To make sure the scaling of your videos do not get messed up, we will export it as a QuickTime and bring it back into Premiere instead of straight copy and pasting it. This way, the dimensions of your video files will not be manipulated in any way that is undesired. | |
| Locate your timeline that you are going to add your surround sound mix and |
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| Export it go to >File>Export>Media |
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Choose File Name Where to save it by clicking the Blue Type on Location Choose the Preset DNxHR/DNxHD MXF Op1a Resolution DNxHR HQ 8 bit Full HD 1920 x 1080 |
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| If you have captions make sure you burn in with Captions Into Video |
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| Then Choose Export |
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| You will end up with a .mxf file like this |
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Go to >File > Import that back into your project and we will use it later in this process  |  |
Next Import the 5.1 Interleaved File into your Premiere Project |
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Select the file and import |
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Click on the >File >New Item and choose Sequence |
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Choose DNxHD HQ 1080 23.976 |
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Click on the Settings TAB Leave all the settings as is but double check to match this frame grab shown here Then Name the Sequence at the very bottom DONT' HIT OKAY YET |
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CLICK ON THE TRACKS TAB NEXT Click on the Tracks Tab and then delete the audio tracks DONT' HIT OKAY YET |
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| Set Video to 1 track And change Mix from Stereo to Multichannel and set Number of tracks to 6 |
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| Change the Track Type of the one audio track to 5.1 |
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| Title the sequence "Title - Surround Sound" and click OK |
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Next double click the .mxf file to load it into the source monitor and then drag just the video track down to the newly created surround sound timeline |
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| Choose to Keep existing settings |
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Then load the sound mix (5.1 Interleaved) file into the source monitor and drag the audio only tracks to the timeline Place on the 5.1 track in the surround sound sequence |
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YOU will be only able to check audio tracks 1 and 2 so you won't hear dialog but hopefully you can tell well enough.The final check will be the QuickTime you will make next.REMEMBERDELETE THE 2 POP AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END |
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Scaling YOU WILL HAVE TO SCALE YOUR FILE Double click on your video file in the timeline |  |
If you do not see the effect controls tab, click on this icon in the top right corner of your screen to bring up the effects panel.
Then hit Effect Controls to scale your file |
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Drop down the Motion setting and on scale select that parameter Drag the slider to scale the image in the frame Scale the image down to 50% or until you see black around the frame then scale it up till you don't see any black Some aspect ratios (e.g. 4:3) will have black on the sides. The point is to not have any unwanted exposed black sides or cut off the image |
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Don't want to see this small black edge to the right or left side Scale till you don't see any black line on the right or left side Flat DCP may choose to leave a slight letterbox on the top and bottom that is up to you Scope DCP will have letterboxing on the top and bottom Next step is to export |
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Make sure the sequence is loaded in the Timeline Window and then select the timeline window so it's Highlighted Blue |
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Go to >File >Export>Media... |
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File Name - Title of the movie Location choose where you are going to save the file Preset - Custom Choose Format QuickTime |
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| Video Codec Choose Apple ProRes 422 HQ |
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| Everything else will be greyed out but Match Source will set the export to match the timeline |
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Click on Audio tab and choose >Sample Size >48 Then choose More |
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| Stream 1 > Output Channels > Select an Option |
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| Choose 5.1 L,R,C, LFE, Ls, Rs |
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Choose >Entire Source >Check the Output settings so they match Video QuickTime 1920 x 1080 23.976 for flat Audio Uncompressed 48 5.1 L,R.C.LFE. Ls, Rs 24 bit |
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| Then choose Export |
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