybody converting vinyl to Mp3's or other?
I prefer Audacity over Final Vinyl.
Use either with the turntable connected through the iMic.

How do you do surround sound audio then?

Ok heres the basic outline.
Using Audition (was made in v1.5, now I have v2.0) I created a 5.1 mix of a music track.
I also have a video file with no sound (an .avi file at 720x576 and 25fps)
I would like to tie them together and end up with a DVD-Video that plays the video with the sound track in 5.1.
Is it possible? and are there ANY tutorials on this? Encore (v2.0) boasts that you can do this, but I can't find any documentation on how to do it.
Please help a beginner!
Thank you in advance

>Addon?? how to I get a DTS addon for Premiere Pro?
Sorry about the wrong word there - by "addon" I meant that Encore does not have any built-in DTS encoders, and neither does Premiere Pro.
There are 3 companies selling DTS encoders that I know of:
1 - Minnetonka Audio, specifically the SurCode section. see http://www.surcode.com/ and look for the SurCode DTS-DVD encoder. This is at the moment half-price at $500. Expensive, when you consider the following options but still the cheapest way to get DTS Audio.
2 - Steinberg - they sell a plug-in DTS encoder for their Nuendo & Cubase systems. NOT cheap, currently around $1500.
3 - DTS themselves, or their licensed dealers. Current shipping encoder is the DTS-PSE, which can handle not only core DTS, but also the DTS-ES (both discrete & Matrixed for 6.1) as well as DTS 96/24. All these streams are DVD Legal.
The new series of encoders is due out any time now. I have been using one for a frew months, and it is even better - the DTS-HD SAS will give you every possible stream except DTS-HD MAS (Lossless and High Resolution - more in a minute) for all types of disc including DVD, HD DVD and Blu Ray. It's around $800.
The flagship encoder, DTS-HD MAS will be around $1500 or so, and will be complete including decoders & stream players as well as tools to stitch up the new streams. DTS-HD MAS is lossless, with nothing thrown away. DTS-HD High Resolution will still be up to 24/96, in 7.1, but at up to double the current highest bitrate permissible in DVD-Video of 1509Kb/sec.
Downside is these newer extensions are not supported in DVD-Video at all, and only the top of the range Authoring systems for Blu Ray & HD DVD will support this. The Noddy & Big Ears edition of DVDit has no DTS support at all despite it being the only high quality Multichannel format actually mandated across both HD DVD & Blu Ray. Go figure.
Legality.
In SD DVD, DTS is considered an "optional" format. This means in the real world that no DVD player is actually required to be capable of handling a DTS stream. In reality, some will but most still won't. In those that will there are 2 possibilities:
1 - Internal decoding
2 - "Passthrough" mode (IE outputting the unprocessed bitstream for external decoding in an amplifier).
The latter is the best option. If decoding internally, chances are high you must then use a 6 channel analogue output from the back of the player, or else it will decode to a stereo stream by employing internal downmixing.
When a player can output the raw bitstream, this is better as it allows the amp to decode, which it will always do at the best possible quality it can. This is important, as it gets to the er, "core" of the DTS system (Joke there for those who understand DTS!)
DTS uses a 24/48 Core stream, with everything else as extensions to the core. So, if the stream is a 24/96 resolution 6.1 DTS-ES, this is allowable as the extended frequency response & the extra channels are in the extensions, leaving the original core alone. This allows legacy equipment to still decode, and ensures that all amps/decoders use the best they can.
Trouble with being optional is this:
i you cannot legally create a DVD-Video disc with just DTS audio. It will be out of spec.
Discs MUST contain either LPCM or Dolby Digital as Audio Stream 1.

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Greetings. As of yesterday, May 13, after several years of trouble-free service, and with absolutely no changes to my home entertainment system, my Motorola DCH3416 STB stopped recognizing (and passing along to my Sony tv) the DD5.1 signal; all I seem to be getting now on surround sound broadcasts is 2-channel PCM sound. To experiment, I swapped out the DCH3416 and replaced it with a non-dvr Pace RNG110 that was being used in another room. The RNG110 properly receives and passes along the DD5.1 signal. Swapping them back again, the DCH3416 failed once more to receive the DD5.1 audio, and provided only 2-channel PCM. I can only conclude that something recently has changed within the DCH3416 hardware, perhaps via a recently pushed firmware update (?). For now I will use the RNG110 as my main STB, but I would like dvr capability. Any ideas about why the DCH3416 suddenly stopped acquiring/passing along surround sound audio? Time to upgrade my DCH3416 to a more recent STB that won't choke on a DD5.1 signal? Thanks for your advice.

ggomes wrote:
Greetings.
As of yesterday, May 13, after several years of trouble-free service, and with absolutely no changes to my home entertainment system, my Motorola DCH3416 STB stopped recognizing (and passing along to my Sony tv) the DD5.1 signal; all I seem to be getting now on surround sound broadcasts is 2-channel PCM sound.
To experiment, I swapped out the DCH3416 and replaced it with a non-dvr Pace RNG110 that was being used in another room. The RNG110 properly receives and passes along the DD5.1 signal. Swapping them back again, the DCH3416 failed once more to receive the DD5.1 audio, and provided only 2-channel PCM. I can only conclude that something recently has changed within the DCH3416 hardware, perhaps via a recently pushed firmware update (?).
For now I will use the RNG110 as my main STB, but I would like dvr capability. Any ideas about why the DCH3416 suddenly stopped acquiring/passing along surround sound audio? Time to upgrade my DCH3416 to a more recent STB that won't choke on a DD5.1 signal?
Thanks for your advice.
Apologies. Below is something to try...
Access the User Settings Menu
1. To access the User Settings Menu, power On your TV and power Off the box.
2. Press the Menu button on either your remote or the box front panel to call up the on-screen menu. You may use either the front panel or remote to navigate the menu.
3. Press the up-down arrow buttons to select the setting you wish to change. Press the right-left arrow buttons to select an option for that setting. To exit the setting and move to another setting, use the up-down arrow buttons.
On this box type, there should be an option for Additional HDMI settings. Highlight that and Press OK. Arrow down to Audio Output and select Pass Through.

Mega 180 and surround sound

I've spent the last week goofing around with surround sound, SPDIF in & out, and lots of other audio type stuff. I haven't seen much discussion in the forum about high quality audio. So I thought I'd describe my experiences.
I've been using my mega for about a month with 2 channel stereo. I have pretty much all the video stuff and MCE 2005 working reasonably well so I decided it was time to tackle 5.1. The onboard sound support works just great for producing 5.1 stereo. Hooking this up to a set of 5.1 computer speakers is straight forward and works just fine. If that is all you want it's very easy.
However I wanted more control of the audio sources in my living room and decided to go the external digital receiver route. So enter SPDIF which I have had no experience with. SPDIF is the same as TOSLINK. When you go to the store looking for connectors I could find no mention of SPDIF. But lots of TOSLINK's - they work just fine. The mega 180 has both input and output SPDIF connectors. The input worked just fine with a DVD player I have. Howver I never could get it to produce anything but ticking noises with my HDTV tuners SPDIF connector. This same HDTV tuner SPDIF connector worked just fine when I went out and bought a reasonably priced ($250) JVC digital receiver. So I guess I didn't have the proper decoders configured in the Mega??
SPDIF is used to support digital dolby and several variants...like dts. It is not just a digital connector. The Mega 180 is very capable in this department however. It supports DVD passthru to SPDIF. It also supports realtime digital dolby encoding of all audio.
You can specify that you want 5.1 digitial dolby out the digital connector. All sound is converted to digital dolby real time and sent over this connector. I was not expecting this. You can also use the 6 analog channel option (speaker out, line in, mic) to attach to a receiver. This is analog output however so you just want the receiver to pass the signals straight thru to the 5.1 speaker configuration. There is a 3rd way to attach the Mega to the digital receiver. You can send 2 channel analog output via speaker out. The digital receiver will then convert this to surround sound using various environmental settings.
At this point I have my surround sound system set up. I tend to like the digital dolby passthru for listening to DVDs. For MP3's I like the 5.1 stereo using the 6 analog outputs. For other videos....like avi files I like the digital dolby realtime conversion out the SPDIF connection.
It is kind of rare to give kudos to MSI on the Mega series. They have done lots of things wrong. However they have done a surprisingly good job of supporting quality audio options.
At least after a week of goofing around I'm happy!

thank nvidia, not MSI! their on-board audio solutions have always been rated quite highly, especially the hardware SoundStorm APU. i used to swear by creative many moons ago, but when onboard audio is as highly spec'd as nvidia's why bother?

Sound no longer playing through Surround Sound via TV

I have had my Mac Mini for about a year now and recently purchased a new 3D LG TV. Prior to that I had another LG hooked up through it and have a Panasonic surround sound system set up with I believe it's a Gefen digital to analog converter, because unfortunately LG only makes digital and alls that is available is analog through my surround sound. I have always been able to listen to my computer through the surround sound, however, since I purchased this new TV I have not been able to. The sound plays through the TV speaker but will not play through the surround sound yet when I change inputs over to my PS3 or DirecTv I can hear everything else except my computer. This is why I am convinced it is the computer and not the TV. I don't know if I'm missing a setting or something needed to change for this type of TV or what. I am pretty technical when it comes to electronics so I have tried changing all different types of settings and played around trying to fix this but so far no luck so who has an idea or ever heard of this before?

@mndwgz and Lousyfool
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Hooked up apple tv today and the sound works only from the tv...not from the amplifier...the tv works through it but not with apple tv...am I supposed to do something special to connect them? Thanks...

there have been posts like your many many many times
in this forum
I can't comment from personal exp as I don't use surround but
most reply's to posts like yours seem to be that your expectations of what will provide
surround sound audio differ from what does comes with surround audio
it be a mix of trailers not having 5.1
to your media converts not being don in a way the atv support

Soundblaster X-Fi Surround sound not working!!!! HELP!!!!

9Soundblaster X-Fi Surround sound not working!!!! HELP!
!!! officially i hate creative to the what was supposed to be simple registration which in itself annoyed me to now the speakers i have been using for a longggg time for the past 4 days has been bothering me..
Using a Creative Soundblaster X-fi ?sound card with a 7. surround sound speaker set-up and windows vista ultimate (32bit) the sound refuses to come out of all the speakers during the channel test it sometimes picks up certain speakers but never all of them and the sound is pretty much coming out of the left speaker only i've tried uninstalling all the drivers installing every driver i can find together with the console launchers i've changed the config settings in windows itself which doesnt help uninstalled all codecs bought another x-fi card (i was getting frustrated) still nothing the only thing i havent done is re-install windows which i refuse to do because of some creative defect!
I hope someone has a solution or any advice would help i've also used dri've cleaner and sweeper to clear all data from the registry etc rebooted etc etc etc still no luck....
Sort it out creative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

**beep** !! a response would be GREAT............
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I have a new Sony XBR55X850C 4K TV connected to a new Sony STRDN860 AV receiver. I downloaded and installed the most recent software update for the Sony TV which included Netflix support. However, when I go into the native Netflix app for the TV and select a program to watch my audio option is limited to a 2 channel stereo signal, even though I know that the program comes with 5.1 DD surround sound audio, which I have confirmed using Netflix apps in other devices that I own that are also connected to the AV receiver. This stereo audio limitation is also present in the native Amazon and YouTube apps for the TV. It is not present in the native Vudu app, which does transmit 5.1 channel surround sound audio to my AV receiver. This, plus the fact that multiple other owners of 850C model TVs have all reported the same audio limitation in the AVS forum, suggests that this is a bug in the Sony (Android TV) software and not a defect in everyone's TV. What needs to be done to get this issue resolved? It doesn't make any sense to have to listen to suboptimal audio just to be able to appreciate 4K video.

Hello JerryB01,
Greetings and thank you for sharing your experience with the XBR55X850C 4K television and A/V receiver STRDN860, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience regarding the audio options available when using a video application. Our engineering department is aware of this issue and is currently working on a solution to address it and be able to enjoy a Dolby Digital surround sound quality with your receiver, we will be posting updated information as soon as is available.
Thank you for your patience.

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I have seen old postings on the internet referring to a Griffin Firewave device but this no longer weems to be available.
Can anyone suggest how I might be able to do this. To buy a whole new home cinema system seems an expensive solution as the PC is only used in the home study.

You really need to specify exactly what imac you have. Current ones I believe have an optical (out) and in and I think that can be combined with usb to produce multi-channel sound. But it's just an academic exercise if you don't have the optical.
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Forgive me if this question has been asked before: If I have a source for 5.1 surround sound audio, can it be plugged into a premier elements 3 project and output onto dvd in 5.1 surround or does PE3 convert it to stereo?
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