Adobe Premiere Ac3 Audio Codec For Mac

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Intro:

You can't create AC3 surround sound files with Adobe Creative Suite CS4 software without buying the Surcode plugin. Also, Adobe, in their marketing wisdom, downgraded everyone from Audition to Soundbooth further limiting your options.

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Media Encoder can natively decode and encode QuickTime files using the GoPro CineForm codec on both Mac OS X and Windows systems. This means you can work efficiently with GoPro footage and translate high-resolution footage to an easily managed, cross-platform, high-quality codec. My experience with AC3 Filter is like many of the other reviews. I can build my own PC but I don't know much at all about codecs, so I needed some help. I have a Sony videocam that saves in MPEG format but the clips would only play with audio if I used Sony's proprietary software ('Picture Motion Browser').

Here is a workflow that gets around that problem without ponying up for the SurCode Plug-in, and/or buying Audition! 3d printer software requirements.

• All windows versions above Windows 8.1 and Mac OS 10.11 or above contain native support for Dolby decoding functions. If you need to migrate work in progress, use a third-party utility like Handbrake (a free open-source video transcoder) to convert your MTS/ACS files. Rename the files and reimport them into Premiere Pro. Then, clear your media.
• Install this codec suite or download this files then copy to - Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 Run.
• Check if you, as the operating system user, have appropriate permissions to work with the file AC3; Check if the icon is an element of the correct file but not only a shortcut to the location where the AC3 file no longer exists. Check that the system has the necessary resources to run the QuickTime Player application and open the AC3 file.

To convert your mixed 5.1 audio, or stereo audio, to the DVD standard AC3 file that Encore wants, download the latest version of Audacity here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. If you don't know already, it's free!

Now, before I start getting flamed, about Audacity, it works great! The UI is not the most modern, but the quality is top-notch. I've used it for years and most complaints about it are unjustified.

You'll need to download the latest version: 'Beta: 1.3.x – for advanced users.' There will soon, I hope, be an Audacity 2.0 stable release. Until then, use the Beta release for this workflow.

Note: I'll focus on Premiere Pro CS4, because that is where I originally troubleshooted this, but something similar will work for the other Adobe products that use sound.

Workflow:

Create Mix:

Create your mixed 5.1 surround sound audio in Premiere, and output the audio only by going to File > Export > Media, and selecting 'Windows Waveform' as the output. You should only have 'Export Audio' checked. Verify the format in the Summary section. You should see something like: 48000 Hz, 5.1 Surround, 16 bit. Now under Audio codec, make sure 'Uncompressed' is selected. Click Okay, and Adobe Media Encoder should launch. Click 'Start Queue' and your audio file will be created. You'll get an interleaved 6 channel wave file. Not all applications will open it, but Audacity will.

Note: When you mix your surround sound in the Audio Mixer, you'll place your little 'Puck' where you want the sound to come from. Picture yourself in the middle of the 'dish,' if it's a puck, isn't it in a rink, as in hockey rink…ah, but I digress. Anyway, you'll notice that volume meters in the 5.1 (6 channel) Master section are laid out in the following order: L,R,LS,RS,C,LFE. Also, if you open a 5.1 audio file in the Source panel, you'll see the same order from top to bottom: L,R,LS,RS,C,LFE. Soundbooth also does it that way. Ahh….Adobe…nice try.

The actual channel order should be L,R,C,LFE,LS,RS. That's the order that you'll probably have to assign in the 'Audio Output Mapping' section in the properties menu to get your channels to play correctly with your surround sound hardware. L,R,C,LFE,LS,RS is also the order that interleaved files use. So after you create your 5.1 file, and open it in another audio program that displays them in the 'proper' order, like Audacity, you'll see your tracks laid out from top to bottom in that order. I'm not sure why Adobe does it that way, but oh well.

Surround sound primer:

The LFE channel is not, despite popular misconception, a subwoofer channel. Bass from all the channels in a surround sound Amplifier is summed and sent out to the Subwoofer. The LFE channel is supposed to be used only for very low frequencies, to create extra …oomph. I think that is the technical term. It is not supposed to be used for bass frequencies from the other tracks. It is for explosions, dinosaur footsteps, …etc.

Audacity will open DVD '.vob' files, and even let you select which stream (usually Language) to open. As an example, open up a movie with some action in it like Ironman (The movie starts at 'VTS_03_1.vob') and look at the LFE channel. It's the 4th track from the top in Audacity. You'll see it's silent except at parts where there is thumping AC/DC music at the Intro, or explosions. It's not used as a subwoofer channel!

With that in mind, you may have noticed, unless I'm missing something, that there is no way in the Premiere Mixer to assign an audio track only to the LFE channel. Sure, you can dial up the 'Bass Clef' knob to 0.00 db, and send a mono channel's audio to the LFE channel, but there is no place to put the 'Puck' that only outputs to LFE. There is one for the center channel, but without someplace to put it, your 40 Hz dinosaur footprint 'Thump' is going to also be assigned to some of the other channels. Which channels depends on your 'Puck' placement. This is not correct. Again, unless I'm missing something, Adobe needs to correct this oversight. We'll get back to this problem with a solution later, but first let's continue with the AC3 issue.

At this point you should have your wave file. If you want to apply any global changes to all 6 channels, you can open it in Adobe Soundbooth and trim the beginning or end, and apply effects to the entire file. You cannot, however, make changes to individual channels. Audacity will! We'll get to that later.

Encode with Audacity:

Install the software and go to Edit > Preferences > Libraries, and click on 'Download' for the 'FFmpeg Library.' This is the library that Audacity will use to create the .AC3 file. Once installed, the library version should show up next to 'FFmpeg Library Version' While the 'Audacity Preferences' window is still open, select 'Import/Export' and select 'Use Custom Mix', this is used to export a 5.1 channel file. Now you're ready to open your .wave file from Premiere. Drag and drop it in the Audacity workspace and you should see 6 mono tracks laid out from top to bottom in the following order: L,R,C,LFE,LS,RS. Audacity will let you edit the individual tracks, unlike Soundbooth, thanks Adobe. But for now, we'll keep it simple. Set your 'Project Rate' in audacity in the lower-left corner to what you want the AC3 file to be. For DVD, chose 48000 (Hz). If you leave it at 44100 (Hz) Encore won't import it.

Your almost done. Now let's export the file. Go to Files > Export… > and select 'AC3 Files (FFmpeg)' in the 'Save as type:' drop-down. Click the 'Options…' button and set the 'Bit Rate:' for your file. For 5.1 AC3 audio, probably 448. Now enter a file name and click 'Save.' This will open the 'Advanced Mixing Options' window. This allows you to re-map the tracks to a different channel order. It should be correct, and it should show 'Output Channels:' set to 6. Press 'OK' and you're done.

Presto, you have a 5.1 channel AC3 file. Use that in Encore, or whatever DVD creation program you use, and when you play your DVD you'll have full 5.1 audio coming out your surround sound Amplifier. That is if you have one.

Test your file:

If you want to test your file, you can do a couple of things. Since Soundbooth and Adobe Bridge won't even open AC3 files, and Encore will open but only play the Left and Right channels in the preview, you'll have to either import the file into Premiere, or use another media player.

If you got Premiere to play your surround properly, then you can drag and drop the file into the 'Project' panel and preview it from there. You will hear all 6 channels in the correct speakers, but I did notice that the quality is not very good. Maybe Premiere doesn't decode AC3 all that well. I heard some crackle that isn't in the file. How do I know it isn't just a bad encoding job by Audacity? Because I played the file with the VLC media player, and Cyberlink PowerDVD on the same computer, and also on a DVD in my home theater system with no artifacts. Maybe Premiere doesn't decode AC3 files well.

The VLC player, will play almost any file in the known universe, and at least on my computer, it automatically played the AC3 surround file, created by Audacity, with all the channels mapped correctly. That's right, full surround out my speakers with only default settings. It's a great player. Get it for free here: http://www.videolan.org/

Test with Encore:

So far so good. Now open Encore, drop the AC3 file in an empty project, throw it on a Timeline and build the project without Video, It will autoplay without a menu this way. If you set the End-Action to the same AC3 file it will repeat continuously. Either burn this to DVD-RW and test it in your DVD player, or better yet, Build the project to a DVD Image instead, and mount it in a virtual DVD Drive with a program like 'Virtual CloneDrive.'

If you don't know what that is, or how to do it, it is very simple. Go to: http://www.slysoft.com/en/ and download 'Virtual Clonedrive.' It is free. It tricks your operating system into thinking you have another physical DVD drive. In fact, it can create up to 8 virtual drives. Now you don't have to waste time burning, and erasing DVD's every time you make a change to a project. You can build your project as a DVD Image from Encore, save the .iso file to your Desktop and 'mount' it (load it) in Virtual Clonedrive. You're computer will now think you loaded a DVD into a physical drive, and launch whatever DVD player you have installed. Mine launches 'Cyberlink PowerDVD' which plays the AC3 audio-only DVD in full surround sound on my computer.

Building and testing projects this way will save you endless hours. If you need to make a quick change, just 'Unmount' the .iso in Virtual Clonedrive, rebuild your project to the same filename, and 'Mount' it again. Instant testing!

Now, as promised, back to that LFE Channel problem with Premiere that I mentioned:

Audacity will let you modify the individual channels in your interleaved 6-Channel file. So don't put anything in that channel in your Premiere mixer. Leave the 'Bass Clef' knobs at full CCW position ( -00 db ). The bass from the other channels will go to your subwoofer automatically in your Amplifier.

Now if you have some low frequency effects files, open them in Audacity. You can open multiple instances of Audacity at the same time by going to 'File > New.' Then, copy and paste them into the LFE Track at the correct point.

Audacity newbie Hint: Audacity doesn't yet have a 'Mix-Paste' function, so to avoid altering the track length as you paste in your clips, do the following: Select the LFE track by clicking on it's info area. The info area should say something like 'Mono, 48000Hz' Then press 'Delete,' That will remove everything from the track. Now copy and paste your clips into the track by clicking once with the 'Selection Tool' where you want the clip to start, and selecting 'Edit > Paste.' If you need to fine tune the position of the pasted clip, use the 'Time Shift Tool' to move it left or right. If you work from left to right, then you won't push clips over when you paste new ones in.

There is another way to do this by opening up new tracks, using the 'Mix and Render' function, and re-ordering the tracks to maintain the L,R,C,LFE,LS,RS channel order. But that's for advanced users.

Where to get thumpy effects?:

Remember, Audacity will open DVD '.vob' files. Just remember to get permission from the copyright owner. HeHe. Small fast browser.

Dynamic Link:

If you want to use this system, but don't want to waste time rendering your video before going to Encore, then use Dynamic Link in Premiere.

Google chrome full setup download for windows 10 64 bit. File>Adobe Dynamic Link>Send To Encore.

Once in Encore throw the linked sequence on a timeline, click on the sequence in the timeline to select it, and from the menu select Timeline>Remove Audio Track.

Now Encore won't use the audio track from the linked sequence.

Next, just drag your imported ac3 file from Audacity to the blank area on the timeline under the video track.

Encore, will create a new Audio track for it automatically.

Now build your DVD. Memory clean 3 1 0 2 download free.

This works great if you have a complex video track, possibly with AE compositions, and don't want to render it over and over for testing.

Alternate Encocder:

After further research, there is a better AC3 encoder out there than the FFMPEG that Audacity uses. It is a more sophisticated implementation of the format. Unlike FFMPEG, it uses floating point numbers instead of integers internally, among other things. It is also updated periodically. Although the pace is glacial.

You can read about it here: http://aften.sourceforge.net/

The easiest way to use it is with a graphical front-end like 'wavtoac3encoder' found here: http://code.google.com/p/wavtoac3encoder/

You don't need to change anything from the default settings.

Just follow my tutorial above and instead of using Audacity to create the AC3 file after you are done editing, output the multi-track file in .wav format uncompressed from Audacity. Then drag and drop it into 'wavtoac3encoder'and create your file.

If you don't need to edit the multi-track .wav file from Premiere in Audacity, then just drag and drop that file into 'wavtoac3encoder' and encode.

The quality, although probably not as good as SurCode, sounds good to me.

Read On:

I provided a lot of help with this method to someone on the Adobe Forums.
I included critical details about getting the surround sound file back into Premiere.
And, I added lots of pics to help you out.
Check it out here: Adobe Forum

Disclaimer:

For commercial purposes, this free method is not recommended, due to the proprietary .ac3 file format. But it is a great way to test out the format.

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