Adobe Premiere Pro - How to Make a .h264 / .Mp4 using your Surround Sound Mix

The First step is to do a Sequence Export that Matches the Sequence settings.

This will be your VIDEO file that you will combine with your surround sound mix.

The steps that follow show you how to make a

"Video Mixdown" to add to your NEW SURROUND Sound

timeline that we are going to make later in this wiki.

Sequence Settings most common:

Look at the Timecode - should be 23.976 or 24

Frame size should be 4096 x 2160 or 3840 x 2160 or 2048 x 1152

Working Color Space REC 709

NOTE WHAT ASPECT RATIO OF THE SEQUENCE

Select the final timeline you want to export and choose >File>Export>Media

Name your file

Choose Format > DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a

Video Codec DNxHR HQ 8-bit

Then choose the frame size of your tmeline

>4K

>UHD

>Full HD

Depending what your timeline aspect ratio

Frame Rate should be 23.98

>Click on the Output Name

Title it and choose where you want to save the file by clicking on Location

Click on Export in the lower right corner

The file will export for a bit so wait for that.

In the meantime locate your Sound Mix files.

The sound mixer should of exported a Surround Interleaved 5.1 .wav file

The file should look similar to this 5_1.wav file

Don't want the ones labeled Stem they are not the full mix

We suggest making a new Bin to put the final files into for organization

>File>New>Bin

Title the bin >Final Deliverables or similar then open the Bin to import

the image and sound files into

Import the 5.1 Interleaved File into your Premiere Project

RT click in the new bin and choose Import

Select the file and import
Choose the Interleaved 5.1 .wav

Import the Video File you just exported that matched the Sequence Settings

Choose only the .mxf that exported there will also be a .xmp but you can ignore that

Click on the New Item and choose Sequence

Choose Sequence

Choose DNxHD HQ 1080 23.976
DON'T HIT OK YET!!

NEXT CLICK ON THE Tracks TAB

CLICK ON THE TRACKS TAB NEXT

Click on the Tracks Tab and then delete the audio tracks
Audio 2 - 4

DONT' HIT OKAY YET

Set Video to 1 track
And change Mix from Stereo to Multichannel and set
Number of tracks to 6

Change the Track Type of the one audio track to 5.1

Title the sequence and click OK

Double click the exported Video file to load it into the source monitor

Drag the Video Only icon to your newly created timeline

 and drag the audio only tracks to the timeline

Place on the 5.1 track in the new sequence you just made

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.

REMEMBER

DELETE THE 2 POP AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END

Next Export the surround file

Make sure the sequence is loaded in the Timeline Window and then select the timeline window so it's

Highlighted Blue

File Name - Title of the movie

Location choose where you are going to save the file

Preset - High Quality 1080p HD

Choose Format H264

Basic Video Settings 

Choose Full HD 1920 x 1080

Audio - Choose 
Audio Format AAC

Choose >Entire Source

>Check the Output settings so they match

H.264,

23.98,

Note if you don't see the channels 5.1 L,R,C.LFE,Ls,Rs in the export setting click back into

Edit Tab and then back to export and the channels show up properly (buggy)