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Chapter 10: Creating Surround
Sound
dobe Audition includes the Multichannel Encoder, a self-contained dialog box
where you can access the tracks of any existing Multitrack session, pan them into
the six channels of 5.1 surround sound, and export them.
About surround sound
With surround sound, heard in many popular movies, you can pan an audio mix around
the room. Adobe Audition supports 5.1 surround sound, which requires five speakers,
plus one low frequency subwoofer (LFE). To properly preview a 5.1 surround-sound mix,
your computer must have a sound card with at least six outputs, and the speakers must be
connected and positioned as follows:
• Output 1: Front left speaker.
• Output 2: Front right speaker.
• Output 3: Front center speaker.
• Output 4: LFE.
• Output 5: Left surround speaker.
• Output 6: Right surround speaker.
Adobe Audition lets you create and export 5.1 surround sound in a multichannel session
by using the Multichannel Encoder dialog box. With this dialog box, you can individually
pan each track of a multitrack session to your multichannel setup, preview the current
mix, and export the session. You can export your session as six mono WAV files, as one
interleaved 6-channel WAV file, or as a Windows Media 9 Pro (WMA) file for use with an
external multichannel encoder such as a Dolby or DTS encoder.
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