Creating a 5.1 mix for DVD from a digital file

[ronin99]

If one has a flattened quicktime file and wants to create a DVD with a 5.1 mix from it, using compressor or adobe media encoder.

What does that flattened .mov file need to have audio wise? If it has 6 discrete channels, can I then take that, and create a 5.1 mix with one of the above programs? Or does the MOV file need to be 5.1 from the start?

 

[Noiz2]

6 channels is 5.1. What you are talking about is encoding the 6 track mix into a format that will play in 5.1 on a DVD player. So that is Dolby Digital generally. Compressor can do it but you need to autor a film and it's sound to create a DVD so you need something that can create a DVD. In the FCP world that was/ is DVD Studio Pro. I'll admit I'm not current and if I remember correctly they dropped DVDSP so there is probably another app that does it in the FCPX world. Media Encoder cal probably also do it.THe Quicktime file may even already be DD encoded. You really need to know what the actual file formats are.It's an old rant but maybe it's time to resurrect it...QuickTime is NOT a media format. It's a wrapper file that can be almost anything. So talking about a "quick Time File" is as pointless as talking about a MOV file. That file could be sound, still, video, ? They are all "Quicktime files". The only think that makes them "Quick Time" files is that Quicktime Player identifies them as a file type it will play. That list will vary computer to computer.